About Famous Franklin and Merciless Maryvolent...
Franklin and Maryvolent are two different people with similar awesome ideas and both possess equally fantastic brains. They battled secondary school together and are currently working under one roof. Both have a deep dark hatred for pEepLe whO tYpE LyK ThiisH and yearns to one day dig out teenies' eyes and set them on fire. Both are in love with American [a.k.a. Umrican] drama like CSI & House and both are also mad over lerlaki panas like Jon Togo [CSI: Miami], Matt Rubano & Adam Lazzara [Taking Back Sunday], Sonny Moore [From First To Last], Ian Watkins [Lostprophets], The Rev [A7X] and themselves [though they are not lerlaki panas but pantak panas]. Both can't master their own mother tongues and are currently learning French & Mandarin respectively.
The only difference is one is chinese and the other is malay.
About SnotShop...
For one, one of Franklin and Maryvolent's favourite bands is Taking Back Sunday because they produce quality music and possess a decent, or overly funny, sense of humour. While watching an online streaming of Adam's World from Taking Back Sunday's Partone, Franklin and Maryvolent burst into peals of laughter when Adam Lazzara [frontman of TBS] had snot dripping down his nose and still felt cool about it. They took his [Adam's] line ["I have snot dripping down my nose. It's gross but kinda cool"] and started saying it on the train, the bus, food courts, cafes, etc etc...basically anywhere that doesn't defy gravity [even though they don't mind introducing their Snot line to the martians and aliens in outerspace].
When the time came for them to set up the shop and give it a name [oh man, reminds us of the festival], they finally settled on SnotShop because they wanted an eyecatching name, that kinda make people go "Snotshop? Snot? They sell snot? Better check it out." and also to stand out from all the girly, pretty-in-pink blogshops. The name was most certainly not ripped off from Topshop. Everything came from F&M's wonderful imaginations, precise thinking and no-frills minds.
And that, my dear people living in this city of evil, is how Snotshop came about.
About The Franklin & Maryvolent Show...
It all started on a usual un-sunny lazy afternoon, in the canteen of a school, in the heart of the city, east of the sunny island Singapore. While drinking a ridiculous amount of Milo and munching on cheapass crackers, Franklin and Maryvolent began to have a brainwave.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, B1?"
"I think I am, B2"
And Big Bully was born. Yes, Big Bully because the duo is sick of hearing emotional manhandling and the royal cunts in their schools stabbing each other's kidneys out and selling them on the black market. Well, literally.
Designs came, designs went. Nothing was produced. Eventually, the fall of Big Bully came like the fall of Troy(Brilliant band btw). Conquered by...nothingness. Disheartened and proved right by a certain hag, they feel that they could get nowhere. To put it bluntly, no future. And thus, the road to O Levels began and ideas of Big Bully were ditched. In flames and in hell.
3 months later, after their major exams [which they spent nights & days preparing], Franklin and Maryvolent ended up working for a certain company where the jobscope revolved around something like pickupcalls-lunch-watchtakingbacksunday-stone. After days of procrastinating research, shopping online, playing Connor Oberst Box, playing coffee machine and watering plants, it happened again.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, B1?"
"I think I am, B2"
And Franklin proceeded to make a phonecall to InQ Box regarding rentals because the duo had a sudden serious feeling...no harm trying anyway. When the error operator prompted Franklin for the name of their line, Franklin paused. They didn't decide on a name. But heck.
"The Franklin & Maryvolent Show" and finishes it with a sheepish grin.
Lo and behold, the birth of a new line, the product of two geniuses, the definitive great line [took that from Underoath, sorry]...
We present to you...The Franklin & Maryvolent Show.