punks are living on the rooftop across from me

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You should live on the roof of their shack, that'll show'em.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

haha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 03:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...

the building is only one story & i'm on the third floor. i can see them washing. it's like "our gang."

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

do they have a pitbull with a circle around its eye?

― donut e-goon (donut), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

They might've choked Arty, but they ain't gonna choke slocki!

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

do punks carry slingshots? if so i may be in trouble.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm picturing the bowery boys for some reason.

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Must be the Clash shooting them pidgeons again.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

punks don't carry slingshots, but they carry scabies. TRUST NO ONE.

― matlewis, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I KNEW this would be s1ocki.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Yell to them "Hey, what's the big idea? Are you a buncha wise guys or something?"

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i can see them washing.

you just proved they're not really punks.

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

That's either a switchblade or a frog in his pocket. Either way, I'd watch myself.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

You should shoot them a communique via markerboard!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

You could pelt them with rolled up copies of Entertainment Weekly!

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

s1ocki at home or at the studio??

― jones (actual), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

If I were you, s1ocki, I would report them to a truant officer, if not to Miss Crabtree herself.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

studes!! haha that would be funny if they were living on the roof of the yeshiva though

(xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Get them jobs as Newsies!

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

it's the grand prix weekend!! does that have anything to do with it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

once i was walking down an alleyway not far from here at night with a friend & we were gabbin' loudly & all of the sudden i hear a "SHHH!! people are sleeping here!!" from a low rooftop! it was another case of punks living on a rooftop!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

tv show idea: continuing saga of "roof" punks vs. "alley" punks

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Are punks solar powered?

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

what kind of building is it?

― jw (allocryptic), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

when i first came thru mtl i made the rooftop scene for a bit but i looked more like a soc than a punk

― jones (actual), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

it's a low, crappy building housing a cheapo computer store. they have big cheap signs outside.

last year they had a sign painted on the car outside that said "LABTOPS - $300!"

the next day it was corrected with a sharpie.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

fling some ham at them.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2004/12/16/kenton_sweeps3.jpg

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

strongo do i need to remind you that i'm jewish.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

fling some foreskins at them!

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

hahahaha!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

that spot is great cuz you can pretend to be all stealthy and low-key but you're visible enough for virtually everyone to notice the punkness of your accomodations

― jones (actual), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

It's funny to read the thread title thinking that s1ocki means "punks" in the Clint Eastwood sense.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

they're jewish too! that's why they HATE it when you fling ham at them.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

jewish punks. rotten semitic no-good rascals.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Throw tapes of sports events at them! If they're Jewish, they'll really hate that.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Throw the new pope!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Throw Roberto Benigni!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Throw Griff!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Play the rumble music from West Side Story really loudly at them!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

you know, if those medieval enthusiast dudes took to living on the rooftops too this would suddenly become the most exciting city in the universe

― jones (actual), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.the-twits.com/yidcore.jpg

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

this does little to dissuade me of the notion that montreal is a basically a broadway musical

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

does slocki dress up in a cat costume?

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

my boss at the bar builds dragon heads and medieval armour and swords in his spare time!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

a couple of weeks ago he had some real rowdy dudes in... turns out they're medievalist "mercenaries" who he hires for "special ops"! they do meth and stay up for three days assassinating elves!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

dragon heads?

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Canuck whackjob visits USA, brings bloody chainsaw

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

literally!! behind the bare is a gigantic, realistic ("realistic") dragon head!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

that whackjob guy doesn't have any of the mtl medievalist panache

― jones (actual), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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i live at jeanne-mance & st-viateur (that's not where i am now).

VERY NICE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, dahlin re: ME! This made me reread that as S1ocki being full of neighbourhoods, some with punks, some without, and one of which I will be living in. S1ocki is welcoming and spacious, family-friendly and accessible, with many quaint cafes and inexpensive eateries. haha. Mile End *is* quite nice, and, yeah, prob not too many punks on rooftops...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

...but you never know!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

oh. i assumed MAINE. silly me. ME.

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It's all entertainment, the acronym mixup.
Every time I see this thread I say/growl/yell:
PUNKS! ON! ROOFTOPS!!!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

bah i thought you meant LONDON mile end (nb not london, ontario)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, if I was moving to London Mile End, Carsmile, you would know, everyone would know. I'd be all "I'm moving to London!! Fix me up a Welcome to London FAP, Sinister picnic, indie dance nite, drinking-on-the-beach day in Brighton, bowling, karaoke, etc, etc." Yeah. But I'm pretty excited about the intra-Montreal move anyway.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

THEY'RE BACK!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

two of them--shirtless--horsing around--this is going to turn into a gay porno any second now

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread rules.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

wow! take pictures already!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.lumiere.org/films/images/rear-window-photo1.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 5 August 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

slocki, I'm moving to MTL this fall (big ups to Mssr. Jay Watts III for help). Tell everyone not to panic, but that they should still take necessary precautions ok? Murdaaaa

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i know a nice rooftop if you're looking for a place!!

when are you moving?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 August 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, LeCoq is moving to Mtl! That's cool. I don't know if Mtl is prepared for your wisdom (seriously!). mmmrrr, I have nothing funny/interesting to say as I'm only mildly drunk and tired from dancing and being bluddy grinded against by guys named Mario. Why do people still grind?! It's like the primordial dance move (nb. I use those last three words quite loosely.) It is my own fault for entering the "hip-hop" room (and finding it way more fun than the house/electro room). Oh yeah: PUNKS! ON! ROOFTOPS! NAKED!!!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 5 August 2005 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link

where'd you go dancing rrobyn?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i want to see naked punks. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

i miss those crazy kids

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Punks On Rooftops is the natural heir to Snakes On A Plane.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i hope they're happy on some other rooftop somewhere

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i hope so too.

(haha, where the hell did i go dancing?? i think it was a thursday night at Parking. yes, and i was wearing impractical shoes.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I was hoping they were back! I was going to make a "shingles going steady" joke.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I lived on a rooftop in Bangkok for three years. It is a good life up on the roof.

After I left my friend moved in, then after him, another friend of ours, now a girl from Singapore we know lives there. You can't hand rooftops on to just anyone, you have to trust them.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link

This threaad is so beautiful I think it's going to get bookmarked. The highlight:

doesn't the computer store know about this? punks can't be good for business

-- caitlin oh no (caitx...), June 12th, 2005.

unless they're........ CYBERPUNKS!!!

-- s1ocki (slytus...), June 12th, 2005.

Seriously, that made my morning. Thx guyz :) :)

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 17 June 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

i can't believe lawrence kansas started this thread.

― s1ocki, Friday, 21 September 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link

what the hell happened there

― ghost rider, Friday, 21 September 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

memories

― piranha karenina (s1ocki), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Maybe the workers ARE the punks??
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, August 2, 2005 11:44 AM Bookmark

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

some urban farming craft bozos were keeping one or more beehives on the rooftop down the street. today a beehive sits abandoned on the sidewalk outside, bees buzzing about in encouragingly languid and nonthreatening circles. "punks," i thought.

― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link

oh btw the building that was home to the beehive is a loft that's been converted into 'luxury' places. the building the beehive was left in front of is a residential facility providing "long term transitional housing and on-site support services to 40 adults with psychiatric disabilities and a history of homelessness." privilege, ladies and gentlemen.

― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link

classy

― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 May 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link

lol

― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link

Not OK

― a mom shaped pom (wins), Monday, 23 May 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link

ugh wtf

― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 May 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link

I mean the bees aren't gonna do anything/hurt anybody... unless someone tries to move it

― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 May 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link

i've passed along some numbers for beekeeping associations in the area so hopefully a safe removal can be accomplished. also hopeful that the neighborhood's various security cameras caught the schmucks that did this, they deserve to be on the cover of the daily news with a mocking headline e.g. "HIVE BEEN A BAD BOY"

― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 May 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link

follow the honey

― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Monday, 23 May 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link

one of their flatmates probably has a histamine allergy, can't believe you're all being so heartless to these bearded innovators

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link

the cops cordoned off the area and i just saw the beehive loaded into the back of a car by someone in a beekepers' suit and gauntlets, with lots of boxes/canisters of something, labeled "BEE." we were told that it would be taken to one of the area botanical gardens or something like that. the neighborhood in general seemed pretty entertained aside from the backed-up through traffic.

― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link

wish i'd had a beehive rather than a sinkhole now

my road's going to be closed for like another month

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link

is it possible someone else in the posh flats didnt like the beehive being there and stole it and put it out to trash?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 23 May 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link

bees would've swarmed if that happened, most likely

― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 May 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link

if you move the queen while a substantial portion of the hive is out foraging, they freak out

― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 May 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link

That'd show those little SOBs

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 23 May 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link

I see what you did there.

― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Monday, 23 May 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link

with lots of boxes/canisters of something, labeled "BEE."

killing me for some reason

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 23 May 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link

I see what you did there.

It wasnt intentional but then I realised what I'd done!

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link

well okay but 1) a random stretch of the sidewalk is not the trash 2) especially when what youre handling is basically a booby trap or biohazard that at the least creates a huge hassle for strangers wherever you leave it and 3) they didn't leave it in front of their own building but in front of the neighbors. whoever did it, they're scum

― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link

a random stretch of the sidewalk is not the trash

lol it is where I live.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link

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