punks are living on the rooftop across from me

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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

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

this thread is nuts - i was on the way to work yesterday and the police were trying to evict some squatters from a warehouse. they had fled to the roof and were raining tiles and bits of guttering at them, were also having a great time doing it from what i could see, too. they were punx, too!

stelf)xxxx, Friday, 10 June 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

It would have been better if they were throwing ham.

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Or pearls.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i just saw members of LOUIS XIV or THE KILLERS or THE BRAVERY walking down the street! it's grand prix weekend (ie celebrities, eurotrash = in town) and these total rock star dudes in vintage suits and rockstarish haircuts were prowling st-laurent!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

shoot the one that looks like rosie o'donnell

http://www.videovista.net/reviews/dec04/dawndead2.jpg

hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 June 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

is that a line from a louis xiv song?

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

you're the film critic, not me.

hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link

hey take some documentary footage or pictures of these roof punx..

do they live well up there? what do they do when it rains?

gabe (gabe), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

oh they live VERY well my friend. cigars, brandy, caviar.

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

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

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Aha! Finally the context of the Rebel Yell video is revealed!

Kim (Kim), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

they're having a white wedding!!!

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

due for critical "reevaluation" on ilm any minute now:

http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/12/graphics/cyberpunk-cover-thumb.jpg

hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

everything billy ever did is unimpeachable and always has been

no re-evaluation necessary QED

mark s (mark s), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

even his cameo in "the doors"?!?!???!? where'd the film critic go?

hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

So when did S1ocki move next to Constellation Records anyway?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
they seem to have gotten hold of a very nice coat rack.

s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:05 (eighteen 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

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

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

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

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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