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-four years ago)

haha!

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

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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

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

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm picturing the bowery boys for some reason.

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Must be the Clash shooting them pidgeons again.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― matlewis, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I KNEW this would be s1ocki.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

i can see them washing.

you just proved they're not really punks.

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

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 (twenty-one years ago)

You should shoot them a communique via markerboard!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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

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

s1ocki at home or at the studio??

― jones (actual), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Get them jobs as Newsies!

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Are punks solar powered?

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

what kind of building is it?

― jw (allocryptic), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

fling some ham at them.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

fling some foreskins at them!

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

jewish punks. rotten semitic no-good rascals.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Throw the new pope!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Throw Roberto Benigni!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Throw Griff!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

does slocki dress up in a cat costume?

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 10 June 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

dragon heads?

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Canuck whackjob visits USA, brings bloody chainsaw

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― jones (actual), Friday, 10 June 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

It would have been better if they were throwing ham.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Or pearls.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

is that a line from a louis xiv song?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

you're the film critic, not me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

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

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

they're having a white wedding!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

So when did S1ocki move next to Constellation Records anyway?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

you should get them to steal that jacket for you

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

the jacket is in toronto :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

hmmmmmmmmmmm

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

have they had dirty crustie sex on the open rooftop yet?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

they're punks, not PERVS!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

you cant spell crass without ass

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

you can't spell analrchy without anal

― Edgware General (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

the advantage of this setup is if i ever get sick of the rat race all i have to do is cross the road... to freedom!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

wouldn't it be more of a jump than a cross?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

think i could make it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

he's not a frog
xpost

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/full/t0/61/t06129lvu4v.jpg

― Edgware General (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

i have faith. freedom can give us the power to do amazing things.

xp.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

i am going to try and wave at them!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

s1ocki is a punk rocker

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Draw a big anarchy symbol and hold it up in the window, whilst simulateoulsy giving them a "thumb's up."

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

they left :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

i mean they didn't move, they just went away.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

for now.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

punks are living on the rooftop across from me.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

i love this thread!

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

more bowery boys/our gang speak please!

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scifilm.org/museimages/bowerymonsterspics.jpg

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

pics, plz.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

UNETHICAL

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

awww......don't be like that.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah, set up a webcam n' shit. charge money.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

and what my good man do you call poking fun on the internet from the enclosed air-conditioned comfort of your apartment at a gaggle of 16 yr old strung out starving homeless heroin junkies who'll all be dead before they hit 20 pray tell old bean?

xpost

― ppl need to say 'gaggle' more, Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

this makes me smile

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

not air-conditioned, not even poking fun!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if they're vegan.

― matlewis, Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

"freegan"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

they're french, which makes them brie-gan.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

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To answer a few of your mindless ramblings...obviously I am not one of you because, like I said before, I am punk (and now you've convinced me that some of you aren't,) being punk is exactly what I'm doing right now, my own thing and not giving a fuck what anyone thinks, I'm just having fun using you all as a vehicle to my rise to fame, (you should see the news down here, me and my band are all over it, but don't be mad, I'll mention your names at the bottom of my first album's reckognition note, at the very bottom!) And what's wrong with being from the streets? I am and not ashamed of it. My parents were drunk and fucked up and living in a station wagon when my mother's water broke. I lived in that fucking rusting piece of crap until I was five or six and my parents brought my two younger brothers into this bird shit ball of rock. I was beyond white trash. My life story is so crazy, anytime I tell it to a therapist, they gotta go see therapists, and believe what you want, but I ain't fucking shitting you. I'm using this as a self promotional tool, but nothing I've said has been falsified, it's all fucking true. I was taken from my parents and put through fifty foster homes in two years (the equivelant of a different family every two weeks,) and my two brothers and I were put up for adoption when I was thirteen like slaves waiting on the auction block. Then I failed the Marine Corps after barely passing high school and the rest will soon be history. So hopefully some of you buggers can see where some of my narcistic opinions and hostility comes from. I don't understand what there is to rebel against if you come from a rich, or medium class family where you have everything handed to you and have absolutely nothing to worry about, or maybe some of you can SCHOOL my WHITE TRASH ass! None of you have been able to do that yet, and to top things off, I ain't going nowhere but to the top, I'm here to stay bitches. I'm going to bed now, I gotta leave the shelter early in the morning and raise some more hell out in the streets. I'll see you all in your dreams!

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

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― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

"I ain't going nowhere but to the top"

So you're on the roof?

― Crusto Punkwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

so much has happened.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

first, they vanished for a few days when workers appeared on the roof to replace some aluminum siding stuff. but they weren't gone!! they've re-appeared and they've built a little shack for themselves up there!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

wow.
i missed this thread
thanks for the update

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

they need that fucking shack, let me tell you. it's a fucking SCORCHER!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I hope the shack isn't made out of aluminum siding leftovers, and doesn't have a door, which would make it pretty much an oven. I am a little worried about those punks on a roof in this heat. Ah, punks.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

what are they wearing?

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

the shack is largely made of cardboard.

and the last one i saw was wearing... NOTHING!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

OMG OMG

cops are up there now!! they don't look happy!! a scruffy little kid is showing them around!!

we think he may be a snitch!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

or a fall guy!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

what's happening now?! this is really suspenseful

― matlewis (matlewis), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

they looked around with stern expressions on their faces and then left; i don't think any of the primary punks were up there at the time. perhaps building a house was going too far!! we will see what happens...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

all quiet so far

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

YOU MUST WARN THEM

― carbon (carbon), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

"primary punks" :)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

why do we not have pics of their rooftop shantytown?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, get on that!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

there are workers with drills on the roof and the punk shantyhouse is gone :( :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

the punk house survived for over a week after the cop visit but i didn't really spot them any more... either they had left or they were keeping a low profile (very low, as you can only really see them from where i am, not from the street at all). and now, this.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

they're also working on the adjacent building, which is one story higher (must have the same owner)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

how sad! no more punks!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

they will live on, i'm sure, on a rooftop or in a trainyard or under a makeshift lean-to somewhere!! they can not be stopped!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

God bless punks and their longevity!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I wish you had taken pics. :(

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

omg one of the workers is peeing

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

omg i think he saw me looking at him

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

The punks may be gone and a puddle of urine is all that remains but they will live forever on the rooftop of my heart.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

"I'm Makin' Mends to the Rooftop of My Heart" by Curly Bob McGentry was one of the better country hits of 1946.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that should've been on ILM.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the workers ARE the punks??

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

They finally sold out!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, punks, where have you gone?
I am moving to Mile End in Sept, close to the railway tracks, so I will do my part and keep an eye out for punkist dwelling activity. But will try to avert my eye from peeing workers.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

i referenced the wrong Billy Idol video up there i now realise. oh the crust of shame.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

There was a guy in a towel lying on top of the building next to ours and languidly stroking his erection earlier, and I thought of this thread.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

where in ME rrrobyn?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

omg, Mark, wow. It's funny how rooftops can seem so private when you're on them, yet really, unless you're high up, a lot of people will see you. It's one of those non-space space things.

s1ocki: To St. Laurent & Bernard (all the way from Little Burgundy/St. Henri, so it's a bit of a change, but one I'm looking forward to. And I get to live by myself (cheap rent!) - hurrah!) I'm guessing you live around them parts? I have a feeling my social life may get busier after the move, but then again, I have a thesis to finish, so I may just become a shut in! haha, ha...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

surely there are no punks in ME!

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

...but you never know!!

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

oh. i assumed MAINE. silly me. ME.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

THEY'RE BACK!!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

This thread rules.

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

wow! take pictures already!

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

when are you moving?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

where'd you go dancing rrobyn?

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

i want to see naked punks. :(

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

ten months pass...

i miss those crazy kids

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

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

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

i hope they're happy on some other rooftop somewhere

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

i can't believe lawrence kansas started this thread.

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

what the hell happened there

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

two years pass...

memories

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

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

classy

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

lol

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

Not OK

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

ugh wtf

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

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

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

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 (ten years ago)

follow the honey

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

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

bees would've swarmed if that happened, most likely

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

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 (ten years ago)

That'd show those little SOBs

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

I see what you did there.

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

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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