Hockey-riot? what was the riot about...hockey or riot?





As I told you before, I'm more into spaceballs but Rollerball seams like a decent sport/movie as well. Need to check out

It's gotta be the original... with james caan.
the remake just didn't do it for me.
the original was truly classic dystopian sci fi...
One of my top 1000 fav. movies.

Hmm...hockey? riot?
welllll....
actually all the rioters were not actually local...they were all pretty much from other locales ...the majority came via skytrain, and other modes into the city center ...they deliberately came into town to stir up trouble. I lucked out and was in Vancouver during the riot ...before ...during and after...and yeah...ordinarily there would be trouble scattered throughout the city in isolated pockets...but that year ...they used social media and gathered downtown. I was on the skytrain heading south away from downtown and the trains heading north were packed and the waystations had a lot of partiers, drinkers and troublemakers heading downtown....You could smell the trouble coming. Later at one of my friends down near North Delta ...it was interesting ...real quiet...then the sirens started...lotta police were being called into the downtown...I remember you could hear them heading there...then someone mentioned the news...and there they were...making the headlines...real boorish pieces of work. The best of the worst of our Nation imo.

Loved the photo montage btw.
yup that sums it up.
Regardless of the valid or in-valid reasons for rioting, protesting, marching, speaking-out or who is oppressing whom...
that is one of the many reasons I enjoy living on the outskirts of "civil" society.
The madness of our species I am not in the slightest interested in participating in.
Always I have simply moved further and further away into much saner smaller more remote places or communities when "civilization" has encroached.

ouch...that sucks. But at least it was close to win NHL-Playoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LmPm3sZQkM great moves...I can smell a great movie, right here!

I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out! (Rodney Dangerfield)

Go Caps!

@mscion ...hehe yup....nothing wrong with a friendly scrap...wholesale violence ...whole other level...too serious for my liking.

@dave....sweet jebus man!
not the remake!
It was wretched.
the orig. with caan is the better of the two.
right up there with
solyent green,
punishment park,
world on a wire,
death watch (1980),
fahrenheit 451,
a clockwork orange,
logan's run,
on the beach,
the world - the flesh and the devil,
thx 1138,
ZPG-Zero Population Growth,
Deadly Harvest...
and their ilk...
truly classic dystopian films.
Naw man... the remake of rollerball was terrible. Shoulda been called rollerlemon

LOL...here I thought its was the one from the 70s. It looked so OLD My bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46w3mLhCwE

cheeky youngster!
Get off my lawn!

In fact ...I just pulled f. 451, logan's run and rollerball (orig.) out of my dusty TB storage and I'm watching them now while I work...the flamethrower hand-pistol scene in rollerball is grand. I love the oldies for the music, scenes, architecture, clothing and styles ans much as the acting and plots. Something about them....

How can you work while watching ?.

Do you have this movie? It's my favorite...Don't mess with Ming!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBe1hwg7V-M

Course I got it
Queen for a soundtrack....
flash...
epic excellent.
Hell...
I got the original flash gordon black and white serials too.

How can I work and watch?
If I don't have music cranked up ..or my collection of music vids for that matter...
I have my classic and fav shows or movies on tap...
As far as the "how" goes...
easy ...my good friend dave...easy...
as in easy chair...lay-z-boy in fact.
an old beater of mine here in a small section of one of my shops..

See with alot of carving ..the grunt work ...not the fine finesse (with which I use more exacting jewelers tools) work...I utilize high speed rotary tools. ranging from 1000's of rpms to 10's of thousands of rpms...also some air driven rotaries...beastly beasts which run up into the 100 000 rpm ranges (vaporize-stone-into-airborne-dust-on-contact kinda speed) ..the slowest I use can bury themselves deep into flesh in a heartbeat if you aren't focused. Anyway...so it is about focus, control, strength, hand-eye coordination, steady hand and sharp eye...can't hold a 3-7lb weight in your hand delicately forever....no matter how strong or tough a person think they are...unless you have good support...head, neck, back, arm, wrist support...and even then...best I can do is about 12-14 hours straight before my hand starts cramping up...(I do take a few min. break on the hour) anyway..I do best with music ...audio books and good movies...gets me in the "zone" so-to-speak...it's like meditation...my church I s'pose...I watch and rewind if I get to concentrating too intensely on my work. Carving works better that way...I don't think about the time it is taking nor the intricacy involved...I'm just "there"
And for that...well I don't want to get dust in any of my electronics...
so on a section of one of my work benches meant for more delicate work I have this cute lil monitor set up temporarily...I did have my wall projector set up...need a new bulb now though..just burned it out ...

and inside the cabinets I have one of my toshiba portege's a m700...wifi'd... bt'd ...and surround sound / vhs / dvd player hooked up and a 3 tb storage...and all the necessary remote control....above and below in said cabinets (I couldn't fit it all in one pic) and all around the shop are the surround sound speakers, sub woofers and woofers...so whatever I'm watching / listening to is immersive...
Really need the audio distraction...
sometimes I wear background-noise cancelling headphones so all I hear is the music or film instead.
Gotta realize man I NEED the audio distraction...years of hearing high pitched motors whining away is not only enough to lose your upper range hearing ...if not your hearing completely..but as well...year after year of that noise would drive the best c-c-cc-c-razyyyyy man.
So yeah I don't mess around with my hearing...hell I play instruments...heard of blind harpists before ...but never deaf ones...
so I take that stuff serious ...

And of course the bathroom, fridge (esp. for beer and snacks) is only a step away...and that is how I also keep abreast of tmo pretty much daily if not hourly...particularly when I'm at this internet accessible shop of mine....It is the most convenient shop for me since it is attached to the house...makes commuting bearable...
Now back to the movie and work...and where did I put my safety gear? specifically my beer helmet... that is...
It's after lunch here...so coffee time is done and the temperature is gettin' up there...soooo...it's beer weather again!....woo-hoo!

Thank you for that one. That was one of the best posts EVER. A bit tOo long for My taste but With the images. The images makes it much more instesting and Easy to read. Thank you...for that one. Looks like a solid Office With a beer helmet and all Enjoy Your coffee ...and beer...s.