Seattle riot pron!

[gordonzola]

Oh man, I can't wait for this. It's going to be horrible and fun at the same time. I can feel both the urge to cringe and the urge to fuck shit up! Hopefully we can see a double feature with the new animated Chicago 8 movie. Either way we must be a forceful presence on opening night.

Yes, it's a movie about the Seattle WTO 1999!

sabotabby and sadie_sabot beat me to linking this but I will happily join the viral marketing campaign. Commentary on their journals is worth reading. But I'll say here what I said there:

Thank god the got the part right about all of us following the leader with the bad facial hair. I was afraid they'd leave that part out.

Comments

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

and AWFUL! ;)

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

Well, that's basically what I mean. Oh, Hollywood.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

hey, what was that music video that you worked on with my friend Tia? What band? I realized I've never seen the video and I wanna watch it on youtube.

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

OMG, I was just talking about that with my supervisor. System Of A Down, "Boom." I've never seen it either, actually.

BOOM!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yAO-QCSWA

not embeddable. (I don't think that's a word)

Re: BOOM!

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

It looks good! And godDAMN, I can't believe this has been going on as long as it has.

(I see all those person on the street clips and visions of stapling Polaroids to releases swim before my eyes...)

Re: BOOM!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah it does look good. Excellent work!

and yeah, this war has been going on awhile now, eh?

it can end any day now.

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I can staple like nobody's business.

Seriously, that was one of the best PA jobs I've ever had, definitely in my Top 10 jobs of a lifetime, and 95% of that was because of Tia's field producing skills. I'm so glad her work is starting to get the recognition it deserves!

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Not the pregnant woman! Surely *everyone* will understand about the sanctity of life-to-be! Right? That minor key music is just to fool me and raise the stakes. Right?!

Hee.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I know, it looks so bad. Except for the riot pron!

[sabotabby]

She is obviously going to have a miscarriage due to the Black Bloc. Who are just there to fuck shit up.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

no no! She will go into labor and the Black Bloc, being nihilists, won't care. However, a kindly street medic, who we have previously seen become disillusioned with violence will arrive on the scene and deliver her baby as the riot goes on around them!

ok, Charlize Theron doesn't look pregnant enough for that scenario. but still...

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god they really made the movie.

I'll join the chorus about the riotporn being hot, though.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

from the clips it looks like they did a pretty good job of that. and really, that's what I'm there for!

[slutbunwalla.livejournal.com]

Movies make things look so much cooler than real life. Now I wish I had gone and protested with Michelle Rodriguez! I could ask her about LOST too. Oh wait....timeline problems....

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I don't think any movie can capture how awesome it was to be there. Michelle Rodriguez notwithstanding.

[beelavender.livejournal.com]

It was especially awesome to watch Santa's Village getting smashed, from the vantage of the Nordstrom sky bridge....

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh yes. playing at film festivals now!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh and nice new icon!

[slit.livejournal.com]

Wow. It's practically a documentary!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Practically!

I am eagerly anticipating/dreading this

[serazin.livejournal.com]

To make it more realistic they should hand out free scabies with every order of popcorn.

Re: I am eagerly anticipating/dreading this

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

hey now... Teamsters and turtles! The crusties, god bless 'em, were definitely a small minority of the people there.

Re: I am eagerly anticipating/dreading this

[serazin.livejournal.com]

I'm just going on personal experience buddy.

Re: I am eagerly anticipating/dreading this

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

you got scabies at the WTO? hahaha. Clearly it was COINTELPRO!

Re: I am eagerly anticipating/dreading this

[serazin.livejournal.com]

Well, not that personal, but it would make a good story if I had.

My personal favorite WTO moment was watching the reporter from the Economist stepping over sleeping crusties at the convergence center. I wonder if she got scabies!

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE

[constintina.livejournal.com]

NO AMOUNT OF CAPS CAN EXPRESS MY EXCITEMENT AND DREAD

Re: I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY!

Re: I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY!

Re: I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE

[twostepsfwd.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY TIMES FIVE!

[walktheplank.livejournal.com]

WILL THE FAMILY-FRIENDLY POLICEMAN MAKE IT HOME SAFELY TO HIS UNBORN BABY? -News at 11:00!

[starfiend.livejournal.com]

they filmed that here. (vancouver) in the DTES (downtown east side - where the heroin addicts & survival sex workers are allowed to exist freely). i walked by the set & found the way the teamsters were harassing the locals to be pretty problematic considering the content they were filming.

it was also amusing because the closet thing vancouver has to black bloq (or direct action of any kind) is the anti-povery committee who regularly stage tiny little protests in the same area & seem to be heavily scorned by just about everybody.

[villagecharm.livejournal.com]

If Woody Harrelson were playing Jello Biafra, I do believe we'd be talking Oscar.

[postmaudlin.livejournal.com]

i was riot pr0n when riot pr0n wasn't cool.

[nunofthat.livejournal.com]

Awful!

I can't wait to go!

[beer-retard.livejournal.com]

It's the opening night film at the film fest here in Seattle this week. No fucking way I'm seeing it. I didn't live here then, but I've been hearing a lot of stories from people who were here and there's so much I never knew. Just getting the perspective of people who lived and worked here during that time has really opened my eyes to some shit...

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

do tell...

[bikenerd.livejournal.com]

i hate to say it, but it made my heart pump faster. must be that crisis music.

[queen-beeanna.livejournal.com]

Shit was CRAZY. And, if I remember correctly, it was more like 100,000 protestors, not 30,000. I could be wrong.

What I do remember:
I had to find a different way to ride my bike to work once shit got crazy because the curfew zone extended all the way to Denny.
Owning, not just wearing, a gas mask in the Seattle city limits was illegal.
I had tickets to a WTO Protest show at The Showbox that got rescheduled for a day later due to the curfew zone.
Here is an article about it:
http://www.ink19.com/issues/october2000/features/noWtoCombo.html

[kest]

It was one of those cases where the powers in the media were saying something absurdly low, like 10-30K, and the people who were there were possibly inflating it by saying 100K. It was probably somewhere in the middle - I would be highly surprised if it was less than 50,000.

[kest]

ROTFL.

You ever read a newspaper article about something you were a part of, or that quotes someone you know, and you realize just how shit the news is, because it wasn't like that at *all* and the quote is completely out of context? This is like that. But with a soundtrack.

holy shit!

[meglomania.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see this. I was in Seattle at the time and living on Cap Hill. They tear gassed people on Broadway??????!?!??!!! My friends were eating Thai food when it happened, best seats in the house.

The police shot and killed an alleged burgalar in the apt building next door to me that weekend! I never could find any info on it. But it was scary and weird.

Re: holy shit!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

what a weird coincidence, I was just thinking about you last night because I was telling someone about the Tom Waits Peepshow thingy.

Re: holy shit!

[meglomania.livejournal.com]

Yeah we can't do it anymore because Tom Waits said, "nuh-uh" Maybe he didn't like reading all the press about it in his "hometown" (But I did buy a hat at the thrift store he shops for hats in. YES!)Also I'm in San Diego too, there's that.

I can't decide if that trailer makes me want to laugh or cry probably both.

Re: holy shit!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I can't believe he put a stop to it. Boooooo!