#Rollerball “Broken Open”

[johnkatsmc5]

Rollerball "Lifetime / Looking For The Moon" EP 2001 + "Superstructure" 2002 + "Oversize" 2004 + "Broken Open" EP 2005 + "Submarine" 2009  Australia Stoner,Hard,Desert Rock

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Rollerball "Lifetime / Looking For The Moon" EP 2001

Tracklist 1 Lifetime 4:03 2 Looking For The Moon 3:22 3 Superstructure (Live) Recorded By, Mixed By – Phil McKellar* 3:39 4 Mainframe 1:42 5 Lifetime (Video) 4:04

Rollerball "Superstructure" 2002

Credits Bass – Junior MacLennan* Guitar – Dave Talon Percussion – Cracker Roach Vocals – Tenpin Boland* Tracklist 1 Loungeroom Lifer 4:17 2 Head Song 2:37 3 Lifetime 4:03 4 Daisy Chain 3:17 5 Highly Likely Blues Harp – Lachlan MacLennan 4:52 6 Superstructure 2:52 7 Looking For The Moon Organ – Ben McCarthy 3:18 8 Colder (Satos Dominos) Organ – Ben McCarthy 4:14 9 Commodity 3:49 10 Trip Party 3:36 11 Next To You 5:57 Video Lifetime 4:04

Rollerball "Oversize" 2004

Tracklist Turn Back The River 2:33 Armed And Dangerous 2:59 Lucille 3:39 Bookend 3:33 Spray 2:52 World Weight 4:17 Cocoon 3:57 Broken Open 3:02 Suprise Me 3:01 Dustboards (Stranger Things) 3:06 Common Thread 3:26 Drink Until Light 3:26

Rollerball "Broken Open" EP 2005

Rollerball arrived as a fully formed explosion of retro futuristic groove in 1999 with their debut release the stoner classic Lost in Space. Skip to 2005's Broken Open and Rollerball are a leaner snarling rock beast, stripped to the bone, the sound of a band at the top of their game. Broken Open EP features Commom Thread and Broken Open from Oversize, produced by Oz rock legend Mark Opitz (AC/DC, INXS) & six live tracks recorded at the Marquee including scorching versions of Highly Likely, Loungeroom Lifer and Stevie Wright's monster Black Eyed Bruiser. Sex Sells. 2005.....~

Tracklist 1 Common Thread Producer – Mark Opitz, Tony Wall 3:27 2 Broken Open Producer – Mark Opitz, Tony Wall 3:03 3 Lucille 3:25 4 Classical Stimuli 3:22 5 Highly Likely 4:01 6 Loungeroom Lifer 4:19 7 Black Eyed Bruiser 3:46 8 Next To You 4:09

Rollerball "Submarine" 2009

Submarine is the new album from Queensland rockers Rollerball. Recorded with engineer Jeff Lovejoy (Cruel Sea, Powderfinger, Regurgitator) the intensity & raw power of the Rollerball live experience is captured in 55 minutes of incendiary rock. Take a mix of AC/DC, Kyuss, Blue Oyster Cult & Thin Lizzy & you get a hint of the unique Rollerball sound. Massive riffs, surrealist lyrics, tribal rhythms & pounding grooves, this is hard rock without irony, pastiche or plagiarism. From turbo charged belters, prog mind melters, sing-a-long shanties & epic stoner jams.....~ Tracklist 1 Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 1:30 2 Submarine 4:13 3 Seasoar 3:41 4 Youth Bailed (Back To Hell) 4:44 5 Your Lullaby 5:32 6 We Always Slide 4:15 7 The Devil's Reprise 1:52 8 Run Aground 1:42 9 Tame Existence 6:22 10 B-Ray Boogie 5:57 11 Never A Rodeo 15:39

Discography

Albums Rollerball (2002) – Waterdragon SuperStructure (2002) – Rhythm Ace Oversize (2004) – Rhythm Ace[ Submarine (2009) – Plus One Records EPs Lost in Space (1999) – Rhythm Ace Let Your Hair Hang Down (2000) – Rhythm Ace Broken Open (2005) - "My First Cowboy" (CD Split with OvO, Bar La Muerte/TMR) Singles "Liftetime" – Rhythm Ace "Highly Likely" – Rhythm AceRhythm Ace "Common Thread"/"Broken Open"

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Rollerball "Lifetime / Looking For The Moon" EP 2001 + "Superstructure" 2002 + "Oversize" 2004 + "Broken Open" EP 2005 + "Submarine" 2009  Australia Stoner,Hard,Desert Rock

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[weaselle]

THIS IS WHAT BOILS AWAY INSIDE ME EVERY MINUTE, MAKING THE TEDIUM OF EVERYDAY LIFE AN UNBEARABLE TRAP - THIS IS WHY I CAN NEVER STAY AT A JOB OR DECIDE ON A CAREER. EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT THESE THINGS IS BORING AND FRUSTRATING ________________________________________________

I have researched and want to write pre-historical fiction exploring my personal theories about early human development, which are wild but entirely possible within the total evidence we have available. I’ve done probably tens of thousands of words in notes on it over the years; finished, it would probably be at least a trilogy in length.

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I have written some songs, and I want to get a couple of friends with a good voices to sing them, and then get some musician friends to write/play music for them on analogue instruments, pair that with the singing as whole songs that they perform live somewhere, then record and give those songs to some other friends to make like, an electro-funk remix album of it, and then get some DJ’s I know to spin that shit at a party, take footage of the whole process featuring the live band performance and the party DJ's strongly, ask some dancing/choreographing people I know to create a couple of kick-ass matching dance routines featuring all the people who worked on the project, reach out to some video and animation folks, and make a small series of music videos out of the whole dang thing.

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I want to change how we experience death by creating a personal website for individuals featuring a kind of A.I. social media bot that users set up and activate which will, upon their death, continue to like and reblog things based on patterns of preference in their posts while alive. These bot/A.I.s would be able to be interfaced with, so, after I died, someone could get to know me - they could ask AfterKie “what movies and TV shows did you like?” and if I had set it up with access to my netflix/hulu/youtube info, AfterKie could tell you which movies and TV shows I rated highly, which ones I watched more than once, read you any positive reviews about them, read you my tweet “idc what anyone says, Ghostbusters is the best movie there has ever been” etc. And the reposting algorithms would A: let me reach out from the beyond to remind people “oh, true, Kie probably WOULD have like that tweet about caterpillars” and B: even if they were not perfect the reposting algorithms would allow for an approximate continuation and growth, so that I could even be seen as developing new interests after my death “Have you heard from Kie lately? He’s gotten super into Swedish architecture ever since he died, it’s like, most of what he talks about now”. I could map my face onto an avatar and use some voice matching software and put myself on a screen on my grave stone that would be linked, so you could literally walk around a graveyard getting to know the people who were buried there, asking them questions about their life. ________________________________________________

I want to build a Pet Mech, a small robot that could be controlled by small pets walking on a rollerball surface housed in the floor of the “head” with a sleeping/snacking den in the “body”. So your rat or guinea pig or ferret or lizard wakes up, climbs up into the control room, the floor of which is the direction pad. Which ever way the pet walks, the robot goes. Your pet is a little closer to your face, safe from the cat, won’t get lost under the couch, and can move around with you and to the extent of it’s capabilities be a social participant in the family it belongs to. ____________________________________________________

I want to sell puppies that owners will come visit in my facility for the first couple months, then take them home one weekend a month, then two, then three, then every weekend, then by the time they are a year old the dog lives with it’s person/people but continues to spend one weekend a month at the facility for an additional year. The facility would provide full socialization and training. A lot of dogs wind up in shelters because in one way or another their owners do not know how to teach them to be a functioning member of the household/society. Just the other day, I heard a lady talking about getting rid of her two year old dog, because "he's getting on my damn nerves, I don't know what to do with him" which A: it is our responsibility to teach dogs how to be an acceptable fit in our households, and B: having never been taught that in his formative years, this dog will have more trouble learning it from even someone who knows exactly how to do that. Modern Americans typically lack the resources and/or proper knowledge to accomplish what could best be done for them by trained professionals who went to collage to study animal behavior and development etc. This way, the dog would have a realistic chance of being a good fit for the owner, and the owner would have clear methods of achieving behavior they require, as well as having access to a support facility for boarding, exercising, trouble shooting problem behavior, etc. At first, it would be very expensive, and I would look into a pairing program, where every dog purchased and trained would pay for an additional dog to be available for families with lower incomes. Additionally, you could defray the cost by predetermining your dog to be trained and available for dog-jobs for hire from the facility as adult dogs, to pay for their early care and training; jobs such as visiting senior homes or hospitals, sniffing things in labs (like tumors) finding lost people, working with livestock at high school Agg programs, etc... so a few days a month until they paid for themselves, these dogs would have jobs, which is fulfilling for many dogs and would help a family afford one of these canines. As facilities expanded, costs would go down, and the facilities would make great shelter alternatives, eventually allowing kill shelters to be closed and possibly getting access to shelter subsidies. Then, as more and more dogs were properly trained and socialized, and more and more families with dogs had access to support services, less and less dogs would be given up, further reducing both the need for shelters, and the number of dogs euthanized each year. __________________________________________________

I have a plan that might allow minimum wage workers to build equity and become property owners while having more free time, in a communities designed as entrepreneurial incubators that allow small businesses to develop in extremely low-risk environments. I’m pretty excited about that one. __________________________________________________

I want to start a store that focuses on local sourcing, and competes with stores like Target and Walmart. This store features a permanent farmers market, a suplimentary onsite greenhouse and nursery, and a large industrial kitchen attached to a small bistro and bakery. The greenhouse and nursery would focus on any produce not represented by local growers. The unsold produce from the farmers market would be given to the store as a substantial portion of the farmstand rental fee, keeping the cost low for the farmers and letting them get value out of produce the public doesn’t buy, and the bistro would sell food made from it. Additionally the industrial kitchen would process the remainder into things like mustard, tater tots, microwaveable chicken pot pies, frozen breakfast burritos, bbq sauce, etc. Instead of buying new tools from the tool section, there would be a large tool library, and a 3-D printer for printing high density ceramic tools in case a specific kind is not available. The ceramic would break down faster than tools of other materials, but since it’s loaned and not purchased, that is fine, especially as the ceramic material can be broken down and re-printed into new tools. Instead of Hallmark and Harlequin novels and Homemaker magazines... cards, poetry chapbooks, works of fiction and independent publications all from local authors. Instead of new toys, franken-toys made out of second hand toys, with a build your own franken-toy workshop open to the public and staffed with someone to assist children. Instead of an electronics department, a repair shop that also offers lessons in electronic repair, and a workshop and tools for public use. Instead of clothes made in overseas sweatshops, a fabric and second hand clothing store staffed with local tailors and would-be clothing designers, doing repairs and adjustments on the second-hand clothes and using them with the fabric to create whole new pieces of clothing. Our offer to the public: bring in any item of women’s clothing from anywhere, and we will add two functioning pockets for free. It would be a club, like Costco, with a small monthly fee that would help cover things like the workshop tool use, as well as encourage regular patronage. __________________________________________________

I want a genetically modified cactus or succulent that glows from bio-luminescence, to use as a night light in the bedroom or bathroom. I don’t know how to make this happen, but I keep looking into it, because MAN do I want this to happen. ___________________________________________________

Instead of people going to big sales, I want to throw a Black Friday make-your-presents party, where instructors and materials are provided for DIY christmas present projects. Tickets are sold in advance, are specific to the project (functioning as a sign-up) and the ticket price covers your materials (costs are averaged so ticket prices are all the same). The idea is, you show up for a party, head to your project space, get taught how to make the thing, and you make like, ten of them in two hours. Then you spend another couple hours eating, drinking, and trading gifts with people from the other projects, giving you a selection of about ten different gifts. ____________________________________________________

I want to make a computer-assisted table top RPG that keeps track of all the numbers and equations character movement speed and position on maps, so you can focus on the role-playing aspect (you still roll dice, but on a mat with sensors that track the result and apply your bonuses etc) ___________________________________________________

I want to do all this and so much more. I have some really cool alien fiction ideas - not the stories, but the aliens themselves, designed the right way, by creating a set of planetary conditions and then hypothesizing lifeforms likely to evolve therein... I have some energy creation process designs that utilize combinations of natural forces (like gravity/solar/tidal plants, that use all three things in a unified power production technique) which I’d love to look into further. I have a line of small pet housing I’ve sketched out, featuring tunnels connecting small pet environments in each room of the owner’s house.  I have a video game I’ve outlined and done character development for that I’m writing up as an RPG sourcebook...

___________________________________________________ I'm not saying this is genius stuff (I’m also not saying it isn’t tho) I'm just saying pursuing these thoughts is the only thing in life that commands my interest.

What I’m super tired of is trying to make my brain do anything but run on at full speed about this kind of thing, because it pretty much refuses to do anything else anyway.

I don't even care if I make any money from any of it, I just want to make it happen. ... I mean, money would be nice too, of course.

So, anyway, now if I die in my sleep at least this much of any of it is out in the world in some form. Meanwhile, I’m just a few days away from going live with the website I’ve put together to showcase my progress on this stuff and help find funding for development. A central location all of it can live and get updated. I should probably get back to working on that, actually

[actutrends]

Only Vince McMahon can save professional basketball from itself

Vince McMahon is preparing to save football with the relaunched XFL this spring. Can he please consider fixing professional basketball while he’s at it?

Dear Mr. McMahon,

You probably don’t remember me. I used to work for you for, like, a month. Hope I still have the high score on the pinball machine on the second floor!

I’m sure you’re very busy swimming around a bank vault full of quarters or mooning passersby from the window of your office, but I wanted to briefly trouble you for a favor. I know the XFL is coming this spring to revolutionize the game of football yet again, but there’s another sport that needs your special attention and unparalleled creative vision. Yes, I’m talking about the NBA.

You probably noticed that NBA ratings are down. In fact, they’ve plummeted to such depths that they’re being beaten by some upstart wrestling company. I know, another wrestling company besides your own? Seems crazy, but it’s true! They have a ring and cameras and everything.

The NBA is struggling through a season filled with setbacks: the China controversy, the collapse of the Warriors’ dynasty, Kevin Durant’s injury absence, and Mark Jackson’s commentary. It’s grim, but I know you can save them. That’s why I propose you establish a rival league, the XNBA, to show Adam Silver and company how it’s done from the basketball capital of the world, Stamford, Connecticut. This won’t be an overnight success, though. You��ll have worse players, a less lucrative TV deal, and probably really ugly jerseys. But if the Clippers can land Kawhi Leonard, why can’t you hoist the NBA by its own petard?

A little bit of WWE flair is what the NBA needs to fix the damaged relationship between the league and its fans. The glitz, glamour, and drama of pro wrestling could paper over the deficiencies in a sport that’s starting to feel a bit antiquated.

To get the ball rolling, I’ve suggested some rule changes that will make the sport faster, more modern, and more exciting to a casual fan whose remote is broken and is too lazy to get up and change the channel.

A shorter shot clock

Twenty-four seconds can seem like an eternity when players like James Harden dribble incessantly, often with the expressed purpose of wasting time. Things like “strategy,” “long-term planning,” and “thought” aren’t necessary when you write an episode of Monday Night Raw, so why should that be a part of basketball? A 12-second shot clock will force teams to shoot quickly and shoot often. Imagine the breakneck, thrilling pace of a basketball game when players don’t have time to prepare.

No free throws

Yet more wasted time. Tedious Hack-a-Shaq-style intentional fouling grinds the game to a halt in crunch time. The aforementioned Mr. Harden — public enemy number one for the NBA’s ills — will flail his limbs in every direction to draw contact, knowing he will almost always get the call. Fans detest it. Players are frustrated by it. Drawing artificial contact for the sake of collecting free throws is strangling the game and turning it from a contest of skill and athletic prowess into a really bad interpretive dance performance.

It’s time to reassess the necessity of free throws in basketball. There’s precedent for this already. The NBA is experimenting with one free throw shot worth two points in the G League. Unfortunately, the Association is not bold enough to enact this rule immediately and would rather test it out in their minor league. One shot is fine, but why stop there? Why bother having a shot at all? If there’s a foul, just give the team that was fouled the points. That leads me to my next rule change.

Get rid of block and charge calls

The whole concept of fouls is boring. They stop the game dead in its tracks, giving the viewer time to consider whether or not they’re going to fix that remote. Don’t give them the opportunity! Sure, the league needs some rules, lest Draymond Green starts karate kicking people on every drive to the basket. I accept that this is basketball, not Rollerball. Still, the fewer stoppages of play, the better. That’s why I propose doing away with block and charge calls. Drop your elbow, and get in there. This will also extend the careers of players like Steven Adams. A win-win!

No goaltending

This rule is already in place in FIBA international play. Bring it to America. Let the guys fiddle with the ball on the cylinder as much as they want. Bat it away like in a volleyball game. It’ll be like a funny blooper reel all the time.

4-point circle and 5 points for a halfcourt shot

Stephen Curry changed the way NBA teams execute their offenses, encouraging players to stretch the floor and open up passing lanes for skilled wings to make runs to the hoop. Let’s keep stretching this thing until it snaps. The 4-point circle is used in the BIG3, so it obviously works. But again, why stop there? We know Curry can make a halfcourt shot. His range might be infinite. Give him an incentive to heave it from halfcourt by awarding a fifth point for a made basket. This will also come in handy with a 12-second shot clock. A lot of teams will have to shoot from there anyway.

And finally…

Allow  cheerleaders and players to date and put cameras in the locker room

Yes, I know you did this in the original XFL and it failed miserably. In fact, the entire XFL failed miserably the first time. Did that stop you from trying again? Of course not. When has failure ever stopped Vince McMahon? Did you give up on Roman Reigns when the crowd booed him out of the building for winning the Royal Rumble? Nope. You’re a genius, and you’re always right.

Why will this work the second time around? Because the NBA is already a circus of personal drama. I am certain some people spend more time scouring players’ social media accounts than they do watching actual games. Why not profit from it? Give the fans what they really want: the kind of salacious gossip, romantic intrigue, and knockdown screaming fights that make Vanderpump Rules the best show on television. Imagine the excitement generated from finding out Donovan Mitchell is going steady with a Utah Jazz cheerleader, or that Russell Westbrook borrowed James Harden’s good lotion from his bag without asking. The storylines practically write themselves (well, not really, so maybe you can hire me back to write them)!

So, there you have it, Vince. My humble proposal for how to save basketball from its crippling malaise. Together, we can do this…I’ll just need a six-figure salary and a Ford Mustang with Shaq’s face painted on the hood.

Yours always,

— Dave Schilling (DWS on the 2nd floor pinball leaderboard)

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