― hstencil, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)
On a recent flight from New Zealand to Australia a man found himself seated next to a musclebound gentleman reading a book bearing the ominous tile "Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia."
He did what any hopelessly paranoid slab of quivering milquetoast would do: He reported the guy to Australia's National Security hotline.
That guy was punk rock legend Henry Rollins.
Rollins received a letter warning him of his status as a suspected terrorist from a "nice lady" in the Australian government:
The person who sat next to you on the flight from New Zealand does not agree with your politics or choice of reading and so nominated you as a possible threat. As they were too cowardly or stupid to leave their details I can’t call them to discuss their idiocy with them.
In his response to the kindly tipster the former Black Flag frontman noted the irony that the book is written by a reporter from the Wall Street Journal, one of America's more conservative newspapers, and was published by Yale University, President Bush's alma mater.
The D.C. native then asked the woman to send along a message to her higher-ups:
Please tell your government and everyone in your office to go f*ck themselves. Tell them twice. If your boss is looking for something to do, you can tell him I suggest he go f*ck himself. Baghdad's safer than my hometown and your PM is a sissy. You have a nice night.
Though firmly against the war in Iraq and no fan of President Bush, Rollins is an unassailable patriot and supporter of the Armed Services. During the Christmas season he made his sixth USO tour.
"The troops, they're my heroes," Rollins said. "You don't need me out there like some Tokyo Rose. I wouldn't go on a tear on Bush out there, because it'd be distracting."
http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/02/the_aussie_pm_c.php
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)
― ratty, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)
― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)
― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)
Singer/spoken-word artist Henry Rollins had an interesting take on Britney Spears during a recent interview with Sun Media.
Rollins was talking about how it always is a good idea to befriend the sound engineers at any music studio, because they're the ones with the best stories.
"They have the black chick come in and sing, and Britney sings over it, and they mix them together," said Rollins, who has his own talk show on IFC.
"(Britney) gets her phrasing basically from this older R&B woman. I found that out talking to an engineer.
"Britney apparently isn't actually the worst singer, she just has no feel. So they bring in this older black woman who sings the song, then Britney sings to it, and they kind of make a mix of the two voices, and that's what you hear on the records."
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/S/Spears_Britney/2008/03/21/5068996-sun.html
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 17:36 (eighteen years ago)
shocker.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 17:38 (eighteen years ago)
"the black chick"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 18:53 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP1UnKV4Gf0
― Bus Driver Stu, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)
This one ain't so odd:
http://twitpic.com/1e376w
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2010 17:45 (sixteen years ago)
ok thats awesome
― HOT DISH THYME MACHINE (jjjusten), Thursday, 8 April 2010 17:52 (sixteen years ago)
his radio show is the only thing on kcrw worth listening to.
― Trollmatic Reflexions (ojo), Friday, 9 April 2010 16:45 (sixteen years ago)
rollins otm
― m@tt (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 9 April 2010 16:57 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, but it would be better if he gave examples
― Zeno, Friday, 9 April 2010 17:00 (sixteen years ago)
Axl Rose?
― Convenience Fish (snoball), Friday, 9 April 2010 17:12 (sixteen years ago)
He supports the people, man! Rich rock are total dickwadz!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 9 April 2010 18:33 (sixteen years ago)
Bless him
― Soukesian, Friday, 9 April 2010 18:36 (sixteen years ago)
also, those infinite zero samplers were the shit.
― Trollmatic Reflexions (ojo), Friday, 9 April 2010 18:54 (sixteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjtghitGOM
― billstevejim, Monday, 19 April 2010 06:40 (sixteen years ago)
Perhaps not odd.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)
goddamnit henry, stop being so dramatic. either make twitter your bitch or shut the fuck up.
― zingstreet (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:13 (fifteen years ago)
I hope this means Danzig is next!
― brio, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vHbI7jz6L8Q/S_WFskVGwaI/AAAAAAAAAuY/MvriTJAjxtU/s320/henryglenn-thumb-480x480.jpg
― brio, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:01 (fifteen years ago)
don't you have to be over 4 foot 8 to have a Twitter
― starland vocal banned (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:01 (fifteen years ago)
In all fairness, he was likely doing pushups when he tweeted that.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:02 (fifteen years ago)
Pushups with one arm, typing/texting with the other.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:02 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/5755885155_7599b39689.jpg
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 2 June 2011 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
that's why he's on Vh1 it's for ADULTS
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:25 (fifteen years ago)
relevant tweet re life being too short for "sissy boys writing namby pamby songs about girls they never had in the first place": https://twitter.com/henryrollins/status/70739869713960960
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:27 (fifteen years ago)
No, he's off to see Dinosaur Jr.
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:29 (fifteen years ago)
REAL MUSIC
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:34 (fifteen years ago)
xxxp watching VH1 is a pretty good way to stay angry
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:34 (fifteen years ago)
If the Twitter feed is to believed, he is in India or somewhere making snake/bug documentaries for National Geographic
― total ass retain (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 June 2011 13:36 (fifteen years ago)
https://vimeo.com/89659920
― Kornblud (admrl), Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:29 (eleven years ago)
woah
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 June 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)
:D
― mh, Friday, 13 June 2014 01:37 (eleven years ago)
ahahahaha
― Who whom kissed? (imago), Friday, 13 June 2014 01:46 (eleven years ago)
Go to his vimeo page - some of the other videos are hilarious. There's one where his assistant has drawn sideburns on him in an effort to encourage him to grow them out.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 13 June 2014 01:55 (eleven years ago)
Loved this guy as the psycho coach in Jack Frost
what else has he been in
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 13 June 2014 03:07 (eleven years ago)
1,000,000 music documentaries
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Friday, 13 June 2014 03:49 (eleven years ago)
he's a cop in lost highway
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Friday, 13 June 2014 03:51 (eleven years ago)
Johnny Mnemonic
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 13 June 2014 03:51 (eleven years ago)
He's a cop in The Chase as well.
He plays a very tiny role as muscle in Heat.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 June 2014 03:56 (eleven years ago)
Most recently he's been a white supremacist on Sons of Anarchy
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 June 2014 14:04 (eleven years ago)
I like Rollins, though he is pretty weird and always has been.
This makes me like him less but we were all young once!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HGb7yo4SFM
― (maybe) (admrl), Friday, 13 June 2014 14:11 (eleven years ago)
as someone who has struggled with depression pretty much my entire teenage + adult life, i am pretty sick of people FREAKING OUT that henry rollins wasn't being 100% nicey-nice about suicide
― example (crüt), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:50 (eleven years ago)
a lotta people responded as if he were a cruel and clueless happy instead of a person who kept himself alive a certain way imo
but idk, i wouldn't have written that piece
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 25 August 2014 19:57 (eleven years ago)
i said this on the robin williams thread, but as much as i hated that original piece, his apologies seem sincere in a way apologies rarely do now.
― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:58 (eleven years ago)
The problem, for many, was not that his views as first expressed were not "nicey-nice," it's that they were uninformed. In response to the furor he has a new column in which he says in part:
As you might imagine, I got a few letters about my recent column about suicide. Actually, it was a lot of letters. For days. I read them. No matter how angry or instructive, I appreciate them all because they were written with complete sincerity, even if some had only two words, the second being “you.”
After reading carefully and responding as best I could, it was obvious that I had some work to do in order to educate myself further on this very complex and painful issue. I am quite thick-headed, but not so much that things don’t occasionally permeate. In the piece, I said there are some things I obviously don’t get. So I would like to thank you for taking the time to let me know where you’re coming from. None of it was lost upon me. I cannot defend the views I expressed. I think that would be taking an easy out. I put them out there plainly and must suffer the slings and arrows — fair enough. I won’t attempt to dodge them. However, that doesn’t mean that I can’t be taught a thing or two. I have no love for a fixed position on most things. I am always eager to learn something. I promise that I will dig in and educate myself on this and do my best to evolve. Again, thank you.
http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2014/08/25/henry-rollins-more-thoughts-on-suicide
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 August 2014 19:59 (eleven years ago)
i'm just enraged that my friends are STILL linking to the 900th wave of thinkpieces that have emerged from this
― example (crüt), Monday, 25 August 2014 20:01 (eleven years ago)