The . . . odd . . . opinions of Henry Rollins

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.

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

i'm just enraged that my friends are STILL linking to the 900th wave of thinkpieces that have emerged from this

oh i hadn't even seen that followup, yeah.

This state has made me have to do things in a certain way to remain operational.

anyway yeah i get it crut fuck writing tbh

crut totally otm

I get that Rollins has to get R Lee Ermey on his ass sometimes to get himself thru the day but his comments were still insensitive

Henry spent a lot of time in The Shed

i'm just enraged that my friends are STILL linking to the 900th wave of thinkpieces that have emerged from this

feel like we're at peak thinkpiece-economy, at some point general exhaustion has to settle in, no?

hmm, good point - have 3000 words in for me on the subject by breakfast.

The . . . low self- . . . opinions of Henry Rollins

This is really odd:
http://henryrollins.com/dispatch/detail/henry_heidi_podcast_mr._pepperman/

how so

can you summarize so I don't have to listen to the henry rollins podcast

weird teen on ritalin gets told to toughen up by well-meaning teacher

The podcast has been pretty fun so far, kind of a throw back to his earlier talking records (Sweatbox, Human Butt, etc)

how so

Yeah, I guess you summed it up. But it was also a little creepy and off in that Rollins way (and I like Henry, he's just weird)

I didn't think it was creepy at all.

Henry Rollins and shelves. A thread. pic.twitter.com/hwnpOcgDLS

— Simon (@iamsimonyoung) April 6, 2019

A+

Assuming all of Henry's targeted social media ads are for black or grey t-shirts

I’m always ready to lol at Rollins but I gotta admit a lot of those are pretty nice looking shelves tbf

I was thinking to myself, I'd love to have a big room just so I could put a bunch of shelves up for my stuff. It would be cool to have it all laid out like that.

tbf, musician/spoken word/author/collector guy is exactly who I would expect to be hanging around shelves all the time. Next thing you know, they'll have a photo essay of librarians posing with books.

Turned on KCRW Sunday night while working and happened to hear his show. Henry’s gonna Henry as a talker, but with the music there was lots of good rare interesting stuff.

he should post to ilm with all the CDs he's hoarding

4 hour podcast if you dare:

https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/music-special/henry-rollins-radio-longform-joy-division-ian-mackaye

Seems to be streaming audio, no podcast option, unless I have too many plug-in blockers (but I ctrl+f'd the source code for the page)

I like to think of him looking for his Buggles test-pressing ($17 on Ebay) in that photograph.

The Impulse! section needs some work, Henry. Man, that's a tidy collection.

This could potentially make a thread but which musicians/commentators have their own personal version of Godwin's law, ie:

Rollins mentioning his quite good friends with Ian MacKaye
Don Letts mentioning he worked with the Clash

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Donovan: Beatles/Zep