RIP Robin Williams

I hate that he has to give it that spin, i mean

and depression leading to suicide isn't the kind of choice that he frames it is, fuck everything and everyone I'm going to die. it's a frame of mind that's unrecognizable, choices made that completely discount your own value to the world around you, it's just...talking about it in that way is really naive to me

i really do understand what he means about children, and I don't necessarily think he's wrong exactly, I just don't think that it's a line in the sand kind of argument and seriously coming down against suicide over a guy who's already dead is just the most pointless waste of words to me

should have just stopped the essay with I get it, but then again, maybe I don’t. and left out the following contradictory shit about respecting the choices of people he no longer takes seriously, they blew it, i got life by the gonads etc etc

guessing the la weekly is not a place that will suggest you trim the argumentative noise from your thinkpiece

lol

rollins's reaction seems understandable as a personal reaction -- you know, something you'd write for yourself just to get it off your chest, then forget about -- but i don't know why he felt the need to publish it. he doesn't seem like a bad guy but i wonder how he can possibly think he's being helpful to anyone by saying stuff like:

Almost 40,000 people a year kill themselves in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In my opinion, that is 40,000 people who blew it.

like, does he seriously think that many, if any, of those 40,000 people would have benefited from his "you gotta hang in there" approach? does he think that none of those 40,000 people ever heard anything like that before? pretty much anyone who's ever been open about their depression gets exposed to that "just buck up, get over it" shit.

i also don't get why you'd end any essay that isn't about at least one of the stooges with "raw power forever."

I have life by the neck and drag it along. Rarely does it move fast enough. Skynyrd rules.

All of Williams' children are adults, btw

grab parkinson's disease by the neck

people who are not 15 years old listen to anything Henry Rollins has to say?

honestly at this point 15 year olds don't probably know who he is so i guess it's adults who listen to him

jd otm, i am acquainted with people who have grabbed cancer, parkinson's, and depression by the neck. the dif is that if you die from cancer or parkinson's, ppl go "damn, he grabbed that shit by the neck, well fought," but if you fail with depression, they do quite often go, "what a pussy, he blew it."

i mean yeah, lolhank, but fuck him hard on this.

who's henry rollins

oh he's the guy from the tattoo band

which blob of ink is he

http://i.imgur.com/dNhoboZ.png

he's got a look

blue steel, man

mrs doubtfire. i've come to incinerate you.

"blew it" is such a sensitive and apt metaphor too

i haven't read that henry rollins thing so this is a non-sequitur but: kinda surprised at how many suicidal ppl i've admitted recently that have cited RW as a trigger

rollins thing is such garbage
imagine being outraged so many people ~choose~ to kill themselves

I don't think we've posted this yet. Somebody dug thru the next World of Warcraft update and found what will probably his tribute in teh game. Versions of Genie, Mrs Doubtfire, and Mork should be showing up.

http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-what-world-warcrafts-robin-williams-characte-208404

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5201/71/16x9/640.jpg

i'm a longtime fan of rollins but this was such stupid garbage.

^same here

does Rollins have kids

do they have the right to have a dad that isn't an embarrassing fuckheel

idk

the kids thing is paretic offensive given his daughter has made it clear williams' kids totally understood and were sympathetic of what their dad was going through. poor concern trolling from the man who wrote low self opinion imo

This Rollins is a cunt looks like

guys, i somehow avoided this has-been's 'hot take' til now, u could've too

After the New Yorker debacle, I treat everything signed by a Rollins as a joke

lmao

When someone commits this act, he or she is out of my analog world.

note to self: rethink suicide, remain in Henry Rollins' analog world

http://31.media.tumblr.com/eed9d4fb10fef77f2e1f9c09d53044d8/tumblr_mqdckg70fC1sqhsqco1_400.gif

What is an analog world? Stop it, Henry.

did anyone else watch the short video thor harris (from swans) made about depression and suicide? it was really good. i was annoyed with him for that blowhardy list he wrote about "how to live" but he is a tenderhearted person and i identified with a lot of what he said.

henry rollins can eat a big fat donut and kindly stfu

that list by thor is one of my favorite things

and is not blowhardy at all

http://monofonuspress.com/how-to-live-like-a-king-for-very-little-by-thor-harris

<3 thor

this is the video, it's not even 8 min long
worth a watch
http://www.stereogum.com/1700410/watch-swans-thor-harris-explain-his-major-depression-in-a-great-short-documentary/video/

here's the doc on thor

http://www.stereogum.com/1700410/watch-swans-thor-harris-explain-his-major-depression-in-a-great-short-documentary/video/

oops

what a beautiful man he is.

sensible list imo.

ah, that video is wonderful, too. what a humane voice.

honestly at this point 15 year olds don't probably know who he is so i guess it's adults who listen to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-8vo0Rnec

"Life isn’t anything but what you make it." - rollins

pull yourself up by your bootstraps you saddos *kisses biceps*

ugh i just realized that jack frost movie is more than 15 years old

Henry is celebrating the 20th anniversary of being a wacky bit player in hollywood movies this year - Charlie Sheen's The Chase came out March '94

"robin couldn't hack it? fine, more potential bits in family comedies for me. i got this goofy priest role by the throat. residuals forever."