From Thinktank:English guy: "Oh, Mr. Rollins - you're from the U.S. So I guess you like Bon Jovi."Rollins: "LIKE him? LIKE Him?! I LOVE THAT GUY! Bon Jovi ROCKS!"
... Rollins also claimed to like the song "Funkytown"..
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Rollins on hair metal vs. punk : "This song is about people in Nicaragua - STOP SMILING!
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Does SOA count as political?
― die9o (dhadis), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Henry Rollins (Arthur), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
someone said: "if I recall his criticism of Morrissey boiled down to, "won't that fag stop whining?""
pretty rich from a closet case.
― Jade Pillar, Saturday, 26 April 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
And he's shit in the Jackass movie as well.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 26 April 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
What wasn't shit in the Jackass movie?
― David Allen, Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
The scenes that actually involved shit
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
I assume you are speaking of Cathy Rogers, creator and host of Scrapheap Challenge and (more importantly) keyboard player from Heavenly. Black Flag and Heavenly team-up = classic regardless of the quality of the show.
― Miranda (Miranda), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
David: you = fool. Ryan Dunn shoving a toy car up his ass is obviously the finest achievement of humanity.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Lenny Henry to thread!
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway I get a huge kick out of seeing Cathy on teevee since Heavenly is one of my favorite bands ever - and then pairing her with Hank Rollins is just too strange to even be real.
― Miranda (Miranda), Saturday, 26 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
But, really, he's been around long enough to not be too-punk-for-Madonna and tuned in enough to make educated political statements. Who cares if he rags on easy targets like Bono and the Hummer H2, he still will hit on shit I haven't had the time to think about in my meager 23 years.
I agree with most of the stuff he says, and the rest I find entertaining anyhow.
Hank's my dog.
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 27 April 2003 00:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― hstencil, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― ratty, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
shocker.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
Most recently he's been a white supremacist on Sons of Anarchy
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 June 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 25 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
crut totally otm
― rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Henry spent a lot of time in The Shed
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 August 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
feel like we're at peak thinkpiece-economy, at some point general exhaustion has to settle in, no?
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
hmm, good point - have 3000 words in for me on the subject by breakfast.
― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 09:09 (nine years ago) link
The . . . low self- . . . opinions of Henry Rollins
― am0n, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
This is really odd:http://henryrollins.com/dispatch/detail/henry_heidi_podcast_mr._pepperman/
― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
how so
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
can you summarize so I don't have to listen to the henry rollins podcast
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
weird teen on ritalin gets told to toughen up by well-meaning teacher
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:17 (eight years ago) link
The podcast has been pretty fun so far, kind of a throw back to his earlier talking records (Sweatbox, Human Butt, etc)
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
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)
― maybe/whatever/so what/boring (admrl), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
I didn't think it was creepy at all.
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
Henry Rollins and shelves. A thread. pic.twitter.com/hwnpOcgDLS— Simon (@iamsimonyoung) April 6, 2019
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 7 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
A+
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Assuming all of Henry's targeted social media ads are for black or grey t-shirts
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 8 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
I’m always ready to lol at Rollins but I gotta admit a lot of those are pretty nice looking shelves tbf
― One Eye Open, Monday, 8 April 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Monday, 8 April 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
he should post to ilm with all the CDs he's hoarding
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
4 hour podcast if you dare:
https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/music-special/henry-rollins-radio-longform-joy-division-ian-mackaye
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
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)
― donald failson (sic), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
I like to think of him looking for his Buggles test-pressing ($17 on Ebay) in that photograph.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
The Impulse! section needs some work, Henry. Man, that's a tidy collection.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
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 MacKayeDon Letts mentioning he worked with the Clash
?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
Donovan: Beatles/Zep
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link