henry rollins vs. hipsters

omg totally know that girl in "Sexual Aids" - her name is Meredith

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, November 3, 2010 4:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I know that lady too! But she's a punk and yer a hippie!

Rollins came off more as insecure rather than douchey
That was a panic move

This was my read, too.

also this is an unrelated story, but i met keith morris last week and repressed the urge to tell him that i loved black flag, that they were my favorite psych band. cuz that would make me a jerk.

seriously what else is there to talk about with Keith Morris besides how rad black flag was

how he takes a shit in public restrooms without his dreads touching the floor?

dread maintenance techniques, what it's like to work with legendary skin-beater (industry term for drums) MARIO RUBALCABA, among other things

fyi he was a really sweet nice guy

But at this point even saying ^^^^ that is soooo fucking played. Why is this shit even still going on?

yeah otm...this vid is like a sort of perfect encapsulation of hipster hatred, rollins ensuring that he feels sneered at from minute one. i don't get how he says "when that girl started mouthing off", like she seemed sort of nice, and actually how fucking awkward and weird was his introduction for the iranian girl, who prob would have liked to just chat to some hipsters?

plus you know, so what even if she was a trustafarian, rollins is hardly living in central park.

and the sort of "i'm kind of a big deal" bit at the end...god, what a fool.

Is he pals with Allison Wolfe (had to check spelling) or something? He was pointing out one of her bands at the beginning.

seriously what else is there to talk about with Keith Morris besides how rad black flag was

― the Whiney G. Whinegarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, November 3, 2010 3:26 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Probably a lot, considering he was in Black Flag for about 15 minutes almost 35 years ago.

"'sup Keith! Hey wow the only reason I know you is from this thing you did for 15 minutes 35 years ago. So, um, whatcha been up to for the last 35 years anyway?"

seriously what else is there to talk about with Keith Morris besides how rad black flag was

His fantastic new band OFF!, how underrated the Circle Jerks' VI album was...lots of stuff.

Keith Morris is a (former?) ilxor's accountant!

Meredith runs in (former?) ilxor-affiliated band Excepter circles iirc.

Just connecting the dots here.

*palm*

I guess you guys follow Keith's activities a lot more closely than I do

*high five*

seriously though how does he keep his dreads from getting bathroom grime on them when he's taking a shit??

or does he not care??

is sexyDancer the dude from Excepter?

I know that lady too! But she's a punk and yer a hippie!

hippie?

i'm just teasin'

"group sex" by the circle jerks is at least as good as a lot of black flag stuff IMO

okay maybe she doesn't run in excepter circles so much as she was working at the venue where the show took place (Rockstar or Monkeytown).

not BRAGGIN 2010 but I met Keith M last month and he was just a swell dude, really pleasant to hang with

Probably a lot, considering he was in Black Flag for about 15 minutes almost 35 years ago.

also everyone that was in black flag is important. they are an important band, the last great american adventurers.

i don't even listen to black flag that much but they are really important to me, just the way they existed in the world

for realz^

am i missing something re: henry thinking shouting "get in the van"="mouthing off"? or is it just him being paranoid and primed for a confrontation?

probably equivalent of shouting "I drink your milkshake" to daniel day lewis. the gentlemanly thing to do is grin sheepishly and tip your hat, then go about your business, right? but wouldn't you rather have him suddenly walk up to you bug-eyed, shouting, "Drrraaaaaainaaage!" that's a story to take to the grave.

Henry would have been more irked if they hadn't recognized him.

So I guess that's Cake Shop in NYC, right?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 17:01 (Yesterday)

Yeah I recognized it too and was going to ask the same, so I assume that's what it is. I think the record section since closed though.

I feel like there was something edited out or Rollins is just a little paranoid. Also weird that he was so clearly trying to avoid the word "hipster" even before the confrontation.

rollins comes off as a sexist creep several different times in that clip--hard to do, tbh.

like, that many different ways in 5 minutes

I think I sort of understand what mentality he was trying to complain about but Whiney summed it up in the second post like 10x better than Rollins did, plus his whole preemptive strike freakout was just insecure and weird.

I mean I think there are a lot of young people who would have a slightly condescending take on any music of the past that seems directly, sincerely confrontational and/or political -- enjoying it on some level while being above it and above everything else. But I feel like Rollins doesn't even fully get how that operates and just has this "WHY YOU MAKIN FUN OF ME!" attitude -- pretty undignified and immature for a man his age.

re: sexism, I dunno, he was about as creepy in the nardwuar interview as well. are you sure it's not just general pomposity?

wow, Ms Neshat is 53 yrs old???

u mad u old [/story]

Of all the offensive display names I've seen over the years, I'm kinda surprised this is the one to ruffle so many feathers. Oh yeah, wait a minute, the offender isn't part of the 77 clique. That explains it all. I mean, come on, if Whiney or, say, deej, used that display name as a "joke" it wouldn't have been such an issue.

lol not at all, if any of the "77 clique" had used it i prob would've gone in on them even sooner - obv that exists and i shun it tbh

henry rollins is a big cutie and sweetheart in this youtube video

& yeah, the original whiney post otm

I know how he comes off here, but I think in his way he was being self-conscious and trying to make fun of himself, even though he's all up in their faces. He's never, ever been good with adulation, he prefers confrontation...so even though they're being cool to him, he turns it into something he is defending himself from. It comes off as douchey, I can't exactly defend it but I've been a fan for a long time...Hank kind of defines secondhand embarrassment in social situations, imo

Henry Rollins comes off as unnecesarily aggressive and prickish. The hipsters were trying to be cool but never said anything particulary douche-y imho, au contraire they were trying to be nice to him.

I couldn't hear the name of the artists and records he thinks are 'hip'. Any help please?

don't think he's being prickish really. he's overly sensitive and he misreads the situation and acts awkwardly, but totally in the best of intentions. like, he thinks theyre making fun of him for being an old man, but really they just think wanna take advantage of the situation and score some hipster cred

man h.rollin's wite power tats in sons of anarchy are fukken n/j wouldve asked to see that shit irl

samosa otm. Henry needs hugs.

Lol lamp

yeah, HR just seems insecure to me here. probably no super bad intentions, but reading into things that aren't exactly there

I hear if you yell "squeal like a pig" at Ned Beatty he gets really upset.

If you yell Summer of 69 at Ryan Adams he gets super pissed

if u yell 'wheres my fukken child support money' @ john mayer hell give u $500

One time I yelled "What A Wonderful World!" at Louis Armstrong and he was like "You know, you're an ice-cream-eating motherfucker. That's what you are. That kind of shit you can't hide."