henry rollins vs. hipsters

Then he immediately puts his arm around this poor girl and goes on and on about how awesome he is for chillin with a muslim exile. While all these hipsters are sitting around drinking he's MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

He's like Bill O'Reilly or something.

i'd feel awesome chilling with exiles, too, to be honest.

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 (6 days ago)

Hey, if she's single...

This is just like a scene from Louie, except that we don't Shirin Neshat tell him at the end that she really just wants to take a cab home alone and not to call her again.

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Yeah, that's Rollins alright.

Since he isn't tooting his own horn, I'd like to point out this article about that nabisco wrote about the whole Rollins kerfuffle.

wkiw Tony the Tiger

You know how older Americans get absurdly aggrieved at the idea that they’ve done something racially insensitive — as if this is the most profound and dehumanizing suggestion that can ever be made about a person? A lot of younger urbanites are reaching this point with the phrase “trust fund.”

not sure about this - I mean it might well be true, I don't live in the US, but one of these things is open to interpretation and the other is something you basically either do or don't have. So I feel like it's pretty reasonable for ppl to find it lame and tiresome that it's passed/passing into the lexicon of 'generic insult available to level at total strangers'

i find the entire trust fund thing idiotic.

the still shot on that article is hilarious

But it’s possible that calling out “GET IN THE VAN” at Henry Rollins is more like if you saw Tony the Tiger filming something at your local bar and called out “THEY’RE GRRREAT!”

<3 this

imo a lot of the people flinging the term "trust fund" around would be at a loss to really tell you what a trust fund is or how one works - the point of the term is to accuse somebody of being rich. which I think is why some people who're perceived as rich get pissed -- they're like "I don't actually know what a trust fund is and you're calling me a 'trust fund kid,' fuck, I'll bet you don't actually know what one is, either, you poseur, fuck you" & this applies to Rollins - five bucks says his def. of "trust fund" wouldn't go very far in explaining how the word "trust" works there

nb if I lose that bet I will have to withdraw the five bucks from my trust fund which can take weeks so be ready for that if you take the bet

wait what?

no i get it
it mostly comes down to being told "you're not so special i bet you had HELP to get where you're at you didn't get it by HARD WORK like i did"
which is nonsense, rags to riches stories don't prove anything and many if not most of the world's most important, intelligent, creative, charitable people came from backgrounds wealthy enough to elevate their opportunities to act
but the accusation is 1/2 you are the bourgeois enemy and 1/2 you didn't earn your life it was given to you
would like to see rollins try that nonsense with, to pick two dumbass reference points out of the ether, angelina jolie or willow smith who would likely respond with YEAH motherfucker i'm RICH AS HELL

I am pretty sure that Willow Smith would never say that for fear of getting her mouth washed out with soap

i find the entire trust fund thing idiotic.

^This. Also, trust funders in NYC? Nooooo wayyyy!

willow can afford delicious soap iirc

Ha ha, doesn't every person born in the UK after 2002 have a Trust Fund (or at least until the Tories get (got) their way?) which will make "trust fund" as insult de jour pretty passe.

*packs gucci bags to go get some of that sweet sweet limey money*

When Henry joined Black Flag (according to GITV), he sold his icecream business, sublet his apt, and was off.

he quit his job at baskin & robbins, not quite the same thing?

no no he invented ice cream and sold the patent to baskin robbins

i missed the part where rollins called the kids "over-tattooed", kind of rich from the man that is probably as directly responsible as anyone for indie tattoo "culture"

I think the trust fund resentment is mostly directed toward people who spend a disproportionate amount of their time making bad art and complaining about how "broke" they are while living in huge Williamsburg lofts. It's quite staggering how many of those people populate NYC at present.

do you guys think maybe some of it was staged? first, rollins plugs the record store, then the lady plugs her band, then at the end rollins plugs his book, and in the middle they try to plug the exile but she doesn't really have anything to sell.

Suddenly the person who called Rollins “paranoid” about how he’s perceived is scrambling to assert that she doesn’t have nearly as much money as he does and respects Neshat “a whole lot.” In a few short moves, Rollins has turned things around: Instead of justifying himself to the young people, they’re justifying themselves to him.

TBF, Rollins actually made an assumption (if not an accusation) about the young woman that she was responding to. She wasn't just freaking out because someone shouted her name or yelled "Sexual Aids!" Not quite the same level of paranoia.

I'm with Nunez some def viral astroturfing goin on in the vid.

and right before the election hmm

The (lack of) respect thing is key I think. Explains why merely shouting "Get in the Van" equates to "mouthing off" in his view. You mouth off to authority figures you should be showing respect to. If you're not in awe of him and all he's done for the cause of Coolness, you're mouthing off.

rollins is a terrible actor, but his rollins in that video is note-perfect.

It was Haagen-Dazs!

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Two scoops of trust fund:

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Hah, fun fact: that bass player was/is also in Flin Flon, who have a great drummer too! (addendum to nabiscos story ...)

Anyway, Philip prob OTM:

do you guys think maybe some of it was staged? first, rollins plugs the record store, then the lady plugs her band, then at the end rollins plugs his book, and in the middle they try to plug the exile but she doesn't really have anything to sell.

^^^i dont buy that. if it was going to be so elaborately staged how come theres nothing on the net about the girls band?

Isn't this clip like 2 years old also?

that bass player was/is also in Flin Flon, who have a great drummer too!

Ha, I had a Flin Flon mention in the first draft, but had to cut it! It's a lot easier to hear interesting bass playing in Flin Flon than in Bratmobile.

Or I mean Cold Cold Hearts, sorry

xp: clip is like years old

er, 4 years old

happy birthday clip.

For the first time, Los Angeles public radio station KCRW (89.9FM and KCRW.com) will shine a spotlight on our most well-known DJ Henry Rollins, in a one-of-a-kind live event.

On Thursday, December 9 at 8pm, KCRW will present an exclusive listening party at the Echoplex which will serve as a benefit for the station. Rollins has been searching his musical vaults and will come armed with top selections from his personal music collection – some of which have never been heard before -- to share with fans. In a living room-style setting, anecdotes in tow, he’ll share a night of unforgettable tunes and stories.

“I will play stuff that I am unable to on my regular show, due to the rare nature of the material. I have been planning the set for weeks and am so excited to be able to get some truly unique tracks to your ears,” said Rollins. “Basically, the Echoplex will be my living room, you are the guests and I am playing some of my coolest cuts from decades of gathering, complete with the story around the track and its acquisition.”

GET IN THE ECHOPLEX

lol, so hank needs a live audience for his radio show?

"– some of which have never been heard before -- "

never? by anyone? including him?

as much as he gets cunted on, he was behind some pretty epic re-releases and no doubt has a dope collection and ~possibly~ a wealth of unheard shit.

you can see one of them in the video when he's browsing cds ;-)

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