Henry Rollins

I turned 52 years of age on the 13th day of February. That morning, I found myself completely uninterested in this fact. My 50 birthday was interesting. I saw it as the beginning of some post peak, diminishing returns, downhill ride in Mortality's toboggan. It ended up not being a......

KCRW BROADCAST #204 02-23-13   See also: Henry Rollins: Embrace Your Homophobia, Boy Scouts of America Fanatics! Tonight is one of our concept shows and has everything to do with why I am in Washington DC tonight. I'm here presenting a documentary about a spray paint artist and cultural force......

See also: Henry Rollins: Football, Violence and America I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. Now and then, I would see a group of these young, uniformed wolverines at a monument or museum, being hustled around by an adult, and I knew that it would......

KCRW BROADCAST #200 01-26-13 See also: Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please Fanatics! It's amazing how great our show is tonight. Sometimes I have to stand back and marvel at how damn consistently great the music is, just how incredibly excellent week after week all of this......

See also: Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling A few Sundays back, in a room full of celebratory people, I watched Alicia Keys sing the national anthem before the start of the Super Bowl. As she began, the room quickly went quiet out of respect and because......

KCRW BROADCAST #202 02-09-13 See also: Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling   Fanatics! I hope you enjoyed last week's pledge drive madness. We tried to keep it as much fun as possible. I think Young Will Bentley and I did pretty well with our Blues number......

Only a few short weeks into the new year and the GOP is busy. The president's recent inauguration speech got them all fired up. Within minutes of its conclusion, the right wing went to work. The speech was "an ode to big government" (sayeth Chuck Krauthammer) and not outreachy enough,......

See also: Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. As I plod away on my elliptical machine, I listen to music coming through......

See also: Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On I spent a large part of the afternoon attempting to elevate my mood in preparation to write to you. I only want to bring you my best, such as it is. I tried to get myself out of the ditch......

KCRW BROADCAST #199 01-19-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On Fanatics! Here we go again with yet another reason why music is one of the best things ever. It's a tremendous two hours of tunes. This new Scott Walker album Bish Bosch is blowing my mind......