Last night I went to go watch Henry Rollins do spoken word. It was an entertaining 3 hours. Yeah, the guy talked for three hours last night. I can barely do a 5 minute presentation let alone 3 hours talking the whole time. But Henry Rollins is not any regular person. He's an angry 49 year old man who travels a lot. Which makes for a lot of material to talk about. This was the first time seeing him and I now regret not going when he has come to town before!
Back in high school, I was into Henry Rollins. I didn't listen to his music, watch his videos, or even read his books. No, I was obsessed with his quotes. I remember seeing him somewhere and was intrigued by him. Who was this muscular guy with those horrible tattoos and thousand yard stare? I had to know. Well besides being in a pioneering hardcore punk band, he was an actor, writer, speaker, and general trouble maker.
One quote that has always stood out in my mind was:
"The best revenge is to always survive yourself."
Oh ok, well I just looked it up and it's lyrics from a song called "Alien Blueprint". The song kind of sucks... But that's beside the point. Anyway, I always thought of that quote throughout high school which were one of the many ways I survived high school.
So Henry Rollins will always be one of my personal saviors from high school.
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I didn't know he was a public speaker. That's very interesting. His songs always got to me too... angry.. cool... kinda creepy all rolled into one ha ha. Which was all very meaningful in the high school.
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