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Then, I go to college. I make some interesting friends. They are interested in Rollins and we share some tapes and books. I remember reading Now Watch Him Die and being floored by Rollins rage and disgust with the world. The man lost his best friend to random shitty crime. "Life can be fucked," he says. Keep your guard up. The Mans honesty and intensity had me enthralled, though some of his writing is downright scary. Rollins has pegged the universal feelings of despair, disgust, revulsion and straight out denial of the worst of the human experience in his varied bodies of work. You might be turned off by his depressing interpretation of humanity but The Man has pegged the worst of human nature, straightforward and simple.

I recommend you check out Rollins' 2-volume Rise Above CD, featuring Chuck D, Iggy Pop, Cedric Bixler Zapata of Mars Volta, Dean Ween, Nick Olivieri of The Queens of the Stone Age and other talented folks lending their voices for the benefit of three wrongfully imprisoned young men.

So, this man has me intrigued for years. I have not been keeping up on his work, trying to be all positive and shit. Then, I open up The Stranger, Seattles great sarcastic free weekly, and there is the ad for Rollins spoken word tour, Shock and Awe My Ass. Wow, The Man is still around. I wonder what he has to say nowadays. Does he have anything worthy of hearing. Who knows. It could be some unevolved bullshit. But I hope not. I go online to do some searching.

I am reading some emails from www.kexp.org, the website to one of the best independent radio station in the world; they have a link to an article written about them on www.thecitybeat.com, a weekly based out of Cincinnati. So, I am reading the review and thinking that I need to focus on my Rollins research. Then, Synchronicity rears her head in my direction. I am a firm believer in Synchronicity: The Police showed me the way to her altar 20 years ago. I click on the entertainment page of The City Beat, and there is an article on Rollins, written by the talented music journalist, Chris Baker. As I am reading Bakers article, the Aha! light in my head shines at 100 watts. BLING! Now I must find a way to contact Rollins.

I link directly to The Official Henry Rollins Website at www.21361.com (both website and publishing company are named after Rollins birth date.) I read Henrys words to his fans, outdated; man, he must be busy. I check out his store; if I had some extra twenties in my bank account, I would buy a few books hes got up for sale. But, I dont. Too bad for me. I like the little summaries he has for each CD. I recommend you check out the 2-volume Rise Above CD, featuring Chuck D, Iggy Pop, Cedric Bixler Zapata of Mars Volta, Dean Ween, Nick Olivieri of The Queens of the Stone Age and other talented folks lending their voices for the benefit of three wrongfully imprisoned young men.