{"id":68,"date":"2007-10-17T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/oh-henry\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T08:48:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T14:48:37","slug":"oh-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/oh-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Henry!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We saw Henry Rollins<\/a> do his spoken word thing tonight at the Rave<\/a>.\u00a0 It was amazing!\u00a0 Henry spoke for three hours – if only the Rave had seating that didn’t bruise your tailbone!<\/p>\n

Let me take you back to the beginning of my Rollins experiences.\u00a0 It was the early ’90’s and MTV still (sometimes – when The Real\u00a0World<\/a> wasn’t on) played videos.\u00a0 Sometime they started playing this video of a strangely psychotic-looking guy and his band (The Rollins Band) playing the song “Liar”.\u00a0 My first impression was that this was awesome and I had to learn more.\u00a0 I bought the CD, learned about the band and Rollins, and became a fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the years, I learned about some of the books he published and read through some of them.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed his (sometimes incoherent) ramblings.\u00a0 Jerry and I found that he had performed some spoken word shows and rented the DVD.\u00a0 We watched and were enthralled.\u00a0 He was funny, insightful, and just when you thought you were having a good time, Henry invoked the power of human emotion to pull your heart out of your chest, throw it on the ground, and make you watch it slowly stop beating as you felt the pain he wanted you to feel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since then, the show has evolved.\u00a0 Henry is talking about new issues and tearing at your heart in new ways.\u00a0 He talks about his travels around the world – and hopefully opens some eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve read people’s reviews of\u00a0Rollins’ work.\u00a0 Some people think he’s unintelligent and pompous.\u00a0\u00a0And though he may not be intelligent in the I’ve-written-lots-of-research-papers kind of way, Henry sure is intelligent in an everyman, self-educated kind of way.\u00a0 Honestly, he’s very smart.\u00a0 And insightful.\u00a0 And human.\u00a0 So he’s not perfect.\u00a0 But that’s part of why we like people, right?\u00a0 Anyway, I can’t see the pompousness.\u00a0 Rollins may be pompous, but I might just be too enamored with him after more than a decade of fandom that I can’t see it.\u00a0 And that’s alright.\u00a0 Most people who are fans of particular performers can’t see the performers biggest faults.\u00a0 Some Britney Spears fans really do think she can sing.\u00a0 So, I may just be blinded by fandom, but Henry seems like a down-to-Earth kind of guy who doesn’t try to take things for granted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And he gave a show last night that was everything we wanted.\u00a0 He had us the entire three hours – and could’ve had us much longer if he wanted.\u00a0\u00a0 If only it weren’t for those horrible seats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We saw Henry Rollins do his spoken word thing tonight at the Rave.\u00a0 It was amazing!\u00a0 Henry spoke for three hours – if only the Rave had seating that didn’t bruise your tailbone! Let me take you back to the beginning of my Rollins experiences.\u00a0 It was the early ’90’s and MTV still (sometimes – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,71,81],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-culture","tag-politics","tag-shows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-16","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}