[AnonymousBosch]

(12-16-2014 03:11 AM)El Chinito loco Wrote:  

Henry Rollins has always been a proto-hipster. He puts on airs as being a man's man but he's just another poetry spouting pretentious musician. He rode the Blackflag gravy train and the mainstream accolades given to him for being in the punk scene. I think he's an outright fraud in a lot of ways. I've always thought his image was very manufactured for public consumption and to try and showcase how edgy he is. His whole spoken word tour thing is very try hard proto-hipster bullshit.

Yeah, you see it too. This is a man constantly bragging about his consumption of great works of literature, poetry and music whilst shaming others for their low taste. Strangely, none of this high art consumption seems to have influenced his own writing, storytelling or music into anything beyond juvenilia.

This results in lyrics like this:

Quote:

hard times are gettin' harder, the liars are acting strong
you better get a grip on yourself or you won't be around too long

This is high intelligence? I'll point to something like 'A Man and A Woman' as sounding like a 4Chan Edgelord.

I admire his work ethic - I can't sit still either - but, damn, I just wish the quality of art produced matched the rhetoric.

Tumblr or Rollins?