piss 'n vinegar

if you haven't seen Henry Rollins do his spoken work performance, find a chance and go. or buy one of his CD's, i'm a big fan of Big Ugly Mouth, but i'm not picky. it's probably all good.

anyway, went to go see him at the zipper theater last night, and he's just as angry and funny and odd as he was last time i saw him. he's got a lot to say about all kinds of shit, from the changing tastes of his friends ("they're all getting round and breeding") to dubya ("...like when he sometimes run in to a cogent sentence"). he's getting a bit gray, but it's not stopping him from standing on stage like he's just barely restraining himself from running around to burn off excess energy. and he had the crowd alternately trying to keep their faces from cracking from laughing too hard with stories from his week-long Trans Siberian Railroad trip from Moscow to Vladivostok, to trying to keep us from crying with stories of his visit to Walter Reed Hospital in DC, visiting maimed military personnel back from Iraq.

awesome. i've got a lot of respect for this guy for having a lot of opinions, stating them forcefully, and not letting it stop him from seeing the absurdities in life as you move through it. one big thing that he said to take away is to make sure you don't just sit back on your opinions. take a stand on them, and fight for them. i believe the quote was something like "i want you all to find something inside to rage about" or something similar.

anyway


in addition, the zipper theater is a very cool space. they've got a great little bar with good beer and comfy places to sit, and the theater itself is a big old converted industrial space, with bare concrete walls, and a whole mismatches array of seats, many old minivan bench seats complete with seatbelts. good place, would love to go back.