Henry Rollins in Berlin......

...a liar and his spoken word



I would have never allowed myself to miss Henry Rollins on stage but when i heard it was one of his spoken word shows...i wasn't so thrilled though i already had the ticket so i decided to go after all....how bad could it be???
He started at 9 and stopped at 11.45...almost three hours....without stop, without water, without a single breath....Like a shotgun he kept on shooting us with his words and his ideas and his experiences and so much data.....Burma, China, Saudi Arabia, Teheran, Sahara dessert, India.....Minor Threats, Bad Brains, The Stooges....California, Washington DC, President Obama....

I always wanted to know what happens when you grow old and you cannot be young,fast and furious....you cannot be "punk and disorderly"...I remember myself 17 years ago how i used to make fun of my friends that were just some years older than me and i was calling them "Jurassic punks"...Henry Rollins is one of those "punks" that never quitted and never surrendered and despite his gray hair never stopped to live with the punk attitude he introduced us many years ago when he was singing .....rise above.



And as i saw tonight he still in his way tries to make people rise above and face the real world. After his punk youth came writing, acting and activism...now almost 50, he kept saying, and still he travels, he sees, he judges and most of all he enjoys to annoy "like a fly"....and that makes him so happy...like a teenager again...
So after all those years i finally found out....once you go punk...you never go back....