show notes for episode 4:
Henry Rollins
conversation recorded May 2018.
thank you for listening.
some organizations offering care & support to children & families at our southern border:
(click links to find out more)
International Rescue Committee
(Providing clean water, shelter, health care, education, and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people.)
(Dedicated to abolishing immigration detention worldwide, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this profit-driven system.)
(Providing free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families,and refugees in Texas.)
(The Fronterizo Fianza Fund is a community bond (fianza) fund based in El Paso and serving Far West Texas and New Mexico. Many detained migrants have no chance to be released while they wait the months or years until their trial. When someone does receive a bond, they are often way out of reach for most families, ranging anywhere from $1500-50,000.)
(American Civil Liberties Union defending and preserving the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.)
(non-profit law firm helping low-income children achieve their potential by transforming the public agencies that serve them.)
This is an excellent list of resources compiled by the Texas Tribune.
“To be conscientious and white in this country is more of a high caloric intellectual burn than one might think.”
- Henry Rollins
theme songs:
Instrumental versions of “Turn the World Around” and “The Story of My Morals” by Bunk (included in playlist below)
books referenced throughout the conversation:
Howl by Allen Ginsberg:
Sweat (play) by Lynn Nottage:
Ruined (play) by Lynn Nottage:
references throughout the conversation:
Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Rage Against The Machine, Tom Morello, Public Enemy, Chuck D, Ronald Reagan, Emma Gonzalez, Joan Baez, Sean Hannity, Charles Dickens, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, Lynn Nottage, Igor Stravinksy, Béla Bartók, Woody Guthrie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, Pete Seeger, Thomas Mapfumo, Page Hamilton, Albert Ayler, Dewey Redman, Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Charlie Parker, Johnny Rotten, Thelonious Monk, Mike Watt, Raymond Pettibon, Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Giuffre, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock
Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex
Noam Chomsky on COINTELPRO:
further recommended reading:
“Land of the Free, Home of the Unforced Error” by Henry Rollins (TheLAnd)
“Men Are Expected To Be ‘Strong Silent Types’ — And It’s Breaking Them” by Henry Rollins (LA Times)
“Blow Up Your Taste In Music” by Henry Rollins (LA Weekly)
“America The Not-So-Exceptional” by Henry Rollins (LA Weekly)
“On ‘Strange Fruit’ and Finnish Psych-Folk” by Henry Rollins (LA Weekly)
“I Miss Having A President” by Henry Rollins (LA Weekly)
“We Teach Our Kids To Be Racist” by Henry Rollins (LA Weekly)”
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells:
“What to an American Is the Fourth of July?" by Ibram X. Kendi
The CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack (Institute For Policy Studies)
further recommended listening/viewing:
Sublime Frequencies - Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop music Vol. 1:
Black Flag - “Rise Above”:
John Coltrane, Live in Belgium, 1965:
John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy:
Noam Chomsky - “Who Rules The World Now?”:
organizations Henry supports:
(non-profit focused on suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQI youth)
(non-profit building wells and sanitation systems at schools in Africa)
(fighting hate and bigotry; dedicated to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society)
playlist: