Sunday, January 20, 2008

awesome news inbetween it all

Henry Rollins is coming to Cape Town for a spoken word show, as everyone who knows me have been informed already. Its amazing news. I heard Henry Rollins for the first time in his album Weight as a youth, then I found out that he writes, but I was never able to find any of his books. Then I had some time to kill in Kuala Lampur and walked over the the tall towers (the ones you see in pictures of KL) and ambled about. Found this huge bookstore in there and started going through the books in the music section. I found one of Henry's books, and another and another, I was so excited and happy and just...well ja. I bought them all and took them with me to a remote island and read them all as slowly as I could to savour them. I was hooked. They are brilliant, not so much tropical island reading, but brilliant none the less. I later bought more of his books online, two of them arrived at my house signed! Jeesh was I jumping around like a crazy person. Thing is, as stupid as this sounds, its inspirational. The books, what he writes, I've often called him my Mike Lipkin. When everything seems to be going against me if stuff seems impossible somehow reading his work just changes my mind. Look what he's managed to do http://21361.com/ . My favourite of his books are Solipsist and Roomanitarian. See if you can find it.

2 comments:

TM said...

Damn - just checked out the site, and realised that I missed him in Zurich. Read Solipsist (lent by Jono, but I assume it was your copy?). Enjoy!

Susan Rabe said...

Did you enjoy the book?