The first disturbing event of first-year university was the day I went to meet a childhood friend of mine when he was discharged from the insane asylum.
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Happy 60th Birthday, Henry Rollins
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men, resistance training with tags Asylum, Cronos, Judith Herman, King Lear, Morbid Angel, Rollins Band, Slayer, The End of Silence, The Palace St Kilda, Trauma and Recovery on February 28, 2021 by Jarrod BoyleIs Jocko Willink A Psychopath?
Posted in Real Men with tags Afghanistan, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Echelon Front, Fields of Fire, Henry Rollins, Jim Webb, Jocko Podcast, Jocko Willink, Joe Rogan, John Pilger, Mark Donaldson, My War, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Attia, Ramadi, SEAL, The Corner, The End of Silence, The Hurt Locker, The Wire, Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans, War Pigs on December 5, 2018 by Jarrod BoyleAfter taking a regular interest in his podcasts, I’m finding it hard to tell. Continue reading
Rollins Band – ‘Weight’.
Posted in Journalism, Music, Observation with tags Caliban, Cape Fear, Charlie Bird, Dorian Gray, Henry Rollins, iTunes, Max Cady, Raw Power, Rolling Stone Magazine, Rollins Band, Shakespeare, The End of Silence, The Stooges, The Tempest, Weight, Wynton Marsalis on August 16, 2013 by Jarrod BoyleSome years ago, I was hunting around on iTunes and discovered, to my considerable astonishment, there was no review for The Rollins Band’s magnum opus, The End of Silence. Continue reading
Top Ten Songs
Posted in Music, Observation with tags ACDC, Appetite for Destruction, Bon Scott, Bruce Dickinson, Chris Robinson, Disciple, Exile on Main Street, Guns and Roses, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Henry Rollins, Iron Maiden, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Little Wing, Lou Reed Margot Timmins, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Motorhead, Nirvana, NME, Poison Idea, Queens of the Stone Age, Slayer, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Ace of Spades, The Black Crowes, The Cowboy Junkies, The End of Silence, The Gaslight Anthem, The New York Dolls, The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Two Lane Blacktop, War Ensemble, Welcome to the Jungle on July 3, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleNME have celebrated their 60th birthday by compiling a list of the 100 greatest tracks of the magazine’s lifetime. Continue reading