Henry Rollins is one of my favorite people on Earth. Whether he’s playing a Nazi gang rapist on “Sons of Anarchy” or confronting hipsters on German TV, the man just pisses intensity. And later this month he’ll be studying that anger on National Geographic:
National Geographic Channel’s Explorer: Born to Rage? investigates the discovery behind a single “warrior gene” directly associated with violent behavior. With bullying and violent crime making headlines, this controversial finding stirs up the nature-versus-nurture debate. Now, Henry Rollins goes in search of carriers from diverse, sometimes violent backgrounds who agree to be tested for the genetic mutation. Who has the warrior gene? And are all violent people carriers? The results turn assumptions upside down. [Nat Geo]
You know what needs turning upside down? Some furniture that gets in Henry Rollins’s way. I would pay good money to sit safely behind plexiglass while he destroyed an IKEA showroom.
Anyway, you can watch a preview below. It opens with Rollins punching a fan while onstage, and then somehow gets even better.
“During shows, I have been burned with cigars and cigarettes, butane lighters. Keys have been stabbed into me. I’ve been hit with ashtrays, fists, feet, whatever.”
NBD.
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Fun fact: children with Conduct Disorder and adults with Antisocial Disorder have nerve impulses that lead to a depressed physiological state (decreased heart rate, etc.) Theory goes that this leads to an decreased ability to experience satisfaction and joy in day to day life, and leads to violence and “sensation seeking” behavior.
/med skooled
Should be quite the t.v. party.
Henry Rollins has reached a point in his life when getting hit by flying ashtrays is a daily occurrence. Outstanding.
In retrospect, I wish that picture had more yelling.
Uff, will you please do a follow up on this when it is supposed to air? I would be legitimately interested in watching it, but I forget shit like really fucking easy.
Oh, hey, you like corgis, right? There’s this one site that does this thing called “corgi fridays”, you should check it out.
Know what I like about Rollins? He knows what he’s good at and he sticks with it.
During a show about 15 years ago, I saw Rollins head-bang so hard in his signature stance that he smacked his forehead against his knee and knocked himself out cold. Stage hand came over, shook him conscious, and the dude played on. That kind of intensity has kept him in the top 10 of my “Men I Wish Were My Real Dad” list ever since.
Dec 14th at 10pm on NatGeo
Hank Rollins, Sarah Palin, and a baseball bat in a hot room. $99.99 on pay-per-view. I’m in.
Holy shit, I LOVE HANK. Cannot wait for this to air.
swing4, you know that’s a classic story, right? I’ve seen him tell it live, plus it’s on at least one of his spoken word albums. Awesome.
Matt, 50th bday Spoken Word tour next year. Oh yes.
Sophia, yeah this wasn’t THAT time. It was in the mid-90′s at a show he opened for Pearl Jam. Way less dramatic, but still pretty surprising.
“It opens with Rollins punching a fan while onstage” No it doesn’t. It shows him swing and miss a guy right in front of him about ten times. I’ve found the people always yapping about how tough they are, aren’t. Don’t believe the hype.
This can’t go unchallenged. This is science at it’s worst. This is nonsense.
The gang at FSU claims that “boys who carry a particular variation of the gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the ‘warrior gene,’ are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent members and to use weapons.”
This was, as usual, a “study.” Call me when they do a scientific experiment, publish results, and a replicant experiment is done by unknown, objective scientists to either confirm or not confirm the hypothesis. Anything less is speculative crap sold as science.
Twenty years ago geneticists said it was XX males who were “prone to violence.” This myth still exists as well.
Truth is, there isn’t a single gene scientifically proven to be causative of a single human behavior. I await correction.
The onus, by the way, lies with the geneticists – especially psychiatric geneticists – and not the naysayer. Prove it. Make your claim, and then offer the proof. Studies don’t mean anything, and neither do “links” other than the studiers and linkers usually have a vested interest in the outcome.
There is no “warrior gene.”
R. L. Cima …… you were that little bookworm i beat the shit out of continuously from grade 2 through grade 12 aren’t you?
Hey Vito. I promise you. I’m that tough MF who went out of his way to handle punkass bullies. You usually waked away when I was around.
im gay anyways, i raped a dog