"I haven’t had any undecided moments in my life." Talking Capitalism with Henry Rollins
Chris Klimek
If Uncle Sam is reading PARADE magazine, we're all screwed. Photo by Heidi May.
I've had the privilege of speaking with the great raconteur Henry Rollins a few times now. When I interviewed him in 2008 about his plan to play the Birchmere on Election Eve, we spoke in September, several weeks before the show. He was predicting at that time John McCain would be elected president. A few days after our conversation, Lehman Brothers collapsed, the fiscal dominoes started falling and the dynamic of the race changed dramatically.
Once again, Rollins will be speaking here in DC -- in DC, where we don't have voting representation in Congress; not the "DC area" this time, at the 9:30 Club -- the night before America chooses a president. I'll be there. I was surprised to learn when we spoke the other week that he hadn't heard of Mike Daisey.
The interview is on Washington City Paper Arts Desk today.