From Leah Bartos of the Santa Cruz Sentinel:

He's not exactly a saintly do-gooder or holy messiah. Nor is he easily lumped into the "punk legend-turned-small press publisher turned VH1 commentator" category.

Henry Rollins just wants to do the right thing.

"It's not like some kind of Mother Teresa thing or some guy blowing his horn very loudly. It's just, what else would you want to do in this country? You take part in the great experiment of America," Rollins said. "It's your country, these are your people and this is your time. To not weigh in on all of that, what good are you?"

Rollins, who was once best known as the singer of Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, still focuses his energy toward the stage, but in the last decade or so, it's been for the spoken, rather than sung, word. Rollins will appear at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz on Monday.

On stage, Rollins barks a fierce oratory about things like the Iraq war and the state of corporate media, while weaving in anecdotes about his latest adventures in places like Syria and Australia and then gushing over his love for authors like Tolstoy and Hemingway. He goes a mile a minute, always astute, hilarious and intense.

Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel

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