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Henry Rollins does a good interview, at least the ones I’ve seen in the 15 years I’ve been a fan. However, if he’s with an unprepared interviewer that person will be sorry. Here’s a case in point.When Hank was doing the promotional rounds for the b movie The Chase, which lampooned the media (he played the overzealous cop he railed on back then) he made an appearance on Arsenio and on Chevy Chase’s short lived (month long) talk show.

The Chevy Chase one isn’t great. You see why Chevy didn’t last, but I love it. He had done some research, enough to ask questions and keep most of the conversation flowing. It really sounds like two guys hanging out getting to know each other. In the end folks got a nice little snapshot of Rollins in 1994.

On the other end of the coin, Arsenio read just enough PR fluff to get creamed by an incredulous Rollins. In Arsenio’s defense, Rollins is kind of cranky from the start. I might gather part of that was because Arsenio quoted some of that fluff doing Hank’s introduction. In any case, he was caught off guard within the first minute and continued to slide backwards. He tries to find something open ended so Rollins can give something more than a single word response and that backfires a bit too.

Listen to Chevy and Arsenio for yourself.

Another post converted from a cassette.

Our cockatiel, Duffy died Monday of good ol’ fashioned old age.  

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MTV further asserts it’s lack of substance by running the following shows instead of a single snip of Live Earth coverage.

Here’s the 2:00 line up that eMpTyVee feels supersedes global warming.

MTV: America’s Top Model (marathon)
MTV2: Wild Boyz (apparently a marathon too)
VH-1: Lindsay Lohan’s Most Shocking Moments
VH-1 Classic: Top 100 One Hit Wonders (#’s 60-41)

Bravo on the other hand is broadcasting performances and PSA’s from 8am-midnite with no commercials (that aren’t for Bravo). Viewership is estimated at 2 billion people world wide. Times, and the 18-34 demographic, are different then Live Aid in 1985 but dang, not a single one of their hacks is on scene to commentate.

Also, just to tick myself off, I go over to the narrow puke buckets at Fox News to see what they are saying about an issue the Republican party as a whole thinks is a propaganda based illusion. All they could point out was that many musicians are driving up in gas guzzling buses (true with a couple of exceptions, can’t debate a fact like that) but glossed over the energy saving measures in place to offset it. However, while CNN (who’s too incompetent to be saddled with a partisan label) had someone reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa and Giants Stadium. Fox didn’t even put their woman-on-the-scene inside Giant Stadium. Fox also completely didn’t mention that a bunch of bands here in the States like Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam, Neil Young are all using bio-fuel while on tour instead of gas. They also scoured Madonna’s investment portfolio and apparently she’s got money in some polluters and questioned why she was able to perform at an environmental benefit. That’s the difficult questions they try to answer.

Grumpy today aren’t I? First weekend since early April that hasn’t been packed with activity and I keep thinking we’ve got somewhere to go and that we’ll be late getting wherever it is.

In the spotty times I’ve been able to see the coverage I saw: Duran Duran do a nice set (threw a little ‘I Wanna Take You Higher’ into ‘Notorious’, Corinne Bailey Rae had a phat horn section, Metallica did Sad But True (Lars with a stripped down drum kit), Porter stopped playing Star Wars to listen to David Gray sing ‘Babylon’, KT Tunstall did good versions of the 3 songs she always does, and I saw the Chili Peppers do one of their newer songs and the groove was pretty solid.

That’s it for this quick post.

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Quick update; The Sundance Channel is running it to.  Foo Fighters did a defining version of Best Of Me.

That’s not a typo. It’s a three word commentary.

This small American Flag my company was kind enough to hand out en masse is what sparked this. The ‘Made In China’ tag is written right on the flag! I’m not blaming my company, it rocks (never been happier at a job), but they were just trying to get a bunch of stuff the cheapest way from a (likely American) company trying to make it the cheapest way. I’m not informed enough to write an essay about the damage done by taking jobs from Americans and shipping them out but dammit can’t anything be made here, even at the unlivable minimum wage? Damn!!

I usually prefer to express my patriotism quietly but this makes me mad.