Late Night Wallflower recently sat down with legendary punk rock frontman Henry Rollins to talk about his upcoming books and specials he is working on for '08:
The Fanatic book is just the third installment of these crazy radio notes I make for my show. The damn thing is a hundred eighty thousand words. Way too much information about far too little. It's all these bands I'm geeked out about. Discography information and all kinds of things like that. It's a big book for ten bucks. A whole lot of paper for cheap and it's a big labor of love for meA Preferred Blur is travel stories from '06 and '07. It goes all around the world to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Australia, Scandinavia, Europe, America, Canada, all these places. That one is finished and just needs to be edited.
Along with the books, Rollins is putting together three live and uncut specials for IFC who also host his talk show:
[IFC] said 'where do you want to go?' I said, 'let's do one in South Africa.' The next one will be in a few weeks in Northern Ireland, in Belfast. We are doing one in New Orleans. I don't know when that shoots.
Finally, Rollins weighs in on the ongoing election:
One day it looks like Hilary and one day it looks like Obama. For myself, I've never been the biggest fan of hers. I think she's brilliant and she's smart and if she becomes the front–runner then I'm going to vote for her. I don't hate John McCain. I bet you he's not a bad guy. I'm not a fan of Republicans. I'll vote for Rip Taylor before I vote Republican. I've just got to have a new game plan, a new conversation with Iraq and health care.
You can check out the rest of the interview here.