Visionary Troubadour

I just read an interesting interview at Truth-Out with Henry Rollins, who has been traveling to many of the hardest, war-torn places around the world for the last decade as a kind of “punk rock journalist.” The interview explores Rollin’s book of his journey, called Occupants. From the article preceding the interview,

“I want to know more and see more,” Rollins writes in the introduction to “Occupants.” “I want to have a perception of the world that is not merely gained from reading books, keeping up on world events, and watching documentaries. “While one can learn much that way, those are, to a great degree, other people’s stories. Life is short. I want my own understanding. My own stories. So I travel as far and as wide as I can to try and learn as much as possible along the way … With great exception, I travel alone. I walk down streets, along rivers and train tracks, through slums, souks, deserts, forests, and ruins. It’s just me, a camera, and a notebook. I see what I see and meet whom I meet. I hope that the random nature of my wandering will allow me to bump into the truth now and then.”

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