The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 12, 1996 - 11A JIenry Rollins exhales in his latest book, 'Eye Scream PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Racism. it's so crass - it's nightmarish, it's vul- troubled kind of music, which I think Sexism. Street violence. Drug abuse. gar. That's what the book was trying to really fits the mood of that piece," The ,edonistic, heartless, apathetic get across - it is burning and we're all Rollins said. "That's the jazz that inter- Ametica of the 1990s. - playing violin." ests me very much." Everything annoys author-rocker Rollins reads the chapters Many sections of the book deal with ry Rollins. And that everything "Everything" and "Nothing" on a CD relationships; the first, "Mekanik," makes Op a chapter of his latest book, "audio book"; some sections are examines "the hypocrisy of morality "Eye Scream' backed by the dissonant, erratic jazz of and the nuts and bolts of sexual Rolins calls the chapter Rashied Ali (on drums) and Charles mechanics," Rollins said. "Everything" a section "where I could Gayle (on saxophone, violin, and "(It's saying) 'I'm the embodiment of just dump." And dump he does. piano). Rollins has known Gayle for all that stuff that at parties you say "It's one long exhale," he says. "It's some time; he plays on an dpcoming you're not into, but when you're alone, basically just my disgust and fear of Rollins Band album and has played live you do;" he said. "I don't necessarily what this country is. It's an amazing with them. And Gayle is doing his own believe or support all the opinions in place, -but at the same time, it's the album for Rollins' label, 2.13.61 that section, but the goal was to play scariest place I've ever been. Records. devil's advocate." "It'san intense culture we live in, and "These guys play a pretty aggressive, Rollins, 35, is at turns violent and macho as well as tender and vulnerable. He is also at times very funny. "1 have that macho side because I enjoy ithe said. "I think men should have it ... without being intimidating and date-raping and all that stuff. I have some sensitivity because I'm not stupid. I'm aware of my emotions" Rollins has strong opinions about the defilement of women, but admits that women in general baffle him. In one scene in the chapter "Suffocation and Solitudes" he describes a stripper who fellates a gun as part of her act; she then blows her brains out with the weapon. He calls strip bars boring and depress- v. ing. "To me it sets women back and it weakens men," he said. "Maybe I come from an overnachoized, Nietzschean ideal, but I think if you're a guy who 1 likes women and you can't get naked with a woman for free mutually, then you wouldn't make it in the jungle. You'd be out of the breeding pool. Rollins spares no vitriol for drunks and drug abusers; Rollins said chemi- cals were never a temptation for him. "I've always thought that alcohol, drugs, and tobacco were a government ploy to keep people mediocre, in har- ness, and shutting up and going to work at Pizza Hut daily;' he said. "I said, 'Not me. You're not getting me. Forget it."' Not only does he write books and front the Rollins Band, but he also runs the publishing company 2.13.61 and two record labels - Infinite Zero, along with American Recordings guru Rick Rubin, and 2.13.61 Records. "What keeps me going is the con- stant fury and rage that courses through my blood as soon as I wake up in the ry Is always a happy camper. morning;' Rollins said. Be careful what you wish for ... "The Rich Man's Wife," a film from Hollywood Pictures that opens tomorrow, Sept.13, stars Halle Berry as a woman who confides in a stranger that she wishes her husband were dead. When her wish unexpectedly comes true, Berry becomes the primary suspect in her husband's murder. So this means ... That's right ... You guessed it. 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