Henry Rollins!!!!

I just got back from seeing Henry Rollins. Something I never expected I'd actually be able to do.

It is possible to have a quasi-religious experience whilst laughing one's ass off?

He ranted for 2 3/4 hours, and I didn't stop laughing. Even when he was talking about the Ramones dying off, and being with Johnny the day before he died.

Allegedly, he cut a track with William Shatner in Nashville recently.

And stuff. I should have bought the DVD on the merchandise stall, but I'm trying to Stop Buying Stuff.

Having said that, I've been meaning to pick up a copy of Get in the Van for years, and really need to do something about it now.

The DaVinci Code

Seeing as I'm still awake:

I finally started to read it this week. It's bad - the prose is awful & very amateurish (except I know lots of amateurs who can structure much nicer sentences). I could write a book on the factual inaccuracies[1]. It is almost funny, but not quite. It is definitely the version for people who couldn't get through either Foucault's Pendulum (which actually *is* funny, and is making fun of people who believe this stuff) or Holy Blood & the Holy Grail (which is tosh, but has the advantage of being very well written tosh).

Yet I can't stop reading it. It's very compelling crap.

[1] The truly offensive one is the "Fact" about the Priory of Sion in the introduction. The document is indeed in the Bibliotheque Nationale, but scholars agree it's a hoax.