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Hello my fellow fanatics. I guess everyone saw Henry’s latest dispatch, but for those who didn’t here is a link:
http://www.henryrollins.com/website/dispatch_beta/2008/11/16/11-16-08/

Henry seems pretty upset over the way Indie 103 moved Harmony In My Head to Saturday nights, from its original time slot on Tuesdays. This show seems to be Henry’s passion, since music is his first love. And it sounds like he thinks this is some sort of demotion. I guess ultimately the ratings will tell the tale, but in the mean time we can do something to help Henry.

It’s not often we get to give something back to Henry. He gives a lot to us, answering emails, talking post-show, etc that 99.9% of other artists don’t take the time to do. So I would suggest we all contact Indie 103 to voice our displeasure. I think if enough of us get together to write, call, and generally make a pain of ourselves they might consider giving Henry his original time slot back. Maybe we could even come up with something to mail to the station, like Jericho fans and their “nuts” campaign to CBS, to make our presence even more well known. If anybody has any ideas as to what to send, please comment here we can decide together what would stand out to station management.

Here is Indy 103’s contact info:
http://www.indie1031.fm/contact.php

877.900.1031

Indie 103.1 / Entravision
5700 Wilshire Blvd #250
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Every email will make a difference. Thanks for your help.

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To get your Hello Henry kicks while I’m hunkered down caffeinating myself stupid and ignoring my pussy ass human need to sleep, I encourage you to join Team Rollins, our Henry Rollins fan community on Ning. Why join? You’ll get to hang out with the lovely ladies of the Hello Henry blog. There’s the tattoo totin’ guntattoogirl, team rollins tee model Nikki Maclicous, and the lady who gave us the nudge to get the forum happening in the first place, Raequel… just to name a few. What more reason do you need, man!?!

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“I’m a native of New York city, but as of 2003 I’ve been living in the Republic of Panama. I’ve been a Henry Rollins fan since I was in high school (its a been a while since those days). Unfortunately I’ve never had the good fortune to coincide with one of Hank’s spoken word shows; something that brings me feelings of great sadness.

My brother Chris lives in the great state of Florida; he recently had the opportunity I’ve been never had… he went and saw good ol’ Henry do it LIVE!

After the show, Chris got to meet and hang out with Henry for a couple of minutes. My brother gave Henry the whole story: “… my brother is a huge fan… never got to see you… he’s probably hanging from a rope in his closet at this very moment, etc.”

After my brother was through with his tale of misfortune and sadness, Henry suggested that my brother take his digital camera and film him while he sent me a personalized Rollins message. What a fuckin’ champ! My brother jumped at the opportunity and got to filming, and here’s a video of the message:”

Black Flag: Henry Rollins, originally uploaded by Jennifer Precious Finch.

Check out Jennifer’s account on Flickr for more cool photos of bands from the mid-late 1980s. And yes, that’s the same Jennifer Finch from L7!