Eye Scream

Eye Scream

Author: Henry Rollins
Desc: "Work on Eye Scream started in 1986. I was crossing America constantly and experiencing the morality shifts attitudes and rituals in different parts of the country - the difference in the way people were in the Bible Belt as opposed to New York City the way blacks and whites interfaced the intolerance of homosexuality the morality plays. I started to become aware of how brutal the country is and how much ferocity cruelty and oppression are inherent in the culture and how much of it was in me. I wanted to document it and create a book that brought the whole thing to a boil and see w here it left me off. In the summer of 1995 I finished the book and started to edit. Re-reading the manuscript over and over I realized all the things I had picked up over a decade of playing Devil's advocate and it was inspiring because it clearly defined who my enemies are. As an American I feel it impossible not to be infuriated by the way things are and have been. I refuse to be happy about the day-to-day and go along with it. There's too much spitting in my face and too much spitting in the faces of people who don't know any other way of life. This book is brutal and at times funny. I know that I will probably get a ton of shit for Eye Scream. Enjoy or better yet... don't." ---- Henry Rollins