Tuesday, April 13, 2010

A Henry Rollins movie

I'm sitting in a bedroom with Henry Rollins and a couple girls. There is a Black Flag cassette playing and the girls don't know who Henry Rollins is and one of them is teasingly saying she doesn't believe that's his band. I think about saying, "Nope, that's him" but Rollins says he can prove it to her.

I notice he's very young - like 17 or something - and I realize that this is a movie. I wonder if it's a movie Rollins was in before he was famous or if it's a biography. His hair is really funny - short with a shaved strip above his neck, then braided hair extensions below the shaved part. I think about telling him a funny story about how a friend's boyfriend drove a few hundred miles to see a show by "H.R." from Bad Brains, thinking he was going to see a Henry Rollins show. But I don't and just watch events unfold.

The group stops in a field on the way to school. One of them says he has some heroin and pulls out a huge bag of needles, tourniquets and other heroin paraphernalia from his sock. The group sits down and shoots up. This seems to happen several times, as if different takes of the scene are being filmed. Every time one of them goes to get more heroin, it comes in something that looks like a small firework and he gives it to his preschool age brother to carry, because no one would suspect a preschooler would be carrying heroin. Every time before that character shoots up, he digs a a hole in the mud and paints his face with white mud.

I follow the group to school, which seems be in a hill with many entrances. The characters go into the school and I walk to the top of the hill. It seems to be man-made - like a huge bridge made of solid dirt. There are over-sized strawberries and other fruit growing among the grass along the top. There are many people and we all seem to be graduating from a training course and female teachers are sending everyone off.

I'm wearing some sort of knickers and a teacher tells me she can turn them into baseball pants so I can be a baseball player. I'm hungry and try to find a big strawberry to eat, but they all seem to have disappeared.

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