Henry Rollins & Intensity.

Henry Rollins is good looking. Yes, however I wasn't quite sure whether i found him funny. Of course I was transfixed by his nice chin, his broad shoulders, his well sculpted face, amused by the number of women who looked on at him, pretending to laugh, whilst touching themselves delicately around the chest area as he carefully constructs his next line.

On closer inspection though, I found him to be quite an intense person. Intense in the way he described the events, and quite serious too for that matter. Obviously quite intelligent, and possibly just a tad bit insecure under the expression of intensity in his eyes.

Now that might sound like an awfully large assumption to make, but as I noticed his body language (while langouring a while on his manly arms and motorbike tattoos), he continued to reaffirm his masculinity. I don't think it's good to scrutinize to the point of cruelty, but at the same time, here was a successful entertainer, maybe not rolling in dosh, but certainly doing pretty darn well...but there is just something that was lurking underneath the masculine/intense exterior that he has so carefully built as part of his 'showtime image'.

Maybe I read too much into it.

I do believe that when we talk, we give a great amount of ourselves up to people. There is no doubt about that. We can figure if a person is insecure, confident, arrogant, from intonation of voice, from gesture, from body language, eye contact. We give everything away within the merest utterance of a single word. With performers, it's all the more interesting. As a performer, they develop manners and body language in order to divert people's attentions from the way they represent themselves internally. It's harder. Or so people would think.

Even the best actors/actresses give themselves away at times when they think they're really within 'the bounds'. Who can say though? Is it all that easy?