Skateboarder Tony Hawk and singer Henry Rollins launched a retirement home for aging punks and skaters.
In late 2025, a rumor spread online that legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk and punk icon Henry Rollins started a retirement home for aging punks and skaters.
Posts about the alleged place to “slow down…without calming down” primarily circulated on Facebook.
This rumor started with a Dec. 1, 2025, post from Pleatherface Lives, an artist’s Facebook account. Pleatherface Lives’ “Intro” notes that the artist also uses the page as “a dump for memes I find funny and Satire Stories.”
While Pleatherface Lives did not clearly mark the post itself as a joke, they responded to several comments underneath it that confirmed the rumor’s satirical nature. The account also confirmed that the post was “just for laughs” in a Facebook direct message to Snopes. As such, this claim originated as satire.
For example, one commenter referenced “Mattersville,” a song by punk band NOFX about growing old together with the lyrics, “A neighborhood for punks over the hill / We’ll spend our golden years in Mattersville.”
Pleatherface Lives responded: “It was 100% the inspiration lol was stoned listening to nofx working on some art commissions and was like this would be a funny satire article.”
In the comments, Pleatherface Lives also posted a design for a T-shirt with four black bars — a reference to the logo of Rollins’ former band, Black Flag. One of the bars showed a person’s back and the T-shirt read, “BACK HURTS.”
In case you were wondering, Hawk is 57 and Rollins is 64 as of this writing — so they’re both eligible for the 55-plus retirement community life, although both were still actively working on projects.
Sources
“Blur Murdurtron Commented: …MATTERSVILLE. It’s Been Right There. The Whole Time.” Facebook.com, Dec. 2025, www.facebook.com/pleatherfacedesigns/posts/pfbid0N7hiNgBcaYomFrPiCsjfZHvRpw9LyKEXmH12v1gifmpxLGCqS2xUgnRUFm2JyGtkl?comment_id=1952523315682074&reply_comment_id=2065445220975486. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
Britannica Editors. “Henry Rollins | Biography, Music, Movies, & Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 May 2010, www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Rollins. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
“Jesse Mitchell Commented: So the Literal Lyrics to NOFX’s ‘Mattersville’.” Facebook.com, Dec. 2025, www.facebook.com/pleatherfacedesigns/posts/pfbid0N7hiNgBcaYomFrPiCsjfZHvRpw9LyKEXmH12v1gifmpxLGCqS2xUgnRUFm2JyGtkl?comment_id=1229820809192904&reply_comment_id=1831514180902633. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
“NOFX – Mattersville.” Genius, 2025, genius.com/Nofx-mattersville-lyrics. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
“Pleatherface Lives.” Facebook.com, 2022, www.facebook.com/pleatherfacedesigns. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
Rollins, Henry. “Henry Rollins.” Henry Rollins, 7 Nov. 2025, www.henryrollins.com/on-the-radio-all/2025/11/7/radio-broadcast-866-11-0725. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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“Tony Hawk on Instagram: ‘I’ve Seen Footage… That You Should Also See. We Stay Niche @Birdhouseskateboards.'” Instagram, 12 Nov. 2025, www.instagram.com/p/DRXlAn4kn1K/?img_index=1. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.