Being interviewed by dumb people sucks. Here’s another fine example: Ian MacKaye being cross-examined by a couple of condescending flakes. If anyone still wonders why we despise hippies so much, it’s because they keep taking credit for everything youthful and anti-establishment, as if their blip in San Francisco actually mattered. Hell, if they get to claim that they created counter-culture, then we get to say they also invented divorce, consumerism, fake education, debt economics, STDs, and body odor. Behold:


Although Ian’s reactions to his interviewers’ questions are priceless, skip ahead to 7:40 to get his take on why hippies suck.

-MIKE EIDE

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18 Comments
  1. Sir Fagsalot Says:

    All this proves is that hippies and “Hardcore kids” are exactly the same thing w/ different music and clothes. If the 60s would have involved Minor Threat instead of the Grateful Dead, we’d have 55 year old former crust punks selling us minivans, driving up college tuition, and selling their 2 bedroom homes for $500,000 like it’s nothing


  2. JuCIFER Says:

    Ian isn’t profiting, unlike hippies, that motherfucker sticks to his principles.


  3. loosejuice Says:

    Too bad he’s also a huge, unlikable douche.


  4. zuckerzeit Says:

    old.


  5. felicia Says:

    I liked the slow camera zoom as soon as he mentioned organized religion.


  6. grumpy old man Says:

    Ian’s alright with me. I need my booze and cigs though


  7. skull front Says:

    maybe he needs to spend time with the man in the mirror
    oh wait to late


  8. Erik Kolacek Says:

    Totally with you Mike. And I’m supposed to give a shit that my boomer relatives are finally getting ill from abusing their bodies for 40 years.

    Back in the day when the Gilman Street warehouse first started (and long before) it was pretty much punks versus everyone. In SF/Berkeley/Oakland everyone’s parents were too busy getting loaded or drunk to notice anything their kids were doing. Let alone know or care what the hell it was about. Hippies, ex-hippies…whatever. The most self-absorbed generation that ever lived, and the least interested in whether their kids were out at 3AM getting stabbed or not. I could walk in the house covered in blood and nobody would bat an eyelash.

    (nice job dad)


  9. Disappointed Dad Says:

    Sorry about that Erik, your mother and I feel real bad about it. Real bad.


  10. Erik Kolacek Says:

    @Disappointed Dad: That’s cool pop. I’ll try not to trip over any cords when you’re in the hospital next.

    ;)

    I’m kidding! (I’d straight unplug the bastard)


  11. Penis Largo, DDS Says:

    Little known fact about Ian MacKaye is that from 1997 to 1999 he was a drag queen and went by the name “Tina Burner” – he was really into meth at the time. He took part in various drag competitions around the Dupont Circle area in Washington, DC. He even took third place in the annual “Drag Race.”


  12. stoops Says:

    what are hippies? who’s ian mackaye?


  13. Radtooth Says:

    @ penis largo, pics or it didnt happen.


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  15. Adam Says:

    The editing in the beginning (his reactions) suggests a Jim Halpert of The Office.


  16. WENDY LISA WARMWATER Says:

    TODAY I BLAMED BOOMERS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF “INTO THE WILD” WHICH BLOWS SO HARD IT’S PRACTICALLY A BELUGA


  17. weird seance Says:

    how long was the original interview – 3 days? she asks him about 900 questions in the first 2 & 1/2 minutes alone!


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