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.
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Being straight edge as a kid is a great way to rebel against: puking, getting pregnant, and wrapping your parent’s car around a tree.
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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
10.12.09 at 12:00 pm
Ian isn’t profiting, unlike hippies, that motherfucker sticks to his principles.
10.12.09 at 12:13 pm
Too bad he’s also a huge, unlikable douche.
10.12.09 at 1:11 pm
old.
10.12.09 at 1:31 pm
I liked the slow camera zoom as soon as he mentioned organized religion.
10.12.09 at 2:46 pm
Ian’s alright with me. I need my booze and cigs though
10.12.09 at 2:50 pm
maybe he needs to spend time with the man in the mirror
oh wait to late
10.12.09 at 3:06 pm
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)
10.12.09 at 3:32 pm
Sorry about that Erik, your mother and I feel real bad about it. Real bad.
10.12.09 at 4:04 pm
@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)
10.12.09 at 4:46 pm
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.”
10.12.09 at 5:08 pm
what are hippies? who’s ian mackaye?
10.12.09 at 8:11 pm
@ penis largo, pics or it didnt happen.
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10.13.09 at 6:56 am
The editing in the beginning (his reactions) suggests a Jim Halpert of The Office.
10.13.09 at 2:22 pm
TODAY I BLAMED BOOMERS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF “INTO THE WILD” WHICH BLOWS SO HARD IT’S PRACTICALLY A BELUGA
10.14.09 at 3:25 am
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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