Paradigm Magazine Presents: Rear Window with Ian MacKaye
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- Опубліковано 9 бер 2013
- Directed | Produced | Edited by Derrick Woodyard for Paradigm Magazine
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Interview of Ian MacKaye by Theo Constantinou
Music courtesy of Dischord Records
"Ian Mackaye barely needs an introduction. There might be a young soul out there who has no inkling of what an Ian Mackaye might be , or experienced any of the music he has released into this world. So I will share a few thoughts regarding him." --Ed Templeton (Visit Paradigm Magazine for the Entire Introduction)
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Rear Window is a visual project developed for Paradigm Magazine, which is a 21st century documentary style play on Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1954 film, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, without the suspense and murder. 10 years ago, there was a Skateboard video magazine called 411VM. In each video issue there was a segment called, 'Day in the Life,' basically, a 24 hour portal into how famous skaters spent their days. With Paradigm, we wanted to take that one step further, not only showing what a day in life is like with individuals we feature in Paradigm Magazine, but adapt our interview style to those days. Paradigm Magazine will continue to conduct our written interviews, but expect many more segments of 'Rear Window' every month.
Ian MacKaye is such an Ian MacKaye. Love him.
He's in the waiting room haha!
He's funny.
My god, this is a life-altering interview. His views are so rational and truthful I should say. Like the thoughts of a real man who is not prejudiced and has been thinking with his own head for almost his entire life.
Myabe
him talking about happiness made me rethink my whole idea of what being happy means, before i was always down because i thought that the only place i could be happy was at shows. now i do stuff "in the moment" and with that i can keep all the negative shit out of my mind. Dont need drugs to have fun, just a healthy mind!
It's funny how all the sober guys are the ones you wanna sit and get a drink with.
"All history is kind of a fiction"
Very wise sir.
I appreciate this film Theo. Thank you for producing and sharing sir.
My favorite thing about Ian, isn't that Fugazi reject the 10 million signing bonus from Atlantic back when they were all somewhat broke,, it's that he *didn't* judge the bands that did sell out. Minor Threat, Embrace, Fugazi, they just got on doing what they wanted, and they didn't compromise. My second favorite thing about Ian, is that While Second Wave fans were trying to run around putting (pathetic) labels on what is and what is not Straight Edge, Post Punk, and Hardcore. Ian just kept doing what he wanted, he didn't go in for all the advertising and the labels. The moment you use the label that which you were trying to define is already gone.
Damn he's a 60 year old 14 year old.
he hasn't changed a bit!
This man is uber insightful. I could listen to his brain churnings for hours...
The Man...the Myth...the Legend....Thx for your contribution to society Ian!
Ian lives in the moment, true spirituality ....not thinking is the key
this was really nice and well done, thanks.
The biggest issue most people have is overthinking. "Overthinking separates the body from the mind" Maynard James Keenen.
so are you. so is everybody.
how many subjects can you talk about in one go without stopping. this dude can't finish a sentence without completely jumping ship. but i still love him.
right on
The third song is an Evens song, called "Wonder Why" :)
A K THANK YOU :)
7 year old comment and still saving lives. Real Hero salute :)
There is alot of wisdom in what Ian MacKaye says in this interview. I hope his ideas will inspire people to think deeply for themselves, rather than debate his words.
I love Ian's mind. He is a truth holder and I carry a flame like his though the .01 will never know me.
thanks :) so i found out that the first one is Waiting Room and the second one is Sweet And Low.
Your awesomeness is awesomely awesome...
1st song: Waiting Room, 2nd song: Sweet and Low 3rd song i have no idea, maybe an evens song? and then cut from the cloth
Is this what sobriety does to the mind?
Hahaha! Right? Could you imagine if Ian ate acid? Fuck!
Wasn’t he always straight edge?
@@heresmokethis yup
@Smokey Doke (Dope?) You don't even know enough about him to know he IS married with kid but you want to judge? You fucking fool !
Sobriety has nothing to do with it.
Articulation in voice and thoughtful critical thinking approach to your surroundings.
He's a good lad
Plus he also means not to let what you have done in the past dictate what you do now or in the future.
I just realized.. that photo of Minor Threat toward the beginning of this video. Brian Baker looks JUST LIKE Joe Walsh (of James Gang, The Eagles, etc..) ...They must be the same person!
And now he looks like old man Joe Walsh big time.
I love how he looks like midwestern soccer dad but rocks the fuck out lol
Ian gets it. ✊️
He means that people get so busy recording and documenting everything that they basically live for their epitaph in some sense. they get more concerned about what maybe on the gravestone than what maybe happening right now in their lives, I understand what he means, I've quit and or given up on this insane rat race kind of legacy stuff, where we live only for what others will see in our passing, not for this moment right now. I love right now myself, I spend most of it with my wife and kids.
I think you got the message :)
What is the song at the end?
when did he do this interview?
He still doesn't realize the importance of Minor Threat......epic
true
can someone please tell us the songs that are used. thanks :)
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The last part he said was killer
hat he didnt mention is others skateboarding and filming with a super 8mm camera back in the day
nice
wich song is playing at 3:50??
"perpetual documentation"
+Adam I guess me being from Montreal and uploading ONE song from a San Diego band is perpetual documentation of my local scene.
+Adam I guess I had too much alcoholic beverages last night, haha!
this man is the father of the greatest movement ever in history... straightedge!
nah
Erik Muniz Stop worrying about things you have no control over. Have a drink with your friends and enjoy the lovely evening.
Erik Muniz Must be why Ian has aged so well 😂😂😂
Ian Mackaye has said many times that Straight Edge is a stupid movement.
I'd rather have long conversations with Ian than Jello Biafra lmfao
Jello makes me cringe when he’s interviewed.
I think i like him better as a musician than a philosopher.
"Perpetual documentation" ironic as that was, supposedly at the forefront of his mind when he started Dischord "To document the DC punk scene"
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Fugazi ❤️
It feels like Ian was a Buddhist monk in a past life 😄
does anyone know the song that starts around 3:35 ?
Into your arms by The Lemonheads
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Ian = punk rock
Henry Garfield at 2:20 is the real name of Henry Rollins.
He's correct about kids not being able to skate without a video camera on. Even if they can barely kickflip they're filming everything and it ruins the idea of skating. However his perspective on religion causing wars is in my opinion naive or unsophisticated, religion is a tool used in wars but power and wealth is always the real cause.
Word. Everyone wants to blame religion when it's just a facade for the real problems. Don't cut the leaves off a weed, get to the root.
fullmetalfunk
thats the problem. Religion is the root.
Grizzly It's not though. Blaming religion for everything is just as stupid as saying ethics and morals can't exist without it. Religion is just an easy cover or a scapegoat to point to when shit hits the fan, or used by leaders to further their own agendas. You think people wouldn't find reasons to divide themselves up and kill each other if religion didn't exist? People didn't kill each other before institutionalized religion? Atheists have never committed violent acts or taken advantage of others? Sheiks and Imams recruit poor farmers and eager youths to blow themselves up and kill others simply because their enemies don't believe the same things? Not because, you know, the areas of the Earth most radical Muslims inhabit are sitting on top of trillions and trillions of dollars of raw resources? The Catholic Church waged all those wars and killed all those people in the middle ages because they just didn't accept Jesus? It didn't have anything to do geopolitical maneuvering and hoarding wealth, right? The conflict in Israel/Palestine has nothing to do with establishing a western ally in a resource wealthy part of the world? David Koresh really believed everything he wrote, and definitely didn't do it just to feed his warped ego and wanting a harem of women at his disposal? It's very very seldom that religion is the only motivating factor in the ills of the world. It has so much more to do with hatred of differences that extend beyond religion and a want for resources. It's so naive and juvenile to point to religion and condemn it as the root of all evil, because the human condition is such a massive and complex matter. Minds much greater than you, I, or Ian MacKaye (as much as I admire him) have pondered on it for millennia and if it was as easy as "religion is the root" we'd have probably fixed it by now.
i dont think he said plainly religion is the cause of all wars... but more so a major factor, behind the scenes yes the motive is control, power & wealth.... but to the people fighting the war this has everything to do with religion
power and wealth are bigger problems but religion is still a huge problem and needs to be left behind. It's 2017 we don't need to think there's a god to understand the universe anymore
What is the song at 22?
Sebastian Rix The song is called "Sweet and Low" by Fugazi from the album In on the Kill Taker.
There's no one main point, it's kind of a synopsis of his experience, and his whole world view.
There was not ONE Ian MacKaye Interview for probably 2 decades.
He must have mellowed in his old age!!
What's the point of espousing your views? to an interviewer. ?
That's the question and there is no answer.
Cheers Theo anyhow.
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Having studied religion and philosophy, I think that for a punk Ian Mackaye is pretty damn smart!
If Ian worked down the school or kindergarten where my kids goes, I'd just hand them off and leave them for a couple of years, knowing that everything would be perfectly fine.
I wish he would just scream something from Minor Threat like "I don't wanna heart it!!!!!" just to hear what he sounds like now
What is he on about
This was certainly cool, but I've gotta say, after seeing The Evens I had a realization. Ian MacKaye comes off as WAY more serious in interviews than he is in person. He completely realizes some of what he says can be construed as absurd, he'll acknowledge it. Just something to think about.
Ben Forman -maybe you caught him in a better mood, but in 1991, during their “Repeater” tour, was in a band that opened up for them in Philadelphia, I’m 17 at the time, and I’m in a band opening for Fugazi, so, naturally there was a bit of “involuntary” hero worship, however, you’d think he be a bit friendlier? No, he’s as uncompromising and cold in person as in his interviews. I don’t necessarily dislike him (I only talked to him for 3 seconds cos he didn’t have time to talk to anyone, acting more like an English New Wave super star than an American HC Punk “DIY” pioneer).
I’m really not trying to badmouth the guy, just telling you the truth.
The music is still great, in spite of his view on history, every thing he’s done musically since 1979 has had it’s worth, and honesty, and I respect that he has stuck to his word for 40 years, I just am sharing my experience with him, and unfortunately some of his rap is hypocritical, and, I know from personal experience that he’s not the most friendly person. Just a fact, sorry 😐
What the Fuck is that song at the end credits!?
+IamR Banx The Evens - Cut from the Cloth
WHAT?
He's probably the most self-congratulatory "personality" in the history of music.
He's pretty chuffed with himself
His self importance shines through
"Religion has slaughtered the world."
PelicanGreed Oh, but how do you explain that militant atheism stands for 93 % of all wars ever? Up to 200 million people killed by the religion of "nothing".
Hoover Grepa I am just quoting Ian, I try to stay out of pointless religious arguments, especially on UA-cam.
So you don't have any opinions yourself? Okey.
+BubblegumShallow Non-believer, agnostic, atheist, you chosse. It's all the same. Either you believe or not believe, simple as that. Dragons and unicorns are invented fantasy figures. The historical Jesus and all the other persons in the bible are REAL. Try harder, kid! Those numbers comes from Encylopedia which is not Christian, wrong again. What "religion" are you referring too? The religion of Darwinism, the religion of soccer, the religion of money, the religion of Buddha? Most governments in western society is ruled by secular people for the most. I do not feel controlled by the gospel of Christ. You seam ignorant to the fact that people are abusing (for instance the bible) to gain power and wealth, when the scripture says nothing about condoning such behavior, rather the bible opposes it. You are so stuck up in your narrow minded "Religion" mantra that you forget to see what the truth is.
You're a lying piece of shit Invisible Drummer lol NO ONE has EVER killed in the name of atheism. And atheism, by definition is not a religion. Get a fucking clue you dumb fuck. You need a good slap
It's more than a little hypocritical that Ian is sh*tting on perpetual documentation, but carefully recorded, saved, then released every Fugazi show's audio recording ever.
Death is our constant friend, don't sweat it.
Suddenly he's looking like my grandfather talking himself into circles in the rest home ...."I'm seeing red!"
Thank you Ian 😊
He looks like an odd old man with his fluffy hair grown out.
EVERYONE should see this video. But, it wouldn't help, of course. Oh well.
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Atheist's Stalin, Hitler and Mao are the greatest mass murderers in history. Ian is a hero of mine and always will be. His comments on documenting everything is spot on; all the phones at shows is pathetic!
Not even fucking close, religion is responsible for billions of murders, learn some history kid
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The 25 million dollar man.
Your special. Do work
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Ian, could you explain to me how your views on obsessive documentation (f. ex. with the skaters) compares to your obsessive documentation of your Minor Threat / Fugazi times (all the tickets, etc. you showed on the Nardwuar interview). Thanks!
Random skating doesn't mean shit....Minor Threat n Fugazi is forever..deal
He’s talking about not having any fun skating (as an analogy for living life) it’s pretty obvious. Most skaters don’t film every session - if you do, you’re in it for the wrong reasons. You’re not doing it for pure/fun reasons. Minor Threat didn’t film much in the grand scheme, and certainly not every practice. Your analogy isn’t a good one at all. Thanks though.
My understanding about death maybe that people are carriers of souls, like a virus or a person that gets into a plane and then gets out of it in a different place. Bodies seems as transport devices, that maybe what it seems to me. And if you have a near death experience like I had where I was dead for minutes and then came back you get your world view demolished, living to me, seems geographic centric, naturally of course.
I don't think that he is aware of it, but what Ian describes here is Buddhism. The way he has lived his life is Buddhist. Check that out.
I think he is aware of it. I saw him speak in 2003 and he said that people have have asked him in the past if he's a Buddhist. He said that he likes to reply by saying "no, I'm a dude-ist". The point being that he sees himself as a regular guy, but one with principals.
This a rant like all us 50-something people rant when we contemplate and gesticulate about what we've 'done...'
These rants are real, and that's this guy... this is the real Ian MacKaye... not that 'hero' you might romanticize in your mind. I disagree with almost everything he just said except for what he said about SKATING. It's not a skateboard show... its individually spiritual... stop worrying if anyone ever sees how RAD you are... know you are rad and just skate. Hi Ian.
how can one put a percentage on agreeing or disagreeing ? you may agree or disagree with ones philosophy , but not on the "coherence" of it, it either is understandable or not, , and did lyics to songs change your life? did you give up your will to think for yourself? like religion? opinions to certainty? he only said we only know what is here and now and thats eternal , cause its all we know, , hey i just filled a gatorade bottle up with pee while i wrote this
Man... of ALL FUGAZI SONGS, for the love of all things holy, really?! Jesus already... enough with "Waiting room".
I wonder if Ian had taken the time to talk to those skateboarders if he would have found out that they were trying to make a video showcasing their best tricks that day. I am sure that they like cruising around and exploring their world just as much as he did. His example is counter-productive, because in that moment those kids were happy doing what they want to do. He is right about what he sees as happiness, but it seems like he is arrogant enough to think that no one else has it.
I’m gonna see minor threat
Just please remember God is and should be as private as your own children...
Nobody will ever F with that. Without faith when desperation sets in you'll sellout for drugs. That's way worse than selling out for a record company and I think Ian might agree.
Armies have been and always been about money, power and manipulating the needy, which puts religion (or community faith in general) in a easy hand to be a bitch in need. Nationalism can be too so in these uncertain times we need to remember that we all want the same thing, love and respect.
There is no truth without love, only a bunch of half-assed factual rhetoric that gets you to sharpen your own pencil for somebody else's memoir.
Geez, f'n YT at this hour. Time to go to bed. Take care.
My God he looks really old now, is he ill?
Ian talks like he has been tripping on acid.
Over explained concept he's bringing. "When punks become old redundant hippies"
hardly old nor redundant
He's stoned.
he's IS old
This guy has lost it. You can tell that all of his over analytical thoughts are becoming frustrating to him. Hope he finds God.
What a stupid comment
He takes himself waaayyy too seriously and he’s too damn old to be doing that. I wish he did less interviews
I think that the guy has his points made and is not throwing them to nobody's face. About the "kids not being able to skate without a video camera" ...well, I'm from Argentina and I'm 25 years old, I've been skating the old school way for ten years, just kicking not doing any of those tricks... and I thought that it was dumb (to say it in the most sincere way), that need to show everyone else what they do, or everyone does (just like the facebook photos and statuses) is a hunger for attention that probably none will feed. Everyone's selfish in some sort of way but technology and modern-era gave all that people something to show their true faces.
this is just an opinion.
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