Marc Johnson Skateboard Mag Interview

[silkyjohnson]

Some pretty insightful stuff

[Aatila]

a lot of valid points and he's right but at this point it just sounds like he's complaining.  theres a interview every month with him talking about the same shit.

[doublesteveburger]

hey marc, you sound bitter but opinions are circumstantial and that's fine, you're totally reading this.
welcome to flavor country.

[Monkey_Mcpott]

a lot of valid points and he's right but at this point it just sounds like he's complaining.  theres a interview every month with him talking about the same shit.

I was just thinking this. I feel like marcs does interviews so often now its like you know what hes going to talk about already. It almost seems like he gets lost in his vocabulary sometimes, like hes trying to sound too smart all the time that he ends up going off topic a lot. Idk maybe that's just me.

[DannyDee]

I feel his last comments about skateboarding culture biting off mainstream was a lecture he gave to elijah berle in the van on a tour. While some of the stuff has been re-hashed multiple times, i thought the Jereme Rogers comments were interesting.

[vancanman]

Wow. Marc putting down the hammer. I've got to say even in the early 90's it still would have been a select few skaters setting the trends in clothing and opinions as well. Average skaters were no more individuals than they were later coping jocks. The thought that is somehow better just comes from it rebelling against the common style of the era for non skaters and the belief that different for the sake of different has value. Look at the endless shit we as a community give skaters now. The only way to have us not shit on you now is to make no fashion statement like marc and dress like most non skaters I know. Tight pant rocker, Dickies w/slicked hair (me), dgk getto boy, mall style skater ( mike mo, torey etc), weird for the sake of weird "Welcome" boys all get called out. What does that say about us besides there is no such thing as a skateboarding community with the same values anymore. Skateboarding is too big now to have a unifying look.

[pepperpotts]

i liked marc johnson when he was a drunk living in the woods

[familyrapist]

thank you karl marx, now that i know that society alienates me from my true self I can really go skate!!!!!

just kidding, but really now skateboarding has always taken reference from other tribes (lack of a better word), and thats what makes it great.
Go to your local park and check out how many different types people are there. Sure theres some in a skateboarders uniform, but more often than not there are some characters.

[Kanye Omari West]

a lot of valid points and he's right but at this point it just sounds like he's complaining.  theres a interview every month with him talking about the same shit.

He's still the man, I just hope he doesn't "Koston" himself

[ben shraider]

That was kid of a weird interview. It always seems like he's talking about how he's so disappointed in whatever area of skateboarding. Always concentrating on the negative things. Culturally skateboarding has been changing for years now. Most people probably always started skating because it looked cool and fun, and then the ones that felt a need for public acceptation dropped out at some point, while the ones that had a need to feel outside of the mainstream society stuck by. Now those who need to be accepted by the mainstream can be a part of skating more and more, which also shows in the popularity of Nike, Adidas, etc. The current generation feels that it's amazing and an honor that Nike is interested in our activity and skateboarding can be seen as a legit activity, while a few decades ago skaters wouldn't have given a fuck. Things always change and to me that doesn't matter, because I think that the core is the people who skate because it's fun, no because it's mainstream or anti-mainstream.

[stephop]

What I got out of that is bluntslide  to bs nose bluntslide is sick a fuck. Bring it to a bench someone.

[era]

Marc Johnson has been trying to sound more intelligent than he is his whole career.  You are all acting like this is recent.

[shark tits]

gotta agree w/ his ending statements and stretch it beyond skating to most modern people. not that everyone was wicked unique before the internet but it's a great homogenizer that allows similar scenes to pop off [bite] around the country instead of what would've been different and unique groups. everyone accuses each other of being a hipster which means what? contrived? appropriating shit half seriously? holden caulfield would agree it's a bunch of phonies.

[The Ghost of Lenny Kirk]

Well....you guys are really loving all this disco shit so whats everybody's take on that ?

[trannies and mannies]

ive just worn normal pants and a tshirt my whole life

[Durndle]

well I'm gonna stay rockin the sorry arto kit. white t shirt & dark jeans that fit me. I guess I'm devoid of humanity just like those dads wearing red skinny pants driving their honda civics home from their graphic design jobs

[Brown Thunder]

ive just worn normal pants and a tshirt my whole life

get with the times grandad and roll them normal pants up and tuck that normal tshirt in

[skate_bored]

he should have a segment called "drunk rants"

[clutch]

all im thinking about are overalls

[vancanman]

all im thinking about are overalls

Why not just go all the way and be the first guy to sport the look of the future. The star trek-esk unitard. If we want to dress like absolutely no other group again I think it's the only option. Marc's message was " it was awesome how we dressed so stupid no one else was doing it yet" right?

[zuma]

a little skate clip would have been tighter...

[Still Tippin]

was widdit til he started moping about trends in skateboarding... dude needs to get over it. he sounds like that dude at a party that just starts talking shit about everything because he's upset that everyone else is having more fun/is more drunk than he is and that the girl he tried to hit on wasn't feelin him.

sorry there's some new dope contributions that have been brought to skateboarding by newer pros/ams from various parts of the world that other people also like to partake in ?\_(ツ)_/?? if anything he should be stoked about how diverse skate culture is getting, rather than bitching about everyone being so different.

[Ollie Ringwald]

Inside the skateboarders studio.

It's good that he's not afraid to say what he wants but he needs to get a bit more thinky and a bit less talky.

[AssBandit]

When he mentioned rap star lifestyle biters I immediately thought of Derrick Wilson and Keelan Dadd.  Not mad at them tho because they're just young and having fun. 

[SFblah]

MJ on Drunk History

[Dirtymac]

Marc Johnson has been trying to sound more intelligent than he is his whole career.?  You are all acting like this is recent.

At least he hasn't proclaimed himself an artist/poet/writer as of yet....afterwhich the Scott Bourne "I'm better than where I come from" transformation would be complete. PS-I like them both but as a NC native I had to say that

[Dirtymac]

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all im thinking about are overalls

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Why not just go all the way and be the first guy to sport the look of the future. The star trek-esk unitard. If we want to dress like absolutely no other group again I think it's the only option. Marc's message was " it was awesome how we dressed so stupid no one else was doing it yet" right?

Or the Macho Taildrop/1930's paper boy look is still uncharted territory....

[Nigga]

going against the grain is the new mainstream, duh.

btw, I'm calling it right now, within the next 2 years, people will skate in coveralls. mark my words

[Lenny the Fatface]

Kinda bummed that MJ didn't over analyze the "hip custodian" or "urban camper" look that's dominated skateboarding for the past couple years.

[Glue Reed]

well i agree with him 100%.  

people complain about mainstream companies wanting a piece of skateboarding, it's the other way around.

Or the Macho Taildrop/1930's paper boy look is still uncharted territory....

i don't know man.. you ever look at a Brixton catalog?