Ian MacKaye is NOT dead!
Fuck. I had a nasty shock just now. Jay called up and told me that he heard Ian (Minor Threat / Fugazi / Embrace / The Evens) was hit by a car and died. It was apparently reported so by some websites.
So I ran a check, and whew!!! The man’s breathing. Here’s the latest from Baltimore Sun:
Ian MacKaye is alive. Elvis is still dead
A phone rings at 6:08 p.m. in Arlington, Va. A 45-year-old man picks up. The caller doesn’t even have the chance to offer a greeting.
“I am still alive,” reports Ian MacKaye, the frontman of such punk acts as Minor Threat and Fugazi, and the founder of Washington’s Dischord Records.
This would not be news except that The Sun and apparently many other organizations had been told that MacKaye was, in fact, dead. We were told that he died Monday night at Baltimore’s St. Agnes Hospital. A call to the hospital found no evidence of such a patient. We followed up with calls to Dischord (left a message) and to MacKaye’s home.
“I am happy to report that I am not dead,” says MacKaye. He and the record company had been blasted with calls, he says, after premature reports of his death were posted on MySpace and Wikipedia. He says he hasn’t been able to find the MySpace reference, but had the Wikipedia posting removed — and then re-removed, once someone reinserted the false news.
– baltimoresun.com
yup aku pun dpt berita ni.
sms yg buat aku terkejut waktu pagi dan bergegas bukak ricecooker manatau kot ada berita tapo takde [sampailah mlm ni..]
hehe.
pastu kwn aku kata, kematiannya di cancel.
nak aje aku lempang muka dia.
aku ingat kan lawak bodoh tu dia yg cipta, rupanya, tersebar luas kat internet.
huhu.
sengal.
he’s smoking kretek and drinking gin in sungai buloh
fuh…just listening to blueprint last nite….mcm bg hint la plak.. hish..