J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr's teenage obsessions: 'When I turned 13, I felt I had to drop out of society'

As he prepares to release Dinosaur Jr's 12th studio album, the slacker icon discusses his conflicted attitude towards hippies and his unlikely affection for Harold and Maude and All My Children

I live a mile from the house I grew up in in Amherst, Massachusetts. Our dad was a dentist, but like a cobbler's son has no shoes, he didn't like to treat us because work was his own space. So my mom would make appointments to see him under a fake name. As a teenager, I was kind of a dick. I had opinions on everything.