How do you know you're in a hip apartment?

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All the furniture is concentrated around the stereo, not the (hidden) tv, unless it's a plasma screen.

No fridge-they eat out, or order in.

Framed record sleeves.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 3 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

THERE ARE NO DELGADOS RECORDS LAYING AROUND

― , Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ehhhh, I think I disagree.

Framed record sleeves = too easy also says this is the only kind of music I like

If they're really hip, there's no tv in the apartment anywhere. By no means should there be a tv, plasma or otherwise, in the living room or any public space

You need a fridge to chill champagne or freeze vodka. But, the fridge can be hidden

Stereo is best hidden too. The music should sneak up on you and take you over. The stereo as altar is too college dorm-y

In general, the hipper the place is, the fewer objects of any kind there are in it.

― Skottie, Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Porn on the bookshelves, novels and travel guides under the bed.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

In general, the hipper the place is, the fewer objects of any kind there are in it.

Wow, this makes my bedroom the hippest place in Barcelona.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 3 April 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's not full of pretentious shite and looks like somebody actually lives there?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

you know you're in a hip apartment because a complete tosser let you through the door. amen.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Seconded, yo

― smee (smee), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Porn on the bookshelves, novels and travel guides under the bed.

Definitely

― Skottie, Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because the God's Gift To Men/Women/Small Furry Animals/All Of The Above who lives in it told you so?

― Fred Nerk, Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

that's kinda what i meant.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because all the furniture came from the Pottery Barn catalog? No? Well, just a thought!

― Skottie, Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or maybe from the Pottery Porn catalog.

― Skottie, Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

i have the hippest apartment in new york. cds on my bed, cds on my floor, cds UNDER my bed, cds wedged between my computer monitor and my keyboard, oh and then there's the vinyl and the tapes and the BOOKS!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

also i treat my stuff like shit. i'll never be a proper "collector" because i refuse to see music as some sacrosanct worship-object, and everything's in terrible condition. haha my FAVORITE recs are in the worst condition of all -- that's how you can tell i love 'em! they say you treat your possessions like you treat your lovers. and you wonder why i'm single.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

in mtl, in order to have a hip apartment, you've gotta have shelves of vinyl, two turntables, and a mixer. they're probably set up on some old crates or some jimmy rigged table. don't forget the piles of flyers and copies of "straight no chaser" on the coffee table.

in terms of food, the fridge has to be nearly empty--but you've gotta have a jar of curry paste-at least. many pairs of colourful shoes, tuques, scarves, and mits--clearly purchased secondhand or handknit-- should be placed near the door.

wall hangings consist of bizarre posters purchased from various junk stores or art by some guy who lives in mile end. oh, and make sure you have a big pile of crappy so-bad-the're-good movies. NO DVDs, because you aint got the cash, yo. but there's probably some random recording equipment or a computer with reason/logic running.

and just to demonstrate that you're nearly dirt poor--as are all hipster doofi in mtl--some boxes from PFK's two dollar tuesdays.

― cybele (cybele), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

jody, you live like me.

this should worry you.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 April 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hip= wall to wall crammed bookshelves and records and cds in holders and out of holders as there are too many to shelve and magazines strewn about.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

The living room's furnishings consist of a Pakistani rug, a ginormous stereo system, thousands of Phish bootlegs, and a hookah.

Oh wait, I thought this was "how do you know you're in a hippie apartment.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Attach a " to the end of that sentence in your mind's eye.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

hidden tv does not equal hip, it equals nouveau riche

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

A real hipster would take the guts out of their TV and build an aquarium out of it's hollowed out carcass.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

My apartment is not hip, it's gross. Strange beetles that waddle around, concrete floors in the hallway, my shower is separate from the bathroom, and instead of in its own room, is in a CELLAR-TYPE ROOM with one dangling bulb, kitchen is tiny, no kitchen table, no food in the fridge, basement apartment, dimly lit, perpetually smells like rotten gym socks. My roommate and I have nicknamed it "the jerk".

― Mandee, Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

How do you know you're in a hip apartment?

You've just been given notice because your building has been sold to developers.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

JBR has the hippest apartment in NYC because it's like in her parents' house, right?

― hstencil, Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

A real hipster would take the guts out of their TV and build an aquarium out of it's hollowed out carcass.

Nam June Paik is an 80 year-old hipster, then.

― hstencil, Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

My hip friend's hip place has a no TV, bicycles and other childish vintage playthings scattered around (it's a basement and has a huge living room), a drum kit, records and music gear everywhere, and a bar--all extremely shabby chic. Par for the course in Wicker Park I reckon.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

"shabby chic"...thank god for this, my only corridor to ever possibly being anything near "chic".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

JBR has the hippest apartment in NYC because it's like in her parents' house, right?

yes, cuz it's a thoroughly ironic gesture. i'm "crashing" there while i "get my shit together" and "look" for work.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm the most postmodern unemployable in new york!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Damn posties!

("postie" = new pejorative that came about during a coffee shop conversation last night, derived from "postmodern")

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Posties = Affectionate British term for mailmen.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I am just a postie" -Lee Harvey Oswald.

― hstencil, Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm curious as to why someone would need to arrange their furniture concurrent to the stereo. I mean, do hipsters watch the stereo while it's playing? Do the lights of the stereo attract them? Do they smoke a lot of weed? "IT'S AMAZING!"

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

wall to wall crammed bookshelves and records and cds

Hey hey, I'm at least partially hip by default. But I keep everything clean.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ally's words hurt me like fire. That's alright though, Nick luv da kids.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

You realize that means hippies and hipsters are the same thing!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

The differences between hippies and hipsters:

1. ganja
2. fascination with lights & sparkly things
3. personal hygene
4. white people dreadlocks
5. Phish bootlegs

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Minimalism is a shite aethetic it means that someone has traded their imagination for the sputum of a design mag. Minimalism is un lived in.

A hip apartment should have an immensely well provided, and used kitchen whixh should feature on of these
Stereo should be the focus of the living toom and be of the utmost quality. The main sofa shoul be in the sweet spot for the speakers. where the main unit is is immeterial. the sound quality is key though.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

sorry, one of these

http://www.ukappliances.co.uk/norcoolcornerfridge.gif

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Them's fancy, thems is.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

How do you even get in there?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

A hip apartment is fully of Kitty Display Tables. You can use real tables, bookshelves, radiators, stereos, windowsills... anything that a real life kitty can curl up on. My cats especially like it when I have tv trays out cuz they perfectly fill up the surface.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not in one.

― Lord Byron Lived Here, Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

IT LOOKS LIKE THIS

http://ebay3.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_b3b21366d02992f71efce8f4d9ed35f1/i-4_B.JPG

― , Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

a hip apartment smells like a heated soldering iron.

― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

a hip apt. is free of people most of the time. the residents are out posturing at the wilco show* or sipping 8$ lattes.

anyone on this list Not have loads of records and books? maybe this could be the new hip.

― kephm, Thursday, 3 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Soviet knick-knacks, clothes, or posters. US cold war memorabilia to a lesser degree. (Civil Defense geiger counters are super hip.)

― Dave Fischer, Thursday, 3 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wilco? Surely you mean the Rapture.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

When you can do "primal scream" therapy behind closed doors, and know no one will give a damn.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

"With our large circle of friends and frequent entertainment a WALK-IN LARDER fridge is indispensable."
!

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

A hip apartment is just below waist height and slightly rounded on the sides.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

or: you must be really wealthy if your hip gets its own apartment

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/butts.jpg

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

MY GOD!! I never thought there was such a thing as 'too much junk in the trunk'. Thanks Dan.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dan, that redefines the usual view of we Black women....though I don't have that much trunk!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 3 April 2003 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Y'all can blame Donut Bitch for that picture; I merely apply it where necessary.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 April 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

You can tell your in a hip apartment when Chris V. is there. He's busting out the running man on your hardwood floor in his argyle socks and drinking all your beer.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 3 April 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

My god, that sounds like my boithang's house. The loungeroom has nothing but 2 couches, a PS/2, 2 turntables and a mixer, and boxes of vinyl. And a fridge with nothing in it but an onion and some milk.

Boys, yeesh.

There's hipster apartments in Melbourne that (apparently) get built with NO KITCHEN. Cos of course, hip thangs eat out or get food delivered all the bloody time, theyre too busy and hip to cook, aren't they?

How can anyone live without a frickin' kitchen!?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 4 April 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think I've ever even been in a hip apartment.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 April 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Time to sit back, relax, play Playstation, and drink a tall, cold glass of onion milk.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

A real hipster needs not food to survive, only the latest hype in fashion and music and film will suffice as proper sustenance.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

onion milk? don't forget to stretch your onion while your at it.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Onion milk!? I'm glad I didn't mention the diabetes medication in the same fridge, then. Euch, I don't wanna know...

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 5 April 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

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