META-HIPSTER THREAD 2010

(rolling.)

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http://www.elkhoundrescue.org/html/contest%20photos/Joe_Cool.jpg

http://howtoimpressahipster.blogspot.com/

enlightening, esp. "Homie don't play that!" when you right-click.

This post is long overdue. There are those hipsters that don't like They Might Be Giants and then there are those hipsters that love They Might Be Giants. I prefer to be around the latter. If you say, "I think TMBG are cool." and a hipster says, in a condescending way, "Well, I'm not into them." Usually a well placed, "And your opinion matters because?" will send them away. If that doesn't work then say, "TV on the Radio covered them." It's really just that easy. Anyway, cool hipsters love the always on, never off songwriting of duo John Flansburgh and John Linnell or "the two Johns" as hipsters say. TMBG started way back in 1982 and quickly developed a nerd-rock style that has influenced countless acts over the past couple decades. They made it okay to be funny and rock at the same time. Tons of musicians should thank TMBG for paving the way to have fun whilst getting respect for real talent. Beck, Weezer, Pavement...list goes on and on yet none of these acts have delivered 27 years worth of endlessly innovative music like They Might Be Giants.

Carl Wilson:

Why then do hipster-bashers so painfully need the hipster-zombie phantasm? Russell makes the common admission that in part it’s a self-hating thing, that those who point fingers at “hipsters” are almost by definition “hipsters” themselves (which indeed may be the only valid definition) (btw, check out the Globe’s comment section for some enjoyable bafflement from genuine total non-hipsters, many of whom never knew before today that “that’s what they’re called”). The hipster is a projection of the hipster-hater’s own status anxiety. There’s also a self-serving decadence narrative where the hipster serves as the negative exaggeration of one’s own apathy, helping to exonerate it. The hipster serves as a locus for fears of lost control, of social disconnection. Yet it’s a hysteria to focus that anxiety on these kids personally rather than on, say, the system of cool and cultural capital, and what’s more the genuine lack of control you have over hypercapitalism, of which their look uncomfortably reminds you. The hipster-monster is the face of a cultural death wish, along the vector of a snarling circle jerk hurtling towards social atomization and collapse.

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^^^pretty good as one-note jokes go, B+

http://howtoimpressahipster.blogspot.com/

― Jimmy Pursey Thrower (Noodle Vague), Sunday, May 17, 2009 6:09 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

pretty spot on. especially about 'Heathers'.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/6ptj2ua.gif

I'm doing pretty well with the impressing, but have a few too many of the faux pas going on, and the links aren't working to tell me what I'm doing wrong. :'(

it must be your hair.tell us about your hair. we must hipsterize it.

Considering getting a load of photos of random middle-aged women walking unaccompanied down the street and doing lookatthislonelyspinster.tumblr.com

that site is more like "how to impress an 11th grader"

"live in Brooklyn"

ayo i live in brooklyn suk my toes ilxxxxxx

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l-r: ice cr?m, ilx

thanks for that hoos

o no

ewwwwww

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-04-20/news/when-hipsters-move-in-on-chinese-it-s-ugly/

"The newcomers are mostly surprised—or thrown off—by the buildings' long-term Chinese tenants, who chat with each other in a strange language, leave their doors open so their neighbors can see them eating soup in their boxers and sandals, and let their children play in the hallway."

What is this "strange language" spoken by these half-dressed soup eaters???

http://store.nplusonemag.com/product/what-was-the-hipster

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/14/hate-hipsters-blogs

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/last-bohemia-scenes-life-williamsburg-brooklyn-robert-anasi