Hipsters

[Ryan Kulik]

What are your thoughts/feelings towards hipsters?

What makes someone a hipster?

Who is the quintessential hipster?

What do you love/hate about the hipster lifestyle and mentality?

Are YOU a hipster?

[TheMojoPin]

Pabst Blue Ribbon is not a "cool beer."

Pabst is canned liquid pus.

Please stop.

[underdog]

I like a lot of their music. It seems like every band I check out now that I enjoy is "from" Brooklyn.

[Kublakhan61]

I only have a gripe with the trust-fund babies.
Hipsters though? They're no different then the punks, freaks, goths, drunks, writers or thugs (...dweebs, motorheads, sportos, buttheads...).
They are a collective who identify with a costume and a particular music.

[Kublakhan61]

I like a lot of their music. It seems like every band I check out now that I enjoy is "from" Brooklyn.

What are you listening to, dog?

EDIT: sorry for the double post - wasn't thinking!

[grlNIN]

Gay losers.

Form an identity.

[MacVittie]

Generation Y kids trying to be Generation X.

[BlackSpider]

Generation Y kids trying to be Generation X.

I think we are up to "Z" now.
X was 80's
Y was 90's...

[GreatAmericanZero]

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[underdog]

What are you listening to, dog?

EDIT: sorry for the double post - wasn't thinking!

Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, The National, Phoenix (<- new album is fantastic). Those and a few others are in pretty heavy rotation right now. There's some other artists I hear that I dig, but haven't found full albums out yet, like Iran and The Golden Filter. Everyone seems to be from Brooklyn.

[styckx]

Pabst Blue Ribbon is not a "cool beer."

Pabst is canned liquid pus.

Please stop.

Over in 1. Lock it up

[hammersavage]

Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, The National, Phoenix (<- new album is fantastic). Those and a few others are in pretty heavy rotation right now. There's some other artists I hear that I dig, but haven't found full albums out yet, like Iran and The Golden Filter. Everyone seems to be from Brooklyn.

Brooklyn and Portland. All I need

[tele7]

Being from Bedrock doesn't hurt....

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[MacVittie]

I think we are up to "Z" now.
X was 80's
Y was 90's...

Generation X-ers weren't born in the 80's. That's pure Generation Y right there. And those are the kids that are hipsters now. Generation Z kids are still in grade school. They're supposed to be living off their parent's money.

[styckx]

Ah yes, thought of one. The uber douchey hipster ski vest guy.

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/mus/pr/2007/dawallach.jpg

[Kublakhan61]

When I think of hipsters I think of MGMT, though I'd guess they're already over those radio friendly sell-outs!

[FezsAssistant]

My impression was always that they were privileged children from a rich families that hate mommy and daddy for working so hard and providing them with clothes, food, shelter and everything else they want.
In order to rebel, they dress like bums and vote democrat, but have no idea why. they still take the big checks from mommy and daddy every month, b/c they love shopping and sitting around complaining about how Bush and Cheney suck and how Jon Stewart is sooooo deep and funny and insightful (while ignoring that Stewart is a hack who reads the same jokes over and over every night, then mugs for the camera).

[CuntagiousChris]

My impression was always that they were privileged children from a rich families that hate mommy and daddy for working so hard and providing them with clothes, food, shelter and everything else they want.
In order to rebel, they dress like bums and vote democrat, but have no idea why. they still take the big checks from mommy and daddy every month, b/c they love shopping and sitting around complaining about how Bush and Cheney suck and how Jon Stewart is sooooo deep and funny and insightful (while ignoring that Stewart is a hack who reads the same jokes over and over every night, then mugs for the camera).

thats what i thought too

[TheMojoPin]

My impression was always that they were privileged children from a rich families that hate mommy and daddy for working so hard and providing them with clothes, food, shelter and everything else they want.
In order to rebel, they dress like bums and vote democrat, but have no idea why. they still take the big checks from mommy and daddy every month, b/c they love shopping and sitting around complaining about how Bush and Cheney suck and how Jon Stewart is sooooo deep and funny and insightful (while ignoring that Stewart is a hack who reads the same jokes over and over every night, then mugs for the camera).

You're so furious and partisan about everything.

Do you just walk around beet-red with steam shooting out of your ears?

[burrben]

My impression was always that they were privileged children from a rich families that hate mommy and daddy for working so hard and providing them with clothes, food, shelter and everything else they want.
In order to rebel, they dress like bums and vote democrat, but have no idea why. they still take the big checks from mommy and daddy every month, b/c they love shopping and sitting around complaining about how Bush and Cheney suck and how Jon Stewart is sooooo deep and funny and insightful (while ignoring that Stewart is a hack who reads the same jokes over and over every night, then mugs for the camera).

thats pretty much spot on.

i do like some of their music though.

[styckx]

How the hell did someone manage to find a way to involve politics into hipster discussion? Just wow..... It's like I'm reading a Fark thread

[TheMojoPin]

How the hell did someone manage to find a way to involve politics into hipster discussion? Just wow..... It's like I'm reading a Fark thread

That's FA's gimmick. 95% of his posts somehow manage a shot at Obama, Democrats or Liberals.

[burrben]

That's FA's gimmick. 95% of his posts somehow manage a shot at Obama, Democrats or Liberals.

but its true. i know this hipster kid that voted for obama just because Arcade Fire played a free show for him.

i hate arcade fire so much.

[CuntagiousChris]

but its true. i know this hipster kid that voted for obama just because Arcade Fire played a free show for him.

i hate arcade fire so much.

"keep the car running" is a good song

[TheMojoPin]

but its true. i know this hipster kid that voted for obama just because Arcade Fire played a free show for him.

i hate arcade fire so much.

Teenagers and 20-somethings and their ilk that strive to be fashionable are almost always going to lean Left. That's not unique to hipsters.

[underdog]

When I think of hipsters I think of MGMT, though I'd guess they're already over those radio friendly sell-outs!

Ah yes, I like MGMT as well.

My impression was always that they were privileged children from a rich families that hate mommy and daddy for working so hard and providing them with clothes, food, shelter and everything else they want.
In order to rebel, they dress like bums and vote democrat, but have no idea why. they still take the big checks from mommy and daddy every month, b/c they love shopping and sitting around complaining about how Bush and Cheney suck and how Jon Stewart is sooooo deep and funny and insightful (while ignoring that Stewart is a hack who reads the same jokes over and over every night, then mugs for the camera).

Don't forget an asian girlfriend. You need to be with an asian chick (and have a dog) to be a true hipster.

[TheMojoPin]

Animal Collective fuckin' BLOW.

That is all.

[styckx]

but its true. i know this hipster kid that voted for obama just because Arcade Fire played a free show for him.


Lucky bastard probably got a free messenger bag too

[burrben]

"keep the car running" is a good song

but its not very "green" advice

[CuntagiousChris]

but its not very "green" advice

all this damn pollution maaaaaaaaaaannnn

[grlNIN]

Animal Collective fuckin' BLOW.

That is all.

I thought i was going CRAZY being the only one thinking this.

Next, we beat up the kid who hates Arcade Fire.

[Enabler]

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[underdog]

Animal Collective fuckin' BLOW.

That is all.

I think they're ok. I never understood the hype, though. All their songs sound a lot alike.

[CuntagiousChris]

I think they're ok. I never understood the hype, though. All their songs sound a lot alike.

yeah i just listened to some its alright not horrible but certainly not spectacular i guess im not hip enough to get it though i listen to some pretty out there shit

[hammersavage]

I thought i was going CRAZY being the only one thinking this.

Next, we beat up the kid who hates Arcade Fire.

I don't think they blow, but I certainly don't think they are great.

Arcade Fire, however, are phenomenal, amazing, incredible, etc.

[epo]

Both Animal Collective and this stupid Grizzly Bear fuckin' blow.

[hammersavage]

Both Animal Collective and this stupid Grizzly Bear fuckin' blow.

First off, you blow. Secondly, I love the new Grizzly Bear record. More than the last Animal Collective record.

[TheMojoPin]

Two things: Grizzly Bear somehow manages to be Animal Collective, but shittier.

Hammersavage is too fat to be a hipster.

That is all.

[hammersavage]

Lovehandlester

[TheMojoPin]

Quit trying to to squeeze that tiny, ironic t-shirt over your pendulous man-teets.

Too hip for Fat Town, but too fat for Hip Town. What to do?

[hammersavage]

Do hipsters like Dashboard Confessional and hate Van Morrison? Or is that douchebags? I get them so confused.

[Death Metal Moe]

This one is very foreign to me, I guess I've never run into hipsters.

[IMSlacker]

Do hipsters like Dashboard Confessional and hate Van Morrison? Or is that douchebags? I get them so confused.

That would be douchebags. Hipsters hate them both equally.

[hammersavage]

Quit trying to to squeeze that tiny, ironic t-shirt over your pendulous man-teets.

Too hip for Fat-town, but too fat for Hip-town. What to do?

The only ironic shirt I own says "Chicago Cubs, 20_ _ World Champions" on it. It gets a lot of laughs.

Now I have to look up pendulous.

[styckx]

Do hipsters like Dashboard Confessional and hate Van Morrison? Or is that douchebags? I get them so confused.

Dashboard confessional is sooooooooo 7 years ago. They got replaced by Linkin Park and then they got replaced by 324230420 bands that sound and look just like 30 Seconds To Mars.

[TheMojoPin]

Do hipsters like Dashboard Confessional and hate Van Morrison? Or is that douchebags? I get them so confused.

That's just the blubber clogging your brain, hammersavaging those synapses and shit.

[hammersavage]

That's just the blubber clogging your brain, hammersavaging those synapses and shit.

fix your sig, fairy

[TheMojoPin]

That would be douchebags. Hipsters hate them both equally.

Ew, I'm no hipster.

I just have common sense.

[TheMojoPin]

fix your sig, fairy

What's wrong with it?

[hammersavage]

What's wrong with it?

It was showing as "Oops, link is broken" or whatever. I'm sure its just another Cubs or Chris Carraba homage.

[Death Metal Moe]

My only question here is what makes the people judging "hipsters" so cool? Like who is the ultimate, high level "cool person" who says what actually is cool and what isn't. Or who is actually into a scene and who is faking?

Sounds like a lot of dipshits in bad clothes and sub-par music scenes all pointing at each other that the other is a fake.

[hammersavage]

My only question here is what makes the people judging "hipsters" so cool? Like who is the ultimate, high level "cool person" who says what actually is cool and what isn't. Or who is actually into a scene and who is faking?

Sounds like a lot of dipshits in bad clothes and sub-par music scenes all pointing at each other that the other is a fake.

Exactly. Judging other people by thinking what you like is so much cooler and thinking they are beneath you is just being a douche. Like what you like and move on.

[TheMojoPin]

It was showing as "Oops, link is broken" or whatever. I'm sure its just another Cubs or Chris Carraba homage.

Sounds like you're slipping to epo-levels of madness.

[IMSlacker]

It was showing as "Oops, link is broken" or whatever. I'm sure its just another Cubs or Chris Carraba homage.

Yeah. One of your 874 sigs is broken. I'm not sure how you'd even go about figuring out which one it is. It's an error from photobucket.

[hammersavage]

Sounds like you're slipping to epo-levels of madness.

That's the meanest thing you've ever said to me. It's fixed.

[TheMojoPin]

That's the meanest thing you've ever said to me. It's fixed.

Come rest your bulbous head on my shoulder.

[hammersavage]

Come rest your bulbous head on my shoulder.

I wear a 7 3/8. And there is no room on your shoulders with that 13 year old Taiwanese boys asscheeks taking them up.

[Death Metal Moe]

Wow, Hammersavage is taking a real beating in this thread. Do you guys not like him or something?

[paulisded]

Like what you like and move on.

Smartest thing I've read on this board in a few weeks.

[hammersavage]

Wow, Hammersavage is taking a real beating in this thread. Do you guys not like him or something?

Bad question. And its just Mojo, that pee brain

[TheMojoPin]

I love hammer.

[hammersavage]

I love hammer.

let's get outta here :wub:

[underdog]

Both Animal Collective and this stupid Grizzly Bear fuckin' blow.

I heard a song I really liked on my way home and couldn't remember who it was. You've reminded me that is was Grizzly Bear. Now to get their album.

[hammersavage]

I heard a song I really liked on my way home and couldn't remember who it was. You've reminded me that is was Grizzly Bear. Now to get their album.

Watch the video for Two Weeks (probably the song you heard) on youtube. It's insane.

[The Jays]

I'm of the opinion that if they look like a hipster, listen to the same music as, spend time in the same areas as, goes to bars in the same areas as, and complain that hipsters suck, they're also a hipster. A trust fund hipster is just an upper class hipster.

[The Jays]

My only question here is what makes the people judging "hipsters" so cool? Like who is the ultimate, high level "cool person" who says what actually is cool and what isn't. Or who is actually into a scene and who is faking?

Sounds like a lot of dipshits in bad clothes and sub-par music scenes all pointing at each other that the other is a fake.

That's my thoughts on the matter. I think part of the whole hipster thing is to point at each other and accuse each other of being a hipster. I don't give a shit, I just don't like people who smell like BO is all, or people who wear scarves.

[Kublakhan61]

I thought i was going CRAZY being the only one thinking this.

Next, we beat up the kid who hates Arcade Fire.

Nope, lots of people dislike Animal Collective! (Admittedly, I did listen to Sung Tongs when it came out.) But people also dislike Arcade Fire. I didn't really get all that hype.


I think I misjudged what the popular conception of hipster music was. Its all so so very mainstream and middle of the road.

[NateCantDance]

This hasn't been posted?

LookAtThisFuckingHipster.com http://www.latfh.com/

[underdog]

Hipster Grifter (http://www.observer.com/2009/style/hipster-grifter)

[KatPw]

This hasn't been posted?

LookAtThisFuckingHipster.com http://www.latfh.com/

I have never been to that site before, but I think it's hysterical they have this girl listed as a hipster:
http://11.media.tumblr.com/37jsqloFrngxyny0yclJkDMxo1_500.jpg

I follow her on Flickr. She's an artist that creates over-the-top knitted garments and accessories. Her pieces are highly sought after.

[Drunky McBetidont]

This hasn't been posted?

LookAtThisFuckingHipster.com http://www.latfh.com/

funny stuff. i cant imagine how proud the parents must be

[MacVittie]

Hipsters love keffiyahs.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3613/3600446471_07ab14a695.jpg

[furie]

http://www.howtospeakhip.com/

[SatCam]

Hipster Grifter (http://www.observer.com/2009/style/hipster-grifter)

that article brings back memories in my own life :wallbash:

[Kublakhan61]

Trustafarians Feel the Hurt (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/nyregion/08trustafarians.html?_r=3&ref=nyregion)

From today's nyt.

[angrymissy]

WOLF SHIRT HIPSTER!!!

http://data.tumblr.com/37jsqloFrnhfdjfnwviKvsmeo1_500.jpg

[underdog]

WOLF SHIRT HIPSTER!!!

http://data.tumblr.com/37jsqloFrnhfdjfnwviKvsmeo1_500.jpg

I want to shave his unibrow so bad.

[MacVittie]

Who is the quintessential hipster?

I'll take a stab at this one. I think one of the pioneers of hipsterdom in his later years was John Lennon. He didn't grow up near NYC but he moved there, he's got an Asian girlfriend, and his hairstyle could be described as "messy."

http://luca.giacobazzi.googlepages.com/lennon-john-photo-john-lennon-620627.jpg/lennon-john-photo-john-lennon-620627-full.jpg

[The Jays]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31168179

At the Urban Rustic Market across from McCarren Park, co-owner Luis Illades says his store is being flooded with job applications that bear a CV littered with unpaying jobs.

"They say, 'You want me to work eight hours?'" Illades told The New York Times. "There is a bubble bursting."

[grlNIN]

I'll take a stab at this one. I think one of the pioneers of hipsterdom in his later years was John Lennon. He didn't grow up near NYC but he moved there, he's got an Asian girlfriend, and his hairstyle could be described as "messy."

http://luca.giacobazzi.googlepages.com/lennon-john-photo-john-lennon-620627.jpg/lennon-john-photo-john-lennon-620627-full.jpg

That hurts.

[The Jays]

Mark David Chapman must have really hated hipsters.

[DrDrew319]

I have been in Brooklyn for 5 years now and am not in anyway hipster. I think brooklyn gets labeled as being hipster because of the few areas (williamsburg) that young people are trying to be "too" cool in. I am in Boreum hill and love it. Occasionally a few ultra hipsters, but nothing you cant deal with.

[styckx]

Duct tape wallet

http://allnarfedup.com/wp-content/2004/duct_tape_wallet_bifold_inside.jpg

[EddieMoscone]

I was able to snap these photos of hipsters in their natural habitat (Astoria aka Billburg North):

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs118.snc1/4864_516570124235_206402722_31084236_3599318_n.jpg

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs118.snc1/4864_516570129225_206402722_31084237_1111736_n.jpg

Nice socks.

[Ritalin]

I think we are up to "Z" now.
X was 80's
Y was 90's...

I hope I live long enough to see Generation DD.

[Ritalin]

My only question here is what makes the people judging "hipsters" so cool? Like who is the ultimate, high level "cool person" who says what actually is cool and what isn't. Or who is actually into a scene and who is faking?

Sounds like a lot of dipshits in bad clothes and sub-par music scenes all pointing at each other that the other is a fake.

I've never met you personally, I only know you from what you write on the board. I think if you spent one Saturday afternoon in the heart of Williamsburg, you'd light the whole thing on fire by 7:30. It's the utter lack of authenticity that would be the final straw.