ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

I think we even called each other "kids". We were, what 18 or 19 or something.

Yeah i think it was around then. Just using HRO as a reference. It was probably at a Girl Talk show. It was the first summer headbands were all over the place.

ok 'cause now that i'm thinking about it i do remember seeing like some girl last year or so wearing that level of intense eighties fashion that you are describing. i guess it really has endured longer than i was thinking. that look was present as early as '99 or so in some circles, though

when i was in college there were these guys who worked at the sub shop and sold drugs and had gone from skinheads > hare krishnas > deadheads over the years. i wonder if they are still going to rainbow gatherings or if they have moved on to something else

― loose jorts (del), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:41 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

these dudes sound amazing

my friend dated one of them and when she broke up with him he went off to some parkland to trip for a day by himself in order to process it.

they were all pretty screevy though, in a kind of especially unglamorous side of psychedelia rainbow gathering sub shop drippings way

they're probably part of the nitrous tank mafia these days at string cheese incident shows or something

ok i take it back these dudes sound depressing

its rare to have the necessary out-of-body ambivalence necessary for extended lyfestile sampling

were truer words ever spoken?

its otm for sure, i must agree

fearing these chillwaver than thou attitudes have an expiration date, though.

i mean my mother in-law called me last night and harangued me about how i was "washed out". what is the world coming to?

Woah, Adam Bruneau, I've seen you post on a bunch of threads but I don't know that I ever realized you were a 2000s Athens/Atlanta dude. We probably know a lot of the same people, I moved to ATH from ATL for college in 2000, stayed till 06. And it was, yeah, polka-dot dresses through that entire period, with accessories getting louder, bigger, and more magnificently gauche throughout. I don't know if hardly any of it was ever worn ironically. The Elephant Six types just let their muttonchops develop but otherwise kept a vague 70s thing going. And then the straight up indie rock types, which I remember sort of drying up by mid-decade, but your, yknow, Pavement dudes, with or without Rivers Cuomo glasses. Those were the days.

just used Shazam to identify 'The Song Abt Thongs' by Sisqo 3 minutes ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by 5 people

hipsterrunoff
HIPSTER RUNOFF

kinda feel deeply annoyed that those hyundai ppl are so blithely getting tagged as 'hipsters' [via wearing clothes] when they p clearly arent

current studies lack any real rigour imo discipline is dead scene

Reminds me a lot of the way "alternative" briefly described a sort of college rock/original lollapalooza vibe and then wound up meaning "rock", and how people continued to complain loudly about how alternative didn't mean anything anymore even though the term continued to wander around for years like a zombie.

kinda reminds me how language/ideas are constantly shifting and recontextualizing throughout history

Or, you know, "folk" came to mean light music with acoustic guitars, "psychedelic" came to mean anything with a fuzz pedal, etc.

To be frank about it, calling them hipsters is not totally inaccurate, but certainly they are involved in a far, far, far lower-level of hipster than someone drooling coke-bubbles in the bathroom at Whartscape

― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:27 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they may not technically be 'hipsters' but they could definitely pass. i wouldn't kick 'em out of a basement show for droppin crumbs, is what im sayin.
(well, maybe the dude if he started in with that silly bullshit)

i mean, kids at the mall in Blink 182 t-shirts are still techically "punks" even if they're not wearing a 15-year-old Crass T-shirt next to a dog with one eye

really? i mean n/a is right in that words shift meaning over time & often these descriptors get more catholic as they become more widespread but u of all ppl shld want to retain some nuance or value in the term????

anyway 'yuppie' is a perfectly good word imo, ppl shld just use it instead

help, i've realized i'm a Yindie (or am i a yupster?)

yuppie is also a word that lost a coherent meaning a long time ago, especially since you're using it to describe suburban people

well yeah obv. lamp, they're not "hipsters" in the 2004 sense of the word, but they are certaionly hipsters in the 2010 sense. Get with the times, bro

http://i51.tinypic.com/2edxt80.jpg

When I started law school in 2008 I noticed I was one of only a handful of remotely hipsterish looking people, and by most standards I'm not very hipsterish looking. By Fall 2010 a huge portion of the incoming class looked like hipsters to me. The age of the hipster lawyer is upon us.

lol markers is was half-thinking of that in my pointless defense of 2nd generation hipster:

All descriptions of hipsters are doomed to disappoint, because they will not be the hipsters you know. But to those of you who are reading this in 2050, I can only say: Everything in this book is true, and its impressions are perfect

xpost u should sleep with them

I would have sex with all this hipster law students

https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/us/audience/101118/1500x1500w0lsntoxu.jpg

this pic seems relevant somehow

IF IT FLOATES, WE KNOAWE IT'S A HIPSTERE

Ehhh, the Cat-Power/Bang-Power looks is kinda going mainstream now. Chix on my campus whom shop at GAP or wherever chicks show seem to b sporting the look wholesale. The dude just has a fruity shirt.

*shop. chicks shop. where chicks shop. chick shop. dick flop.

They have matching bangs.

GIRLS OF YAHOO

IF IT FLOATES, WE KNOAWE IT'S A HIPSTERE

― buzza, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

Has this been referenced yet? : http://makeoutclub.com/

Wow, that is still around. That is like paleo-hipster studies.

The Bearded Dandy of Brooklyn

http://nyti.ms/htAcjh

oh christ "steampunk".

http://media.photobucket.com/image/let%20off%20some%20steam%20bennett/gregradiohead/commando5.jpg

OUIGI THEODORE, the founder of the Brooklyn Circus, a retro-urban fashion boutique and label, has heard it all before: dandy, preppy, Anglophile, fop. Still, he was flummoxed when a customer walked into his boutique a year ago, took one look at the bow ties and straw boaters for sale, and declared it the height of “steampunk.”

For some reason I imagine this being said by a victorian man -- "I declare this the very height of steampunk!"

thats what i call my morning shit.

1891: The Year Steampunk Broke

― Cunga, Monday, January 3, 2011 3:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVf7LUF-X-M

im josh and i believe i will be gifted my own universe when i die

Are hipsters the new yuppies? I hear nothing but kvetching about hipsters, but yet everyone kind of seems to want to be one.

I had an unironic tantrum about seeing some of my coworkers try and transform into hipsters over the past year. I think I said something to the effect of: "DAMNIT, I'VE BEEN A WEIRDO FREAK SINCE 1992 AND I'VE PAID MY DUES... " blah blah blah. I said this all to myself, but I was sincerely annoyed. I think I've moved on since then.

so steampunk is like having a curly moustache... then dyeing it purple?

ah the hipster transformation. annoying.

it reminds me of when all the kids decided to turn grunge overnight in junior high.