HIPSTER (the pit of vipers)

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― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

that was just a little plug for the super-hip I Love Books!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

(Oh, and if I like Timberlake more than I like Lil' Jon, it's not because I'm afraid of being accused of having a "bohemian soulboy fetish," it's because JT has better tunes.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

Jay-Z and the Eastside Boyz

I wish!

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 4 January 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

so this person is so heartfelt and anti-putting on masks that they posted their screed anonymously. brilliant!

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

Well you don't want to raise the ire of the Williamsburg mafia.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

because when you're secure in yourself and/or your opinions their opinions MEAN SO MUCH

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

watch out: they'll put your eye out with their hair

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link

(WORST JOKE I'VE EVER MADE)

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link

Oh hey, look at you
Don't you look like Siouxsie Sioux

(Thanks to Kish Kash these lyrics can be relevant again.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

oh, you've made worse jokes than that, Fiddo.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

i was waiting for that.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

(not that I can name any offhand)

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

you were waiting for that OH I AM WOUNDED YOU UBER-HIPSTER VIPER-PIT-DWELLER YOU

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

Girls girls, you're both pretty!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

b-b-b-but now i have to retreat deeper in the murky swamps of obscurantism! bastard!

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.edmunds.com/media/roadtests/spinaroundtown/01.dodge.viper/02.dodge.viper.f34.500.jpg

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

(at least we finally know what the official hipster car is now)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

"I want to get away! I want to driiiive away! Yeeeeah yeeeah yeeeah!" < /Lenny Kravitz>

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

20 years ago it was a Bitchin' Camaro

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago) link

obscurantist!

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago) link

life is a highway.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

Don't touch my car alarm. You break into my car, you will hear "Viper On."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

[kazoo sound]
"Well God said to Abraham kill me a son...."

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

The way we derail threads affirms my love of life.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

What really is the hipster car?
Surely not just any old euro.

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

god said to noah we're gonna build and arky arky

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

The hipster car of choice would surely be a station wagon. With fake wood paneling.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

those are so deck.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

you know it sadly took me 15 minutes to get nate's joke up there.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago) link

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

I was attracted to the social contrarianism (at least within my peer group) of listening to pop music. But as a listener, it also felt incredibly refreshing: I realized I loved all the cool sounds, the beats, the catchy melodies. And why not?

I see how all of these aspects of top 40 pop are attractive, but doesn't the music for which which cool sounds/beats/melodies is the icing on the cake have a special appeal? Doesn't it set itself above the overproduced stuff you hear on pop radio?

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago) link

The point of that post was to ask: does that viewpoint (of mine) qualify me as a hipster?

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sorry; I still don't understand your question.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

But I like icing an awful lot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:12 (twenty years ago) link

Cake is better. Pal.

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago) link

Actually, to use your metaphor, I'm not sure what cake is, if not "cool sounds/beats/melodies" -- I mean, what else is there?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago) link

Well I didn't mean it like that. But in the original metaphor, cake is good songwriting, meaningful lyrics, musical uniqueness, poignancy, etc.

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link

they had that one good song about the race car. i don't know if it was a hipster race car though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link

"he's all alone/in a Saab CD"?

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link

Oh man I need you guys to be responsible friends so if you catch me using a food metaphor to describe music in 2004 just kill me with a vegematic.

― Darrens8====D (DarrenK), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

And you know, if you do that for me, 'everything else is just a bonus'.

― Darrens8====D (DarrenK), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:57 (twenty years ago) link

what is a vegematic? (sorry)

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago) link

It's a vegetable slicer sold via American television commercials.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

Here's a page about it on Smithsonian Online.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago) link

It's a Jonathon Richman song! That makes it hip.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:06 (twenty years ago) link

btw, this thread is much better.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago) link

I think, anyway. I didn't re-read it or anything, but I remember it being pretty good.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link

HIPSTER is the new online acetabulum and femur-ball sharing service for seniors. What the hell are YOU people on about?

― Darrens8====D (DarrenK), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:19 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.viperclub.org/

We're always welcoming new members to our viper enthusiast club, so feel free to join in the fun! Not all of us own vipers but it does'nt hurt to dream!

― Arthur M. Martinez, Friday, 30 January 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

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contrarianism /= hipsterism. the satie diss scans hipsterish because of the pretense of worldliness and expertise

True, but he also writes 'I still claim he invented Muzak,' which reads like an attack on the music.

― America's Mobile, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link

I didn't know about Chain and the Gang until now. Got inspired to revisit Make-Up and NOU as a result.

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

i think the attack on the music is where the hipsterism falls down, cuz that's a pretty tired thing to say about satie. ian is making a good go of it, but it still seems a bit challopy rather than the (illusion of) sincere takedown demanded.

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

so is "the pit of vipers" hipsters or ilx?

― sarahell, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link

accusing someone of contrarianism = "instead of accepting your statement and arguing against it I'm just going to pretend you don't even believe it yourself which is pretty much just an asshole move that will make the argument last longer and get progressively more meaningless"

― some dude, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 18:15 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quoted for truth

― Vermicious Knid A (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link

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