abhorrence of bookcases is probably a h_____ trait
lol were painting the office
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
i mostly stop reading after world war 2 except for patches here and there, and by the 1980s i've halted completely (except for dfw, yes). i dunno how H that is. most people i know (who read) seem to start around catch-22.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
i mostly stop reading after world war 2 except for patches here and there
how old are you man?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
haha i mean "i don't read much postwar".
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
i'm 24 tho
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
having worked in bookstores for years, i can say w/o equivocation that hipster all-star books are:
master and margheritaconfederacy of duncesperks of being a wallfloweratlas shruggedchokecatch-22house of leavesunderworld
the atlanticthe new yorkerthe believermonoclenew republic
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
rly? that list is like the stuff my nerdy friends were reading in my suburban high school.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
atlas shrugged
lol rly? oh, america
'catch-22' just seems like one of those 'everyone likes this' books; im sure hipsters are part of the venn diagram tho
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
i had no idea the bulgakov was such a thing.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
rly? that list is like the stuff my nerdy friends were reading in my suburban high school.― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:58 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:58 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark
haha or this is the other answer. 'this is a hipster book now? i remember reading it in '93.'
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:58 AM
yeah, exactly. it's not exactly a deep list, but it's got an appropriate affectation of darkness. kind of like tim burton.
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
fair point.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.fourfront1602.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr_l34zh0UsiU1qzzhzdo1_500.jpg
^^^ likes bulgokov, irvine welsh, chuck p, one novel by bret easton ellis (but the others are crap!), that book by jared diamond that everybody read, and maybe murakami
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
one novel by bret easton ellis (but the others are crap!)
it would be cool if this were lunar park
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
maybe most hipsters are actually entry-level.
any stats on hipster dvd purchases?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
requiem for a dream for sure
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
'the only easten ellis book worth reading is the informers' - someone on the second level
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
that list is like a Fopp stock-check
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
idk does hipster imply "kind of clueless" or is it interchangeable with "snob"
― corey, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
cuz I'm sure people could call me a snob for ignoring Toni Morrisson but getting excited about Arno Schmidt or whatever
can't say with the same certitude as books, but at borders in seattle the hits were
slc punkme and you and everyone we knowbig leibowski say anythingfear and loathing in las vegasroyal tenenbaums
i.e. suburban people buckin' against de mans ^^^^
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like mb u dont know what a hipster is
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
hipster definitely do not buy dvds
― back in a .gif ;) (flopson), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the h*ipster cannon is like:
the tunnel (whg)cat's cradleinfinite jest quartet (rhys)confessions of a justified sinnerthe sheltering skythe cairo trilogybukowski's poetrya biography of david humeorwell's 'essays'
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
also probably a book abt the velvet underground that i havent read
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
idk mb if u like found the directors label boxset at a goodwill or like the oop john woo criterion dvds or s.thing
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of these have in common that they are not very challenging
― corey, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
ehh compared to what?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
required reading in american high schools?
― corey, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
once again im just coming away from this thinking hipsters basically means young university graduates with basically intelligent tastes and a kind of identifiable dress-code. that's already a tiny demographic and doing anything more is splitting hairs/self-identifying as top-tier.
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
corey let us know what books you think are more challenging + also worth reading
mainstream books are going to be less demanding than 'infinite jest' or 'the sheltering sky', on the whole.
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
confederacy of dunces is like the Pabst Blue Ribbon of books
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
ehh, no xp
― corey, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
tbh I know more hipsters who probably don't read at all than hipsters who know who david hume is
― iatee, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
corey let us know what books you think are more challenging + also worth reading than 'infinite jest' or 'the sheltering sky' or 'a biography of david hume'
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
All my Wburg hipster friends are super into Vonnegut tbh
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Vonnegut, Pynchon and DFW are p much the Animal Collective of authors
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
again, nobody is really a ''''pure hipster'''' but I don't necessarily think it entirely - or even overwhelmingly - overlaps w/ 'intellectual'/stereotypes about intellectuals/stereotypes about people who read a lot
― iatee, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
idk i feel like at least some of the h*pster cannon is self-consciously 'challenging' like i never got more strangers approvingly remarking on my subway reading than when i was reading 'the recognitions' but mb that was because the cover is bright pink idk
i kinda think that 'hipsters' arent ppl that are good @ school but still think of themselves as 'smart' rather than than 'young university graduates with basically intelligent tastes'
also iatee otm books arent really a 'hipster' thing like art or vintage synths or tumblr or w/e
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
xpost otm, but obv there's a hueg crossover in the hipster/intellectual Venn diagram since white/pampered/college-educated/leisure class/etc/etc/etc
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
this is the most hipster thing posted in this thread tbh
remy has already said everything i wanted to say on this thread except: master and margherita x 100000
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
Vonnegut and Bukowski
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
vonnegut and bukowski are 'hardy perennials' of youth culture aren't they? which isn't to say they are hipster stock reading too.
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
that reprint of the recognitions had the most horrible cover
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:13 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
i feel like you can probably expand this analogy productively
― thomp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
like i think maybe tao lin is the animal collective of orders, DFW is more the neutral milk hotel
people actually listen to Animal Collective though
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
bukowski is the hardy perennial of 'heavy social drinkers'
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
bulgakov isnt a . author hes a 'cool nerd' author which is p different
zamyatin is probably closer to being a . author
an overdue rented dvd of 'bed and sofa' is .
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link