ILB is like a soiled, rumpled, sweaty bed now
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 29 August 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"ursula leguin or someone who is like the timbaland of novelists maybe"
??? please to unpack.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 August 2011 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
hey, you guys up there, don't you worry, ilb will never become hip. you're safe. i only started this board cuz i was a sad stay at home dad living on a rock in the ocean. i'm glad if anyone still comes here. and i'm no help cuz i forgot how to read.
― scott seward, Monday, 29 August 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he meant octavia e butler?
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 29 August 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
is cormac mccarthy the townes van zandt of lit? he must be. how else could you get someone to read a western?
― scott seward, Monday, 29 August 2011 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
he's more like johnny cash american recordings
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 29 August 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
or mayble uncle tupelo
uncle tupelo, particularly their version of 'no depression'
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 29 August 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
jeff tweedy and cormac mccarthy, together at last
― markers, Monday, 29 August 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
hey, you guys up there, don't you worry, ilb will never become hip. you're safe.
Hey, I'd love this much participation every day--I was just disappointed that we finally got so many visitors, but to such a worthless discussion
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Monday, 29 August 2011 08:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Monday, August 29, 2011 3:54 AM (4 hours ago)
fantasy is a fairly maligned genre like r'n'b but it's good to have a couple of auteurs you can pick out and like tokenistically for reasons that aren't necessarily the reasons that genre fans will give you straight off (2002 hipsters comparing timbaland to aphex twin, ursula leguin as like gender studies undergrad accessory) I used timbaland and not say the dream or like the weeknd or something here because those are different examples. timbaland is hipster personal brand component where you are "getting" something that is also mainstream popular but for, like, more highbrow reasons.
― plax (ico), Monday, 29 August 2011 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't find this a worthless discussion
I've found it enjoyable, funny and interesting
I think it's great to see an ILB thread with 200 posts, that isn't 'what are you reading?'
― the pinefox, Monday, 29 August 2011 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dvdspindoctor.typepad.com/dvd_spin_doctor/images/2007/08/27/ringo_brimley_hard_days_night_2.jpg
― Don't ask for the steening, ask for the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 August 2011 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
well i had fun
― game of pwns (Lamp), Monday, 29 August 2011 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
a worthless discussion
Nah. The people have spoken and they considered it worthwhile. Not deep, mind you, but worthwhile.
― Aimless, Monday, 29 August 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i bought the nyrb edition of euripides' plays today, am i a hipster now
― thomp, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i think that depends if you're going to make a purse out of it.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
re: leguin, i thought the gender studies aspect and the SF fandom appreciation was more or less aligned, the same way horror fans and kubrick fans like the shining for pretty much the same reasons?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Fair point. Sorry, I realise I was being like a grumpy old man in the library, wondering why all the kids were borrowing DVDs rather than books.
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Monday, 29 August 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i have read through this thread but am stuck on why these people are reading a biography of David Hume, and which one they are reading.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
you probably haven't heard of it
― iatee, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know if anyone has posted this because I didn't read this thread but there are no such things as hipster books
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
oh.
maybe someone cld get in touch with joni & let her know the outcome.
― zvookster, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Joni!
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Would Pessoa's Book of Disquiet appear on a list of hipster books in 2011? Or has it become too widely known to qualify?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hip, but not hipster
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
(immense feeling of relief) thx
― Aimless, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
guys I 'pounded some pavement' and I went on the streets to find out what hipster books really are
I took this photo of an urban outfitters display window of course would a real hipster work at urban outfitters?? likely no but maybe a pseudo hipster who works at outban urfitters would copy what a real hipster outfitter likes to read
so I present to you HIPSTER BOOKS, EMPIRICALLY COLLECTED
http://i.imgur.com/9LUUQ.jpg
― dayo, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
good work
― markers, Friday, 2 September 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
where is "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
― corey, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it's inside the bag
― dayo, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
where is hipster puppies
― D-40, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i am mad that there is a rob sheffield book in that pile
fuck u urban outfitters u can't have that book
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i know what i'm doing this weekend.
― sarahel, Saturday, 3 September 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess i missed the 'books deej reads' joek
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 September 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/CalamityPhysicsBookCover.jpg
no i don't think so
― thomp, Saturday, 3 September 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
(posts cover of 'a short history of tractors in ukrainian')
― thomp, Saturday, 3 September 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
(posts cover of 'gould's guide to fish')
(posts cover of 'ella minnow pea')
paul reiser - couplehood
― corey, Saturday, 3 September 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
am ghoulishly interested in what a chip kidd cover design for paul reiser would be. even more so for new printing of seinlanguage
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 September 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like the fact that popular science books aren't at urban outfitters says something about hipsters shallowness
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 3 September 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
WELL DONE Dayo!
― the pinefox, Saturday, 3 September 2011 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
when i briefly had a store in philly in the 90's people from urban outfitters would come in and take pictures of our hipster wall/art displays and buy all our pulp fiction paperbacks.
― scott seward, Saturday, 3 September 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
where is hipster puppies --D-40
For real tho
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 3 September 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
my list itt is still the definitive one, nice try tho urban outfitters
― Lamp, Saturday, 3 September 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
lot of my kids have those bags this year
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
where is hipster puppies--D-40For real tho
― delmar dillinger (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, September 3, 2011 5:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i went to UO today and they had it and i lold for like 3 minutes straight
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 4 September 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
XD
― markers, Sunday, 4 September 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link