"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
CEP rumor mill: lyss does golden showers for money.
I'm doing it all wrong, then. I should've asked HIM for money? Good to know.
No, it's all good. Somebody's gotta receive.
I used to live for the City Paper to come out each week with its cray personals. My two all-time favorites: a man seeking a woman to fart in his face, and a man seeking someone (either gender) to rip out his pubes using electrical tape.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
In my city, being a hipster is not about necessarily being an intellectual, and it's certainly not about having a trust fund. It's more about outward image than about ideas. Probably the only unifying ideas that hipsters here have is that music is central to life, having a "real job" sucks, and drinking on porches is awesome. Politically they range from anarchist to center-left to libertarian. Economically, kids whose parents pay the rent on their craftsman bungalow allow their on-and-off homeless friends to sleep on their couches. Designer clothes get no more (and maybe less) respect than vintage, thrifted, or homemade clothes.
It's about living in one of a few specific neighborhoods, listening to the right indie rock/local electronica/noise/60s garage rock, patronizing the right local boutiques and thrift stores, drinking equal amounts of Pabst and good local craft beer, riding a bike (whether a vintage beach cruiser, a fixie, or ironically riding a Huffy from KMart), and toeing the fine line between looking like anime, looking like a college professor, and looking homeless.
And yes, I used to be one. The only things I brought with me were the music and the craft beer. Now I find everyone in their early 20s insufferable, not just hipsters.
ETA: One credit I will give to hipsters here vs. in bigger cities is their genuine affection for things. They don't pretend they aren't into it or try to look above it when they go to shows or go dancing. They get drunk, yell, and dance their asses off, and applaud earnestly.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
Post by basilosaurus on Aug 5, 2012 14:24:01 GMT -5
I'm dying at this thread.
My definition would be a mish-mash of the others, to describe Denver hipsters. Not as common as in Seattle or Portland, but definitely not rare. Their own breed.
Definitely, they ride a fixie. They wear stupid fur hats in summer. Or they reappropriate rasta hats on their non-dread but still ratty hair. In winter.
They wear thick black glasses with no lenses. Just like everyone in Korea, but over there it's just normal ugly and here it's hipster ugly.
AFAIK they don't have a neighborhood home because they never leave the coffee shop. In Denver, you'll often find them at St Mark's coffee, and when that's closed (at midnight) across the street at mountain sun. Admittedly, I spent half of nursing school at st mark's. But the bike I rode there had gears, and I had a helmet. I didn't fit in. I also had a home I went back to, 5 blocks away.
Previous description of the skinny jeans (preferably colored) and having a pseudo-intellectual book in the back pocket is dead on. As is the 12 credits. The only acceptable job is in an indie music shop, indie book store (ok, I spent the other half of nursing school at tattered cover), coffee shop, or bar tender, the divier the better, but dive with local beer is best. In Denver, PBR isn't necessary because there are so many good local brews. It's better to discover the unique keg that no one's heard of. PBR, I'm assuming, is for house parties b/c you're poor. See: acceptable jobs. And spending all your money at coffee shops and their attached bars with microbrews.
Disdain of anything anyone's heard of. Unless it's the gathering place at a coffee shop. Loyalty is fairly high to those places, so discovery doesn't automatically lead to mass exodus.
I believe that Denver should be considered a subspecies. It's a cross between a portland hipster and a boulder trustafarian.
haha. that was my first thought as well. and then I looked at the article .
here, there's definitely a notion of wanna-be hipsters and "true" hipsters. if you call yourself a hipster, you're not one.
we live on capitol hill in seattle, and it's full of guys with jeans skinnier than mine (and much skinnier legs ) and plaid shirts, glasses with big plastic frames, everyone with the same haircut, bike polo on fixies, american apparel/urban outfitters/thriftstores/vintage shops, tons of coffee shops (don't you dare go to starbucks, and whatever you do, don't order a caramel macchiato or they'll mock you to your face).
Again, I think this article gives hipsters too much credit. I do not see hipsters as tech-savvy intellectuals. True hipsters probably eschew technology and favor things like Etch a Sketches and really expensive art notebooks. I think these kinds of articles just add to the confusion- take Zooey- she has a hipster element but really she is just "quirky," even if it's too intentional. She's a throwback wanna be, more like the tattooed, swingdancer alt lifestyle of the 90s without the slightest bit of edge.
Again, I think this article gives hipsters too much credit. I do not see hipsters as tech-savvy intellectuals. True hipsters probably eschew technology and favor things like Etch a Sketches and really expensive art notebooks. I think these kinds of articles just add to the confusion- take Zooey- she has a hipster element but really she is just "quirky," even if it's too intentional. She's a throwback wanna be, more like the tattooed, swingdancer alt lifestyle of the 90s without the slightest bit of edge.
clearly, i get them confused.
hipster, quirky...they're all annoying and try way too hard.
haha. that was my first thought as well. and then I looked at the article .
here, there's definitely a notion of wanna-be hipsters and "true" hipsters. if you call yourself a hipster, you're not one.
we live on capitol hill in seattle, and it's full of guys with jeans skinnier than mine (and much skinnier legs ) and plaid shirts, glasses with big plastic frames, everyone with the same haircut, bike polo on fixies, american apparel/urban outfitters/thriftstores/vintage shops, tons of coffee shops (don't you dare go to starbucks, and whatever you do, don't order a caramel macchiato or they'll mock you to your face).
We're in West Seattle, full of guys in skinny jeans, covered in tattoos, with a kid in an ergo on their back. They're tech savvy because they work for video game companies.
I guess WS is where hipsterism goes to grow up.
ETA: I'm writing this from Georgetown, the only neighborhood in Seattle that's more hipster than Capitol Hill.
We have a decent amount of hipsters in Providence, but they mostly drink the 'gansett (narragansett) instead of PBR. Also $4.99 for a six pack of tall boys.
We have a decent amount of hipsters in Providence, but they mostly drink the 'gansett (narragansett) instead of PBR. Also $4.99 for a six pack of tall boys.
You have to tell me where the heck you're finding Gansett for 4.99 a six!
I feel more confused than ever after reading this thread. Evidently a hipster is someone who vacations in Montauk but has no money, is a hippie or a wanna be hippie but leaves litter and trash behind, drinks craft beer but drinks PBR, begs for money because they have no job but is a barrista and a trust fund baby.
It's really clear to me that either the hipster doesn't exist as an easily definable genre or that everyone has a different idea of what one is.
Post by ChillyMcFreeze on Aug 6, 2012 7:45:55 GMT -5
I think the hipster thing is so localized because they sort of form a community. At the least, they all base their look and habits off of the same ideal, namely the other hipsters around them. So hipsters everywhere will look a little different. Ironic mustaches, douche hats and girl pants are universal, though.
haha. that was my first thought as well. and then I looked at the article .
here, there's definitely a notion of wanna-be hipsters and "true" hipsters. if you call yourself a hipster, you're not one. we live on capitol hill in seattle, and it's full of guys with jeans skinnier than mine (and much skinnier legs ) and plaid shirts, glasses with big plastic frames, everyone with the same haircut, bike polo on fixies, american apparel/urban outfitters/thriftstores/vintage shops, tons of coffee shops (don't you dare go to starbucks, and whatever you do, don't order a caramel macchiato or they'll mock you to your face).
this is so very true.
One of my best friends and I had a hilarious night hanging out with this total hipster in philly and teasing him about it. Because in order to be a true hipster you can never KNOW that you are a hipster. Or at least not admit it. Because hipster are just these assholes who are into obscure random shit to be cool, whereas you, you are truly madly deeply in love with only shit that NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF. So clearly you aren't a hipster. Right.
Side note: Seriously, this dude is suchafuckinghipster. He's younger than me (so mid20's) and good buddies with my mom. He spends a good portion of his weekends living in the bad old city hanging out with a bunch of late 30s-early 50's lesbians. Possibly ironically at first, but he and mama are legit buds now. Which confuses the shit out of me because this guy annoys me to no end. I have no idea why my mother enjoys his company. He also spent all night trying to literally get into my friend's pants (as in at one point he stuck his hands down her pants as some sort of come-on) despite the fact that he has a girlfriend.
He confessed to having a girlfriend, but then he spent all night telling us that he was breaking up with her. This was about 8 months ago. they're still together. He brings her places sometimes and she usually gets messy drunk and he tries to leave her weeping in a corner while he smokes out back and drinks other people's beer and everybody else at the party stares in bafflement at the drunk crying straight girl and wonders who brought her.
So he's both a hipster and an asshole. Which often go together, but the asshole component is not a requirement for hipsterhood.
We have a decent amount of hipsters in Providence, but they mostly drink the 'gansett (narragansett) instead of PBR. Also $4.99 for a six pack of tall boys.
You have to tell me where the heck you're finding Gansett for 4.99 a six!
I feel more confused than ever after reading this thread. Evidently a hipster is someone who vacations in Montauk but has no money, is a hippie or a wanna be hippie but leaves litter and trash behind, drinks craft beer but drinks PBR, begs for money because they have no job but is a barrista and a trust fund baby.
It's really clear to me that either the hipster doesn't exist as an easily definable genre or that everyone has a different idea of what one is.
The cheap liquor store next to the subway restaurant that is next to Snookers, kind of near the strip club and the amazing.net. And sort of near the giant PVD post office. I don't actually know the street name there, but the road is split by building with north on the right side of the buildings and south on the left side of the buildings. Near the Marriott.
Now, the $4.99 is only for classic 'gansett. The summer/fest/cream ale/porter is still more expensive.
I have been on a quest for the cheapest liquor store in PVD. right now I am trying to stock up in beer when I go to Seekonk, Chris Gasbarro's on Route 6 has good prices. I think the tax is cheaper in Mass, but then you do have to pay the bottle deposit.
I'm dying at this thread. I'm reading it in the security line at Dulles and in the "premium passenger" line I just saw a skinny white dude with purposefully sad clothes and a ratty fedora, with his iPod ear buds in, looking so disdainful of everything.
You have to tell me where the heck you're finding Gansett for 4.99 a six!
The cheap liquor store next to the subway restaurant that is next to Snookers, kind of near the strip club and the amazing.net. And sort of near the giant PVD post office. I don't actually know the street name there, but the road is split by building with north on the right side of the buildings and south on the left side of the buildings. Near the Marriott.
Now, the $4.99 is only for classic 'gansett. The summer/fest/cream ale/porter is still more expensive.
I have been on a quest for the cheapest liquor store in PVD. right now I am trying to stock up in beer when I go to Seekonk, Chris Gasbarro's on Route 6 has good prices. I think the tax is cheaper in Mass, but then you do have to pay the bottle deposit.
I'm going to have to check out that place on Charles St (?), Gansett is a lot more than 4.99 near me - or at least I think it is. I don't have beer prices memorized like I did in my heavy drinking days, LOL. Honestly, I want to like Gansett a lot more than I actually do, and I keep buying it in the hopes they'll finally bring the brewery back as promised. It's just ok. Haven't tried the porter, is that any good?
Post by SusanBAnthony on Aug 8, 2012 22:19:23 GMT -5
I have an acquaintance who is totally a hipster, as is her husband. She got all offended (or maybe mock-offended?) when someone called her a hipster, and posted on Facebook asking if others agreed. The verdict: everyone said she was a hipster.
I am just a hippie. I am truly uncool. I wear ugly hats sometimes, but that is just because I haven't washed my hair lately. I never wear a hat when my hair looks good, only when I a trying to hide it.
We have a decent amount of hipsters in Providence, but they mostly drink the 'gansett (narragansett) instead of PBR. Also $4.99 for a six pack of tall boys.
You have to tell me where the heck you're finding Gansett for 4.99 a six!
is.
Also at Bottles (next to East Side Market). I confirmed that this weekend.
Post by UMaineTeach on Aug 8, 2012 22:54:15 GMT -5
I'm thinking I know one and I didn't realize it until this post: - bass player in a band (that just tragically broke up so one of the members could 'focus on himself') - works at a coffee shop that is "a handcrafted, micro roasted coffee purveyor" - last 6 of 8 FB post are about bands you have never heard of playing at said coffee shop or a bar that is "old fun neighborhood upscale bar" - FB posts not about bands you've never heard of are about tennis - wears skinny jeans, alternates between a faux-hawk and a white guy fro, winter hats in the summer, maintains a 5 o'clock shadow 24/7