my neighborhood artisanal coffeeshop has been selling mason jars turned into 'water bottles' by an ARTIST
even worse they are the little kind, like who ever wanted to carry around a cup (1 c) of water
― j., Saturday, 14 September 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
mason jars are what suffice for drinking glasses in my house. didn't realize it was a thing among the hipsters. just thought it was hillbilly.
― how's life, Saturday, 14 September 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Using a mason jar as a flask - esp. at clubs with overpriced drinks - has been something I've done since 2009.
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
why
― sing, all ye shitizens of slumerica (k3vin k.), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/idco/pour-mason-pour-over-coffee-attachment-for-mason-j
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
why? so I don't have to buy the overpriced drinks, so I can drink booze from home and save $.
it isn't like i go out and buy the mason jars though - i have them already.
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
i imagine that mason jars have become more popular with the rise of pickling and homesteader/locavore food culture
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
why don't you use a flask for a flask
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/da03/reef_dram.jpg
― Treeship, Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
because i'd have to buy a flask, whereas i already own mason jars!
― not some dude poking a Line 6 pedal with his dick (sarahell), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/theprotojournalist/2013/12/23/256313507/what-exactly-is-hipster-christianity
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Monday, 30 December 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Close friends of mine are heavily into a similar-sounding church in London. I have strong feelings about it all but I've never quite managed to articulate them without sounding like a sneering fuckhead.
― sktsh, Monday, 30 December 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
maybe you could say "religion doesn't have to cater to your insipid taste"
― clouds, Monday, 30 December 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Christian churches syncretizing with the consumer culture of middle-class youth shocker
― Mmm yes hello (crüt), Monday, 30 December 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah and you can hardly blame them for trying to expand their appeal and be ~relevant~ and all. But like
"Our carols are way cooler than you've experienced," Lentz says. A visitor is "more likely to hear Mariah Carey ... than carols by candlelight."
― sktsh, Monday, 30 December 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
When my friend was first getting into this stuff you could see he was pretty excited about finding this place where he fit in and could socialise with people who felt the same way as him (he'd been brought up pretty religious and moved away from it in his twenties) and it was pretty great to see, but it got really annoying that he couldn't talk about it without appending a big 72pt asterisk. Like "yeah, it's called church buuuuut everyone swears and drinks and has tats and is a subeditor for the observer style pages and therefore I'm not the object of scorn for doing this that I apparently feel I would be if i were going to a normal church".
― sktsh, Monday, 30 December 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
group minded ppl are group minded ppl, i think
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 30 December 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Is ironic detachment still necessary to hipster status? Because if so, church is way too sincere to ever be truly "hipster." You can't ironically have faith.
― carl agatha, Monday, 30 December 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
the irony is that they get to be cool in church
― Mmm yes hello (crüt), Monday, 30 December 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
― carl agatha, Monday, December 30, 2013 5:03 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk some of the jesus beardos i know have p postmodern-friendly readings of scripture even if its not 'ironic' its def a kinda 'detachment' from more typical evangelical readings
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 30 December 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
The Bible could use more detached readings imo.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 December 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
"Hipster" and "Christianity" are both words that are so meaninglessly vague that putting them together means almost literally nothing, but ultimately it sounds like it's just "church as community" for younger people (which is fine).
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 30 December 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
some of the jesus beardos i know
― flopson, Monday, 30 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
young quakers are very kool
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 30 December 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
even if its not 'ironic' its def a kinda 'detachment' from more typical evangelical readings
Anything that isn't a typical evangelical reading of the bible is a detachment from typical evangelical readings, though.
― carl agatha, Monday, 30 December 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
And the holidays are treated a little differently at Hillsong NYC. "Our carols are way cooler than you've experienced," Lentz says. A visitor is "more likely to hear Mariah Carey ... than carols by candlelight."
mariah carey: textbook definition of cool
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 30 December 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gD5lDsP26Xk/Uo1_TIVNfjI/AAAAAAAAEOo/YkU4CyaD67A/s640/HIPSTER+ALBERIONE+WITH+WORDS.JPG
― ferret is followed! (soref), Monday, 30 December 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
what is the london equivalent of that nyc shitshow
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Monday, 30 December 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
hoos otm re quakers
100% down for and excited abt the inevitable mass rediscovery of xtianity by jaded bluestaters searching for an alternative to american nihilism and its faux-religious skin but idk if "we don't play boring hymns here we play INDIE ROCK" is gonna spark a lot of crosscultural solidarity. still, tho, churches are local and they should be what makes sense w their congregations, so, this is not my church, is all.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
i don't care how people choose to associate themselves peacefully but it's super irritating when they act like they invented singing with zeal and being nice to people.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
well they can't just say they've found unexpected ways to synergize formerly distinct modes of sanctimony, they gotta put a face on it
― j., Monday, 30 December 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
unexpected ways to synergize formerly distinct modes of sanctimony
wow ty
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
what's unexpected about going to church?
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
like maybe if u had food trucks there, i wouldnt expect that, take that potlucks
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Hillsong is an Australian pentecostal megachurch. Don't know how they set up a hipster outpost in New York.
― sonderborg, Monday, 30 December 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
franchising
for the record we were doing hillsong hymns in my crazy pentecostal church like 15 years ago so
― creating an ilHOOSion usic sight and sound (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 30 December 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
*strokes jesus beard*
what is the london equivalent of that nyc shitshowI think my friend now goes to one in King's Cross, but I was specifically referencing http://www.stmaryslondon.com. He had a fridge magnet that was supposed to look like a prescription medicine packet and it said
C H U R C H *(*non-drowsy)
which made me all kinds of IA.
There's also a coffee shop on brick lane (it's name sounds like Kahlua) with suspiciously beautiful staff that I think uses edison bulbs and mason jars as a front for backwater dogoodery.
― sktsh, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:58 (ten years ago) link
I've never quite managed to articulate them without sounding like a sneering fuckhead
― sktsh, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
still, tho, churches are local and they should be what makes sense w their congregations
pithy summing up of protestantism tbf
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
man imagine singing fucking fleet foxes at church
― flopson, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 02:32 (ten years ago) link
Thought the article was gonna be about the Polyphonic Spree
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
mariah has some gospel jams tbh
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
lol the unitarian church i briefly attended wasn't a zillion miles from this altho much more palatable
― VENIET IMBER (imago), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
the unitarian church i went to a couple times in the 90s sang some nice simple hymns from different continents after a thoughtful lecture about ethnographic differences in the expression of hope, or something like that. i think the snacks came from the organic grocery. idk if i had a lifestyle that was more in sync with getting up before noon on a Sunday, maybe i'd go to one here because singing in a an attractive old building with cool acoustics is p dope. but honestly, that is probably not gonna happen until i'm a senior citizen and shit.
― people who care abt anti-hipster discourse (sarahell), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:17 (ten years ago) link
hymns are great
― Mmm yes hello (crüt), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:43 (ten years ago) link
well, not all of them
― Mmm yes hello (crüt), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:44 (ten years ago) link
100% down for and excited abt the inevitable mass rediscovery of xtianity by jaded bluestaters searching for an alternative to american nihilism
Niche has already been filled by overalls, banjos, beards, vests, etc. Among that crowd religion seems more or less like just another signifier.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
The return of 70s Jesus beardos with acoustic guitars
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
coming soon: fritzed out sex communes gone horribly awry
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link