ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

i get it, squeezin' out puppies = you're now a yuppie

Can a person really go from being a hipster to being a norm? I think that would be difficult if not impossible ... it must be a new form that can accomodate the previous identity. Destroying already-built affectations risks complete ego failure that would send the individual into a severe crisis. I think "yupster" could safely transition someone from hipster to yuppie, but it sounds like a brand of dog toy. Which I think is fitting because yupsters are really dog toys for the man to chew up and vomit all over.

from being a hipster to being a norm

"a norm"

you realize most hippies turned into the suburban assholes who voted for Reagan, right?

just about anyone can transition to a norm given the right employment/income opportunity imo

xpost

being a norm is cool

hipsters are out, but weird norms are in

stealth weirds

pretty sure most hipsters are on the norm continuum

from being a hipster to being a norm

"a norm"

you realize most hippies turned into the suburban assholes who voted for Reagan, right?

― I, rrational (mh), Friday, 12 April 2013 16:11 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this requires interesting values of both 'most' and 'hippies' i think

true!

I'm working remotely in a coffee shop in Chicago's Wicker Park that has a full-sized model of the Delorean from Back to the Future in it. Is there anything you would like to know from the field?

i was there last week, that place is for 'cool nerds' not 'hipsters'

Whenever artsy friends compare themselves to norms I have to rmde and try to restrain myself from telling them what a load of ego-feeding crap that is, and how they really aren't any better than the norms. That you talk about painting or experimental music or Deep Thoughts and somehow that makes you better than if you were talking about football or American Idol? The point of being an artist is that you are somehow keyed into some underlying, non-superficial Truth to the universe, and as soon as you start blowing smoke up your butt about how being an artist makes you better then you are being the worst kind of superficial, judgmental, materialist asshole you purport to be better than.

It's a lower-level version of social mis-judgement quite a bit like a politician who says "I am tired of all the partisan politics of the other party".

xxxxxxxxp I'm having a hard time believing you couldn't see my use of "norm" was tongue in cheek.

lol carl
please describe one person of your choice

i was there last week, that place is for 'cool nerds' not 'hipsters'

― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Friday, April 12, 2013 4:19 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's a fine distinction.

The person in my direct line of sight actually looks like our own darraghmac but bigger and is too old and health looking to be a hipster which is maybe proving thomp's point.

haaaaa i was just having a convo w/ lagoon abt the term "norm"

me: has ilx had a discussion yet abt the use of "norm" or "normie" as a pejorative
lagoon: ha no but i tihnk we can break ilx for once and all if we work on this

http://www.davidstuff.com/humor/normp.jpg

I don't know, though, this darraghmac look-a-like is wearing a neon Stussi t-shirt and he was just joined by a fellow in tight, acid-washed jeans. But they are talking about business stuff? I'm confused.

haaaaa i was just having a convo w/ lagoon abt the term "norm"

saddest thing about ilx in 2011/12 was no thread about the taxonomy of 'norm' and 'weirdo'

just some whites talking about norms

kill all white people

they're already dead

http://magiccards.info/scans/en/po/39.jpg

stealth weirds

― chinavision!, Friday, April 12, 2013 12:13 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hydrochloric beards

i was only trying to indicate that no one in my class knew the difference between a hipster and a yuppie AT ALL, not just what that means in 2013

you guys are something else!

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, April 12, 2013 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My dominican neighbors (aka the residents of my 30 unit bldg who are not hipsters/yuppies) also do not know this difference, as a result I have been using these 2 terms interchangeably for several years now and have had no reason to stop

I miss my psycho neighbor Louis affably referring to me to my face as a yuppie

what is the name of this coffee shop?

the wormhole

Correct. thewormhole.us

seems mostly ok

Yeah, sure. I actually had a very nice morning there. It's a good place to work. Really good coffee. Really really good homemade pop tart thing. Free wifi. Giant console TV in the back with a Super Nintendo hooked up to it.

I like these field reports

from the ILXor lurker ads:

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okcupid already kinda exists

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wicker park has a lot of "hipstery" places but really it is a double-wide stroller neighborhood

is "date a hipster" the new makeoutclub or whatever that site was?

Makeoutclub actually had very little to do with making out with anybody AFAICT

I can't remember if that is what I am thinking of or a different site. Something with the emos posting their intense-looking pictures and personal-type info

Norm

http://ifanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/norm-peterson.jpg

i bet date a hipster is one of those weird marketing sites that collects your personal information and sells it to an affiliate. a hipster affiliate.

i feel a lot more conflicted about being a yuppie than i ever did about being a hipster

― Reggie (Lamp), Friday, April 12, 2013 11:58 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:-(

Xposts that was MOC, yup. There was also Lipstickparty, same deal. But it was closer in spirit to like the livejournal/diaryland emo/weirdo community-building thing than a dating site as such. I think you basically could have one photo and a blurb/blog/.plan, and you couldn't really narrow down searches or do any kind of matching.

Are we talking about Hipsters, or "Hipsters"?

Hipsters, as in, the people who read Pitchfork, go to ATP and listen to bands that most people genuinely haven't heard of, or the people who spend their lives tweeting about how much they love Arctic Monkeys and Nandos?

MOC is more notable for being proto-friendster than proto-OKC

being a norm is cool

― chinavision!, Friday, April 12, 2013 11:13 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hipsters are out, but weird norms are in

― chinavision!, Friday, April 12, 2013 11:13 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stealth weirds

― chinavision!, Friday, April 12, 2013 11:13 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i identify w this description
got a regular job and baby and haircut and no tats but lets talk about how cars should be banned and listen to oneohtrix at the pta meeeting, mijo

feel this ^

i was recently called a "secret hipster", so i'm down with stealth weird.

lmao imagining buzzfeed article talking about stealth weird twitter and links to this thread as the genesis of #themovement