ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

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

i asked a co-worker named marnie if she'd ever heard of marnie stern today

had she?

for your next trick, you can ask her if she has seen the film Marnie.

I tried to make a joke about the hipsters in fishtown with my friend who is a firefighter in Philly and he thought I was using the term in the "jazz-bo" sense.

hepcats! beatniks!

http://www.ticklemevintageblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/831.jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/13/real-hipsters-of-vancouver-audition-tapes_n_3064475.html

xpost different cliché but same vividity.

Weird, I know someone on that.

I tried to make a joke about the hipsters in fishtown with my friend who is a firefighter in Philly and he thought I was using the term in the "jazz-bo" sense.

lolwtf

I wanted to make a "jazz-b's skinny arms" joke but it wd prob have been too obscure

jazz-bo not jazz-b

man, i really thought those hipsters with the mason jars were gonna get out of here without asking me if i had any townes van zandt records, but blammo right as they were leaving they had to do it. luckily i kept them from getting violent by selling them a gram parsons record instead.

― scott seward, Friday, February 10, 2012 2:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

not really new i guess but i have just noticed that people sometimes carry mason jars around in lieu of a water bottle. in their backpacks, in the sports webbing, i guess. hope they don't bump into anything hard

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

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.

Using a mason jar as a flask - esp. at clubs with overpriced drinks - has been something I've done since 2009.

why

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/idco/pour-mason-pour-over-coffee-attachment-for-mason-j

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.

i imagine that mason jars have become more popular with the rise of pickling and homesteader/locavore food culture

why don't you use a flask for a flask

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/da03/reef_dram.jpg

because i'd have to buy a flask, whereas i already own mason jars!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/theprotojournalist/2013/12/23/256313507/what-exactly-is-hipster-christianity

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.

maybe you could say "religion doesn't have to cater to your insipid taste"

Christian churches syncretizing with the consumer culture of middle-class youth shocker

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."

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".

group minded ppl are group minded ppl, i think

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.