ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

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.

the irony is that they get to be cool in church

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, 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

The Bible could use more detached readings imo.

"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).

some of the jesus beardos i know

young quakers are very kool

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.

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

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gD5lDsP26Xk/Uo1_TIVNfjI/AAAAAAAAEOo/YkU4CyaD67A/s640/HIPSTER+ALBERIONE+WITH+WORDS.JPG

what is the london equivalent of that nyc shitshow

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 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.

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

unexpected ways to synergize formerly distinct modes of sanctimony

wow ty

what's unexpected about going to church?

like maybe if u had food trucks there, i wouldnt expect that, take that potlucks