ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

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

Hillsong is an Australian pentecostal megachurch. Don't know how they set up a hipster outpost in New York.

franchising

for the record we were doing hillsong hymns in my crazy pentecostal church like 15 years ago so

*strokes jesus beard*

what is the london equivalent of that nyc shitshow
I 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.

I've never quite managed to articulate them without sounding like a sneering fuckhead

still, tho, churches are local and they should be what makes sense w their congregations

pithy summing up of protestantism tbf

man imagine singing fucking fleet foxes at church

Thought the article was gonna be about the Polyphonic Spree

mariah has some gospel jams tbh

lol the unitarian church i briefly attended wasn't a zillion miles from this altho much more palatable

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.

hymns are great

well, not all of them

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.

The return of 70s Jesus beardos with acoustic guitars

coming soon: fritzed out sex communes gone horribly awry

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/01/08/how-to-annoy-hipsters/

i think the poke doesn't understand hipsters

lol

I think it's a universal rule that "cool church" is 10x later than uncool church.

this 'hipster christianity' is so incredibly disappointing, it is an idea w/ much scope but those guys are just

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