ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

in the single they play on Sirius XMU, he references the Postal Service tho

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regarding "is it ok to like _____?"the answer is obvious: if you have to ask, it's not ok

^ gets it

lol at drake right next to SKM on the hipster list

no1 now living

need a rolling urban sophisticates thread though

How is MBV less of a hipster band than Vampire Weekend?

The methodology of that study is dubious at best

How is MBV less of a hipster band than Vampire Weekend?

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

olds + youngs = norms

very trustworthy graph from people who call the website that launched foxygen, mutual benefit and perfume genius a "highly influential website"

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/realestate/new-york-boomers-on-hipster-turf.html

The place is steps from what Mr. Weir describes, only half tongue in cheek, as the “groovy dad Gowanus coffee shop,” a.k.a. the brick-walled Root Hill Cafe on Fourth Avenue. “It’s always filled with lots of arty, paint-spattered stay-at-home dads,” Mr. Weir said, “along with kids wearing natural fabrics.” He suspects that everyone he sees hunched over a laptop is laboring over a webcast TV show.

An incident that occurred his first week in the neighborhood encapsulates what he likes about it. Mr. Weir needed a slab of plywood for his bed. He poked his head into an artists’ supply store, where a blue-jeaned worker “gave me a piece of wood and said, ‘O.K., man, just take it for free and pay it forward.’ It was like something out of a movie.”

“I’m still a little afraid of how groovy and arty my neighbors are,” said Mr. Weir, who is working on a novel about a 50-something man much like himself living in a neighborhood much like Gowanus. “To be honest, I don’t feel hip enough for Brooklyn. But when you’re 55, and you see people forming themselves and determining what they’re going to be, that’s a good feeling. I like being around people who haven’t fully found themselves.”

Nicely timed with the Disney parks thread revive:

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I bought that shirt like mere hours after my plane landed in orlando

pvmic

you were that shirt like mere hours after etc

In searching for a home, he had ruled out neighborhoods like Forest Hills, Queens — “a grandma place,” as he described it. “I wanted to live someplace younger,” Mr. Stone said. “I liked that the restaurants on Vernon Boulevard aren’t too stuffy, that they’re more casual than the ones you find in older neighborhoods. I like that you see people walking the streets late at night.”

lol joke's on you old lady

old man, rather

old man, look at my life
im a new york hipsterrrrrr

http://www.buzzfeed.com/justincarissimo/are-you-actually-a-hipster

kid cudi and log cabins and leafy greens and sunglasses, soooo hip lololol

i got a 14 on that hipster quiz and i think most of the things i clicked were beer-related?

I really do love that this guy's grasp of contemporary hispterdom is "artists pitchfork rode for TEN YEARS AGO"

Are you a really a hip-hop fan? Click these pictures of Lloyd Banks and Ja Rule and D12 to find out!

part of being a hipster is never aging

"once a hipster touchstone always a hipster touchstone" -- just ask The Rapture M.I.A. Hall & Oates

does anyone even care about the word hipster anymore? it seems dated, like only my mom / the nyt would be arguing about what constitutes a hipster anymore.

You must be wearing sunglasses, you cool, cool, person, you.

it's good to hear other people argue about it in their own circumstances because then you can study its debilitating effects without suffering them

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was the picture of Buddy Holly about his glasses or are hipsters really into "Not Fade Away" and I just haven't noticed?

i thought it was a weezer thing

are we even talking about whether people talk about hipsters anymore anymore

this is just a prelude to a ginormous culture war against hipsters

oh wait did no one post that rightwing book in this thread?

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sorry
http://foxnewsinsider.com/sites/foxnewsinsider.com/files/styles/780/public/Gutfeld_BookCover.jpg

not cool: with the beatles by some guy

Motherfucker looks like he's wearing a pince-nez with no lenses.

^ possible new hipster look to supersede buddy holly specs

BIG BROTHER, New York Times bestselling author of THE TWO MINUTES HATE

NOT COOL story bro

I have been a fan of the Gutfeld Institute of Rational Brain Activity for several years now. Writing this review will probably be one of the hardest reviews I've written in Amazon. Taken on its surface, Greg takes on just about every form of lunacy, pop culture, crazy Hollywood "stars," crazy dictators, crazy Hollywood talking heads, all of the news networks, several crazy representatives of different cultures which make up our society, fracking, Obamacare, the American society as it stands today, and if I named everything, that would be my review!

I cannot tell you how much I laughed at various phrases he uses to describe totally ridiculous things people who should know better say or do throughout his stories. The Chapter on Hugo Chavez nearly made me pass out.

I know intelligence when I see it. And from the first day I saw Greg on Red Eye, I knew he was a whole lot smarter than he let on. Greg is that very rare person who has the ability to see through all the BS going on around him, ferret it out, and somehow not only make it make sense, but make sense in a way that make liberals blow flames out of their ears and leave conservatives wondering if he's on their side or not.

Nevertheless, his grasp of today's youth, today's average social network surfer, today's COOLness and how upside down society is becoming because of it, is so spot on, it's like he took a million post it notes, somehow put them in order, and actually makes sense how this invasion of the quantity vs. quality social scale came to be. Then, somehow, he uses his snarky wit and crazy/sane verbiage to bring it all together and MAKE SENSE! A dry fact-filled book would sit on a shelf and collect dust.

Greg reaches out to today's youngest generation whose parents are so busy working, taking part in social media, keeping the kids busy in after school activities, because THEY are as confused as their parents. Somehow they manage to find down time, Yoga, the Gym, book clubs and possibly the more necessary wine clubs, to get in their free time trying to rest up to do it all over again tomorrow.

His comments and additional stories about SO MUCH STUFF COMING IN TODAY are critically relevant. The fact that EVERYTHING has become politicized, making the field much more muddy, makes his effort to let us know COOL is not (or should not be) our ultimate goal in life. As some of us watch things sag, more and more, not seeming to have an engine to run it or a rudder to guide it, it seems like everything depressingly has no direction. Sort of like algebrabraic equations no longer equal anything. He pushes back, pointing out how dumb it is that we are caught in this sad maze of who to blame, what to do, where to go, how to get it, turns it on its head and points his finger at the who, what, where, and why and in very plain and colorful language, accurately puts the blame where it belongs (on us!!! :-0 ). WE make decisions every day that affect our families, our friends, our parents, our children and buy INTO this crazy society that COOL is, indeed, COOL, and we must attain it at any price. Of course, when he says it, over and over again, it is funnier and full of biting wisdom.

Greg is asking us to wake up out of our stupor, and perhaps on any Hollywood award night, maybe we should NOT be glued to the empty-headed nonsense going on in the media, and turn it BACK to where it belongs: TOWARD THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN! GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS - HELP BRING BACK ALL THAT WE'VE LOST! DO SOME RESEARCH AND SUPPORT A GOOD CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATION THAT WOULD PASS THE TEST OF THE GREG GUTFELT INSTITUTE of RATIONAL BRAIN ACTIVITY!! We can do this!!! And Greg is at the head of the line!!

Our priorities are hideously twisted, Greg's entire book shouts that out. We MUST read this book carefully to find out HOW, while there is still time left, we break the hold that money, technology, fashion, peeking into other people's lives via reality TV, and ANYTHING Hollywood is trying to sell us in general, has on us, that we check out the Constitution, check out the business pages now and again, and most importantly, get educated on religions, groups of people, those living on assistance, government hand outs, and the most important thing given to us of all: FREEDOM! We live in the best country in the world and we let these false-faced nutballs in the media dictate our lives!

Now he is on FOX NEWS NETWORK ON The Five (at 5:00 p.m.Monday through Friday), a brilliant addition to the team, still has his fun on Red Eye (also on FOX News Network), has written his (I think) 2nd full book (Edit: 3/21/2014 - I stand corrected - Dana said today on the Five that this is his SIXTH BOOK - my most humble apologies to the author), is winning the respect of no less than Bob Beckel (not an easy thing for a guy like Greg to do!!), is turning up on Bill O'Reilly, and is on his way to becoming one of the great thinkers of his generation (seriously!).

This book has much more meat to it than the last book. I think it could have been cut into four books, with more factoids added to educate the masses to the mess this country is currently wallowing in. Greg Gutfeld is one of those writers who can, in one sentence, cut the lies out of the mouths of (fill in the blank) and tie it up in a bow so funny, you might have to go back and ponder what he said for several days.

I don't like my own review, even though I've been at it for two days. I can't catch Greg's amazing ability to cut through all the BS handed to us every day and somehow have it make sense and make it edgy and funny at the same time (funny as in funny rational). So, go out and buy his book. NOW!!!!! His numbers will make him lots o' money, yes. More importantly, it will show the Hollywood COOL and the Washington D.C. COOL and the campus COOL people that we have their number. While Hillary and Obama danced, four of our best men died in Benghazi. Just this week, while they danced again, the Crimea section of the Ukraine was stolen and taken away by Putin. On the international front, things do not look good. On the National front, things don't look good. WAKE UP, AMERICA!! While the cat's been away, the mice have been carting out little pieces of what made this country the exceptional nation it WAS.

NOT COOL is one of the finest relevant books on the state of our world today. Greg has the intelligence to pull it all together, the thick skin not to care who he skewers (they deserve it), a vast range of observations and knowledge to pull from, and a slightly self-deprecating way to end it. One thing I know, you will learn much you did not know when you started Not Cool. I will be keeping this one near me as a reference guide to the Not Cool and don't know it crowd!! Five stars for a book well done, Greg Gutfeld! Very, very cool book! No, having heard Greg say today (Edit - 3/21/2014) on The Five that Greg thinks cool is actually evil (in terms of its collective effect on society) - very, very, GOOD book!

His numbers will make him lots o' money, yes. More importantly, it will show the Hollywood COOL and the Washington D.C. COOL and the campus COOL people that we have their number.

So we're going to stick it to the Washington/Hollywood/Campus COOL by buying a book written by a UC Berkley graduate whose career has been in writing/editing mainstream magazines like Prevention, Men's Health and Maxim, and who currently hosts two shows on the world's highest-rated 24 hour news channel?

I want to buy a copy just to see what proper nouns he uses in it

Washington COOL

"it's like he took a million post it notes, somehow put them in order"

kinda makes me die inside that this is regarded as praise in 2014

hey, at least it didn't say "a million tweets"

burning brightly in the night

waiting for the power point edition

this is an interesting strategy to win the youth demographic