New bohemianism: beards, pickling beets, Fleet Foxes, rye...

Although rye seems to be more like a standard hipster fetishization of old-timey things.

i think people just like the way it tastes.

I think that there is a significant divide among people I know, between those who are REALLY focused on profit-driven jobs (sales, mostly) and those who are focused on other things, including non profit driven jobs, family, liesure activities, etc.

Those in the former tend to have flashier cars and wardrobes, and tend to engage in more expensive and "going out" centric activities. Those in the latter tend to cook at home more frequently, dress more for comfort than latest style, be a little less spendthrifty...

I don't know. I'm currently out of work studying to take my bar exam. So, I'm forced to be spend thrifty, I dress for comfort because the rest of my life is a ball of stress, and I cook at home because I'm always here. This all could change once I am licensed and arguing for other people for profit.

I would like to go back to The Land
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2323/2273787242_ea09b5338c.jpg?v=0

Its a shame that a venerable and respected beverage like rye whiskey is pigeon-holed because its percieved as trendy.

Can't we save that lable for shit that involves fruit juices or sugar-rimmed glasses?

haha yeah it's funny b/c i've been out to 'the country' a few times in the past couple months and tho i loved it, each time i felt an increased sense of alienation - because 'the country' just like the city is in fact full of annoying people despite its pastoral image. the city, or this city, seems to mitigate the annoyances, for me.

i think i am just going to leave the pickling of things up to other people btw

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Can't we save that lable for shit that involves fruit juices

me and my greyhound say fuck you!

standard hipster fetishization of old-timey things.

Old-timey things like chamber music?

like chamber pots?

xp My pomegranate-tini says, well excuuuuuse me.

That's it, no more flush toilets for me, it's all about the fashion chamber pots from now on.

i don't want to meet the hipster with a chamber pot fetish. christ, if you thought the Rainbo smelled bad BEFORE...

Just kidding, I don't drink pomegranate-tinis. Unless they're half-price.

"Pffft, yours is tin? I've got the original porcelain."

i pee into a buffalo skin sac which i proceed to pour on the mint in m backyard. NITRATES

laurel drank a pomegranate martini last week! i saw it!

Dan, you just don't get it: the tin sounds WARMER, more REAL.

xp: yes, and it was half-price!!

Oh, alright. Greyhounds, margaritas, screwdrivers and gin&juice don't implicate the trendy frufru drink label.

Neither should rye.

thank you barkeep!

Gin and juice, you say? Like, say, LIMEADE?

bearded hipsters running vodka lemonade stands while playing acoustic guitars

sounds like a bad sitcom on the cw.

I have a beard, I pickle beets (they're delicioso!), have never heard Fleet Foxes (sound like something I would hate, from what I've read), and I prefer wild turkey to rye (cue ZZ Top's Driving While Blind). I also drive a prius.

I do all of these things because they are new and hip and trendy and not because they're like fun or anything duh

Bearded hipsters drinking gin and limeade while singing Pavement songs on a Brooklyn rooftop.

beard also recent edition because before now I couldn't really grow one and I was home with my baby daughter for 7 weeks and thought "hey you know what fuck shaving". now I look like Captain Nemo.

Bearded hipsters drinking gin and limeade while singing Pavement songs on a Brooklyn rooftop.

that sounds pathetically similar to my early 20s.

That sounds pathetically similar to my er........July 6th.

i think people just like the way it tastes.

Undoubtedly, but how do you explain its recent resurgence among the young urban demographic? A lot of people suddenly decided they liked the way it tastes?

Old-timey things like chamber music?

No, more like whatever Grandpa was into: thrift-store pants from Sears and Roebuck, smoking out of pipes, Tony Bennett LPs, etc. Unless you know hipsters that are into Hadyn and Mozart.

Undoubtedly, but how do you explain its recent resurgence among the young urban demographic?

it's recent? like i said, i've always known rye drinkers.

I went on a date once with a young Brooklyn type who dressed like an Amish man and was an up-and-coming shaped-note composer. That guy is seriously so far ahead of the curve he might be a genius.

Oh, you just mentioned your dad. I don't go to places like the Violet Hour or anything, but I've gotten the sense that rye is becoming trendy, and I'm assuming that's why Paul mentioned it. For instance.

i still don't even know where the violet hour is but i'm imagining i must walk past it every day coming back from the train.

Seriously though in some ways we're making a mountain out of a molehill here (on ILX? surely you jest). Everything -- EVERYTHING -- gains and loses popularity as markets change and people's tastes cycle around until most people have forgotten about something and it seems fresh to them. I don't know if it's exciting, really, I think it's just...life.

oh fuck, i know where it is!

xpost.

and now that i know it seems all the douchier to me.

It's where Mod used to be. There's no sign anymore, though: I think they want to make it like a speakeasy or something.

The people making pickles and raising goats etc are actually more "normal" in terms of the history of the world than we are, getting our lowest-common-denominator processed foods off of store shelves. Depending on how big a lens you use, moving OFF the land is probably the more shocking trend.

invididuals drinks it because it tastes good. groups drink it because its trendy. /sociology 101

There's no sign anymore, though: I think they want to make it like a speakeasy or something.

yeah, thats where i was thinking it was. that boarded up door/speakeasy concept is fucking ridiculous. it's not like they're hiding anything considering there's always a cluster of people smoking on the sidewalk right in front of the place.

I find the implication that people rejecting urban consumerism in various ways is in itself some kind of uber-trendy-urban-consumer-choice oddly paradoxical

all this thread has done is make me want to go out for a cocktail after work.

I'm going grocery shopping after work and making dinner in the house of a crazy hippie person who gets her all her food upstate and agitates for food policy reform.

Then we will go out for cocktails.

i want to go somewhere i've never been and order something complicated that i probably won't like anyway.

i want to make up some bullshit beardo trend and write a book about it and get paid

oh goddamnit that's fucking brilliant.

get in line man

i want to make up some bullshit beardo trend and write a book about it and get paid

Oh sure, write a couple of half-decent message board posts and you think you're Bill Buford.

jesus has a new ride: beardos driving benzes 2002-2008

i think i'll follow one around and write a field guide to beardos.

Oh sure, write a couple of half-decent message board posts and you think you're Bill Buford.

fffft. "half-decent," yeah right. also i think you mean david brooks?