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

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?

chicago kevin i am suing you for beardo infringement

how soon we forget "bedpunk", ILX

what they eat, their mating rituals, how they interact with each other, what their natural environment is, etc.

xpost go ahead and sue, nothing from nothing is easy.

Considering that I just finished Heat, no, I think I meant Bill Buford. I could have said "Malcolm Gladwell" but I actually kind of like him.

but Heat is about kitchen workers, and cooking and shit, not bullshit trends is what i meant

xp But neither Buford nor Gladwell do the kind of broad trend-theorizing that Brooks does.

Buford is just good reportage on subcultures (food industry, soccer players, etc.); Gladwell is basically doing pop social psychology.

Yes, and books about kitchens were already a bullshit trend when it came out.

look, I don't know if Bill Buford is in Fleet Foxes or has a beard or is an Uncle Tom or what, but I hope we can all get behind beets, pickled or otherwise, because they are awesome.

Oh well, never mind, next time I'll try to make my throw-away references more on point. I've actually never heard of David Brooks, probably because his kind of thing irritates me and I forgot it immediately.

i'm with jaymc here. but i haven't read gladwell or brooks because they seem ultra douchey.

xpost--we agree on david brooks! he is a total booger eater

And obv. I meant to say "soccer fans," not "players."

I think Buford is kind of a booger eater, too, which is probably why he came to mind.

yeah he was really into Mario in that book, wasn't he?