"Hipster" as pejorative.

not very guilty. mostly appreciative, though wary. plus not really a hipster - too old and nerdy. derail should be blamed squarely on so-called conceptual artists.

and plax

xp - have you read my bio?

um no. u have a bio?

I'll email you

BACK TO HIPSTERS!!!!

"not just hipsters, right"
in many ways hipster behavior presents as rejecting this middle-class bounty in at least a superficial way, so the guilt or whatever you want to call it is already embedded to a certain extent, but I'm not sure how self aware as a whole hipsters are of it. I would contrast this with say, entering a priesthood, where you are very consciously and deliberately rejecting your privileged status and committing yourself to something that would be in theory hard to extricate yourself from.

I could see certain hipster activities morphing to a monkish priesthood that transcends hipsterdom, but it would require a kind of 'no-going-back' kind of commitment.

(BTW i'm not asserting any moral superiority of priests over hipsters, especially those hipster priests.)

personally i prefer art that's about thinking more so than painting, but i'm not offended if other people don't - if they find conceptual art elitist or whatever. maybe plax & i need to start a conceptual art thread ...

― sarahel, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 11:02 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is really stupid comment imo

you get (or at least used to get) a lot of middle class kids going off and living in squats and living off whatever they could get out the back of sainsbury's i guess.

he's not appreciated

Pit of vipers

i don't understand the last two posts at all

really? I thought you read the ILX archives!!!

i hate comedy songs
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song way more offensive than anything "hipsters" have ever been or done
― markers, Monday, August 2, 2010 10:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i hid someone from my Facebook wall feed b/c he posted that video.

also, this:

also in general can we cut all the side-stepping around the word "hipster" like it's some ugly "other." I'm so goddamn tired of everyone on ILX being like "I'm fat/old school/unfashionable/nerdy so I'm not a hipster." Jesus christ, we all post on a message board where people deconstruct the meaning of the word "balearic" and transcribe gucci mane lyrics and call Dirty Projectors "boring normal indie" and brag about the blues 78s they found at estate sales. Enough with the posturing already, ffs
― my adrian langs a ton (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 11, 2009 3:33 PM (7 months ago)

I feel less like a hipster because my favorite eccentric/indie bands get only a few posts on ILM. I also couldn't care less about practically every band on Pitchfork's top 200 list

I picture hipsters as concert-goers and/or real hardcore fans of popular college rock/pitchfork glop of the last 5 years

The fact that I'm a music junkie and like mostly obscure music doesn't make me a hipster

A part of being hip is being up to date on things. I'd assume that referencing today's hipsters would mean that they have to be fans of current/semi-current popular indie bands

You can be "hip" and listen to nothing but old Northern Soul records or proto-disco rarities.

especially that

i think that's a bit of an oversimplification - the homeless hipster could also be dumpster diving for survival, but ostensibly because of an earlier choice of that lifestyle

― nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn - Bernard (sarahel), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 6:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nnnnnn e way, no, there are no poor/homeless/________ hipsters

― unchill english bro (history mayne), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 6:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/08/group-of-homeless-alts-have-sleepovers-outside-of-relevant-events.html

oh. my god.

It was the summer of 2k10. That’s when me and my fam started arguing a lot. I’d stay out to late partying, raving, and giving oral sex to my bffs on my parent’s front porch. Needless to say, things didn’t end well. My parents told me I had to stop going to raves, after a few of my friends died in Los Angeles/Germany. I was hella bummed because they didn’t understand that I kept myself super hydrated when I dropped E. Always had a ‘babysitter’/designated bro.

I go to Goldsmiths, wear skinny jeans + deck shoes without socks, wear thick black glasses, am awkward, spend too much time on the internet, have a short back and sides with a massive fringe. Am I a hipster?

you had me at skinny jeans

^not au fait with Goldsmiths I take it

can't we all just come together and make a F**K You Improv Dorkwards youtube?

dorkwads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5dIzY7yvRA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.amazon.com/Hipster-Christianity-When-Church-Collide/dp/0801072220

Ha! I wonder if I'm related?

i pray if there is a god in heaven that the LATFH guy didn't get a fucking check for them referencing it in that commercial

at least they got some of the hipster signifiers right in that commercial

probably cuz all ad creatives are themselves hipsters

i will def agree w that

what record is that girl holding in the car?

dont see a girl holding a record but the dude looks like he's holding an animal collective lp http://www.wers.org/manage/images/fall-be-kind-300x300.jpg

couldn't tell

WS girl in checked shirt tho

xpost

That ad is confusing re: yarn. The guy is knitting an already-done scarf that was clearly crocheted, but is wearing a garter stitch scarf (easier thing to knit) with a designer label on it.

^^
LATFH

jk :)

I hear all about these knitting hipsters but every time I go to a knitting group it is old ladies (lol = lovin' old ladies) and ppl my age wearing sweatpants and size XL shirts that say things "2004 Chemistry Club Campout."

Oh, and I forgot, lace shawls on top of that, of course.

definitely seen hipster knitter types in la

shiny new dn

wearing sweatpants and size XL shirts that say things "2004 Chemistry Club Campout.

Oh I am so sick of the Shoreditch contingent rocking this look. So OVER!

shiny new dn

― QUEEN LATFH (LOLK), Friday, 6 August 2010 02:49 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that is all-time, hat tip to you

This looks like a trap for vinyl-loving hipsters, like a net is about to descend on them.

http://twitpic.com/2dewqp

I put it to you that that rests almost entirely on the style of glasses worn by the dude holding the two sleeves

Bill Clinton getting his hands dirty next to him

the only really good use I've found for "hipster" is as a lighthearted inoffensive substitute for the n-word when rapping along with music

― LRN, which helps companies build ethical cultures (bernard snowy), Monday, February 1, 2010 2:39 PM (6 months ago)

i would just like to state for the record that the above statement has had a genuine and positive impact on my life

I've decided I consider hipsters circa 2010 as mostly white, middle to upper middle class, 20-somethings who aren't the preppy kids.

um

http://music.seizurechicken.com/images/ezra.jpg

That's ironically preppy, actual preppie kids can't play insturments beyond a few Marley or Matthews covers on a crappy acoustic guitar.

wait, preppy or preppie?