"Hipster" as pejorative.

jesus christ

http://www.glasswave-band.com/images/rehearsal_1.jpg
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Before her hair turned to glass in the waves off the California coast, Christy Wampole (vocals) came from a Texas town whose road sign reads: “Where the West begins.” This explains the groaning desolation one occasionally hears in her voice, which still sounds the notes of that yearning for water which afflicts parched and empty lands. She moved from Texas to France - its smaller sister Republic - where she cultivated an interest in cabaret and chanson, and later performed music from both traditions in restaurants and nightclubs in Dallas and the Bay Area. She is completing her Ph.D at Stanford University with a dissertation on late 20th-century French and Italian essayistic fiction.

shes a witch basically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOt4M4EyDJ4

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mop closet a weird place to shoot promo photos but ok

cousin itt convention, iirc

this isn't *that* bad

well, it is. but i know people like this! and they're basically okay people! they own dogs and are mostly kind to their friends.

from the comments:

The fact that fundamentalists are never ironic is to me the highest recommendation for irony that I can imagine.

That Glass Wave wikipedia article would probably fit more comfortably in this thread.

not much irony in those videos

it's pretty confused; apparently celebrates gen x-ers who were politically engaged via actively not caring, hipsters in "a competition to see who can care the least"? like how bad can your existential malaise truly be if it's so clumsily defined

Where can we find other examples of nonironic living? What does it look like? Nonironic models include ... people with severe mental or physical disabilities.

being a literature college professor

dictators are never ironists; people who move things in the political landscape, regardless of the sides they choose, are never ironists.

russian politics are pretty ironic/cynical

this all reads 2 me like someone trying to articulate a complaint about something they actually don't give a shit about

no way, it's much simpler than that, it's a complaint about people making fun of their band on the internet

Where can we find other examples of nonironic living?

(looks around, shrinks as best he can, timidly raises hand)

people in wheelchairs don't express irony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDTlP3OZFmg

ironically the person that wrote that will wake up tomorrow and decide not to kill themselves

well, it is. but i know people like this! and they're basically okay people! they own dogs and are mostly kind to their friends.

― Yorkshire lass born and bred, that's me, said Katriona's hologram. (thomp), Sunday, 18 November 2012 20:15 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and one of them just forwarded me this article

hows she going to talk about irony and marketing and advertising and the berlin wall and never once confront CAPITALISM

Where can we find other examples of nonironic living?

Prison

"well at least there's no irony in here"

i dunno, tell that to the corrections corp of america -- their profits are laced with irony

lol Lamp

those might be the ugliest illustrations i have ever seen in a major publication.

that's about all i can work up opinionwise on this.

idg why for the last 20 years when people want to talk abt frivolity and nihilism they call it irony which is just a super common mode of human expression that everyone does a lot, this is a v earnest response to this article - also i dont think anyones out there wearing bieber gear ironically, thats a total 1990s approach

"Cerebral wave" as pejorative.

also i dont think anyones out there wearing bieber gear ironically

these people do exist actually

"actually"

man do even know how un cutting edge theyre being

they're being un cutting edge ironically

let's be ironic like the 90s only we'll do it "ironically"

well if thats how they look at it i cant really fault them i guess

always reasonable

Tom Scocca ‏@tomscocca
Also if you are a Princeton professor, b. 1977, maybe the modes of the cool kids bug you BECAUSE THEY AIM TO BUG YOU, BECAUSE YOU ARE OLD.

but i must add that these modes she describes are no different than what was happening when she was a teen

o no '77 is old? : /

thank god i've got another six weeks before i'm old.

enjoy it while you can man, this is a unending hell of not understanding wtf is up w/teens

things to do in the next six weeks: buy bieber merch, sport it ironically in a public place, kill myself so i can stay young in people's minds forever

one of the iconic moments of my Gen-X young adulthood was going to see "Reality Bites" in the theater, and I didn't laugh at the part where the editor asks poor Winona Ryder to "define irony," but I heartily guffawed at the "golden lit sex scene," and then half the rest of the people in the theater cracked up too.

also i dont think anyones out there wearing bieber gear ironically, thats a total 1990s approach

― lag∞n, Sunday, November 18, 2012 8:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh the only person I know irl who buys bieber stuff is a super straight laced midwestern girl who only wears crew sweaters and hoodies

Do you surround yourself with things you really like or things you like only because they are absurd?

I really wish she'd spent the entire article exploring this issue, rather than writing the millionth iteration of "why hipsters are bad for society"

acousto-optic modulators, which use glass waves, are an outmoded photonic mechanism that only awful hipster physicists use in the lab

i feel like if you take a hipster and remove irony from his appropriations, you get guy fieri.

a world without irony is a world full of donkey sauce.