"Hipster" as pejorative.

She might be teaching college so she's seeing millenials, maybe going to stores/social places where there are hipsters, and remembering the 90s, when she had her finger on the pulse of society before grad school.

there are not a lot of hipsters in palo alto or princeton

like even if you start out w/ hipster characteristics if you arrive in one of those places it is drained from you as long as you are there, this includes max visiting his parents

really? I figured at least some of the smart kid nerdos were into hipsterish stuff

glad I don't work for google, then

I know the rim of a semi-full stemmed wine glass is an outmoded musical mechanism that only a hipster would use, but a band named glass wave should deliver

on top of being embarrassing, she's pretty judgmental to boot
what if people enjoy wearing costumes? f u lady.

yeah how did her editor not talk to her about how, like ~fashion is a thing~

her editor was probably encouraged to keep her hands off this piece as much as possible, to attract hits u know

'last week i made myself of list of hipster heuristics in bullet point form. i typed them into my macbook air one evening when i was tired. the flowers on my desk dropped and wilted. later that evening i watched an abc sitcom about lonely young people who wore sweaters and dreamed of nothing.'

as she related this story to me cerebral rock softly played on the hi-fi in the corner.

I'd gossip about her band's "look" but their use of artistic lighting in photography makes it a little hard to tell

These song lyrics are really something.

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/TurquoiseBoy/40_music_videos_that_potentially_could_rock_your_cerebellum

I agree w everyone that says they missed the boat w the irony thing. Irony is Gen X to a T.

For instance we live in a hell where people publicly declare their love for yacht rock not to be ironic but because they genuinely love it and that imo is way worse.

god gtfo

we don't really 'live' in ilx

imo writing songs based upon great works from the western literary canon and calling it cerebral rock is a p bad concept no matter how many layers of ironic distance i am from it

we don't really 'live' in ilx

― iatee, Monday, November 19, 2012 6:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah... only in our dreams

She kinda raps in the intro to this show:

http://french-italian.stanford.edu/opinions/shows/eo10113.mp3

what annoys me most is that they pick stuff hs students read, at least show off your literature chops and be obscurist. the songs just seem like an extra credit project somebody did for an ap english class.

I would name that band Clifford and the Notes.

haha

have u guys considered that maybe she doesn't really sound bad, it's just that u are not familiar with the traditions of cabaret and chanson

http://www.glasswave-band.com/images/Chair.jpg

cerebrally chillin in your pathway in a comically proportioned chair

this person is unbearable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTF2XqmxgI

http://i.imgur.com/tYfUg.png

that is some pretty bad singing.

and instrument playing. obviously the entire band is terrible not just her.

http://www.glasswave-band.com/images/Chair.jpg

"Do I feign indifference?"

"How would it feel to change yourself quietly, offline, without public display, from within?"

oh man, I lost it when the radio show polyphonic linked started and the name of the program is "Entitled Opinions"

I think this woman is completely earnest and irony-free as she can't have any clue how she appears to the outside world

that's a very scary photo. keep expecting robt blake to show up with a cell phone chuckling "i'm already in your house"

her band looks exactly like a band of literature professors would look /notuneisspace

the rock music of literature professors vs. the stand-up comedy of engineering professors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Bottom_Remainders

Maya Angelou AND Dave Barry!!!

how would we feel about this argument if her band sounded like, i don't know, henry cow, though

Dunno. I'd be actually impressed if they were like Dino Jr or the Cherry Valence, tho

hahahah this band

everything explained

natalie merchant would be rolling in her grave, if she were dead

i think if they just make a few changes they WOULD sound like henry cow

They kinda sound like the Tindersticks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0639CSKQCL0

yeah how did her editor not talk to her about how, like ~fashion is a thing~

dunno about you guys but my clothes signify NOTHING!

Prog bands are another category of people who tend to live unironically - Yes, Rush, etc.

i bet geddy's ironic rotisserie chicken beats whatever guy fieri's serving up

http://andrewolson.com/blogpics/RushatClarkCountyRidgewayWA72107_12F98/Rush_Clark_County036286c4758ed444b53ab2a23d6538c04b5.jpg

are those actual chickens

cant believe this revive is over 24 hours old and has zero buzza posts

the definition of "irony" has been permanently dumbed down to the level of "snark," right?

really my main feeling about all of this is like, please do the assigned reading before you speak because we've been over this so many fucking times in the last 20 years.

my general takeaway is "keep your thoughts to yourself if you want to maintain dignity"

xpost Geddy Lee put that wacky backline in there to balance Alex Lifeson's wall of amps, which overshadowed his single bass amp (the previous tour had washing machines). I believe the in-joke is that the chef is periodically BASS-ting the amps to make them sound better.