"Hipster" as pejorative.

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.

now that the ny times has covered irony, is it finally over?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pje34fUgLQ

i know christy IRL from stanford, she's pretty ilx-ish IRL

i have no idea what ilx-ish means. i suspect this a blessing.

she kind of reminds me of you

is there a thread for ludicrous prog band costumes and stage dressing and stuff

What, this one?

Peter Gabriel

It is well to remember that one of the charges made against Socrates was that he was "ironic", and you see where it got him, don't you?

nymag follows up

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/new-york-times-christy-wampole-hipster-irony-interview.html

no i didn't read it

I tried to make very clear in the article that I applied the same scrutiny to myself that I ask others to apply to themselves. I wanted to conduct an honest self-assessment, which I invited others to do as well. I wasn't happy with my self-defensive behavior either but I'm willing to work on it.

Yet finds no humor in the way she presents herself?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Hipster_with_bike.jpg

Yet finds no humor in the way she presents herself?

I was gonna say something about her stage moves in her band's video, but fish, barrel, etc.

good god she sounds like a bore

She seems really earnest!

their band is a bunch of literature professors playing songs with lyrics that are literal interpretations of the literary canon

I don't see how this could work in any way /other/ than being an ironic deconstruction

physics professors playing groovin' psych rock and singing about the double-slit experiment

(sorry couldn't resist)

I don't see how this could work in any way /other/ than being an ironic deconstruction

They did not seem ironic about it in their interview on Entitled Opinions.

well, exactly

'you've spent time in berlin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk5HgMWFktc

"First, I want to say that I am a huge fan of Generation Y."

this interview is awesome.

nicest buncha 95 million people you'll ever meet IMO

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

"I am not a hipster, I am just hip"

nothing ironic about sitting on an antique chair in a red minidress on a dark road

If the hipster question were dead, why all the buzz?

pwn.

would smash of shame