"Hipster" as pejorative.

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

posted there already

so you can't even find her hot without irony

shame is not the same as irony

otm, shame is shame

one of Jack Palance's best roles, imho.

"I'm willing to make myself vulnerable and be made fun of online. First, it only confirms my point."

Nice try but nah.

Wonder what Christy is like on Italian and French essayistic fiction...there is a book by Pavese called The Business of Living. Maybe she could've tied it in.

Or maybe not.

Big laughs from Clive Martin over at Vice (again)
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/searching-for-the-sad-trombone-sound-of-irony

lol I'd give Christy this record and ask her to identify they ironies in it:

http://www.emanemdisc.com/images/E4144.jpeg

i can't decide if free improv is an irony-free zone or the most totally ironic mode music could ever exist in

Christy Wampole Ph.D, bathing in the glow of righteous sincerity.

lol

i can't decide if free improv is an irony-free zone or the most totally ironic mode music could ever exist in

depends on your definition of irony. it's certainly not ironic in the "opposite of earnest" sense.

Okay, sorry. Back to the quiz: What percentage of your speech is meaningful?
I’m known to waffle, but whether that’s directly associated with my trombone I don’t know. That’s more of a character trait than a trombone-induced one.

If "meaningful" is supposed to express the idea of "having a discoverable sense, as opposed to nonsense syllables, noises or disjointed fragments", then about 97% of my speech is meaningful. I like to speak in full sentences. It's a feature, not a bug.

If "meaningful" is supposed to express the idea of "having profound implications beyond the immediate context or outside of merely quotidian existance", then only about 0.01% or less of my speech is meaningful in that sense. Quotidian existence is a bitch, but it is what we all do for a living and it is inescapable.

otoh, maybe about 2% of my ilxor speech meets the second definition. It's one of the reasons I hang out here.