oops hatcat lol. Sea-hawks.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
match.com ad is horrifying nadir of the tweepocalypse
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
in UK, is it considered provincial to like guy ritchie gangster movies over godfather 3?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
yes
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Match.com more like challops.com amirite
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
twee beardos in between bike punks and ironic tees seems alright to me
though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl. Tweeness was politicised only as long as it was a long, long way from the mainstream (and a long way from making any $$$). As soon as that connection with the legitimate underground was broken, there was no limit to how horrible it could become.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice try at ginning up another 400 posts of vitriol, but no Muppets on kickdrums, no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having. Pomplamoose infinitely worse imo.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
where did beret-sporting unicorns fall
xxp
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
o wait that's a baseball cap nm
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
hyundai commercial vs. match.com commercial
it's like rugburn vs. bleach in the eyes but pomplamoose are worse only because of their cultural juggernautics
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having."
i thought people here liked Elf. is will farrell inoculation against twee?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl.
I think one of the dominant themes of ILX as of late is how great ideas from the 80s have gone horribly horribly wrong...
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
actually the hyundai commercial was fairly innocuous the first time I saw it but they really drove it into the ground hur hur hur
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"exactly! i spent plenty of time w/ guys like this in high school/university days on long weekends at the lake, etc..Of course there would be the obligatory Neil Young strummery around the fire, but also drunken fist fights while Thin Lizzy's "Thunder and Lightning" was blasting from someone's Pontiac Firebird...
― Sanford, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
these guys are totally a subhipster type when they live in a major city!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
One man's stoner is another man's hipster.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Or something.
just read this thread and the fact that anyone in the world sees their harmonies as "elaborate" makes me want to commit suicide
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
that image is pretty fucking otm except the kyp malone part honestly
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw, that Match.com thing is cute.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah makes me misty with the implied possibilities
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/8ch9 lmao
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and one of the big things about K, or at least flagship K-ers Beat Happening, was the contrast between super creepy guy with bass voice and ingenue (of sorts). It helps.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was gonna toss in Beat Happening yesterday, there is a bit of this aesthetic in lots of K Records stuff, but it (they) always seemed to me to be more about inspired amateur cacaphony more than cutesy schtick.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think beat happening would have died before staring into a video camera lovingly for hours
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
well now, maybe. but for real, there is a clear bright line running back to the 50s w/dudes like this. what's baffling to me is that i'm pretty sure that being into bluegrass/folk music and accordions and going camping and shit was Not At All Cool ten years ago. or, at least, not a "hipster" subtype. they were just dudes.
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the comparison is way off, i don't see pomplamoose ever ending up in this situation for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD96qMnK4n4
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Girl in Hyundai ad should rub her tummy suggestively while staring blankly at the audience.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
They Were Just Dudes: The American Bluegrass Underground 1989-1996 (Forward By Greil Marcus)
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I may be massively projecting here but I am almost 100% certain that everyone I knew in 2002 who was massively into camping and bluegrass/folk music and accordions was also a massive hipster.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
yeah i agree w/this--i think they have been subsumed into some kind of rugged outdoor urbanite model.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
(I mean, unless we are adding a scene-jumping/poseur element to the term "hipster" that isn't necessarily there by definition; there need to be some originals for the flock to copy, after all.)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
In 2002, people I knew (or knew of) who liked bluegrass and camping probably arrived at that via String Cheese Incident or Yonder Mountain String Band (i.e. hippies vs. hipsters.) They could have been sporting dreads. It hadn't reached this level yet:
http://www.minnpost.com/client_files/alternate_images/1854/mp_main_wide_RoeFamilySingers.jpg
(btw, that's the Roe Family Singers, and I like them. Not disparaging.)
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
there is a clear bright line running back to the 50s w/dudes like this.
this guy is david seville
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
dan, i think trampled by turtles is more that old string cheese audience, no?
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl. Tweeness was politicised only as long as it was a long, long way from the mainstream (and a long way from making any $$$). As soon as that connection with the legitimate underground was broken, there was no limit to how horrible it could become.― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:50 AM
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:50 AM
well said.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.exponentialconference.org/mediafiles/home-banner-2011.jpg
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3CzptgIvcU
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.79183374.jpg
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.topofmind.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/1_61_foxworthy_jeff.jpg
If ya got a dry bag for your banjo.... you might be a subhipster!
― Darin, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
(xpost) Matt, yeah, Trampled By Turtles too. Are they known nationally? Sorta? I think so, I have no idea. Yonder Mountain has/had some association with Phish (sorry to be cluttering up this Pomplamoose thread with my very limited jamband knowledge!) But it is interesting to me how that roots music went from being the provenance of old hippies, to young hippies, to more urban scene kids.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
infantilism appeals to all sorts: black & white, rich & poor, attractive & not so much so. nataly dawn may have seen some shit for all i know. the intense hatred of comfortable twee seems predicated as much on contempt of the comfortable as distaste for their cutie-pie boo-boo noises. me, i don't hate the comfortable even when they're white christians with nordic surnames and straight hair. i hate sappy, smarmy tweedle-tweedle nothing music no matter who's making it. (this is not "taste," mind you. it's merely an expression of my cynicism and perverse pride in social maladapation.)though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:21 AM (10 hours ago)
though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:21 AM (10 hours ago)
see, i kinda give kimya a pass (and i don't like her music) for being an actual outsider. hyundai would not make a cheerful christmas commercial starring this person:
http://www.losanjealous.com/img/sxsw08/Kimya_Dawson_05.jpg
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
(I suppose my reaction to this particular branch of the hipster conversation is being colored by living with an Irish fiddler for 2 years and almost living with an old-timey musician who wanted to have jam sessions in our apartment in the late 90s)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
right, she only got her music into an incredibly popular movie that was nominated for a ton of awardsxpost
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
it wasn't incredibly popular when she got her music into it!
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
but it was in 2010 when hyundai was making this fucking commercial!
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
jbryanhopkins John B Hopkinsso pomplamoose is the name of that insufferable hipster duo on those nauseating hyundai commercials...more like pomplaDOUCHE. BOOM, roasted!7 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:07 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i think they are pretty popular, like in that way that jam bands are like 10X more popular than local indie bands that get 10X the press...i think they might have a bit of that st. thomas/st.john's college dude "gear daddies" type crowd as well crossover (or dave matthews type crowd)
however, they are down with Low and Sparhawk but I think that's more a Duluth pride type thing
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
...with adorable white people with clear skin and no tattoos or piercings or 'fros!
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link