Damn, you people are hung up on labels and stereotypes.
I haven't ever met a hipster who actually thought he/she was a hipster.
duh. one of the most important aspects of being a hipster is to talk shit about hipsters.
the one generalization i will agree with. the only people i have encountered in real life that have ever talked shit on "hipsters" met all the qualifications, past or present. usually its somebody who was the definition of hipster circa 2000 stuck in their ways who is grumpy about the definition of hipster circa 2008.
"in my day it was old man pants and black chucks!"
either way its all retarded. i'm gonna start a new thread. "were people who wore pants people who wear shirts?"
Anybody see "KIng of the Hill" last night? Great send-up on hipsters! There was one line about wanting to move somewhere where no one works and everyone drives around in convertibles and Hanks says "sounds like Austin,"
I think Joni Mitchell says it best and it speaks for all generations,
"You are a refugee from a wealthy family, you gave up all the golden factories to see who in the world you might be."
Theres room for sincerity in her statement, but sure its not always the case. The only similarity I see is the common approach to dress. (Not the style but the activity) The folks I know who were fashionable hippies harken back to the days when on the 1st day of school they were ready to floss some killer "hippie" boots, belt, jacket or persuasion of clothing which gave them some timeless mystique, which in their day was some moondog/lord of the rings/mystic wanderer type shit they found digging in their uncles/grandparents/aunts/moms/dads closet.
And in the case of our current soul searchers, I can only imagine the anticipation is just as high to show off their finds of ironic adornments and hair experiments.
the more you hate the soul searchers the tighter his grip is upon your own
Until theres a gremlin for maniacal laughter, this shall suffice
I always thought a hipster was a jazz cat or a beatnik. Then all of the sudden these emo looking white kids are hipsters. I don't get it. Bad appropriation of the term.
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American mods..? No that just doesn't compute.
No, like OG Who fans with Vespas, Carnaby Street suits and a pocket full of pills.
Dudes, the word hippie was used to describe hipster beatniks. Hippies were originally hipsters.
And wasn't hipster originally a complementary term?
Wikipedia even divides it into two categories. 1940's jazz hipster and contemporary hipster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster
I understood what you meant. Just couldn't get my head around the idea of an American mod. I'd like to see them beatin' down some Emo's though.
I haven't ever met a hipster who actually thought he/she was a hipster.
duh. one of the most important aspects of being a hipster is to talk shit about hipsters.
the one generalization i will agree with. the only people i have encountered in real life that have ever talked shit on "hipsters" met all the qualifications, past or present. usually its somebody who was the definition of hipster circa 2000 stuck in their ways who is grumpy about the definition of hipster circa 2008.
either way its all retarded. i'm gonna start a new thread. "were people who wore pants people who wear shirts?"
Great send-up on hipsters! There was one line about wanting to move somewhere where no one works and everyone drives around in convertibles and Hanks says "sounds like Austin,"
Theres room for sincerity in her statement, but sure its not always the case.
The only similarity I see is the common approach to dress. (Not the style but the activity)
The folks I know who were fashionable hippies harken back to the days when on the 1st day of school they were ready to floss some killer "hippie" boots, belt, jacket or persuasion of clothing which gave them some timeless mystique, which in their day was some moondog/lord of the rings/mystic wanderer type shit they found digging in their uncles/grandparents/aunts/moms/dads closet.
And in the case of our current soul searchers,
I can only imagine the anticipation is just as high to show off their finds of ironic adornments and hair experiments.
the more you hate the soul searchers
the tighter his grip is upon your own
Until theres a gremlin for maniacal laughter,
this shall suffice
Stop. Just stop.
i've no reason to be here anymore.