Voice of the People
Re I hate my landlord and the cable co...BillyBurg
Reply to: pers-535732483@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-11, 12:44PM EST
You leacherous wannabe...get a grip and please move back from whence you came. We are sick of the artsy freaks like yourself driving up rent prices everywhere.
Go away smelly Hipster because if you had any brains, you would know EXACTLY how to handle that situation. Common sense is not so common I guess.
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My roommates and I have been living in a new construction apartment in Williamsburg since July of 2006, and the building has been here since around 2003.. Everything has been fine but the cable. The apartment was cable-ready, and had 3 cable outlets in the walls, perfect for my two roommates and I. When we had our cable installed, we found out that the cable is running from outside into the boiler room in the basement, and then up into the three apartments. We've been having cable problem for the last two months, and the first cable guy to come said or signal is low. We arranged with our building manager that we would need access to the basement, and it was hassle last time, but it was done. Unfortunately, that cable guy was unable to fix our problem, and said he had to send a cable foreman. So, we had a cable foreman come today. Again, I gave two days notice with our building manager that we would need access to the boiler room between the hours or 10 and 2. And I had gotten a cryptic email from the building manager saying they wanted to contact the cable company. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that, so I asked to call me about it, which she didn't.
So, when the cable guy arrived today, and looked at everything in my apartment, and said he couldn't do anything there, he had to go in the basement. I called our building manager. She yelled at me in broken english, saying that someone would be over in an hour (the guy with the key was coming in from Long Island), and they were tired of people constantly asking for access to the boiler room, and that she wanted the cable wires removed from there. I told her this is how they installed things when they built the building, I can't do anything about it. Of course the cable guy couldn't stay for an hour, so he had to leave.
So I called her back to see if there is anything that can be done to remedy this problem. She said she wanted the cable wires out of the boiler room. I told her to contact the cable company, she refused, saying the account was in my name. This whole argument is made harder by the language barrier
midwestern hipster assholes complaining about nyc
Reply to: pers-535250466@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-10, 10:46PM EST
Would you fucking losers please go back to where you come from. You don't make ny more interesting and nobody gives a shit about you. You're ruining the uniqueness of our city one transplant at a time.
- Location: gravesend
The ponytailed douchebag at Tillie's
Reply to: pers-531664654@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-07, 5:54PM EST
Your poorly-behaved kids are NOT cute. They're fucking annoying and chronically create a disturbance here while you try to flirt relentlessly with the barely legal hipster baristas. Please learn how to discipline your brats. There's no such thing as bad kids, only bad parents and you spoil these bastards with stale Tillie's cupcakes and hot chocolate.
You're here every damn day man! With your annoying brats climbing on the tables and chairs like Tillie's is a jungle gym! I'll never forget the time in August I was trying to study and your boy VOMITED on the bench next to me from his ADHD and sugar induced frenzy. Don't you have a job? How do you afford to live in this neighborhood anyway? Do you not read the social cues from the customers around you? Don't you see the stares and dirty looks? Smack some sense into your damn kids please...Do us all a favor here at this mediocre cafe..
attention owners of parking lots and parking lot security guards
Reply to: pers-534582295@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-10, 11:59AM EST
Be aware of total idiot hipsters teaching people to drive in your parking lot which can expose you to liabilty for injury death or property damage.
This includes any federal, state, county, municipality (town, city, village) or any quasi governmental organziation.
Please look out for these know it alls and order them out of YOUR parking lot.
Give them a phone book, open the pages to driving schools, and tell them to arrange for lessons with a New York State DMV Certified Driving Instructor.
Unknown musicians over the age of 30 should give it up
Reply to: pers-529475745@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-05, 3:48PM EST
stop wasting your time, stop wasting your significant other's time, stop wasting your money on stupid gear, and stop thinking that you can compete with hot 18-24 year olds that are better than you. your music doesn't have "character" - it's just outdated. outdated themes, chord progression, and guitar tones.
nobody wants to see or hear you sing. the lighting makes you look older. the leather jacket looks really stupid on you and it's too tight. we all know why your myspace photos are over-exposed.
if you're over 30 and unknown, it is never going to happen. you are never going to make it. there's a reason american idol has an age cutoff. we want talent that's young, not talent that's old. yeah yeah i know, america's got talent has no limit but it's a freak show.
everyone knows you're balding. you can't hide it with the shaggy comb-forward look. the baseball cap does not make you look younger. the rogaine isn't working. you look like an idiot in those tight jeans. wrist bands are for kids. you don't look like a rockstar in those sunglasses.
sell your gear, quit your job at sam-ash, and beg a company to take you into an entry level position... wake up. you are too old to have kid-dreams. your ship has sailed and you're not on it.
have i made myself clear?




I'm a native New Yorker--but I'm also a middle-aged, vegetarian "unknown musician" and I've even been known to wear Chuck Taylors on and off since the '70s. Am I therefore a hipster? Oh shit! On the other hand, I do take regular showers and have a job
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Speaking as an over-30 guitarist/composer who has a day job and enjoys modest musical success on my own terms, I'm curious to know why you chose the arbitrary cutoff of age 30.
Could it be that you're close to that age yourself? Here's a little help for you, Youngling...when you get to be 30, age 37 is but a blink of an eye away, and you'll still be alive. Now what will you do? You can either carry on in life, or kill yourself like Kurt Cobain or Jimi Hendrix, so that you'll be forever young.
The world is filled with aged, successful "pop artists" who were once king. Now they just do it for fun.
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