If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere!!!
Posted by diehipster at 4/20/2008 12:19 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
| It looks as though the Dancing Douchebag of Bedford Avenue has found another highly talented performing partner and a one-piece band. It's really not right and not fair for the public to see this amazing show for free. These artists should be getting paid for their uncanny performances. |  |
To us average people, this just looks like three silly people making high pitched noises. However, there is a secret
ironic message behind this that only hipsters can de-code. Only those with raw artistic talents that never act or dress
or think like the common boring New Yorker will understand the message. So don't even try, just face the fact that you
will never be able to pull off a performance like them and that your simple brain can not understand what they are trying
to tell us.
Here is the VIDEO.
This must stop. We must eliminate all hipsters... for the good of humanity!
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did these guys just drop acid and watch the muppet show for 72 straight hours?
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Like it or not, the modern hipster movement is here to stay. It was something that was started over 15 years ago by creative types in Williamsburg and has spread into the mainstream. Have a look around. Elements of hipster fashion and hipster sensibilities are everywhere. Both men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. They wear vintage and thrift store inspired fashions, and they date inter-racially. You'll find a surge of jeans made to look old and worn (i.e. "distressed") even at stores such as Gap, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Hollister...being marketed to the mainstream consumer. The modeling industry have been hipsterized as well. The traditional athletic all-American male ideal is now seen as a symbol of male oppression, sexism, and misogyny. According to a recent NYTimes article, muscular male models are being rejected in favor of skinny hipsterish ones. In a parallel manner, culturally-vapid sorority-type girls with fake flat-ironed blond hair, overly tanned skin, and "Britney Spears tube-tops" are seen as symbols of female insecurity, low self-esteem, and a lack of cultural intelligence and independent thinking. What's especially amusing is that if you ever stand on the corner of Bedford and North 7th on a weekend, you'll also see some fratty UES-type guys in retro sneakers, stuffed into tight jeans, topped-off with their Brook's Brothers blazers worn over an ironic t-shirt, humbly slinking around...trying to blend into the crowd of naturally thin artsy guys with shaggy hair, all because they heard through the grapevine that Williamsburg is the "new hip place" to hang out. That's right...even jocks are part-time hipsters on weekends, and they're just following in the footsteps of hipsters that have moved on before them.
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Judging from their maturity level, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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C'mon jerkoff, if you want to argue then don't cut and paste some shit that a hipster that already moved back to Ohio wrote on some website a year ago. Can't you think of anything else to defend these zombie poseurs? Can't you? Now go crack open a PBR and decide if you're going to wear your black or white chuck taylors tomorrow you fucking douche.
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What does this really mean? Basically anyone who embraces a youthful and edgy urban style, who enjoys going to rock shows and divey-type bars is labeled a hipster these days. These people represent a significant fraction of the under-30 population in this city who enjoy keeping up with the latest in nightlife, music, art, and culture. Hipterism is the new mainstream, and basically anyone with a healthy and active social life is a "hipster". It's irrelevant whether hipsters truly re-invented certain elements of culture and style, or if they're just cultural consumers and social leeches like others would retort. It's simply the new reality.
Now...isn't it funny how so many anti-hipster posters on here try to use "hipster" is an insult? This group of people labeled "hipsters" don't actually refer to themselves as "hipsters", and they certainly don't care what is thought of them by anonymous CL trolls. Whatever you want to label it, "hipster" culture is thriving and spreading in NYC. "Hipsters" are out partying, enjoying life, meeting new friends, and probably getting laid while the anti-hipster hate mongerers are sitting alone behind their computer screens resenting anyone else out there who is out having fun. I'm pretty sure the group of people labeled "hipsters" would much rather prefer doing whatever they're doing, than to switch places with the anti-hipsters on here.
Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS EVERYBODY
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There is nothing "edgy" or "urban" about hipsters. How can they be considered urban when this is the first urban enivornment they have expierenced. Growing up OUTSIDE of major midwestern cities like Minneapolis or Cleveland etc would be considered suburban. Hipsterism is not the new mainstream, and no hipster dude gets laid more than i do, i guarantee that.
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Dear performing Joshes:
Yes here we have a sad example of hipsters trying hard to immitate absurdist street theatre. Yawn.
Love,
Taf
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i don't really get how that's hipster .. the video. I'm not even sure they are hipsters because the hipsters around my school (fort greene) aren't like this. My friends and i didn't think this was amusing. Stop associating hipsters with wierd people. Use your time more constructively. Some people just get really bored..
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jade, once you finish school and are in the real world you might understand. Good luck in your Brooklyn after life.
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Essay I picked up:
Why doesn't this hatred seem to be vented upon other subcultures in the same way. Yes, yuppies are universally despised, along with ex-frat sports bar patrons. But few other cultures have the effort taken to publicize that hatred. Not that the hatred is undeserved of course - christ, I couldn't be even the little bit of hipster I am without hatred of hipsters (how quelle fucking ironic).
The current state of Western Culture (or at least US) has been defined by the thought revolution of the previous generation, the Baby Boomers, or more precisely by their mythology of that. While they neither precipitated the events of the 1960's (most was activists older than that cohort), and most members did not participate in them, the defining idea of the 1960's to the generation as a whole is that of civil rights, hippies, and freedom. This is the generation that raised the current one. My parents were not hippies or activists, but considered themselves part of that generation. Personally to me it's one of the most annoying things about the Baby Boomers, their intense self nostalgia and desire to wrap themselves in the achievment of their peers while discounting their faults. Somehow Charles Manson and the Yuppies don't belong to them, but Abbie Hoffman and the marchers of Selma do. But I digress . . .
What was exactly their revolution about? A reaction against the conformity of the post war, industrial system created by the World War II generation. Looking for an alternative to standard suburban housing, standard processed products, standard education, and the standardization that a country should go to war because a leader tells it to . . . standardization as a whole. In a word, individuality.
That revolution was so pervasive that today the word individuality is thought of as a good in and of itself. Even the so-called "conservative revolution" is based on that concept - a sophomoric Randism that only the individual matters and that social responsibility is something for lesser people. But all social movements today are based on the idea of their members that they are something more than a number within the social system. This at a time when advertising and mass production on a scale unknown even in 1959 have increased our statistical nature to a degree unimagined in human history.
The hipster subculture is based on the same, at least in the desire of its
participants. Yes, it is extremely stylistic, vapid, and limited to goals to
the simple one of escape. But escape from what? Why exactly do people seek out vintage fashions rather than mass produced, mass labeled, and mass advertised clothing? Why is something considered good merely because it is unknown to society at large? It is because it gives a hope, however brief, that perhaps the person having it can have something truly unique, something that
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doesn't tie them immediately to the system as a consumer. Being an artist, or even an unemployed layabout spending time not watching tv, rather than a cog in the machine appeals for the same reason.
Of course the fact that a hipster uniform and stereotypical style is thus created is ironic. Irony is supposedly the defining love of hipsters. But ultimately irony is a resignation of defeat in the existential sense - no change, no true escape from our culture is possible. And our culture is sick, in the opinion of the vast majority of people, from born agains to communists.
I'm colored in this because I work with data daily perhaps. But every single aspect of our lives currently is designed for mass consumption, the tabulation of numbers. There simply does not exist a way of creating anything unique in the information age, short of the Ted Kazinsky shack (and even that's been done). What hipster fashion is based upon ultimately is the combination of fragments salvaged from the past in a new, unique way. Scavenging of the wreckage of the past.
Failing to go live in a shack, what options exist for young people today? Opportunity has been steadily shrinking for the past 30 years, the middle class lifestyle of the mid century is no longer available for the vast majority. Don't believe me? Go look at some economic data. Social change? The protests of 2003 were the largest in human history (and organized and done by our generation), and did nothing. So ultimately your options boil down to either working harder for a smaller piece of the shrinking pie, or trying to find any other possible way out. Yeah, living in a loft, creating bad art, and drinking yourself slowly to death on cheap beer and cocaine, and having impermanent hookups is vapid, meaningless and vain. But is it more so than dressing in Dolche and Prada, slurping down imported scotch, and working on your third divorce?
So again, why the vitrol felt by all for those bastards (not me of course, I'm unique and different)? In other subcultures the slavishness to fashion is so obvious as to be simply a given. Is it because hipsters claim uniqueness, yet follow the same trends, therefore showing themselves to be huge hypocrites? Yeah, that is annoying as fuck. But other subcultures are full of hypocracy as well - Christians are hugely judgemental, homophobic sports fans spend all their time and energy with men, etc. Is it the fact that there is no longer a definitive culture - when moms are still considered hipsters it's obviously not a revolution?
I don't know, and probably I'm just bored at work. Anyways, I have to go - I'm riding my vintage bike to a show to hear this new band you haven't heard about yet, right after kickball practice.
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I cant believe that nobody told those wackos off. There in middle of Brooklyn and not one person uttered a single curse word at them. What a shame, i shed a tear for all Native Brooklynites when I watched that video. Somebody should shove that rubber chicken up his ass.
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