"Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

[ButteMT61]

Now, I have to say that after reading the hipster-hate, lol, hipsters aren't *entirely* bad....Reason #1:The resurgence of vinyl as a viable musical medium.Reason #2:Various fashion revivals, including 20's and 40's.Reason #3:Old Style and/or Pabst Blue Ribbon.Reason #4:Underrated bands getting much deserved attention.

While true, they don't really LIKE any of those things - they're just a shield to keep themselves from Sam Adams, RRL, iTunes, and Adelle. lol

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

I thought Hipsters where a type of trousers/pants?

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

It's funny, I was belted like hell at school growing up - we had the strap and the cane (the words "Smith outside" before six of the best are still well imprinted in my mind) but now I wouldn't dream of raising my hand with my daughter now I'm a Dad.

On a slightly questionable note, my dear old Dad held the record for canings at his school - 86 canings in a 3 year period!

Sounds rather like my old school. Many, many years ago!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Now, I have to say that after reading the hipster-hate, lol, hipsters aren't *entirely* bad....

Reason #1:
The resurgence of vinyl as a viable musical medium.

To coin a phrase, meh. Shellac is way better than vinyl.

Reason #2:
Various fashion revivals, including 20's and 40's.

What revivals? Those fashions were revived in the early 70s, when the hipster generation's parents were still in diapers.

Reason #3:
Old Style and/or Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Cheap domestic beer was here long before the hipsters, and will be here long after they've passed out drunk for the last time.

Reason #4:
Underrated bands getting much deserved attention.

Pffft. I've yet to hear a hipster championing Jimmie Lunceford.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Hipster Hubris at its Finest

Thank you for "enlightening" us, Captain Obvious.

Like we've never heard of a BBQ. Oh, I forgot. It's not a BBQ but a "backyard food session". What a genius. Bet you've still got your I-Was-A-Useless-Lump-in-No-Score-Soccer-But-They-Still-Gave-Me-This-Kewl-Trophy-Anyway Award from sixth grade. I can't believe this person babbled on for over two minutes without saying anything.

[video=youtube;1rQB11vo5xk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rQB11vo5xk[/video]

 

[Undertow]

Now, I have to say that after reading the hipster-hate, lol, hipsters aren't *entirely* bad....

Reason #1:
The resurgence of vinyl as a viable musical medium.

Reason #2:
Various fashion revivals, including 20's and 40's.

Reason #3:
Old Style and/or Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Reason #4:
Underrated bands getting much deserved attention.

If anything this flux is bad news for the fans of those above mentioned media, except perhaps the beer.

Prices for vinyl records and clothing are only going to increase with the demand - often pricing us eager collectors out of the market. However, once this trend (and it is nothing more than a trend) dies, people like us will be left to pick up the pieces. What hasn't been ruined by trendsters may be salvagable at inflated prices.

As long as beer companies realize this is a trend, and don't invest heavily in building new massive facilities to meet inflated demand, they should make it out alive.

For example, The Des Moines Register, a once Pulitzer prize winning newspaper, was seeing stable sales a little over ten years ago. Rather than maintain production from their ancient basement presses located in their downtown office building, they decided to build a multi-million dollar facility on the skirts of town. You know the story - more efficient, cheaper in the long run, yada yada. With the inevitable failure of printed media, not only has the Register been stripped to a skeleton crew, but they're leaving their iconic building downtown and moving into a ratty old office mall down the street.

 

[Feraud]

Thank you for "enlightening" us, Captain Obvious.
Like we've never heard of a BBQ.

lollollol Some of these guys really do think they are inventing the wheel.

 

[Flicka]

Prices for vinyl records and clothing are only going to increase with the demand - often pricing us eager collectors out of the market.

Well, a lot of it is actually bands putting out new music on vinyl. Digital and vinyl, often sold together (digital for immediate consumption, vinyl for better sound and as a collectible, often with extra art). That doesn't necessarily drive up prices for older music, rather makes sure vinyl record players stay in production.

What drives me bonkers isn't hipsters. It's people from obscure small-towns moving to my city and buying city flats and thinking their more of a "Stockholmer" than I am because I live outside the city proper (here "suburb" doesn't mean houses and middle-class, it would rather translate into American as "projects" since it denotes big concrete slabs built in the 60s and 70s as part of a public program to provide cheap housing and I'd be rich if I had a penny for every snide remark I've had about living there) because they think you get shot if you actually live in a spot where you might meet more than two people a day with less than lily-white skin. They drive up the prices for anything built before 1960 to absurd levels and they decorate their homes minimalistically in white-on-white and dress minimalistically in black-on-black. The female version is tall and blonde and have limp handshakes, and they're all crazy about running and skiing and have 2.1 spoiled brats all called the same nonsense names. Worst of all, they have awful taste in music.

I'll take a vinyl-loving, poor, will-design-for-food, hipster any day, thank you very much.

 

[Undertow]

Well, a lot of it is actually bands putting out new music on vinyl.

Before I clicked the submit button, I had replaced "old vinyl" with vinyl. Wish I had left that in there! lol

Modern artists never stopped printing on vinyl, I think it just took a nose dive for some time. I know there are a number of late-80's Nirvana SubPop vinyls in circulation that I wouldn't mind having my grubby hands on.

 

[sheeplady]

What drives me bonkers isn't hipsters. It's people from obscure small-towns moving to my city and buying city flats and thinking their more of a "Stockholmer" than I am because I live outside the city proper (here "suburb" doesn't mean houses and middle-class, it would rather translate into American as "projects" since it denotes big concrete slabs built in the 60s and 70s as part of a public program to provide cheap housing and I'd be rich if I had a penny for every snide remark I've had about living there) because they think you get shot if you actually live in a spot where you might meet more than two people a day with less than lily-white skin. They drive up the prices for anything built before 1960 to absurd levels and they decorate their homes minimalistically in white-on-white and dress minimalistically in black-on-black. The female version is tall and blonde and have limp handshakes, and they're all crazy about running and skiing and have 2.1 spoiled brats all called the same nonsense names. Worst of all, they have awful taste in music.

Those people are essentially my nightmares. I used to live in a "progressive" type of city, and slowly these idiots have stated to move in. The hippies never did anything except lounge around the parks, smoke, and play music on acoustic instruments. They kept the place clean (these were true environmentalist hippies), safe, and made sure there was plenty of public transport. They ran a lot of the local shops. These other people (I'd call the yuppies but perhaps this isn't the right term) want to "clean up" the area, shop at big box stores, buy designer drugs (which fuels the criminal activity), and redo the entire city to make it modern (which has taken a lot of the flavor away). That and a lot of the hippies are aging out and moving south, so there are no new generation hippies to fill in the gaps. It's really remarkable the changes that I can see when I go back. Hopefully more hippies will move in or the ones that are left will stay.

Poor jamespowers is probably dying right now given all the compliments I gave to the hippies.

 

[Flicka]

Before I clicked the submit button, I had replaced "old vinyl" with vinyl. Wish I had left that in there! lol

Modern artists never stopped printing on vinyl, I think it just took a nose dive for some time. I know there are a number of late-80's Nirvana SubPop vinyls in circulation that I wouldn't mind having my grubby hands on.

All those little hipster bands out of Echo Park I bet people here hate usually make a big fuss about their vinyls and sell them numbered, in limited editions. One day, my Slang Chickens album with handmade cover could be a collectible (though I rather doubt it). :lol:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Poor jamespowers is probably dying right now given all the compliments I gave to the hippies.

Nahh, somehow I don't think so. :laser:

 

[LizzieMaine]

What drives me bonkers isn't hipsters. It's people from obscure small-towns moving to my city and buying city flats and thinking their more of a "Stockholmer" than I am because I live outside the city proper (here "suburb" doesn't mean houses and middle-class, it would rather translate into American as "projects" since it denotes big concrete slabs built in the 60s and 70s as part of a public program to provide cheap housing and I'd be rich if I had a penny for every snide remark I've had about living there) because they think you get shot if you actually live in a spot where you might meet more than two people a day with less than lily-white skin. They drive up the prices for anything built before 1960 to absurd levels and they decorate their homes minimalistically in white-on-white and dress minimalistically in black-on-black. The female version is tall and blonde and have limp handshakes, and they're all crazy about running and skiing and have 2.1 spoiled brats all called the same nonsense names. Worst of all, they have awful taste in music.

These are the hipsters' parents. As good an argument in favor of birth control as ever could be made.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Hipsters are a good argument for bringing back the Draft.

"Twelve weeks to square away what nobody ever finished. Twelve weeks to make a man out of Junior."
...GySgt Moore (Jack Webb), The D.I. (1957)

 

[LizzieMaine]

They don't make Army pants in that size.

 

[jamespowers]

Those people are essentially my nightmares. I used to live in a "progressive" type of city, and slowly these idiots have stated to move in. The hippies never did anything except lounge around the parks, smoke, and play music on acoustic instruments. They kept the place clean (these were true environmentalist hippies), safe, and made sure there was plenty of public transport. They ran a lot of the local shops. These other people (I'd call the yuppies but perhaps this isn't the right term) want to "clean up" the area, shop at big box stores, buy designer drugs (which fuels the criminal activity), and redo the entire city to make it modern (which has taken a lot of the flavor away). That and a lot of the hippies are aging out and moving south, so there are no new generation hippies to fill in the gaps. It's really remarkable the changes that I can see when I go back. Hopefully more hippies will move in or the ones that are left will stay.

Poor jamespowers is probably dying right now given all the compliments I gave to the hippies.

:rofl:

You DEFINITELY have a different breed of hippie out there. They are the polar opposite out here. In fact, they do exactly what your "yuppies" do out there. They litter, defecate in the streets, use every drug known to man and hang out in front of small businesses with their animals and instruments begging for money---driving off patrons. Unfortunately, they aren't leaving and a new generation is spawned to replace the old. I'll send you some if you would like.
I need to set up a hippie tour around this area so that people can better understand why I dislike them. Feel free to come out and I will give you the tour.

 

[jamespowers]

They don't make Army pants in that size.

:rofl:

 

[jamespowers]

Hipsters are a good argument for bringing back the Draft.

"Twelve weeks to square away what nobody ever finished. Twelve weeks to make a man out of Junior."
...GySgt Moore (Jack Webb), The D.I. (1957)

Great then regular young people would have to deal with them in the military.:eusa_doh: I won't even mention the effects on military readiness.:eusa_doh:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I need to set up a hippie tour around this area so that people can better understand why I dislike them. Feel free to come out and I will give you the tour.

I'd sign up for the tour. Look for the VW bus (to blend in) with the laser mounted on it.

 

[jamespowers]

I'd sign up for the tour. Look for the VW bus (to blend in) with the laser mounted on it.

lol lol lol Every once in a while: "Got one!"