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. March 22, 2012 - 10:34am

F^uck! I think I'm a hipster.

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 22, 2012 - 10:38am

LOL @ AD

Dakota, if you are, you are masking it with the facade of a drunken redneck. Much love. LOL

 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 22, 2012 - 10:40am

Careful Matt.  From what I've heard, he is willing to drive ten hours to kick someone's ass.  And he has been known to light people on fire.

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 22, 2012 - 10:44am

This is true, I got a text about it yesterday. You know I am joshin ya brah! 

Seriously, someone invent a time machine so this day is over. 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 22, 2012 - 10:45am

NOOOO!  This is a GREAT DAY!

I want it to last forever! 

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. March 22, 2012 - 10:46am

You can take the redneck out of Kentucky...

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 22, 2012 - 10:47am

@AD I'm your huckleberry. 

@Jacks, this is true, I can't talk given where I'm from. LOL

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 22, 2012 - 10:49am

My huckleberry for what?  I didn't ask you to do anything. 

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 22, 2012 - 10:50am

@AD ARE YOU SERIOUS!? You suck. 

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 22, 2012 - 10:53am

Dude, I know it's from Tombstone, it just doesn't make sense why you said it, idiot.

I didn't say I wanted to play for blood or challenge you to anything.  You didn't use it right.  You suck.

 

 

 

 

Still the best day ever.

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. March 22, 2012 - 10:53am

Isn't Val Kilmer just genius?!

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 22, 2012 - 10:54am

I adore that movie.  I can literally quote the whole thing.  I think everyone in it is perfect.  Don't get me started.

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SConley from Texas is reading Coin Locker Babies March 22, 2012 - 10:54am

I drink PBR sometimes but only because it's one of the cheap ones. When i drink cheap ones.

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 22, 2012 - 11:03am

I used it right! 

1800's little handles on a coffin were called "huckles", an English term. Instead of pallbearers the people who carried the coffin were called "hucklebearers" at the funeral.

As in we're enemies, or, I'll bury you....you ruined it. Sigh. 

Also, your day just ruined my whole weekend. I have to babysit on Saturday and then help Dad cut firewood for next year. DAMMIT! I don't even live there and they're putting me to work! Last time I visit for awhile.

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 22, 2012 - 11:11am

Also, @Conley, guess I missed your post. It would take more than PBR to make you a hipster. I would say if you can identify with 5 or more traits on that board, you're a hipster. Being actually broke and wanting a beer is not it....people drink Natty Boh here though. Not PBR. 

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Ches Smith from Houston, TX March 22, 2012 - 11:24am

I've always thought that if one day I follow through with my fantasy of becoming a complete recluse, I'd like to build my cabin out of plasticized hispters.

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 22, 2012 - 11:42am

That isn't correct, Matt.  A huckleberry, here, refers to an average Joe.  When Ringo tried to pick a fight, Doc replied that he was his huckleberry, meaning he was his man. 

 

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closure from Australia is reading The Ghormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake March 22, 2012 - 11:53am

Has anyone seen Portlandia?

I only discovered this today at work when we were talking about tunnel ear peircings. I know a few of you are from Portland so I immediately thought of posting here, and then I find this hipster hate thread! Perfect!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI

This one has Steve Buscemi guesting (and Italian subtitles, for some reason):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyQ6pqPFwTI&feature=related

Lots more on youtube, I am sure you all know how to click on stuff.

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin March 22, 2012 - 12:16pm

Good, good, strike us down with your anger.

Your hate has made you strong.

Now, slay the hipsters and take their place at my side, it is your destiny. Just as they slayed the hipsters before them for not being hip enough, so now the cycle continues.

All is according to plan.

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closure from Australia is reading The Ghormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake March 22, 2012 - 12:22pm

Actually I don't even know why I bothered asking if anyone has seen Portlandia...

 

 

 

 

 

 

You've probably never heard of it.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like March 22, 2012 - 12:28pm

^  haha, I just watched RotJ yesterday.

Religious suffering Hipsterism is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering hipness and a protest against real suffering hipness. Religion Ironic self-consciousness is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium Salvia of the people.

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin March 22, 2012 - 12:32pm

To quote Rennie:

 

I dunno, the hipsters who dress like Dickens characters crack me up. They are cool guys and they don't mind when you laugh at them looking like Dickens characters. But it's the nature of being a hipster to do such strange things that other hipsters (who, mind you, never self apply the term) think "wow, those guys are such lame hipsters"

I'm sure that the Dickens guys think that my whole schtick is just as lame.

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M. Ylikangas from Finland is reading The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock March 22, 2012 - 12:52pm

I really like those Buddy Holly glasses. It's a bummer wearing them is frowned upon nowadays.

Categorize, categorize.

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Dwayne from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updated March 22, 2012 - 1:07pm
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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 24, 2012 - 5:40am

Ok, so I have a confession. I may be a hipster. 

I had a talk with a friend over lunch yesterday and he thinks I am such a hardcore hipster that I hate other hipsters for not being hipster enough. 

The evidence:

I listen primarily to a sub genre of music in a genre that no one has listened to for 50 years at least. 

I wear a lot of black. 

I hate Lady Gaga (apparently all hipsters hate her without exception, however, my hate is irrational) 

I refuse to wear what other hipsters do. Scarves, dumb glasses ect because they're too trendy. Instead I go with black, or flannel or something because it's not trendy. 

I hate fauxtavism. The fact that I even know the term is another indication.

I have an aloof manner and a sarcastic, dry sense of humor riddled with irony. 

I like 'lost generation' authors (he apparently thinks I masturbate to Hemingway.)

I am a writer. 

I actually enjoy Natty Boh

There is of course other things......but if I am a hipster, I am the most hardcore one alive and so elitist that other hipsters aren't cool enough. Yeah, I'm going to kill myself in an ironic way now. 

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. March 24, 2012 - 7:18am

Shit I think this thread is on to something. It's all a hipster conspiracy.

- I own a pair of black nut hugger jeans. 

- I approve of PBR.

- Black Converse.

- I follow the ideals of Fight Club on a literal level. 

- I'm a writer.

- I hate cool bands after they go mainstream. 

- Checkered Vans shoes.

- A lot of time wasted in Heines Bros Coffee. 

- I just want to screw Hipster chicks. 

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Matt Attack from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner March 24, 2012 - 7:36am

Yeah. I think that should be a clue. I date a lot of hipster chicks. Birds of a feather...

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avery of the dead from Kentucky is reading Cipher Sisters March 24, 2012 - 8:01am

I'm still not a hipster.

And I still disapprove of them.

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. March 24, 2012 - 8:27am

Can I say, "I'm just a product of my environment" 

or 

should I drink another PBR?

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Flaminia Ferina from Umbria is reading stuff March 24, 2012 - 8:34am

hate for mainstream is so mainstream

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Stacy Kear from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War March 24, 2012 - 9:01am

I was a hipster before it was cool to be a hipster.
Being a hipster is soooo over.
Now I'm a writer ;-)

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. March 24, 2012 - 9:09am

I was a hipster before it was cool to be a hipster.

 

Translates to:

I am the most hardcore one alive and so elitist that other hipsters aren't cool enough.

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Stacy Kear from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War March 24, 2012 - 9:15am

That's the joke, very hipsterish of me to make it though.
Arrgh I'm a hipster

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. March 24, 2012 - 9:23am

It's like Nietzsche said "The more we un-hipster-ish we try to be, the more hipster-ish we are."

Wait, thats not right.

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like March 24, 2012 - 9:24am

I'm not a hipster, but people think I am = I'm not religious, I'm spiritual

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 24, 2012 - 9:27am

I get the feeling that being a hipster is a lifestyle choice like hip-hop. The clothes, glasses and hating anything mainstream is symbolic of the lifestyle like platinum, Bentleys and blunts are symbolic to hip-hop.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I think being a writer automatically puts all of us in the hipster category. Maybe we aren't full blown hipsters, but I think we're all there in our own little way. And, aren't we basically doing the same thing as they are by hating on them? Seems hyprocritical to me. 

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like March 24, 2012 - 9:31am

being a writer automatically puts all of us in the hipster category.

Only true if you write to be cool.

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Stacy Kear from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War March 24, 2012 - 9:34am

I love hipster dog!

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 24, 2012 - 9:35am

Only true if you write to be cool.

- I write because I love to.

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. March 24, 2012 - 9:37am

Only true if you write to be cool.

 

Because Shakespear was the 'original' hipster. 

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 24, 2012 - 9:39am

It's all about the chicks man... Wait, do writers get chicks? Or is that just rockstars and actors?

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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like March 24, 2012 - 9:41am

I write because I love to.

Right.  Most writers (I mean people who make a living at it) aren't "hip."

Insofar as hipsters are just people with "eclectic" tastes, yeah, we're all at least a little bit hipster.  But that's not all it is or else there wouldn't be a special word for it -- it'd be "normal."

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 24, 2012 - 9:43am

^ good point.

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Stacy Kear from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War March 24, 2012 - 9:49am

I agree with Rian, about hatin on hipsters, it's a bit hypocritical.
I have argued the same point many a time, it's quite a popular subject.
It comes down to live and let live for me, whatever gets you through the day.
Most people that lump themselves in any kind of group just want to belong. Condescending , elitist behavior screams insecurity to me.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 24, 2012 - 9:45am

Yay! Someone agrees with me about something. Doesnt happen very often. Lol

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. March 24, 2012 - 9:45am

Huckleberry.  Not that I know.  It's just the first google answer that I clicked.  I just love it when Val Kilmer talks.  Have you guys seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang?  Fuck he was good in that.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 24, 2012 - 9:47am

He was good as Morrison too.

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING. March 24, 2012 - 9:48am

Oh, and the buddy holly glasses.  I alway called them marine glasses because that's what they give you in the armed forces.  I think because of Drew Carey I started calling them that.

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R.Moon from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's Digest March 24, 2012 - 9:49am

I like Jim Carrey, but I hate Cleveland.