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Archive for September, 2008

Hipster

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

So. I made dinner tonight. Pretty simple. Quinoa, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, sprouts, and some sauce. The most bizarre thing happened while I was eating, I began to define this dinner as hipster based on a restaurant in Vancouver which serves a similar meal. But really, how can a vegetarian meal be hipster…

My thoughts have been influenced by recent discussions I’ve had with my room-mate. We’ve been chatting about this article Adbusters published: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html You should give it a read before you read the rest of this. It’s funny because people are all excited about this article. Making a point to say how true it is… and denounce hipsters.

This whole anti-hipster resentment in our current culture is so ironic to me. We live in a consumption based post modern society. What do these people expect. That’s the result. Think about it. It’s not like i’m talking shit on moms for driving mini-vans or buying diapers. That’s the way kids are these days. The whole world is available to buy.

And the point he makes that hipsters aren’t contributing anything… just absorbing culture from the past. Are you kidding me? Did the hippies ever do anything? Seriously. Most people who were hippies in the 60’s now drive SUV’s, have a massive home, and are worried about stockpiling as much wealth as possible. A hipster is just dressing up, getting wasted and having fun. Hippies were so much worse. Pretending to be serious and actually making a difference in the world while all they were doing was getting stoned and having sex. At least the hipster knows that they don’t matter, and aren’t living a lie. It’s their job to consume and at least they do it well.

I don’t know where I’m going with this… i just feel like everyone who’s pumped on that article is a close minded jock, who’s probably almost thirty. The type of person who says, ’30’s the new 20′. Right, that’s cause you’re a fuck up who went to school from 19-26 and hasn’t done shit with your life. You’re interests are football and abercrombie and fitch. And your Kinesiology degree sucks.

In my opinion hipsters ought to be commended. They care about what they look like, they have fun, they’re always looking for new ideas with open minds, they’re actually doing some cool shit (there’s great young kids getting shit done an all parts of society). What’s to fault in that. Oh right, you’re jealous, intimidated, or close-minded.

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Fixie

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

I guess i’m officially a hipster. I don’t care. It’s fun as shit. Finished building it last night.

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Rob Heule

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Young Rob Heule, aka Mayo, just got home from NZ. He sent me this edit of what he was up to. Getting shit done.

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Watch This.

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

I’ve been watching/listening to lots of stuff from www.ted.com It’s really great, inspirational stuff. Please check it out if you have a chance. They also have a audio/video podcast on iTunes.

This is a piece about how school crushes all creative thought in exchange for meeting the needs of industrialism. At 20 min it’s a bit longer but its worth it. Funny, well spoken, and really is quite true…

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AH.

Friday, September 12th, 2008

If Joanna Newsom and Ani Difranco had a daughter, this is the kind of music she’d make. I’m feeling the folk right now.

From Madrid, Spain, Russian Red.

Russian Red ‘Cigarretes’

Russian Red ‘Gone Play On’

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