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Jeffery:
We lovess listss, yess we do....
The Most Hipster Colleges
eastvillagedon:
I kept thinking as I read this, where are Wesleyan and Bard?? I want a recount. But alas, they're on the 2010 list (which I guess is now past its expiration date, like hipsterism itself), along with Oberlin! lol (I don't think I have the patience to look up 2011)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/top-10-hipster-schools_n_531852.html#s79344&title=Hampshire_College
David:
All of the blind and stupid hatred towards Hipsters just adds to their mystique.
mrnyc:
--- Quote from: Jeffery on August 17, 2012, 05:18:05 AM ---According to the article there are bus tours showing people the Brooklyn hipstesr.
They did this in the 1960s & 70s in SF...bus tours of the Haight so tourists could see the hippies and bus tours of the Castro so they could see the gays. Gray Line was the company.
Hmmm...
Do they have "Rent a Hipster" yet? Like they had "Rent-A-Beatniks"?
Apparently (and showing how things come full cirlce), one of the rent-a-beatniks, Ted Joans, published a book entitled, yes, wait for it, The Hipsters
"The funny, wild, hilarious and witty world of the hipsters from Greenwich Village to Paris, A mixture of Dali, Ernst and Kerouac stirred up in a surrealist stew by America's only true "insider" and "outsider"- Ted Joans, a young Negro painter and coffee shop poet...."(front cover) A legendary book in the Beat canon,with collages & text by the quintessential hipster Ted Joans (1927-2003) published at the height of the "Rent-a-Beatnik" era.
Published in 1961. I was two years old.
--- End quote ---
ha they do indeed have rent a hipster, its called an art gallery or artist intern! hipsters are 100% backed by their wealthy parents, so they can do things like be an artist or intern while living in an expensive place like nyc. rarely do they even ever have to tap that trust fund.
and indeed hipster is an old term, i think it even goes back to the flapper era. yet another revival of the term was in 1982 for the pop music band rem's landmark ep chronic town. this is the record that invented college radio and the mass popularization of college radio music, a pop music genre that lasted a good ten years. check the lyrics on a song:
STUMBLE
We'll stumble through the yard
We'll stumble through the yard
We'll stumble through the A-P-T
We'll stumble through the yard
Force fields. Explorer racing home, the ancient star.
Yellow mixed with golden hue.
Scan the graveyard, dead there be.
Ball and chain. Ball and chain.
Ball and chain. Ball and chain.
(Repeat 1st verse 3 times)
It was round about midnight. Hipster town.
Imagine going for a walk.
Things get around to taking place. It's not a waste of time.
The rich got a little poorer.
Things get around to taking place. If they're gonna happen at all.
Don't need that jazz. Don't need that stuff.
It was round about midnight. Hipster town.
It was round about midnight. Hipster town.
(Repeat 1st verse)
^ needless to say, todays hipsters do not find micheal stipe 'deck' and they hate a state college bred, blue collar band like rem!
jp340803:
That Chronic Town EP is killer. Never noticed that lyric before.
Been digging alot of 80's alternative/underground music lately. REM, The dBs, Flat Duo Jets, Let's Active, Young Marble Giants, Big Dipper, The Replacements, Galaxy 500, Robyn Hitchcock, The Clean....
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