Stuff Hipsters Like

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Stuff White People Like is such a fantastic blog… Every post allows me to laugh at myself, and the people around me. While I don’t consider myself technically white, every post rings true in my own life in some way or another.

So what about digging a bit deeper in to “white culture”? BPM Just did a “Hipster Issue”, interviewing bloggers and it made me draw a comparison to “Stuff White People Like“

Your scene sucks.com does a pretty good job of illustrating different people in different scenes, since Lethbridge is a little more centralized, most of the people on the list get jammed in to the one category of Hipster, I think I’m a hipster, but if I leave the city, my status drops quite a bit. That’s fine by me, I can see the conformity in anti conformity. So let’s take a peek at a few things that Hipsters like:

Blogs -

So Mypspace and Facebook are both too annoying to be cool, and with the corporate big wigs controlling the media, who can you really trust? Random people on theInternet with similar tastes that’s who. All of my hipster friends now have blogs, to document various hipster activities that they involve themselves in.

What else do you need to attract hipsters? Blogs are fairly new, still foreign to most other people, and have readerships in the low teens. That’s pay dirt!

Bands That Broke Up Before You Were Born-

A good band or genre can easily be corrupted, look at what happened to punk and emo music. Of course, an easy way to avoid this is by exclusively listening to bands that broke up/died before things like the Internet, Hot Topic and MTV. This is a sure way to know that you aren’t going to be caught in the same obscure T-shirt as someHigh school reject, and you will be able to find tons of obscure releases on eBay.

Vinyl-

Vinyl is two things that hipsters tend to love. Vintage, and obscure. Something that is vintage reminds hipsters of better days, when everything was less corrupted by corporations. Vinyl is also harder to play, as well it requires equipment that isn’t as readily available as others. You can easily put a CD in your computer, rip it to your iPod and then listen to it. This is far too easy for any self respecting hipster. Having the attention span to sit and play a record isn’t easy, I’ll admit that I find myself getting a bit antsy when occupied by nothing but an album, but the true hipster doesn’t care.

Irony-

Everyone likes irony, it’s what makes things funny. Hipsters LOVE irony, they eat it up like Vegemite and old episodes of Fat Albert. Somethings are so bad, they are good, and somethings are just so bad, you wonder why people don’t realize they suck so bad. Trucker hats were something that were so bad, they were good, and there was a point in time when only truckers and those associated with truckers wore them. They just call them hats, but due to the fact that they were the opposite of hip, it made them cool.

I remember I stole one from my dad’s collection, and he actually thought it was in such poor taste, that he threw it in the garbage. A year later, he actually bought one for my sister. How’s that? I didn’t mind that much, the irony already wore off and now trucker hats are just another article in the book I am going to be writing “Stupid Fashion ‘99 to ‘19″

Bicycles-

These days, in this Albertan economy, any asshole with decent credit (or no credit), can finance a vehicle. Lately, white middle class males tend to dominate this sub culture. Making tons of money working jobs that are complete shit, their only release is Meth and gigantic pick up trucks. Each truck is categorized by both Brand and Size, with each brand having followers, and little stickers with Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) urinating on the logo of a competing brand.

Bicycles are a dying trend in North America, even though the environment seems to be in shambles, cars are still #1 with Joe Consumer and his 1.5 kids. Hipsters hate Joe Consumer, and will ride the most ironically old bike possible, in order to distance themselves from this destructive trend. Hipsters will however, generally drive if it’s too far or the weather is too poor to bicycle.

Europe-

I’ve never met a hipster content with where they are living. Europe was hip before North American was even discovered, and it shows. Hipsters tend to love everything from and associated with Europe. This is a lot like white people and “The Idea of Soccer”, most hipsters will openly bash sports, but will claim allegiance to a football club that is from the same city as their favourite band that broke up before they were born.

Europe is an umbrella thing to like that has a lot of stuff underneath it, all stuff that hipsters love:
Accents
Multilingualism
Subtitles
Artistic Nudity
High Fashion
Low Fashion

Oh wow, this has become quite the long post, so I’ll leave it here. Have a nice easter weekend you crazy hipsters. I’ll leave you with a picture that Natalie Dee drew, the guy on the left looks suprisingly like myself, while my friend Nathan is a perfect example of a Natural Hipster (but with less patchouli stink).

*** Hey, if you dig this post and are looking for Hipster Information, check out the main blog for some great insight in to this strange world we live in***

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