Wednesday, August 27, 2008

i could just barf


So I'll start by asking--what is up with all the hipsters?

I guess it has always been cool to copy, we are humans, mimesis, representation and all that jazz..But, what happened to self respect & independence?

whatever "she" churns out, the others wear. whatever "he" does, the others do.
I don't get it. It is so simplistic and I require a deeper meaning.
im surrounded by tacky bicycles and little brains--i've never eaten at sabrinas but let me tell u, its in my neighborhood (and i've been living in this neighborhood 20+ years) and it ain't all that. but what gives it its charm? HIPSTERS! why? because like forrest said stupid is as stupid does. Ohhhh so that explains the bad haircuts, greasy faces and shitty pot!

dumb dumb dumb, i feel like all the "young adults" in philadelphia have turned into tom hanks in big--trying to hide who they are and pretend to be someone else.....

who are u people? where did u come from? AND WHY ARE YOU MOVING TO SOUTH PHILLY? we don't particularly want you here, your gentrifying our neighborhoods and you don't give a shit about helping it. you move in and out and here and there and rep the hood like your from it. i can't stand it and many life long philadelphians are STILL disappointed that the best fucking diner in the city, silk city, was converted into a playpen for hipsters. those egg creams used to be the bomb, lemme tell u. And i'll be the first to admit I've gotten shitty at silk city on thursdays, but, i'm not a hipster so it doesn't count.


more on hipsters--are there any hot hipsters? like, seriously, because i can't find them. no one dude and not one girl. from the back maybe okay i'll give u that but then they turn around and its like damn ur a mess. sureeee, i bet you think you look pretty fine..but the rest of us don't..
to me hipsters represent the decline of western thought. being cool used to be invention. it was about new ideas and having what others didnt. now what is it? wanting what everyone else on tv has and then everyone in the bar has now too? If hipsters are confused then I am confused by hipsters. Interviewed in 2004 for a New York Times Magazine article, writer Zev Borow quotes some guy who used to live in NY and makes an interesting point on "the hipster effect (aka destroying shit)"

A gust of chilly autumn wind forces him to turn up his collar. “Now things around here are just . . . different. And it’s not just here; it’s the whole city, even Brooklyn especially Brooklyn. Right now everywhere just feels . . . tired. Cliché. Corny.” He pauses, remembering. “Deeply unsatisfying . . . over.”
Over? What does he mean by "over" ? I can't help but think over creatively, artistically. there lacks stimulation, nothing is growing and hipsters are dead. alive and functioning yes but dead intellectually, dead where it matters.

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