Hipsters have no need for a weekend as they are perpetually unemployed, yet they still find a need to celebrate with PBR's and cheap whiskey. A friend emailed me this forward she received about ACTUAL Hipster activities occurring this very weekend. If you are interested in attending any of the events, email me and I will be ashamed to know you. This horrible listeserve categorizes activities by verb: Listen, Drool, Amuse, Attend, Trim. I will add a final category that I wish all hipsters would follow; DIE! Hipsters have no problem lacking originality and following, so all we have to do is get the advice to DIE! on any hipster blog or twitter feed and by the end of the day you won't be able to walk five feet without kicking a dead hipster in their flannel beard. I haven't made any of this up, although I wish I did. They are so cultured and deck:
Listen: For $35, you can listen to a "former boy chorister" turn prayers for the Royal Navy into song. Themes for this performance are drawn from medieval and colonial English travel narratives.
Drool: The Brooklyn Brainery presents this workshop on ice cream making so you can know the differences between Philadelphia and French styles of churning and how to mix flavors like walnut rosewater and chocolate-coffee-bourbon.
Amuse: The Wii Plays- A group of talentless Hipsters present twelve original works inspired by Nintendo game titles such as Barbie as the Island Princess, Alien Monster Bowling League, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
Attend: The Housingworks Coffeeshop/bookstore hosts the informal "I like Your Glasses" party. This party is dedicated to missed connections and features readings of real and imagined intertrain romances and Internet misunderstandings.
Trim: Bushwick’s Momo Sushi Shack transforms micro vegetables into miniature works of art for a bonsai-themed, five-course dinner. Entertainment includes a Minbu folk dance performance and DJ Saiko Mikan’s ’60s Japanese pop and ’90s Shibuya-kei selections.
The Wii Plays- A group of talentless Hipsters present twelve original works inspired by Nintendo game titles such as Barbie as the Island Princess, Alien Monster Bowling League, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE: That sounds like the sort of culturally entropic kitsch a hipster would go for .
In addition to calling the hipsters and other sorts of postmodernists 'MTV Generation'...the appelation 'Nintendo Generation' fits also .
The smell of plastic evokes the very mood of those rinky -dinky, pop culture media- influenced, squishy, ambivalent contemporary types . KITSCH pervades that zeitgeist .
When every television on the face of the earth stops working and stays stopped, paradise will be far nearer .