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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Oh dear I could spend hours on How To Impress A Hipster.

It's not a hipster bashing site (I think that's gotten a little old, and it was getting kind of scary, as if only people who towed the straight and narrow were OK); it's a gentle look at what hipsters like, and I was inwardly oohing and aahing at such gems as Rock'n'Roll High School, A Tribe Called Quest, Heathers, Einsturzende Neubaten, etc. It would appear that I am still a hipster!

Only I'm not, really. I'm a little curious why so much of that was so familiar to me and I'm quite old. I was kind of hoping that all of it would be totally alien to me and I could have a laugh at what the young people think is cool nowadays. The only alien thing to me was the ironic/retro appreciation of 80s?90s? Hair Metal. I lived through the somewhat ironic but current fascination with Hair Metal and it brought back bad memories. I got to the point where I could just barely tolerate it... actually I'm thinking I should go back and comment on that entry.

Anyway, endless fun!



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