GM's thread about nothing (44 Viewers)

[Tremendous Upside]

Hipster alert: guy just referred to his writing dry spell as his "fallow period"

 

[YSR]

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

 

[urbanhack]

 

[BRONG]

Fartbarf is looking slim now, so this may be it for me, Donald. First glass of red going down the hatch...

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Hipster alert: guy just referred to his writing dry spell as his "fallow period"

I am so dreading this crap come Monday.

 

[phishphan]

You aren't the first person to make this mistake. I understand your confusion. The way I dress. My political leanings. The books and movies and music and all that stuff.

But as a good friend once said, "CC you aren't a hipster. You're what hipsters try so hard to be."

I don't know if that's a good explanation, but I can say this -

1. I do not obsessively follow bands with obscure names just so I can wear them on my sleeve as a psychic defense mechanism.

2. When I see hipsters around town, I'm overcome with an intense desire to punch them in the face.

I'm a man with specific tastes, but they don't follow trends like hipsters. Maybe that's what my friend meant. Beats me. All I know is Piels tastes like ####, color-rimmed sunglasses look stupid, and vinyl is way overrated.

I might be late on this, but claiming to not be a hipster is the most hipster thing ever

proninja> Sigh. Yes, you are late to this. K4> Stop. If I'm a hipster then you're right there beside me. The only thing separating us is third world mansions and a rack to die for.

you wear a newsboy cap, you read William Burroughs, you post pictures of Suicide Girls, and you named your kid Phoenix. The jury in this case is not going to be kind.

CC, I can't be a hipster. I live in Memphis.

I have yet to see a hipster in real life in this town

 

[cosjobs]

I've caught up on the thread and had three shots. Now to meet GM and Nannywife at the hip Urban Garden at the Nines.

I'm staying at the Nines in July. Let me know how the scene is.

definitely hipster.The food was very good at both bars and drinks, too. They made a very good Moscow Mule and poured me a nice glass of Turley Old Vine Zin.THe Benson is more old school and less hip/trendy and the City Grill was kind of between the two on hipness/trendiness. I ;liked all three and would recommend all three.We spent the day driving over to the coast- tourist towns Cannon Beach and Surfisde and then AStoria, an old port city. I really like Astoria, as it is a town with a purpose and has all the ships and pilot boats , etc. I grew up in Port Arthur, so that stuff has a romanticism to me.

 

[bentley]

I've caught up on the thread and had three shots. Now to meet GM and Nannywife at the hip Urban Garden at the Nines.

I'm staying at the Nines in July. Let me know how the scene is.

definitely hipster.The food was very good at both bars and drinks, too. They made a very good Moscow Mule and poured me a nice glass of Turley Old Vine Zin.THe Benson is more old school and less hip/trendy and the City Grill was kind of between the two on hipness/trendiness. I ;liked all three and would recommend all three.We spent the day driving over to the coast- tourist towns Cannon Beach and Surfisde and then AStoria, an old port city. I really like Astoria, as it is a town with a purpose and has all the ships and pilot boats , etc. I grew up in Port Arthur, so that stuff has a romanticism to me.

Yeah, I doubt that's my crowd. Think I'll stick to the brewpubs.

 

[Bogart]

Random thoughts from the week:

Single Day Tip Of The Day: When you have the kids on the weekend, you know you are going to have to make a trip to McDonalds. If you have to go, make it a really nice McDonalds in the best part of town. So much MILFy goodness on the playground, I wondered if going alone would be wrong. Thinking about making up business cards for "future playdates" while forcing my kids to make friends based on what the mom looks like.

Really hot girl, working at the Pizza Inn, body is a 9, face is an 8. Still, she is busing tables at a Pizza Inn. I have a job and a car, I can score that right? Right??

My parents had a 8 year old Acer laptop, that they won as a door prize. The thing could barely run DOS. They give me $600 cash and tell me to go to Best Buy and get them a computer. I spend 90 minutes looking up and down the aisle, checking out laptops vs. desktops vs. All-In-Ones. I'm on my phone reading reviews. I'm talking to anyone in a blue shirt (sorry guy who didn't work there). I am doing my due diligence. Then I realize....they had an 8 year old POS....they only need this computer to do the Googles, check the Gmails, play the Poker Stars fake money and run iTunes occasionally. This is not rocket science. I grabbed a nice All-In-One with the biggest screen in their budget and went home.

My parents gave me $600 in cash, all in $100 bills. This made me feel two ways. One, I feel like I was some kind of criminal when trying to pay for the computer at Best Buy with cash. I don't know why, it just felt wrong. Two, having the cash really made me want to make the hour trip up to Oklahoma and spend it at the casino. A $600 check or a credit card would not have forced this feeling, yet cash made me want to gamble it away. Strange?

 

[kevzilla]

BRONG, when you have a chance, would love any recommendations for Bali. Have to go to Singapore for work in April and wanted to stop by for a few days somewhere I haven't been before, and this looks like the best option. More interested in peace and tranquility than the clubs, though I imagine we'll go out to a couple just to check out that scene. Which areas/beaches do you think best? Any ideas welcomed.

Same question for charvik and anyone else who's been there.

Uluwatu.My link to your resort.

Oh yeah. That looks phenomenal.

Krista is soooo gonna buy one of those.

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

I thank you, but Frosty's calluses will never forgive you.

Random thoughts from the week:

Single Day Tip Of The Day: When you have the kids on the weekend, you know you are going to have to make a trip to McDonalds. If you have to go, make it a really nice McDonalds in the best part of town. So much MILFy goodness on the playground, I wondered if going alone would be wrong. Thinking about making up business cards for "future playdates" while forcing my kids to make friends based on what the mom looks like.

Really hot girl, working at the Pizza Inn, body is a 9, face is an 8. Still, she is busing tables at a Pizza Inn. I have a job and a car, I can score that right? Right??

My parents had a 8 year old Acer laptop, that they won as a door prize. The thing could barely run DOS. They give me $600 cash and tell me to go to Best Buy and get them a computer. I spend 90 minutes looking up and down the aisle, checking out laptops vs. desktops vs. All-In-Ones. I'm on my phone reading reviews. I'm talking to anyone in a blue shirt (sorry guy who didn't work there). I am doing my due diligence. Then I realize....they had an 8 year old POS....they only need this computer to do the Googles, check the Gmails, play the Poker Stars fake money and run iTunes occasionally. This is not rocket science. I grabbed a nice All-In-One with the biggest screen in their budget and went home.

My parents gave me $600 in cash, all in $100 bills. This made me feel two ways. One, I feel like I was some kind of criminal when trying to pay for the computer at Best Buy with cash. I don't know why, it just felt wrong. Two, having the cash really made me want to make the hour trip up to Oklahoma and spend it at the casino. A $600 check or a credit card would not have forced this feeling, yet cash made me want to gamble it away. Strange?

I say go for Pizza Inn Girl...just don't use the acronym.And as someone who almost went to Louisiana a few weeks ago because a casino sent me a postcard, no, that's not strange.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

So the band was the definition of technically proficient, and not in a good way. Sounded like the band that might play the last night party on a cruise. Boring.

Then my buddy bailed at 11:30, because he was tired.

So I am back in Queens at the least hipsterish bar ever. Bon Jovi blaring unironcally and guys fist pumping. It's awesome.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

So the band was the definition of technically proficient, and not in a good way. Sounded like the band that might play the last night party on a cruise. Boring. Then my buddy bailed at 11:30, because he was tired. So I am back in Queens at the least hipsterish bar ever. Bon Jovi blaring unironcally and guys fist pumping. It's awesome.

I think I'd rather be at a hipster bar.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Woo hoo. Don't stop believin played early! My night is complete.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

So the band was the definition of technically proficient, and not in a good way. Sounded like the band that might play the last night party on a cruise. Boring. Then my buddy bailed at 11:30, because he was tired. So I am back in Queens at the least hipsterish bar ever. Bon Jovi blaring unironcally and guys fist pumping. It's awesome.

I think I'd rather be at a hipster bar.

You'd think so. But these patrons are authentic. (Van Halen Jump came on). And the bartender is a friend of mine Sao I'll drink cheap for an hour or so and then go home and watch the Aussie Open final. PARTY!!!

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

So the band was the definition of technically proficient, and not in a good way. Sounded like the band that might play the last night party on a cruise. Boring. Then my buddy bailed at 11:30, because he was tired. So I am back in Queens at the least hipsterish bar ever. Bon Jovi blaring unironcally and guys fist pumping. It's awesome.

I think I'd rather be at a hipster bar.

You'd think so. But these patrons are authentic. (Van Halen Jump came on). And the bartender is a friend of mine Sao I'll drink cheap for an hour or so and then go home and watch the Aussie Open final. PARTY!!!

I'm surrounded by "authentic".

 

[Tremendous Upside]

So the band was the definition of technically proficient, and not in a good way. Sounded like the band that might play the last night party on a cruise. Boring. Then my buddy bailed at 11:30, because he was tired. So I am back in Queens at the least hipsterish bar ever. Bon Jovi blaring unironcally and guys fist pumping. It's awesome.

I think I'd rather be at a hipster bar.

You'd think so. But these patrons are authentic. (Van Halen Jump came on). And the bartender is a friend of mine Sao I'll drink cheap for an hour or so and then go home and watch the Aussie Open final. PARTY!!!

I'm surrounded by "authentic".

I hear ya. Pooh, Totos Africa is on!

 

[Homer J Simpson]

PBR and a shot of Jack for 7 bucks. This could get ugly.

$5 at my bar. And the shot will kill you.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

So the band was the definition of technically proficient, and not in a good way. Sounded like the band that might play the last night party on a cruise. Boring. Then my buddy bailed at 11:30, because he was tired. So I am back in Queens at the least hipsterish bar ever. Bon Jovi blaring unironcally and guys fist pumping. It's awesome.

I think I'd rather be at a hipster bar.

You'd think so. But these patrons are authentic. (Van Halen Jump came on). And the bartender is a friend of mine Sao I'll drink cheap for an hour or so and then go home and watch the Aussie Open final. PARTY!!!

I'm surrounded by "authentic".

I hear ya. Pooh, Totos Africa is on!

Hurry, Boy. It's waiting there for you.

 

[Oliver Humanzee]

1. I do not obsessively follow bands with obscure names just so I can wear them on my sleeve as a psychic defense mechanism.

I don't either. I obsessively follow obscure bands because, as it turns out, most of the music that satisfies my curiosity and my aesthetic are fairly obscure. Also, most of my friends are in those bands.

2. When I see hipsters around town, I'm overcome with an intense desire to punch them in the face.

Just seeing a hipster isn't enough to make me want to punch them. I generally have to hear them spout some of their contrived, post-ironic, it's-so-awful-it's-actually-cool, dickmouthed, bull#### before I want to punch them. Or hear them talk about their stupid fixie bikes that cost their parents a $150 more than a normal, useful bike with gears and brakes.

I'm a man with specific tastes, but they don't follow trends like hipsters. Maybe that's what my friend meant. Beats me. All I know is Piels tastes like ####, color-rimmed sunglasses look stupid, and vinyl is way overrated.

I am a man that likes rock music, and the kind of pre-rock music that directly points to rock music. This is to say, I like a little blues, a little country, a lot of rock music, and almost nothing else. I have heard maybe 20 combined jazz, hip-hop, reggae, electronic, classical, or "world" music records that move me half as much as ZZ Top's first three albums or Cheap Trick's In Color.

PBR is awful, of course.

I have no opinion of colored-rim glasses.

Vinyl was how I first encountered music, how I most enjoy music, and still seems to be the most dependable format to archive music. Additionally: Vinyl, with artwork, with a gatefold sleeve, with lyrics and liner-notes and inside jokes are, more than any other format, a talisman. A magical object that grants us access to another world. And that that "other world" is the band's aesthetic. It is, along with their music, what they find to be beautiful and important and representative of their world view. It is how they, as a band, as collective of musicians engaged in an artistic enterprise, perceive and respond to the world at large. It is a scrapbook that reminds us that music is more than just pleasing sounds. The mass of neatly ordered and sorted files in my iTunes folder reminds me that I sure have a lot of music files on this here computer.

I know hipsters. I have spoken with them at great length. They know me. They do not recognize me as a member of their tribe. I barely recognize them as people.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Volume or distance?

 

[Big Papi]

1 for 1

Details to follow. Just for my memory...

- concert

- birthday party

- guy at bar calling me an ahole

- profit?

- no brunch, church instead

 

[Tiger Fan]

Just checking here, if I wear a hat like the one below...am I a hipster?

http://www.meyerthehatter.com/meyer/product.asp?s_id=0&prod_name=CAPAS+LINEN+IVY+ONE+PIECE+CAP&pf_id=PAOHIDIKFCOIIJOB&dept_id=54

 

[Crazy Canuck]

2. When I see hipsters around town, I'm overcome with an intense desire to punch them in the face.

Just seeing a hipster isn't enough to make me want to punch them. I generally have to hear them spout some of their contrived, post-ironic, it's-so-awful-it's-actually-cool, dickmouthed, bull#### before I want to punch them. Or hear them talk about their stupid fixie bikes that cost their parents a $150 more than a normal, useful bike with gears and brakes.

Absolutely.

aesthetic[/I]. It is, along with their music, what they find to be beautiful and important and representative of their world view. It is how they, as a band, as collective of musicians engaged in an artistic enterprise, perceive and respond to the world at large. It is a scrapbook that reminds us that music is more than just pleasing sounds. The mass of neatly ordered and sorted files in my iTunes folder reminds me that I sure have a lot of music files on this here computer.

Yes, but musicians aren't dependent on paper & vinyl to create their "other world." NIN is an example. When Reznor released Ghosts I-IV over the net, it included a professional photograph for each track. Most were aesthetic pieces visually resonating the aura of its song. Ghosts is all instrumentals - there's no angst-driven howls by Trent - and more often than not the photos really do add to the experience. But we're talking aesthetics here, which is why we aren't hipsters. Hipsters turn to vinyl partly because they believe it harks authenticity, partly because to them digital is more consumerist...as they hilariously buy droves and droves of vinyl albums to reinforce their identity.

A philosopher friend stole line of mine about hipsters. It's my sig here. I'm betting you've read Simulacra and Simulation, so I'm going say to you what I said to him when he stole it -

Simulacra and Simulation[/I], giddy with voyeuristic delight as they discover an UNTOUCHED TOTALLY AUTHENTIC civilization deep in the Amazon. But once they touch it, the tribe becomes forever contaminated by them -- just like hipsters discovering a new dive bar and slowly flocking to it, until it becomes so trendy that the owner raises the prices on drinks and starts charging a cover and changes the jukebox selection to all indie music and it takes 20 minutes to get a beer. That's when the original patrons all get pissed off and flee. Shortly thereafter the hipsters begin to realize that there's nothing but hipsters there, and the suddenly the place becomes "lame" (which is so wickedly funny). So off they go looking for a new well of authenticity to piss in. This is why when I see them I want to beat them over the head with a copy of Simulacra and Simulation. It's the best thing for them, really.

The Hipster Formula: the more authentic they try to become, the more fake they end up being.

Yes.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Just checking here, if I wear a hat like the one below...am I a hipster?http://www.meyerthehatter.com/meyer/product.asp?s_id=0&prod_name=CAPAS%2BLINEN%2BIVY%2BONE%2BPIECE%2BCAP%26amp%3Bpf_id%3DPAOHIDIKFCOIIJOB%26amp%3Bdept_id%3D54

A stetson? No, I'm pretty sure that's gay cowboy.Doublecheck with offdee.

 

[Tiger Fan]

Just checking here, if I wear a hat like the one below...am I a hipster?http://www.meyerthehatter.com/meyer/product.asp?s_id=0&prod_name=CAPAS%2BLINEN%2BIVY%2BONE%2BPIECE%2BCAP%26amp%3Bpf_id%3DPAOHIDIKFCOIIJOB%26amp%3Bdept_id%3D54

A stetson? No, I'm pretty sure that's gay cowboy.Doublecheck with offdee.

guess the link effed up (or you pulled a switch on me)http://www.meyerthehatter.com/meyer/product.asp?s_id=0&prod_name=CAPAS+LINEN+IVY+ONE+PIECE+CAP&pf_id=PAOHIDIKFCOIIJOB&dept_id=54

 

[Osaurus]

Mexican Lasagna Sunday!!! Maybe even catch part of the Pro Bowl.

Mmmmmm

 

[YSR]

Mexican Lasagna Sunday!!! Maybe even catch part of the Pro Bowl.

Recipe, plz.

 

[YSR]

GB cos> .mobi files successfully uploaded. I cannot thank you enough.

 

[Osaurus]

Mexican Lasagna Sunday!!! Maybe even catch part of the Pro Bowl.

Recipe, plz.

Basic recipe. I used 90/10 ground beef today and used way more corn and always double or triple the seasoning. Enjoy.ETA: Used white corn tortillas instead of flour too.

 

[mr. furley]

My wife just came home from the hair dresser. She bought 3 bootleg DVDs (War Horse, The Descendents, and Courageous...which it turns out is a Jesus movie) from some guy, who doesn't speak English, who comes in to the shop every few days. He carries a suitcase full of them. I asked my wife "how do we know that they're good". She replied with "Gator's mom vouched for him".

You can't make this stuff up, people.

 

[mr. furley]

we need one of those google-tracking type things to break down what topics/themes posters use most often

interests for bentley:

drinking

UT

scat pr0n

etc. etc.

 

[Kubes]

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

oh my god. I take back what I said about you last night.

 

[krista4]

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

oh my god. I take back what I said about you last night.

By the way, I'm not replying to anyone's texts any more because I can't tell if they're individual or group texts. :(

And Frosty, you pocket-dialed me this morning.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

I'm going to go on record as saying that if you have to vehemently deny that you are a hipster you might want to reevaluate.

 

[heckmanm]

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

oh my god. I take back what I said about you last night.

By the way, I'm not replying to anyone's texts any more because I can't tell if they're individual or group texts. :(

And Frosty, you pocket-dialed me this morning.

I've "pocket dialed" your avatar a few times, IF you know what I mean.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I'm going to go on record as saying that if you have to vehemently deny that you are a hipster you might want to reevaluate.

He doth protest too much, eh?I love Marlow.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I Thought Tanner would get it's mostly shtick (except that post to Oliver; but that's an opinion I've been carrying around since '05).

The wicked funny thing about that FB thread is it started with RAGING DENIAL SHTICK!@#@, and even though I showed my hand a couple times, most of my non-FFA friends had no idea. The only ones who "got it" were my exstudents and my poet buddy Jay B---.

Some of those people are still raving over there. I had to put an end to it and just blatantly tell them I'm shticking it up.

 

[Bogart]

GB cos> .mobi files successfully uploaded. I cannot thank you enough.

I have been reading non-stop and actually sitting at my parents new computer trying to figure out which of our GB cosjobs' gifts to put on her Kindle. Even going to share with the soon to be ex-wife, if for no other reason that to keep her from spending anymore money.

 

[Kubes]

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

oh my god. I take back what I said about you last night.

By the way, I'm not replying to anyone's texts any more because I can't tell if they're individual or group texts. :(

And Frosty, you pocket-dialed me this morning.

9:13am. That could also have been my son who was running around with my phone like a crazy person for a little while.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

GB cos> .mobi files successfully uploaded. I cannot thank you enough.

I have been reading non-stop and actually sitting at my parents new computer trying to figure out which of our GB cosjobs' gifts to put on her Kindle. Even going to share with the soon to be ex-wife, if for no other reason that to keep her from spending anymore money.

My god I forgot all about this. Never even checked out the selection. Ooof.

 

[proninja]

GB cos> .mobi files successfully uploaded. I cannot thank you enough.

If I never publicly thanked you, here it is GB

 

[shuke]

And Frosty, you pocket-dialed me this morning.

That wasn't his pocket.

 

[-fish-]

I've contributed nothing to this thread for weeks.

 

[Big Papi]

CC - I'm efforting here to fulfil your shtick request, but my first attempt was shot down pretty hard

 

[JaxBill]

Kinda thinking There Will Be Pabst is an awesome band name

 

[krista4]

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

oh my god. I take back what I said about you last night.

By the way, I'm not replying to anyone's texts any more because I can't tell if they're individual or group texts. :(

And Frosty, you pocket-dialed me this morning.

9:13am. That could also have been my son who was running around with my phone like a crazy person for a little while.

Could have been. What sounded like a loud TV in the background.

Frosty> I thought you might like this.

oh my god. I take back what I said about you last night.

By the way, I'm not replying to anyone's texts any more because I can't tell if they're individual or group texts. :(

And Frosty, you pocket-dialed me this morning.

I've "pocket dialed" your avatar a few times, IF you know what I mean.

And Frosty, you pocket-dialed me this morning.

That wasn't his pocket.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

CC - I'm efforting here to fulfil your shtick request, but my first attempt was shot down pretty hard

CC's Hero List1. Thorn2. BigPapi

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Hipster check?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I've contributed nothing to this thread for weeks.

Yeah, no ####.

 

[Big Papi]

Hipster check?

Saw that on Fab