Hipsters LOLOL also lifeguarding
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
I read this article today it was pretty good, I would really recomend it. And I really want to buy a copy of adbusters so that...I can be a hipster. adbusters mentions hipster magazines but I've always thought of adbusters as one of the biggest hipster magazines, but I guess really it's a lot more focused on change and consumer issues than the hipster subculture is. Like everything past 2005 including the hipster subculture just seems so meta.
and I think really the worst thing is that this subculture is so large and encompassing but really has no goal. internet cancer like 4chan, even they have goals like scientology protests, but the hipster subculture seems to be really just a large consumer group.
And I don't understand fixed gear bikes they don't fucking have breaks what is that shit
Speaking of bikes I need to do something with mine so that I can take it to smcm in 3 days. The breaks are um....super squeaky and I don't like that very much seeing as they don't work very well. O god espeically not in the rain. I tried to stop my bike in the rain and went a dozen yards or so before I started to stop. But I guess road-bike tires aren't good at stopping in rain, they don't have much of a tread.
I go back Wednesday which is very exciting.
Today was my last day of lifeguarding for the summer. Maybe forever. I enjoy it but I'd really like to RA somewhere next summer and take some classes etc. And I think RAing looks a lot better on a resume than lifeguarding. But neither probably look all that stunning.
The only two people I really enjoyed working with were Beth and Katie. I told Katie that it was nice working with her and left; everyone else I didn't really mind just leaving. Oh and I started reading Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities last week and it's just a really solid book. I was reading a nonfiction book "Everything bad is good for you" and one of the biggest points about Television is that more and more dramas are becoming multi threaded, meaning there are several storylines in each episode that start and stop, and they all interweave but aren't always solved/concluded at the end of the episode. It's really evident in a show like The Wire, where you have the police, drug dealers, and another group or two all with separate stories, all of the stories coming together throughout the show. In "Bonfire of the Vanities" there's a D.A., a day trader, religious gropus and the press (and maybe more I'm 2/5 of the way through), and I just thought it was interesting how there was this multithreading in a book from the 80s, which then shows up in television a decade and a bit later. But mabye books have been doing this for awhile I don't really, I just found it to be an interesting parallel.
Need to go shopping
I read this article today it was pretty good, I would really recomend it. And I really want to buy a copy of adbusters so that...I can be a hipster. adbusters mentions hipster magazines but I've always thought of adbusters as one of the biggest hipster magazines, but I guess really it's a lot more focused on change and consumer issues than the hipster subculture is. Like everything past 2005 including the hipster subculture just seems so meta.
and I think really the worst thing is that this subculture is so large and encompassing but really has no goal. internet cancer like 4chan, even they have goals like scientology protests, but the hipster subculture seems to be really just a large consumer group.
And I don't understand fixed gear bikes they don't fucking have breaks what is that shit
Speaking of bikes I need to do something with mine so that I can take it to smcm in 3 days. The breaks are um....super squeaky and I don't like that very much seeing as they don't work very well. O god espeically not in the rain. I tried to stop my bike in the rain and went a dozen yards or so before I started to stop. But I guess road-bike tires aren't good at stopping in rain, they don't have much of a tread.
I go back Wednesday which is very exciting.
Today was my last day of lifeguarding for the summer. Maybe forever. I enjoy it but I'd really like to RA somewhere next summer and take some classes etc. And I think RAing looks a lot better on a resume than lifeguarding. But neither probably look all that stunning.
The only two people I really enjoyed working with were Beth and Katie. I told Katie that it was nice working with her and left; everyone else I didn't really mind just leaving. Oh and I started reading Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities last week and it's just a really solid book. I was reading a nonfiction book "Everything bad is good for you" and one of the biggest points about Television is that more and more dramas are becoming multi threaded, meaning there are several storylines in each episode that start and stop, and they all interweave but aren't always solved/concluded at the end of the episode. It's really evident in a show like The Wire, where you have the police, drug dealers, and another group or two all with separate stories, all of the stories coming together throughout the show. In "Bonfire of the Vanities" there's a D.A., a day trader, religious gropus and the press (and maybe more I'm 2/5 of the way through), and I just thought it was interesting how there was this multithreading in a book from the 80s, which then shows up in television a decade and a bit later. But mabye books have been doing this for awhile I don't really, I just found it to be an interesting parallel.
Need to go shopping