Hipsters, k?
We are hipsters, alright?
Do you know what the fuck that means?
People who read dead trees on white bread like the Herald and the fucking Listener know that we know what is cool, even if some of you stupid fuckers don't.
Do you know what we do all day? We ruthlessly take the piss out of one another and deliver ferocious cuts to the ego concerning theories on musical and fashion trends, and new directions in modern thinking.
So if some of you little fucking teeny boppers don't back up off of our shit you are gonna be made an example of, because it runs deeply in our veins and we can't just stand here tolerating your obnoxious affronts with a plastic smile on our faces, like you will ever even concieve what it is to be connoisseurs of cool such as we.
To all our hipster friends, it's all good. Just taking out a bit of human trash here on the 'space before it becomes a pest control issue.
Now anyone around the compound this morning may have heard Zed playing, but I assure you this was simply an abberration caused by the fact that our mother/aunty was visiting and she wanted to listen to her "Nature's best" CD.
Now in other news . . . new track
"GET SOME PUSSY!"
featuring local electro maniac rave freak 4.5 hertz!!
especially for our friend albi, the white pussy!!!
"We gots cats cold rockin like strays at foodtown
We gotta get some pussy yeah up in this thing now
So all you tabbys and all you long hairs
Gotta get some pussy now, just like the compound says!"
get some pussy!
get some pussy!
GET SOME PUSSY!
GET SOME PUSSAY!!!
YEAH, AND YOU KNOW THIS!!!!
AND WE'RE COMING UP ON OUR 1000th add!!!
Definately celebrations and messages of love and respect to ensue!
I said “Hipsters, K?”
I repeat, for those who didn't get it the first time!
We are hipsters and we are intellectuals.
We are university men and have a proud history rooted in Grey Lynn and 12 years experience of the uptown hipster scene.
Hipsters are ferocious beasts who prey upon unsuspecting Teeny Boppers with no knowledge of hip or intellectual ways. But we have put these ways aside in the spirit of comraderie, oneness, unity, and understanding.
But if you fucking little teeny boppers don't engage your brains before asking us stupid fucking questions YOU WILL BE MADE AN EXAMPLE OF.
I mean you could . . . use your brain . . to get your eyes to read . . . our profile . . . y'know?
I'm sorry but it's in our very nature as snide, pretentious hipsters to do so. We will repost you as a bulletin, and your picture, and your stupid questions in a bulletin to all our friends, k?
ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A DISRESPECTFUL TONE.
Who are you?
Are you a band?
What are you trying to do?
Why do you post bulletins all the time?
What are you talking about?
Do you understand how much of this we get? Fuck off, already!
If you're that much of an idiot, we can't really help you with that, I'm sorry! But be quiet and you might fucking learn something!
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Hipsters vs Scenesters: Learning the difference
Today we're going to be learning some fundamental lessons on subcultural societies and values. Fundamentally, the two main strands by which subcultural information is reinforced and appropriated.
A hipster is someone who follows what is percieved to be cool by consensus - with a fundamental awareness of this fact, and the long history of hip that it has developed from. This is though to stem from combinations of the Romantic poets and writers of what was dubbed “pulp fiction” in the 19th century and the theories developed upon the concept of Dialectical Materialism developed by Karl Marx, and the emancipation of labour. This continues with the expansion of the middle class Post WWII war, and the creation of the “Teenager” as a distinct social identity. Perhaps more on the development of leisure, and the consequent rise of counter culture at another point.
A hipster is aware that though the 80’s and what are 4th wave “punks” are cool - or perhaps simply just popular, just as house music was popular in the late 90’s and Grunge was cool in the very early 90’s, it will not always be cool in the timeless manner of say, The Velvet Underground for example, or perhaps David Bowie, or Bob Marley who remain in a stasis of cool though even this is not an ongoing certainty to any adaptable hipster, for example, Bob Dylan, whose hipster uber icon status has looked tenuous at points.
The early pioneers of modern day hip, were of course those such as Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, who discovered by adapting, and forgoing arbitrary notions of "scene" they could continue to be relevant as icons. It is of course Madonna who continues to lead research to the extent to which this theory applies and the half life of that which is hip.
A hipster knows that what is cool today, may not necessarily be cool tomorrow, and is ready and adaptable.
A scenester is someone who believes that what they believe to be cool now, has already achieved a state of inert coolness. Sometimes this is the result of a passionate personality with deep commitment to personal beliefs and values, but more often is the result of the bearing of such a personality on another, weaker personality, who is easily told what is cool and what to believe in.
Often insecure about their beliefs, unlike the steadfast “Alpha” scenesters, they seek to appropriate scene motifs and scene regalia in an attempt to underline and enforce (or perhaps even “compound”) the sometimes uncertain reality of their identity and their friendships within the all important "scene".
Of course we are not making a judgement about wether being a Hipster whose concept of what is cool is fluid, based around a few erudite concepts, is better than being a Scenester, whose identity is a heavily prescribed amalgamation of concepts that are still being formed at the forefront of subcultural developments.
It is merely an effort to help foster understanding between hipster and scenester communities, as hipsters often eschew the thoughtless arbitrations of scenesters, while scenesters struggle with the inherent dynamicism of hipsters with it's groundless uncertainty.
A hipster is someone who follows what is percieved to be cool by consensus - with a fundamental awareness of this fact, and the long history of hip that it has developed from. This is though to stem from combinations of the Romantic poets and writers of what was dubbed “pulp fiction” in the 19th century and the theories developed upon the concept of Dialectical Materialism developed by Karl Marx, and the emancipation of labour. This continues with the expansion of the middle class Post WWII war, and the creation of the “Teenager” as a distinct social identity. Perhaps more on the development of leisure, and the consequent rise of counter culture at another point.
A hipster is aware that though the 80’s and what are 4th wave “punks” are cool - or perhaps simply just popular, just as house music was popular in the late 90’s and Grunge was cool in the very early 90’s, it will not always be cool in the timeless manner of say, The Velvet Underground for example, or perhaps David Bowie, or Bob Marley who remain in a stasis of cool though even this is not an ongoing certainty to any adaptable hipster, for example, Bob Dylan, whose hipster uber icon status has looked tenuous at points.
The early pioneers of modern day hip, were of course those such as Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, who discovered by adapting, and forgoing arbitrary notions of "scene" they could continue to be relevant as icons. It is of course Madonna who continues to lead research to the extent to which this theory applies and the half life of that which is hip.
A hipster knows that what is cool today, may not necessarily be cool tomorrow, and is ready and adaptable.
A scenester is someone who believes that what they believe to be cool now, has already achieved a state of inert coolness. Sometimes this is the result of a passionate personality with deep commitment to personal beliefs and values, but more often is the result of the bearing of such a personality on another, weaker personality, who is easily told what is cool and what to believe in.
Often insecure about their beliefs, unlike the steadfast “Alpha” scenesters, they seek to appropriate scene motifs and scene regalia in an attempt to underline and enforce (or perhaps even “compound”) the sometimes uncertain reality of their identity and their friendships within the all important "scene".
Of course we are not making a judgement about wether being a Hipster whose concept of what is cool is fluid, based around a few erudite concepts, is better than being a Scenester, whose identity is a heavily prescribed amalgamation of concepts that are still being formed at the forefront of subcultural developments.
It is merely an effort to help foster understanding between hipster and scenester communities, as hipsters often eschew the thoughtless arbitrations of scenesters, while scenesters struggle with the inherent dynamicism of hipsters with it's groundless uncertainty.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Classic Myspace Bulletins 11: Bored on myspace
Bored?
We haven't been bored since '93.
True story.
Why? And how? We are hipsters. We embody the quest for art and knowledge everyday here at the Compound. It drives us like an engine, combusting raw fuels of inspiration into hard fast monuments of our existance, compounded again and again into new totems of hyper-reality, till they are but dust, and our spirit soars beyond the realms of living memory.
And when unrest bothers the mind, none other than the knives and razors of wit and conjecture are produced, cutting from the bloated hulk, debating the very clarity of hipster certainty, for it is nothing but tomorrow.
Now You wouldn't be the types of girls who sit around preening and primping because your boyfriends in a band and you are happy to draw your hipness by association?
For shame!
We are:
Critics
Musicians
Writers
Performers
Actors
Theorists
Philosophers
Media Terrorists
Film Makers
Photographers
Artists
Partakers of substances
Coffee Drinkers
and in sum all hipsters and intellectuals, every one. Fine arts float amongst the very plasma that pumps our blood. Do you want to die unknown, unwitnessed? Was your life surmountable to that of the lemming whose only joy and drive was to follow others and abruptly curtail it's own existance?
Boredom has no name here.
We are the people of the compound!
We haven't been bored since '93.
True story.
Why? And how? We are hipsters. We embody the quest for art and knowledge everyday here at the Compound. It drives us like an engine, combusting raw fuels of inspiration into hard fast monuments of our existance, compounded again and again into new totems of hyper-reality, till they are but dust, and our spirit soars beyond the realms of living memory.
And when unrest bothers the mind, none other than the knives and razors of wit and conjecture are produced, cutting from the bloated hulk, debating the very clarity of hipster certainty, for it is nothing but tomorrow.
Now You wouldn't be the types of girls who sit around preening and primping because your boyfriends in a band and you are happy to draw your hipness by association?
For shame!
We are:
Critics
Musicians
Writers
Performers
Actors
Theorists
Philosophers
Media Terrorists
Film Makers
Photographers
Artists
Partakers of substances
Coffee Drinkers
and in sum all hipsters and intellectuals, every one. Fine arts float amongst the very plasma that pumps our blood. Do you want to die unknown, unwitnessed? Was your life surmountable to that of the lemming whose only joy and drive was to follow others and abruptly curtail it's own existance?
Boredom has no name here.
We are the people of the compound!
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