Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Tip #13: Ways to cheat life

0 comments
Hi Hipsters!

I was FINALLY inspired today! This morning as I was heading out the door I decided that I wasn’t going to wear boots today. Instead, I made the conscious decision to be unbelievably impractical and wear my really cool, super old, falling apart, beige and off-white oxfords. The entire bottom is hanging off the right shoe and my poor little foot is left completely exposed. I didn’t care though. I threw caution to the wind and I put on my oxfords! To my surprise, the bottom seemed to have miraculously healed itself! But no, it was no miracle my friends. To my surprise, my impulse decision to purchase Elmer’s cement glue last week when I faced a similar predicament with my Peter Pan boots had paid off! Some how this glue that is intended for posters and projects managed to hold the torn up bottom of my shoe together. And that’s when my inspiration finally came. The perfect hipster tip, maximizing time spent immobile and minimizing money spent. I will pass on my firsthand knowledge of ways to get around the fact that your clothes either a) don’t fit you but were too one of a kind to pass up on at Salvation Army last Wednesday (which is half off day if you all didn’t know) or b) are a little less vintage and a little more left-on-the-side-of-the-road-by-a-homeless-man-and-picked-up-by-goodwill. With these tips, you’ll never have to take your shoes to a cobbler or your romper to a tailor again (but it doesn’t really matter either way because it isn’t as though you actually ever got around to getting them fixed in the first place).

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Holiday Musings

0 comments
Sorry I’ve been so MIA lately. Like any true hipster I’ve been struggling with existential crisis after existential crisis so naturally my priorities were as follows:
1. Figure out who I am, what my purpose is, and the meaning of life.
2. Blog.

But I decided to give up on my search for meaning. I’m just a kid. I’m just going to do things that kids do or something.

So that brings us to number two on my priorities list, resolving the US conformity crisis. I’ve been racking my brain all week to think of the perfect hip tip for you all but have failed miserably. However, I did have a hipster-related revelation and that’s what I’ll be sharing with you today.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Tip #12: Stop Drinking PBR (this is a long one)

0 comments
Oh my lovely little hipsters. Thanksgiving is a time for families to gather from the far corners of the globe for one painfully non PC holiday that involves a lot of forced smiles, turkzillas (mom's who get a little too serious about the food), and alcohol. So much alcohol. At least in my family, we find that after the fourth bottle of wine (give or take) that we really enjoy our relatives and all of their extremely specific sleeping/eating/bathing/breathing/hearing habits…

So what will you be drinking my tipsy trendsetters? And THERE - I got you! You were just thinking about PBR weren't you?! Well? Admit it! And that is where I draw the line. This may hit a nerve with some of you but I need to settle this Pabst Blue Ribbon shit once and for all.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Another boring update

0 comments
Yeah, sorry no new interesting content, instead I have been slaving away trying to get things to run smoothly. So, exciting news (not really) but we now have a Twitter. I am a little tweet-inept so please bear with me. If you have a Twitter account go follow us and watch out for the ramblings and random hipster sightings.

Hipster Survival @ Twitter

Do it for America

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Interweb news

0 comments
Hello people! Columbia and I haven't posted in a bit because were letting our creative juices marinate/it's been a busy week... Anyway, not my point. I have just set up a tumblr version of the site just to help spread the word and make it a little easier for those who already have tumblr to follow us. We know blogspot isn't as popular now, but I do like its features and tools so we are keeping this page. Our "home base" of sorts. There will probably be some random posts, ramblings, performance art - etc that wont be posted on the tumblr page. Mainly because every time we post here I have to use that last bit of my energy to shuffle everything over to the other site.

So, if ya got a tumblr follow us (we will reciprocate the love) and if ya don't have one help spread the word in any way you can!


Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Tip #11: Suppress Your Inner Pack Rat

0 comments
I have tried to figure out why it is that hipsters love layers. Just jeans and a tee is too easy, anyone could have done it. However, whether it's flannels or chunky necklaces a hipster will pile on the love till they resemble some sort of walking/talking thrift store. And I think I know why, we're ALL pack rats! Who else would willingly shop in store that is essentially all junk? Grandpa Milton's sweater vest from the 1950's?! Score! We love getting lots of things and surrounding ourselves with our stuff... whether it be in the cavern of clothes that is my dorm room or on my body.

However, I think herein lies the reason for many a hipster failure. Now you don't need to watch that show Hoarders (despite it really being one of the most compelling dramas on television - PLUS totally ironic because it's reality television on the A&E channel) to know that a pack rat can rarely be swayed to drop their mounds of junk. Sometimes this works for a hipster! Fear not - Columbia and I know how naked hipster's feel without their several layers, patterns, and accessories. Without them it really just feels like you didn't even try to be indie fresh (gasp!). And while we strive for a look that seems disheveled, when you actually put no effort forth you become what all hipsters fear... a really normal looking person.

But, I am failing to get to my point...

Monday, November 15, 2010

This is not a tip. I just need to be heard sometimes.

0 comments
I wrote a super deep poem just now and sent it to my dear Brooklyn in a facebook message. I'd post it here, but exposing such substantial material to the brainwashed minds of consumer America whom are active on the internet would be overwhelming to their capacities for thought. So instead I'm going to post this super hilarious, super ironic picture of the internet's favorite hipsters:
Peace, Love, and Existentialism!