Tuesday, August 17, 2010

HIPSTER RUNOFF

HIPSTER RUNOFF

The guy from the Flaming Lips keeps tweeting pix of his wife’s bare ass

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 05:31 PM PDT

Link: http://yfrog.com/j9psgfj


Wayne Coyne is the lead singer of the Flaming Lips, the alt band that hit the meaningfulcore song “Do Yall Realize???” It seems like he is some sort of ’sexual deviant’ who keeps tweeting pix of his wife’s bare ass when she wakes up in the hotel room. Not sure if twitter is degenerating into a porn site, but I think ‘tweeting nudes’ is a typical strategy for ppl who ‘want more followers.’ Seems like tons of ppl follow u hoping that u will ’share content’ that will ‘get them off.’

Here is his tweet description:

Finally at the hotel in Lisbon ..going to sleep at 10:00 in the morning..fuck yeah…

Do u make ur wife/partner sleep ‘bare assed’ so u can have ur way with them in the middle of the night?

Do u think she has a nice figure? Is she an ‘alt cougar’? Do u think he has been in an open relationship where he gets to ‘tap’ any road ass that he wants?

From what I understand, Wayne Coyne is some sort of ’sexual deviant’ who enslaves alts, and makes them carry him around in bike herds. Seems natural that his wife is forced to chill out in the nude.

Does this alt cougar ass turn u on?
Is Wayne Coyne a ‘pervert’?
Does his wife deserve her privacy, or does he get to do whatever he wants to her body, since he is ‘the breadwinner’?
Are they in some sort of counter-culture relationship?
Is nudity ‘natural’ or ‘pornographic’?

Do u realize
u have the most
beautiful ass

-Wayne Coyne ‘tappin dat a$$’

Is ‘fence jumping’ the most authentic way to enter a music festival?

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 03:43 PM PDT


Just vlogged as I documented the popular phenomenon of ‘fence jumping’, a new authentic way to enter a music festival to see some of today’s most relevant buzzbands (without purchasing an official ticket/wristband/7 day pass). Wanted to give yall an ‘organic feel’, utilizing modern ‘guerrilla journalism’ techniques to bring yall along as I jumped the fence at a relevant music festival. Feeling kinda like an ‘embedded reporter’ during Desert Storm: The Quest for Osama Hussein [via Geraldo Rivera].

As you can see, I was kinda a ‘coward’ since I waited til the fence fell + the security guards were busy chasing other bros when I ‘rushed that shit’, seeking the soft rock crowds watching Chromeo as my ‘Underground Railroad’ 2 freedom. For once in my life, it felt good to ‘disappear into a crowd of people who all looked the same as me.’

Music Festivals are so expensive these days that hardcore authentic alts can’t see their favourite buzzbands while chilling with a social_network of likeminded bros. Festivals seem to be catering more towards ‘rich kids’ who get 3 day passes as their high school graduation gift + young adults who still want to feel like they are ‘young.’ Really prices me out, since I am an authentic buzzband fan without a real job (mainly because I spend all day researching buzzbands for the sake of my own iTunes collection and I am waiting to one day have my own job in ‘the industry’).

Fence jumping is really my only option for experiencing a music festival. Here is footage of me ‘fence jumping’ in some sort of basketball arena during a California electro rave event/Lakers game.

Honestly feel like I’ve always hated ‘fences’ ever since I was a maisntreamer living in suburbia, and my parents had one around our backyard. It seemed like it was meant to ‘guard’ our house, making sure bad ppl didn’t come in during the middle of the night and kill us. After living in an mixed media art residency & organic farming commune for the past 2 months, I feel like I realize that people are inherently ‘chill’ and aren’t looking to steal ur flat screen TVs. Thing fences hold back society.

Is fence jumping a ‘common occurrence?’ Has it been around ’since Woodstock’/Woodstock 99?
Should music festivals just be ‘free’?
Are authentic fans ‘being priced out’ or are there plenty of great ways to get into a music festival for free, like ‘calling into a radio station to try to win tickets’?

Feel like maybe music fans feel like they are entitled to see bands for free since they steal mp3s for free ‘on the reg.’ Maybe artists should start some sort of model where mp3s + merch + admission are ‘free’ if they pay an annual subscription rate.

Seems like fence jumping is probably a ‘huge safety hazard.’ Always go back to this video of Californian tweens trampling one another as they try to ‘hop the fence’ at the Electric Daisy Carnival Music Festival at the Rose Bowl. U can see a few lil electro fans ‘honestly convinced that they are about to die.’

Not sure if this type of chaos happens everywhere, or just in the rave-centric environment of California. Feel like traditional fence jumping is a series of isolated incidences by strategic bros who have circumnavigated the festival grounds multiple times looking for ‘weak points’ in the security line, kinda like  modern, alt version of ‘Normandy: Saving Private Alt.’

What elements do you have to evaluate when you consider fence jumping ur way in2 a festival?
  • How high is the fence + your athletic ability
  • If you really have the right ‘gear’ to jump fences. Tennis shoes / utility boots / no loose clothes + purses that could get caught in the fence
  • Always safe to not take any form of identification, so u can claim ur an insane homeless person if ur caught
  • If you run in a ‘pack’ do you have a better chance of getting thru? Usually there are only 2 to 4 security guards in a certain area
  • Level of security (you don’t want to end up being tackled by a huge black dude with a taser)
  • Is there only one line of fences between your jump point and the crowd space?
  • How quickly can u make it into the safety of the crowd?
  • Does the security guard look like he’ll ‘put a boot in ur ass’ if he catches you?

Might just watch some youtube tutorials to make sure I have good ‘fence jumping technique.’

What can music festivals do to combat fence jumpers?

  • Barbwire fences
  • Electric fences
  • Pit bulls / guard dogs
  • laser fences
  • Building moats around music festivals
  • Increasing police force + pay-as-you-go security guards
  • Working with local government officials to press serious charges against captured fence jumpers, making sure they see jail time so u can ’set an example’
  • Paying police force ‘by commission’ for the number of fence jumpers they catch. This will be fueled by ‘reverse racism’ if the security guards are black, and they have the opportunity to tackle + beat
  • Also white middle aged security guards are effective because they will take out their dissatisfaction with their lives’ on a fence jumper  bc they represent ‘wasted youth’.
  • Hiring some sort of army/militia from a 3rd World country, paying them ‘above market wages’ based on their country’s GDP

Whose side are yall on?
Do you think every1 should be able to see/steal art for free, or do u think music festivals deserve to make money?
Can music festivals make enough money off exclusive sponsorship that the ‘price of admission’ isn’t even necessary any more?
Are John C. Coachella (founder of Coachella) and Jeffrey Lollapalooza ‘rolling around’ in piles of money?
Should fence jumpers be ‘thrown in jail?

Are ‘fences’ just societal constructs that oppress us / create an illusion of ‘property’ which doesn’t really even exist?
Are fences ‘unchill bottlenecks’ that harsh community vibes?

Worried that 1 day festival security guards will have the ‘go-ahead’ to ’shoot-to-kill’ all fence jumpers.

Do u have any good advice for people who run music festivals + fence jumpers to broker some sort of peace?
Should I start some sort of ‘crowd control consulting service’ since there are so many music festivals these days?
Do people rlly need to jump fences since bands play so much/there are so many goddamn music festivals these days?

New York Times admits it utilizes ‘bloggy tactics’ by using word ‘hipster’ in headlines to get hits

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 02:00 PM PDT

Link: http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/everything-old-is-hip-again/#


It seems like the New York Times are trying to ‘rebrand’ and be ‘more than a crappy blog’ that turns every article about young ppl/culture/ into some sort of ‘hipster expose’ / ‘’ piece. Feel like ‘hipster’ headlines get ‘mad hits’, since so many ppl want to find out ‘what makes a hipster tick’ and/or ‘wtf is a hipster?’

Do u think blogs ‘force’ hipster memes to get pageviews from mainstreamers who want to figure out how to be more alt by learning abt hipster/alt trends?
Do u think the modern media has crafted the image of Williamsburg being ‘alt heaven’?

According to the NY Times robot statistician, they used the word 250 times in the past year, up from 19 times in 1990. Seems like maybe the word just ‘means more’ in 2k10.

We try hard to shed our old image as stodgy and out of it. Perhaps too hard, sometimes.

How else to explain our constant invocation of the old/new slang "hipster"? As a colleague pointed out, we've used it more than 250 times in the past year.

Can’t believe they’ve used the word ‘hipster’ so much. Seems like ‘cheap journalism.’ Sorta wish there was a new blog/magazine/newspaper that wasn’t in it for money/pageviews, and only care about the purity of reporting ‘exclusive scoops’:

Our latest infatuation with "hipster" seems to go back several years, perhaps coinciding in part with the flourishing of more colloquial (and hipper) blogs on our Web site. In 1990 we used the word just 19 times. That number rose gradually to about 100 by 2000, then exploded to 250 or so uses a year from 2005 on.

In addition, every time an article is written about Brooklyn, writers must feel pressure to use the word ‘hipster’ in it, because that is where tons of ‘effing hipsters’ live.

Then there's the Brooklyn connection: our archive confirms that Kings County is the very center of hipsterdom. Ninety-six Times pieces in the past year that included the word "hipster" also mentioned Brooklyn, edging out even once-hip Manhattan, which had 87 overlapping mentions. Queens trailed badly with 33, while the Bronx merited only a handful and Staten Island just two.

In any case, hipster's second life as hip slang seems to have lost its freshness. And with so many appearances, I'm not sure how precise a meaning it conveys. It may still be useful occasionally, but let's look for alternatives and try to give it some rest.

Can u replace the word ‘hipster’?
Is it ‘cheap journalism’/'crappy writing’ when
What does ‘hipster’ even mean, yall?

Is ‘hipster culture’ dying or evolving?
Is the ‘hipster’ culture fighting to live on forever, avoiding cultural natural selection?
Did ‘hipsters’ die in 2k_?
Do yall know any1 who calls themselves a ‘hipster’?
Are ‘the original blogs’?
Is the NY Times the biggest ‘hipster basher’ in the world?
Should get more bloggy, or deactivate their blog websites and exist only in paper format?
Will blogs ever be ‘as relevant’ as ?
Will blogs ever go to ‘print format’, or is that part of the business just a ‘huge financial burden’?

Lil Wayne demands Kool Aid and Doritos in prison. Is this headline ‘racist’?

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 11:31 AM PDT

Link: http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/15/lil-wayne-jail-kool-aid-rikers-island-food/


Lil Wayne went to jail just because he owned some guns or something. Not sure if he murdered some1, or was just scared of getting shot and didn’t trust the police. I think this happens to all black rappers, but they probably don’t really go to jail, they just sorta go on hiatus, and use ‘prison’ as an excuse to ‘have a comeback.’ Anyways, Lil Wayne is ‘rotting in prison’ but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t get to order snacks + treats. Just saw this leaked order form from his prison where he requests tons of snacks. Feel like this list might provide some sort of commentary on our ‘fast food nation’, and how different races have an affinity/brand loyalty to different snacks.

Seems like this is his ‘order form’, and he went ahead and chilled on some Kool Aid and .

other highlights seem to be ‘Gatorade’, Ramen, a Halls cough drop (probably to try to simulate purple drank), Ruffles, and “chocolate chip.” Sorta bummed he didn’t go after Nutrigrain bars. Seem kinda healthy, like a ’smart snack.’

Here is some EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of Lil Wayne in his prison cell opening up all of his snacks.

What race are you and what snacks do u eat?
What race are you and what sodas / sugary juices+punches do u drink?
Is Crystal Light ‘for white people’?
Is Emergen-C for white ppl?
Is Kool Aid 4 black people?
Is a ‘universal snack’?
Do u think Mountain Dew is 4 xtreme ppl?
Do u hope Lil Wayne is ‘locked up 4evr’?
Is he overrated as a rapper / human brand?
Should Jay-Z go to jail to win some respect from the black community? Seems like ‘chilling at Coachella’ doesn’t really win him that much cred.

Gen Y lifestyle no longer covets ‘material things’, only digital media that u can store on a hard drive

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 06:57 AM PDT

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10928032


Just read some ‘blog article’ that is trying to be ‘culturally insightful’ about how young people no longer care about material things, and how they just want to live digitally, thru their iPhones, iPads, iMacbooks, and Kindles. People can live ‘digitally’ thru the internet, so u don’t really have to own a bunch of other knick-knacks to pin up on ur walls / fill up bookshelves to ‘prove who u r’ n e more because u can just show people who u r with social media/facebook twitter.

Are you a ’21st Century Minimalist’? Have u gotten rid of all of ur books/CDs/DVDs/blu-rays? (Did u get rid of them to live a simple life, or to get some quick fix drug money?)

Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions – from photographs to furniture to homes altogether.

Let’s face it – digital files, applications and web services are replacing the need for many of the physical goods that pepper our homes, crowd our desks and fill our closets.

Wonder if u can only be a minimalist if ur a Mac User, or if you could get by with an old, bulky Dell Desktop

Sorta worried that life won’t be as meaningful if everything exists digitally. Feel like we need ‘crap’ in our lives’

This bro seems pretty alt. Seems to be ‘from Williamsburg.’ Maybe shoulda made this blog headline showcase the word ‘hipster.’ Do yall ‘effing h8′ young urban adults who rely on technology?

Meet Kelly Sutton, a spiky-haired 22-year-old software engineer with thick-rimmed glasses and an empty apartment in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighbourhood – a hotbed for New York’s young, early adopters of new technology.

Mr Sutton is the founder of CultofLess.com, a website which has helped him sell or give away his possessions – apart from his laptop, an iPad, an Amazon Kindle, two external hard drives, a “few” articles of clothing and bed sheets for a mattress that was left in his newly rented apartment.

This 21st-Century minimalist says he got rid of much of his clutter because he felt the ever-increasing number of available digital goods have provided adequate replacements for his former physical possessions.

“I think cutting down on physical commodities in general might be a trend of my generation – cutting down on physical commodities that can be replaced by digital counterparts will be a fact,” said Mr Sutton.
Kelly Sutton Mr Sutton sold or gave away most of his assets, apart from his iPad, Kindle, laptop and a few other items

The tech-savvy Los Angeles “transplant” credits his external hard drives and online services like iTunes, Hulu, Flickr, Facebook, Skype and Google Maps for allowing him to lead a minimalist life.

“I think the shift to all digital formats in all methods and forms of media consumption is inevitable and coming very quickly,” said Mr Sutton.

Sorta wish I could go crash at this bro’s pad, but he probably doesn’t even have a spare air mattress + extra pillow for me.

Anyways, this article continues to ‘force’ the idea of people who only own a laptop, by creating some new gimmick called “virtual .”

Here is a virtually homeless bro who is actually a DJ. Seems to carry around a lil piano

Chris Yurista, a DJ from Washington, DC, cites this trend in digital music as one reason he was able to hand over the keys to his basement apartment over a year ago.

“It’s always nice to have a personal sense of home, but that aside – the internet has replaced my need for an address,” the 27-year-old said.

Since boxing up his physical possessions and getting rid of his home, Mr Yurista has taken to the streets with a backpack full of designer clothing, a laptop, an external hard drive, a small piano keyboard and a bicycle – an armful of goods that totals over $3,000 (£1,890) in value.

The American University graduate, who spends much of his time basking in the glow emanating from his Macbook, earns a significant income at his full-time job as a travel agent and believes his new life on the digital grid is less cluttered than his old life on the physical one.

“I don’t feel a void living the way I’m living because I’ve figured out a way to use digital technology to my advantage,” Mr Yurista explained.

Mr Yurista feels by digitising his life, he no longer has to worry about dusting, organising and cleaning his possessions. And he says his new intangible goods can continue to live on indefinitely with little maintenance.

Wonder if this bro got evicted. Don’t really know if ‘travel agents’ exist in the expedia/orbitz/kayak/southwest.com era.

Feel like his bros are probably pissed at him for crashing on their couches every goddamn day.

The DJ has now replaced his bed with friends’ couches, paper bills with online banking, and a record collection containing nearly 2,000 albums with an external hard drive with DJ software and nearly 13,000 MP3s.

Have u ever had some1 who just crashed at your apt/house without really ‘being welcome’, and just chilled there for like weeks/months before u had to make up an excuse to kick them out?

Anyways, then they talk about some other digitally homeless bro, who apparently ‘went homeless’ with his wife. Seems impossible. All women get married so that they can be taken care of by their sugar daddie. Not sure if most women would be down with ‘going homeless.’

But Mr Yurista is not the only digital vagabond.

Joshua Klein, a New York City-based technology innovation consultant, also set out on the road with his hard drive.

He and his wife digitised their possessions, got rid of two-thirds of what they owned and headed to the streets of New York for nine months with their laptops.

But Mr Klein and Mr Yurista both admit there are risks involved.

Mr Klein says the lifestyle can become loathsome because “you never know where you will sleep”. And Mr Yurista says he frequently worries he may lose his new digital life to a hard drive crash or downed server.

Do u hope these ‘virtually homeless people’ are shanked in a bum fight, and their macbooks are used as firewood?
Do u think these are just young people who got ‘laid off’ but can’t move home because their parents h8 them?
Is this type of article the ‘antithesis’ of the standard article abt how Gen Y people are moving in with their parents until they find ‘their dream job’?
Do virtually homeless people ‘beg’ for money, or do they just ask ppl to paypal them when they get home?
Are virtually homeless people crowding the streets, stealing the resources + space from ‘authentic homeless people’ who ‘genuinely need help’?

(Not sure if authentic homeless people are allowed to use wifi for 6 hours in a starbucks.)

R u gonna go digital + minimal?
What kind of possessions do u own?
Should I sell my Criterion collection DVDs + Salinger short stories collection?
Do true alts need to ‘collect shit’?
Is it ‘hypocritical’ to ‘not care about material things’ but still need to acquire technological gadgets 2 keep u connected?
Do u live a ‘minimal’ life by choice, or did u max out ur credit card buying Apple products?
Do poor people live a ‘minimalist’ lifestyle, or do they just not have money 2 buy things?
Are homeless people ‘hoarders’ [via shopping carts filled with stuff]?
Do yall h8 articles like this that turn the lives’ of a few ass holes into some sort of ‘cultural phenomenon’?
Gonna just move to suburbia, get a huge TV, and fill my garage up with shit for the next 30 years.

Steve Aoki and the Cobrasnake make some commercial for a deadly rave

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 06:02 AM PDT


Steve Aoki is a popular nightlife DJ, and Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter is a popular photographer + lifestyle personal brand human. They are known as ‘the kings of the LA electro scene’ because they are able to appeal to every1 who wants to be alt in California–white entry level tweens, MexiAlts who just wanna rave, AZNs who drive sweet Honda Civis, and even mainstream dbags who just want to pound their fists in a club while listening 2 an exclusive DJ set by ’some1 famous’ (while being photographed).

Anyways, it seems like they made some sort of commercial for a ‘rave.’ Feel like every music festival in California can be called a ‘deadly rave’ now, since ppl have died at them. Not sure if this is fair, but gonna go ahead and call Coachella a ‘deadly rave’ too.

Not sure if this commercial is ‘on TV’ in the greater Los Angeles area, or if it is just for people to embed on their facebook pages. Seems important to get ‘the endorsement’ of alt celebs so that ppl know an event will be relevant.

Bands. Sick artists. Heavy DJ sets. Tons of hot bitches. Chillin with Stevebro and Cobrabro. Probably some free Energy Drinks. Worried that every music festival is ‘the same’ now since they all book the same artists and offer the same amenities. Hope a music festival offers stadium seating sometime soon.

Does this commercial seem chill?
Do they seem like chill bros?
Is the California Electro Rave scene ‘going mainstream’?
Whenever u hear about a music festival in California, do u get scared that some1 is gonna die?
Do u wish u could work for a media company in California and make movies/commercials?
Are these bros on the ‘front line’ of what is relevant in Los Angeles?
Are Steve Aoki and/or the Cobrasnake ‘relevant’ in 2k11?