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2505475 No.2505475 [Reply] [Original]

>Anon, are you a hipster?
>Why do you dress like it's the 50s?
>Are you reading another book that no one's heard of?

>> No.2505479
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>implying explaining my complex patrician tastes to a plebe is worth my time

>> No.2505483
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>hipster

>> No.2505484
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>This is anon. He watches black and white movies. You're such a hipster, anon!

>> No.2505488

>>genuinely enjoy classic movies and literature
>> be called a hipster

Well fuck this.

>> No.2505490

>Are you reading another book that no one's heard of?
Always. But this one isn't indicative of /lit/ as a whole at all.

>> No.2505491

>>2505475
>uses the word hipster.
I walk away and never speak to you again.

>> No.2505498
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>>genuinely enjoy parliment cigarettes, PBR, v-neck shirts, keffiyah scarves, being an aggressive power bottom, charles ives, antonioni, and paul eluard
>> be called a hipster

Well fuck this.

>> No.2505500

>>2505488
>be good looking... no, be average looking.
Get called a hipster by fat ugly metalheads.

>> No.2505508

I would never try to delve into obscurity for its own sake and I'm not even sure I have the resources to manage it. That leaves me caught between total pluralism of taste to combat the limitations of my social capital and 'prostituting my literacy' as Adrian Mole puts it. Catch 22.

>> No.2505510

>>2505491
he is probably a pleb, you're not missing out

>> No.2505511

>>2505498
>>>>>genuinely enjoy PBR
Nope.avi

>> No.2505514

white people need to stop wearing keffiyahs.

>> No.2505517

>not listening to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea while reading Infinite Jest

casuals.

>> No.2505524
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>>2505498

>Power bottom

>> No.2505529

>Haven't changed my Bernard Black style in ten years
>The Eternal Hipster Cycle eventually swings round to my style
>Get called a hipster for three months or so
>It moves on to skinny jeans or something

No one can win, unless you play the fashion game, in which the only winning move is not to play.

>> No.2505534

>>2505529
read that back to yourself to find the contradiction

>No one can win, unless you play

>the only winning move is not to play.

>> No.2505557
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2505557

I'm embracing the term hipster, reappropriating it like the blacks took back nigger.

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>>2505529
Did your suit start out white?

>> No.2505560

>>2505557
a real hipster would derive something from hep instead.

>> No.2505569

>>2505560

How about "hepster" ?

>> No.2505587

>>2505534
I am aware of the contradiction. No one can win or not win. That's the fuck of it.

>> No.2505599
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2505599

Dear me, not at all. Counterculture has become the new culture. All these bearded lumberjack looking men and all these harpy feminist women are repulsive. I am going against the flow by returning to a more civilized time.

Pic related, it's Hector Berlioz, a right proper gentleman like myself.

>> No.2505622

>>2505557

10/10 for the subtle reference to Normal Mailer's essay on hipsterism.

>> No.2505865

>why do you talk so funny
>why do you mean
>why are you wearing that
>are you gay (mum)
>are you autistic (dad)

>> No.2505933

>>2505599
The Victorian era was truly the best era.

>> No.2506009

>>2505508
What do you mean by "prostituting my literacy"?

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>> No.2506032

>>2506024

lol

>> No.2506043

>>2505500

>be a faggot that nobody likes
>waaaa stupid metalheads ;__;

>> No.2506050

>>2505475
Damn it Bill put on a shirt and stop being an asshole to my tastes.

>> No.2506067
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>Genuinely enjoy /lit/erature
>Call out people reading shit like harry potter or the hunger games
>Enjoy listening to "weird" music (powerviolence, harsh noise, noise rock, doom metal, black metal"
>dress /fa/shionably (no graphic tees, no skate shoes unless I'm out skating, etc)
>Enjoy classic films, foreign films, arthouse films, anything with Ellen Page
>Don't waste my time playing video games, watching anime, or smoking, and express my disdain for people who do
>Get called a hipster
Hipstie for life

>> No.2506074

>>2506067
>Call out people reading shit like harry potter or the hunger games
>Don't waste my time playing video games, watching anime, or smoking, and express my disdain for people who do

this is why people call you a hipster

also fuck you, you raging shit

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>>2506067
>no skate shoes unless I'm out skating
>unless I'm out skating
>skating

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>>2506074
I assume you do one of the following things and are currently anally anguished?

>> No.2506079

>>2506077
yeah because i literally have you up my butt

up

in

my

butt

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>>2506075
Skating's fun man
I have friends who skate, and it's better to do enjoyable physical excercise than wasting $10 to go see a movie

>> No.2506083

>>2506067
Ah, Ellen Page, the work of a Pygmalion. At least in that photo.

>> No.2506085

>>2506082
>not downloading movies

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>>2506079

>> No.2506116

>>2506085
>Watching a movie on a shitty little screen in your shitty room that seeps light from every which way

Enjoy never having a proper cinematic expirience. Fuck You.

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>>2506116
>this guy also thinks it's important to smell books in order to have the "proper literary experience"

YGSIU

>> No.2506123

>>2506116
>Not connecting your plasma screen to your computer

>> No.2506132

>>2506123
>Thinking a shitty plasma is as good as a cinema projection
Fuck You

>> No.2506196

>>2506122
I straight up hate you, ya dig?

>> No.2506584

>>2505475
Wait the 1950s are hipster now?
Does that mean I have to start hating Mad Men?

>> No.2506634

>>2506067
>All these assumptions
>Blatant defensive narcissism
I sympathize with you if you don't want to be called a hipster but you seem like an insufferable person.

>> No.2506639

>>2506123

>not ordering the 35MM print and then projecting it in your shitty dorm room bathrooms

>> No.2506661

Am I being asked this by naked Bill Murray?

Can we get some context here OP?

>> No.2506666

>>2505483
>>2505524

>Beat generation
>Hipsters

You apparently don't know anything about modern hipsters

>> No.2506669

>>2506666

You apperently don't know anything about classic hipsters.

>> No.2506671

>>2506669
Yes, i really do. I'm pretty well read on the beat generation. Read almost the entire Duluoz Legend, John Clellon Holmes, Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs, Cassady, Gregory Corso, Ferlinghetti etc. And it makes me furious when people compare these brilliant minds to the modern pretentious hipster faggots.

>> No.2506676

>>2506671

I like the beats too, but come on, they were pretentious hipster faggots a lot of the time. Just take On the Road.

>I listen to jazz you probably haven't heard of it other white kids
>omg black people so authentic, white culture isn't
>smoking weed in mexico with mexicans, so authentic and sincere
>working class truckdrivers, so authentic omg, this is the real america
>namedropping people like Nietzsche and Goethe without any actual reason to do so
>etc.

>> No.2506682

>>2506676
Haha okay that MAY be true. But to quote the beginning of The Subterreaneans. "They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual as hell and know all about Pound without being pretentious or talking too much about it, they are very quiet, they are very Christlike".
I know it's just a quote but that pretty much sums up my trust in a least Jack Kerouacs non-Hipsterdom. And On The Road started the entire beat scene which evolved into the hipster scene but you can't really call Naked Lunch hipster can you?

>> No.2506683

>>2505933
But did they have toilet paper?

>> No.2506694

>>2506682
Burroughs would be my main problem in this case. Although cutting up your work and making a random collage of it sounds a bit dadaist (first generation of post-WW1 hipsters).

Kerouac was very sincere and sometimes painfully so, even in his pretentiousness. That's why I love him. In the end he is more of an awkward introvert basement dweller than one of the cool kids.

>> No.2506699

>>2506694
Yeah i agree about Kerouac but to call the dadaists hipsters? I don't know..
Well I'm young, 18, hipster-age... And Kerouac has been (and is) somewhat of my role model. God, i don't want to be compared to these Lady Gaga loving freaks.

Anyways, have you read Desolation Angles? Thats my favorite

>> No.2506706

>>2506699
I've only read On The Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Lonesome Traveler. I liked the second one the most, mostly because I find Japhy a far more interesting and inspiring guy than Dean. The Dharma Bums partly shares the Desolation Angels scenario, right?

Also, listen to the Kerouac recordings with Steve Allen if you haven't done so already. Glorious stuff.

>> No.2506709

>>2506706
Yes, Kerouac is a magnificent reader!
Desolation Angels takes place right after Dharma Bums and focuses somewhat on Kerouacs Christian beliefs struggeling against his Buddhist beliefs. Its very well written.
On the Road sure is a good novel but nothing like the Dharma Bums, i agree. Japhy and the whole Bodhisattva story truly is inspiring.

>> No.2506813

>>2506676
>>2506676

>mfw Sal Paradise realises that conformity is inevitable at the end of the novel
>mfw On the Road embraces counter culture but its ultimate message is that one must conform eventually as opposed to travelling around doing fuck all

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>>2506813
That's true. But he doesn't seem to come back to the apparent shallowness of the way their pursuit of the worthwhile life ultimately seems to have. The impossibility of nonconformity is addressed, not it's vanity. At least in On the Road. The Dharma Bums and Big Sur are more interesting concerning that matter.

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2507238

Just finished reading "Fahrenheit 451, any suggestions for other books with the subject dystopia?

I already read "1984" and "brave new wold"

>> No.2507247

>>2507238
Handmaids Tale, We, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

>> No.2507249

>>2507238
The Trial

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