Read this article on yawning. You don’t even have to read it. Just scroll through it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawning
Pandiculation
How many times did you yawn during it? Feel free to comment, if you don’t fall asleep first.
Call yourself a hipster or not, I am sure that you’ve partaken in some sort of fashion, beer, music, what-have-you. We’ve all done it. It’s hard not to when you see it everywhere. This is a good attempt at decoding some of this nonsense.
When we see hipsters everywhere we know them, and can pick our their type. There’s no need to pick them out of a crowd, for they are the crowd. I’ve had many conversations about who and where they’ve come from and what we can compare them to in our past. Because, let’s face it. That’s what we do. We look at something in our lives and take a look at history and try to explain it through something familiar to us. It’s how we function, usually.
At first you could say they are comparative to the hippie. But the hippie fought for something right? Peace…..free love….weed. They were fighting for something then, being constructive and demanding. It wasn’t something everyone else made fun of. It was envied and thought of as new. Then I thought, maybe they could be like the Beats- people who have an intellectualism going for themselves. Then I remembered that hipsters aren’t too intellectual and just wear a same brand of strange clothes like the beats did. Then this article (see above link) was presented to me, and it makes perfect sense.
“An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.”
When you see another Christmas sweater, or go into Urban Outfitters thinking it’s going to be a good choice (when it’s not) or when you move to Brooklyn to take photos with your fish eye and go see Best Coast, think again. What’s really going on here?
Here are some websites I’ve come across. You should click them because, well, they’re worth clicking.
http://helvetictoc.com/ aka How Hipsters Tell Time
http://www.unitunitunit.com/qwertybeats/ aka Compose music for a techno party straight from your keyboard
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/infinite-photo/ aka “Duuude, click over there.” “Whoa.”
Every time it ends, keep hitting play for the full picture show.
Vanity Fair just got some serious downgrade points. Also, what the hell?
I lied to all of you, who listened, but who doesn’t lie? We all do it. I had a good reason.
GOT A REAL JOB! Sirius XM Satellite Radio…living in DC, working FULL time in DC, benefits, a pay check. It’s like the real world, only better. The reason I haven’t been here in a while is I signed a contract that my dad explained to me that anything I do write or say belongs to them. Although the contract did really use the words “intellectual property” I talked to my friend Ross at work whom I heard had his own website, and it turns out that I can have a personal blog only if I don’t give away company secrets, innovations or the like. As soon as I found out I couldn’t blog, I was disappointed and sad- thinking of many, many things I could have been blogging. But here I am! And I’m EMPLOYED!
Here is a story on Jame Franco, Freaks & Geeks alumni and all around stoner, bad ass, genius, and handsome man. I read the beginning of it and it is your basic magazine profile. Everyone’s famous columnist (or the growing favorite, shall we say) is David Brooks. I guess there is going to be a lot more of New York Magazine here on this blog, despite the fact that I am now living in DC (!!) I read this WHOLE one and its a good profile, background and its prominent. Check her out.
Everyone knows that Angelina Jolie is hot. Vanity Fair‘s last cover was of her and I bought it, bored and stuck in Buffalo at the moment, to read the cover story. Needless to say she is shooting a new movie with everyone’s favorite, Johnny Depp, in Venice, Italy.
I’ve been hearing about this band, Best Coast. Here is a link to download just an EP of new tunage. I just turned it on and it sounds like a rip off of the Beach Fossils. Or everything might start sounding the same. CHRIST. I feel bad liking both….
I missed you, blog. There is more to come. Don’t worry. Oh and Riley, send me your address: I owe you money. Also, Maureen Dowd is a bad ass.
We all love Seinfeld, that’s agreed upon. Also, most of us love baseball. And to some, yesterday was a sad day with the loss of George Steinbrenner. Luckily one of my favorite ladies who appears on this blog once and a while took a whack at it on this lovely Wednesday.
Maureen Dowd is a cold, powerful woman whose intensity and intelligence surpasses her sweet, sensitive side. She has great red hair and sharp red lipstick to match. Her lips are usually pierced with a smurky smile (see sample photo.) She’s written Are Men Necessary: When Sexes Collide and gave nicknames to Bush and Cheney over the years as “W.” and “Big Time” respectively. She won the Pulitzer for her columns on the Monica Lewinski and Clinton years. Also, she was just featured in this month’s Vanity Fair with A Girl’s Guide to Saudi Arabia. You can see a small piece of her article here. So, basically she’s a bad ass.
Check out her chronicles of Steinbrenner and Seinfeld and don’t be afraid to lurk around her page and read her past contributions. They are usually all pretty terrific.
Most of you, our readers, are meat eaters. Which I am fine with. Sometimes people apologize to vegetarians for eating meat in front of them, or preparing it around them, but there is no need to apologize. As long as you don’t force it upon me, we’re good.
But I am going to propose a little something to you. First of all, check this out.
GOOD magazine did 10 Best Foods for Your Looks. Notice, none of these are meats. One of them is fish. Providing you with natural vitamins to fight the evils of the world, fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil and walnuts (my favorite nut, note) can do things for you that you never thought they could (if you had thought about it.)
Here is what I’m proposing. If you aren’t a vegetarian, I am not asking you to never eat meat again. Try a week of it. Remember our friend Nate Scull? He made a New Year’s resolution to be a vegan and it stuck since. So who knows what can happen. If you refuse to not not eat meat, then just go without it for a week, see how you feel. People like my grandmother are baffled at what the other option is if there is no meat involved. Let me tell you, there’s plenty. Give it a whirl, try something new. No pressure.
Also, if you like making fun of TWILIGHT, read this. It’s hysterical.
If you choose to do something every day, you might build a habit. Like writing, or eating beans. Brushing your teeth does not count. Let’s see if this works.
I’ve never seen grass get so brown so quickly. It’s like every grain and strain can stand on its own, managing multiple colors and personalities. It’s like the grass knows its not supposed to be that color. How do I handle this? It’s nice to sit and think, to new Bob Dylan on the radio. Let your eyes wander out the windows, follow the wind as it moves each individual leaf. They wave. Serene suburbia. What am I doing here?
Remember that book I told you about, EATING ANIMALS, well the author is quite the man. Without realizing his name was the same, my mother was telling me about this short story she read in the New Yorker. Turns out it was him. Jonathan Safran-Foer. There’s something about this time right now that has inspired me to be a writer more than ever. I’m glad I cannot figure it out.
Here’s something. It’s time to eat right and stop waiting for people’s calls. If there is too much communication, like there is now, we might all just get sick of each other. Some movie once said, constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating. Let’s try and remember that, eh? How about we ask some questions and revert back to new ways of doing things. If something is not right with the world, even if it’s just your world, why not change it?
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