GPOY: kitty kat edition
another photo from last night’s cat party, courtesy of Ryry
GPOY: kitty kat edition
another photo from last night’s cat party, courtesy of Ryry
today on the internet: Lana Del Ray Dancing
I AM NOT A HIPSTER
Are you hipster if you watch I’m not a hipster?
…and other important questions of our generation
(Source: hipsterdate)
Sources (my kids) say that this trend [oversize glasses] used to be considered hipster, but from the little I understand about hipsters, they have already abandoned this practice if they think everyone else is doing it. This reminds me of my favorite Dr. Seuss story about the Sneetches, who all want stars on their bellies, until they don’t.
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Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune reporter
(full opinion: Geeky eyeglasses are hot fashion, not necessarily functional)
ARTICLES I WANTED BUT DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO READ THIS WEEK: PART 28
happy weekend, friends! here’s some articles you can read. or, if you prefer, some pithy descriptions of articles i didn’t read yet wrote about anyway. ignorant self-involved opinions - it’s almost like i’m a real writer on the internet, eh? enjoy!
TO READ:
- Lana Del Rey in the New Yorker
- then LDR again in the Observer, something about Pitchfork
- then LDR in Esquire, with Florence of the Machine - apparently this one you want to read
- and then a critique of the Esquire writeup in the Toronto Sun (are you exhausted yet?)
- Barnes and Nobles is saving the printed book, nytimes
- since reading “Blood, Bones and Butter,” this bit about author/chef Gabrielle Hamilton intrigued me, the pitch
- a hipster grows in Bay Ridge? (i’m just as confused as you), L Mag
- super PACs have hit sad times. the photo here is cool, Atlantic
- if you’ve ever wondered how to make Google work for you (for good, evil or stalking your ex), The Hairpin has the comprehensive guide
- poor tUnE-yArDs - it’s so hard being adored, says a man with the same type of critical adoration, Grantland
- need to take your Brooklyn beau on a date? the L Mag has 13 scenarios that all end in you getting laid
- why brainstorming is crap, and how to save the time-wasting practice, Fast Company
- on choosing to be a lesbian, Thought Catalog
- on dressing like Kate Middleton and where to buy her coats, The Cut
- y’all, Ja Rule’s been in jail for two years. but it’s ok, he made lots of new friends, with old white dudes. i see Steve Murray playing one of them in the film version. Kevin Hard in the lead, Daily News
- someone asked Fran Lebowitz’s writer’s block to take a hike. for once, i agree with Thought Catalog
- Amy Poehler wrote a very amazing letter on behalf of Planed Parenthood. girl power, indeed!
- a great marketing use for Instagram, Mashable
- lady mags are doing it for themselves (it being redesign), nytimes
- why your selfish choice to go to a private college is killing your parents’ retirement dreams, and other guilt trips via Bloomberg Business Week
- even if i hate the idea of “Girls,” i still love television made by lady writers. This Recording’s piece on “Up All Night” explains exactly why Maya Rudolph rocks
- comediennes, have you figured out how to be prettier yet? BuzzFeed
TO WATCH/LISTEN:
- Kanye’s documentary about the middle east, when it comes out, NYObserver
- if seeing HBO’s “First Look” on Lena Dunham’s new show “Girls” doesn’t make you feel adequately enraged, i want to hear about it
- there’s a (new?) “Hunger Games” trailer
- Kate Bolick on Agenda with Steve Pailik - this one’s just for my research. but feel free to enjoy it too
- that new Madonna video for us to poo poo on, Vulture
- a 30-second recap of that new “hipster-douchey” MTV show, Gawker
- this video of a poor girl getting beat up takes place at the mall near my high school we all visited once a year, for the volunteer hours
TO BUY ME:
- everything in Jonathan Saunders’ latest collection - the prints! the colors! the silhouettes! it’s all so lovely, Stylecaster
- these pants Solange was wearing. she might be the less famous Knowles, but she has more fun with fashion than older sister Beyonce, Vogue
(photo via)
SXSW REVEALS FULL 2012 FEATURE FILM LINEUP
Can I go now please?
and ooh boy are there a lot of them!
I think I have cracked the Ryan Gosling code.
The line between “hipster” culture and “jock” culture is starting to fade.
Suddenly hipsters are into organized sports and find once indie girls, now “overrated”. Suddenly jocks and business bros are active in Williamsburg on a Saturday night and are into bands like Wild Beasts and Tallest Man on Earth. I was once at a bar in Philly when a Neutral Milk Hotel song came on the speakers and this group of drunk pink polos started grabbing at each other, high fiving each other and generally being obnoxious as they sang along, bud lites in hand and eyes tightly closed.
“This song is the the fucking best, man. I love the album.”
In “hipster” culture, its ironic to wear a baseball cap and drink beer at a sports bar while suddenly being interested in hockey. For jocks its finally cool to admit that there is more to life than the Dallas Cowboys, cars and boobs (but not a whole lot more). Being indie is sexy and main stream now. The 80s are over. The cold business brat is over. Being cool, is uncool.
I personally welcome the change. The sooner “hipster” generation gets over them selves and admits that they never heard of The Shins until they saw Garden State, and jocks can open up and write poetry, the sooner I can come out and say that I read mostly the Post over the Times because it has more pictures in it.
And that’s why Ryan Gosling is so perfect right now. He is the perfect mix between tender heart, silent creative genius and Brooklyn speaking buff jock. He is a hybrid of what everyone wants to be. Take off the glasses and the ukulele and he really is just a very very talented good looking buff Hollywood DUDE. But add the band, the masculine nonchalant necklace and a dog and you’ve got an ARTIST.
Mari cracked the code.
don’t just look at the picture and think something obvious like “marry me” or “yummm.” don’t just look at the picture, think something obvious and reblog with a generic comment like “get in my pants” or “marry me” or “yummm.” do actually read the post above and think about it. i’m not sure i agree with the post above but i did read it. and i like the argument enough that i’ll give it til the morning for my brain to decide
(Source: ryangoslingaddicted)
"Science Figures Out How You Become a Hipster" - Jezebel
apparently, Harvard students these days have nothing better to do than study “the Facebook pages of 200 college students over four years” (read: their friends) and ultimately determine that “students who shared similar tastes in music bonded.”
I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT IN THE FOURTH GRADE! mostly because i only wanted to be friends with girls who liked *NSYNC and not those cootie queens who liked BSB. like duh, harvard grads. like, duh. now please return your ivy league attention to the likes of cancer, AIDS and world poverty
now that i’m watching “Portlandia,” i hate how accurate it is to modern life. seriously, the Puffington Post? amazing.
my favorite so far is this “Did You Read?” clip. i was literally ROFL (except b for bed instead of f for floor) when i saw it because it is an accurate depiction of mine and bestie best Sammie Rubenfeld’s relationship
(via ifc)
LANA DEL REY - BLUE JEANS
i’m super behind on this one, but the song (unlike “Video Games”) is very catchy and i’m enjoying it lots
(Source: youtube.com)
indeed, this is some extreme ridiculousness
A Treehouse Grows in Brooklyn By STEVEN KURUTZ
The idea of building a treehouse was suggested to her a year ago last summer as a way to brighten her spirits, when she was hanging out with friends, fretting about job prospects. Soon after, Ms. Meyn, who calls New Orleans home and displays that city’s offbeat spiritualism and love of festivity, held what she described as a tree-blessing party. “There was this really special hand-sewn ribbon that had been given to me,” she said, “and I wrapped it around the tree with sunflowers, and we all gave a toast to the tree.”
(full story via NYTimes.com)
so basically: dress like any twentysomething going to work, add police badge, voila halloween costume
(via The L Magazine)
some amazing shots of the williamsburg bridge
Irony is based on insecurity; it seems to me that when people are doing something ironically, it’s because they’re challenged by something or they like to hate something that’s popular. I don’t know why you’d spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don’t actually like.
A New Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Hit Lyrics - NYTimes.com
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: April 25, 2011
A couple of years ago, as his fellow psychologists debated whether narcissism was increasing, Nathan DeWall heard Rivers Cuomo singing to a familiar 19th-century melody. Mr. Cuomo, the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Weezer, billed the song as “Variations on a Shaker Hymn.”
Where 19th-century Shakers had sung “ ’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free,” Mr. Cuomo offered his own lyrics: “I’m the meanest in the place, step up, I’ll mess with your face.” Instead of the Shaker message of love and humility, Mr. Cuomo sang over and over, “I’m the greatest man that ever lived.”
