LINKED: Kyoto Protocol Album Launching (cont.)
I'm having a good laugh on this one, mainly on the dress theme part: Grunge Rockers vs Indie Hipsters. Flannel shirt, jeans, Chuck Taylor shoes, and horn-rimmed glass? Sure. But that part of having the sense of an under-accomplished douchebag who's completely against everything the mainstream society hold fast to just for the irony of it? That's a tough nut to crack. But otherwise this is an interesting combination because it's the marriage of two ethos: anti-establishment and anti-consumerism. Ah, Chuck Taylors are mainstream right? What's the opposite number to it, and, I have to add, is ironic?
Which brings me to something that I have always long wanted to delve on about - hipsters. I have a cousin who's currently in the Stateside, and I'm having this feeling that somehow he too has embraced the God-forsaken culture. The irony especially, for one, is very thick in his language. Maybe that, or I could hardly understand his increasingly sophisticated American accent. But here's a thing though - Malaysia, ever the keenest adopter of latest Western trends, is not really that big on the hipster culture because, well, the way I see it, it has been somehow tuned to somehow be more accommodating of the Malaysian society. It has been assimilated with other trends so that if you can spot a hipster on the street, he (must definitely always be a he) will most definitely not be a true, genuine, 100% hispter. Or perhaps that is what that hispter on the street wanted me to think. I give up. I know hipsterism no better than any other decent man would have.
Except that they are very big on obscure "you've-never-heard-of-them-before-I-discovered-them-I'm-so-cool" bands. And vintage clothing.
Ooh, and PBR. Wait, no - we don't have it here in Malaysia.
I'm having a good laugh on this one, mainly on the dress theme part: Grunge Rockers vs Indie Hipsters. Flannel shirt, jeans, Chuck Taylor shoes, and horn-rimmed glass? Sure. But that part of having the sense of an under-accomplished douchebag who's completely against everything the mainstream society hold fast to just for the irony of it? That's a tough nut to crack. But otherwise this is an interesting combination because it's the marriage of two ethos: anti-establishment and anti-consumerism. Ah, Chuck Taylors are mainstream right? What's the opposite number to it, and, I have to add, is ironic?
Which brings me to something that I have always long wanted to delve on about - hipsters. I have a cousin who's currently in the Stateside, and I'm having this feeling that somehow he too has embraced the God-forsaken culture. The irony especially, for one, is very thick in his language. Maybe that, or I could hardly understand his increasingly sophisticated American accent. But here's a thing though - Malaysia, ever the keenest adopter of latest Western trends, is not really that big on the hipster culture because, well, the way I see it, it has been somehow tuned to somehow be more accommodating of the Malaysian society. It has been assimilated with other trends so that if you can spot a hipster on the street, he (must definitely always be a he) will most definitely not be a true, genuine, 100% hispter. Or perhaps that is what that hispter on the street wanted me to think. I give up. I know hipsterism no better than any other decent man would have.
Except that they are very big on obscure "you've-never-heard-of-them-before-I-discovered-them-I'm-so-cool" bands. And vintage clothing.
Ooh, and PBR. Wait, no - we don't have it here in Malaysia.
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