HIPSTERS AND HP

Its the moment we have all been waiting for....
HARRY POTTER 7.1!!

I went to see this on saturday night with a friend for the 7:40 showing at the local popular movie theatre. We arrived 20 minutes early AND we got the third row in the house.... we probably should have gotten their earlier, but the movie was JUST AMAZING.
The camera shots in the beginning were just awesome, SO ARTSY. The camera angles, the light ahh yes. 
Almost everything in the book was in the movie! There was also WAY more humor than I was expecting... Well at least I was laughing... I loved what they did with the action, and there were many intense moments. I was just a little bit worried that with all the CGI creatures coming back into the movie would be a little.... I don't know... weird.... but IT WASN'T! There were some parts that were a bit questionable, but other than that...
The only really bad part was when we were walking out of the theatre and these two stupid ass girls were walking behind us, they were commenting on how BAD the movie was and how they should have gone to see... MEGAMIND. What the fuck, I seriously have never wanted to punch someone more. But I got over it.
Anywayzzz, I was bored the other day, looking around wiki-how for things to do because thats what I do, when I came across this article.


How to Be a Hipster


I was reading away, when the thought crossed my mind... "could I be a hipster??" 
My answer: defiantly maybe.
The article reads as follows (my comments will be in blue)

Hipsters live a lifestyle that is purportedly against the mainstream culture and are typically in their teens to late twenties.DONE
A hipster can be identified by his/her choices of clothing, music, coffee shop, home decor, and even vocabulary. The tendency is to be steeped in "indie" culture and to dress in a "bohemian" style. Well I wear a lot of flowery things not necessarily 'bohemian'

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   Gain a strong sense of ironic and sarcastic humor. when asked a question, refuse to answer directly, and instead answer with an obvious lie. [for example: (while in a movie theater. something cool just happened onscreen) "oh my god, that was so cool. did you see that?" "no, i paid 8 dollars to come here and stare at the ceiling."] in answering, you can choose whether or not to use a sarcastic tone. but please note that when you don't use a sarcastic tone while saying something sarcastically, the recipient of your sarcasm can mistake your sarcasm for honesty.    I admit to this, just the other day my sister was commenting on how I'm sarcastic... I also have a self proclaimed dry sense of humor.
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   Knowledge of obscure music is crucial to becoming a true hipster. If you are into any mainstream music at the current time (ex:Flo Rida, Rihanna, Akon, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, etc.) throw it all away. Don't even donate it. (you can, however listen to mainstream muscan do to yourself as a hipster, you can go on to independent music which is what all real hipsters listen to. The artists and groups are endless. (one good way to decipher whether or not an artist is Hipster, is for you to like them, and for your non-Hipster friends to have never heard of them.) Hipster artists of note include Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Belle & Sebastian, Electric President, Stray Kites, Jens Lekman, Neutral Milk Hotel, Grateful Dead, M83, Neon Indian, Neon Neon, Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos, and King Khan and the Shrines. Music blogs like Gorilla vs. Bear, and Stereogum may help you with this. Meeting people who are already into these bands will help you as well. Perhaps the most popular hipster music website is pitchforkmedia.com. If they give an album a good rating, it must be quite hip.        I have been accused of liking music no one has ever heard of (well at least in my culturally diverse high school (there goes the sarcasm again) I also have several Grizzly Bear albums, as well as Belle & Sebastian ECT. I'm pretty sure I have mentioned how much I hate mainstream music with a burning passion.
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   Namedrop often. Talk about all the obscure bands you like that nobody you know has heard of. When your friends talk about a band you're unfamiliar with, just say you've heard of them but not actually heard them. Look them up the next time you have a chance to. It'll give you more cred.                                                      Haven't really done this a lot... SHOULD I??? EDUCATE ME MY HIPSTER FANS!
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   Insult a lot of bands. If you love everything you'll seem like a fanatic. Make sure to give off a vibe that you are too cool and elite for a lot of bands. the coolest 
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   Remember to use perhaps the most important hipster line: "I liked them before they were cool."                                                                                      Guilty
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   In addition, if you would like to seem more educated and elite there is the key phrase " I liked their first Ep, but pretty much after that i never got into them."                                                                                                           I have never used this phrase EVER.
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   Fashion is just about as important as your music taste is. Generally, people assume hipsters to shop in thrift stores in attempt to looking vintage. This is really not the case to being a true hipster. If you don't think you can pull off the vintage look as well, don't worry. Anything from the American Apparel catalog will do just fine, but buying anything from American Apparel from an actual American Apparel store is not cool, man! You have to buy it from indipendant retailers like aBasicAttire.bigcartel.com, because supporting obscure and little known retailers is totally deck.. The classic "Skinny Jean" is essential to looking hip. Hipsters love ironic eyewear such as shuttershades, oversized plastic framed glasses, Buddy Holly glasses, nerd glasses, and for the ones who can afford it authentic Ray Ban Wayfarers of all the colors of the rainbow. Some of the hipsters wear eyeglasses even though they have 20/20 vision! Guy hipsters actually probably wear skinny jeans more than the girls. Basically, the tighter, the better. Now tops aren't as big of an ordeal as pants are. Ironic tees, plaid shirts, berets, large flower headbands, neon nail polish, bird necklaces, gingham, plaid, checkered, vintage floral cardigan sweaters, fit hoodies, patterned and colorful leggings are all part of the hipster phenomena, especially when they layer/wear them all together without matching exactly. Wool is the fabric of choice. But make sure your pants are tight. Alternatively, for women, high-wasted pants (aka: "mom jeans") may also be worn. Appropriately ironic accessories are mandatory. Essentials include a courier bag (not a backpack) that can fit your MacBook, iPhone, and vinyl LPs (*never* CDs) of your current favorite band. Urban Outfitters,H&M and American Apparel are good places to start. ASOS also has many hip pieces. For inspiration check out Lookbook [www.lookbook.nu] or CobraSnake. Also important is a fixed-gear bicycle with skinny tires, genuine Brooks leather saddle and no front brake.                                                             I have ray bans in multiple colors, as well as hippie sunglasses I have worn in public, I LOVE H&M and absolutely despise stores like Hollister, A&F (don't even get me started) I also have large flowered headbands, plaid, and NEVER, EVER wear loose pants.
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   Food. Start growing your own food. Use compost if possible. If you have absolutely no space to do this, go to a natural foods market instead. Eating meat isn't exactly popular with the hipster culture. If you do eat meat, you must assert that choice as a cynical transcendence of vegetarians' futile attempts to save the world— your sense of irony has already deemed that movement obsolete. Fruit, coffee, oriental food, etc are all hip foods. Technically, they are all a bunch of foodies and love making gourmet meals. You can't really go wrong with lunch from Whole Foods. Many hipsters tend to be vegetarian or vegan.                               
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   It takes a brave hipster to start dancing. In fact, if you want to spot a hipster, just turn around the next time you are at a show and see them standing in the back discussing Stella or PBR in a can. Sometimes, if the music and setting is right, you will witness Hipsters engaging in dance movements. Hipster dancing, if done right, does not use so much of the hips as it does the upper body and arms. Lots of swinging your head back and forth. Remember to only do this if you are not humiliated easy. Although you will rarely see hipsters dancing at shows, they tend to enjoy separate dance parties where they can dance to an array of more upbeat hipster dance music. I HATE dancing, I am so awkward at it, when I move, I look like a dumbass.
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    Female hipsters love to use Tumblr, Blogspot or Wordpress taking photos with their Holga cameras of cross-processed and "dreamy-like" pictures of themselves in a field, by the ocean, in forests, in their hipster rooms. Usually it is to express their desire for beautiful and soft vintage things that is reflected in their photography. A lot of them have pictures of their feet for some odd reason. If you know of a hipster girl that knows the terms "re-blog" or "follow me on blogspot" then that's definitely one of the indicators of a female hipster.               Well this one is self explanitory... WHAT AM I DOING NOW? blogging. 
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    Denial. Until recently, hipsters would never call themselves hipsters. On the contrary, they tended to deny their "hipster-ness" at each possible turn. Nowadays, some hipsters are extending their sense of irony to include even themselves— acknowledging and mocking their own hipsterdom. While this may seem enlightened, it— like much of hipster culture— is a preemptive strike: if they mock themselves first, nobody else can do it later.                                           I guess I am in denial, after that article....
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    Location. It is very important you live near a large population of hipsters or else you will not be able to show off how hip you are. Brooklyn is known as the unofficial hipster capital of the world, hence, the best place to be. Places like Glasslands and Pianos will be right up your alley. Some hipsters love Chicago, because it's cold and dreary like a true hipsters attitude towards life. Los Angeles is also acceptable but be careful not to get sucked into the California culture. Other hipster dreamscapes are other parts of New York City, San Francisco, Portland, OR, Seattle, and any moderately large college town that is the only liberal part of the state such as Austin, TX or Lawrence, KS.                                              Sadly, this is my one fault, however the small seacoast town that I live in has a few hipsters walkin' around, drinkin' coffee at the coffee shop, ridin' their bikes over the cobble stones.               
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    News. Know what's going on at all times within the hipster community. When some new, obscure band is on Pitchfork (preferably before), you should know about it. Check out Brooklyn Vegan (even if you don't live there), Stereogum, Gorilla vs. Bear, and the Hype Machine as often as possible, but don't make it obvious that you check them every five seconds.                                                     Not yet.

• TIPS
• Don't watch MTV all the time. You shouldn't use it as a way to find out about music. Maybe watching some trashy reality show will be seen as ironic. Eh, the one thing I do watch is teen mom. Gotta love that drama
  Converse are no longer universal. They look great and you can wear them pretty much anywhere, but so is everyone else. Doc Martens or any other kind of vintage shoes are better. If it's trainers you're after see Classic Reeboks or Vans. For girls, heels aren't completely popular but feel free to wear them. Cute sandals, Keds, boots, and granny boots are not only more practical but also show how "little" effort you've put in. I love me some boots.
• Rather than going to Starbucks for coffee, go to a local shop or make your own at home to boost up your hipster cred.
• Use made up words as often as possible. Or actually do some reading and use real words that no one really knows the meaning of unless they look the words up. (examples: pulchritudinous, cordiform, and petrichor.)
• Go to shows. The more...the better.
• Do your own hair. DONE AND DONE
• Don't drive an expensive car. Don't even own a car at all. It is a waste of gas and money. Ride a bike instead - make it a fixed or single gear bike. DONE AND DONE
• Many hipsters are interested in "geeky" subjects", like philosophy or film criticism. If you find things like that interesting, it increases one's hipster cred to bring them up in conversation.
• It is common for hipsters to play instruments, and starting a band of your own is a great way to showcase your love of independent music. I have been playing piano for years, guitar for about one year. 

• WARNINGS
• The goal of being a hipster is to look like you're not trying, however, if you are one, you are probably trying really hard, or at least enough.  Well this is where the controversy begins, am I trying to hard by posting this article on my blog... or am I just releasing my hipster qualities and asking for confirmation... HMMM
• People may not believe you when you say you liked something before it was popular, and they're usually right. Ex. I have told my friends time and time again I knew Gym Class Heroes before MTV, and they believe it's too "rappy" for my taste.
• Don't take this guide too seriously, instead see it as a set of guidelines. Hipsters pride themselves on their independence from the mainstream. Answer to the question above?
• Please note that the hipster, although against the mainstream, are usually can usually be denoted as trendy as most hipsters all dress and act pretty much in uniform. If you are a hipster, chances are that there are hundreds of other people just like you.  FANTASTIC, now, get me a hipster boyfriend.

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