Hipsters

[Drewbacca]

This reminds me of the really shitty red room (or is it green room?) in Toronto. Drew, please confirm.

Yes. I will confirm this man's statement. I think it's the Green Room you're thinking of. Red Room does exist but I think it's more of a generic diner/lounge.

There are also places like this ALL OVER the Junction with the exclusive/secret vibe going on. Unlabeled "hipster" bars. I never really thought much about them being hipster - I thought they were just artsy fartsy types being artistic for artistic's sake. We went in one earlier this year and it had old cartoons playing on an antique projector at the back. Everyone was wearing weird trendy clothes and the music was all remixed electronica featuring clips from classic rock bands like CCR, Nirvana, Ramones, etc. I didn't mind it. I just drank my drink and hung out with the people I was with. What's weird is there was an even "more exclusive" bar upstairs. The foyer looked like an apartment one, with mailboxes at the bottom and a staircase going up top. I thought it was interesting and I absolutely felt my neck was naked without a scarf. I don't particularly look down on hipsters anymore than I do juggalos. If it makes them happy so be it. Let them have their cake.

Curry Twist is just down the street and out-fucking standing. The vegetarian curry was better than almost all of the meat/animal product ones. Except for the flounder which was on special.

[stormy]

What I hate is hipsters moving into nice cheap neighborhoods and making them no longer cheap. Silverlake has the most overpriced real estate in LA now, it was hardly hit by the recession at all. I can no longer afford to buy a house there. It used to be full of good cheap bars and small cheap houses but now half the bars serve $10 drinks.

[Shakey]

It's usually not the hipsters that make prices go up. They move in on a neighborhood because they are poor/want something "authentic" and then the yuppies move into that neighborhood because it's interesting but don't acutally want to interact with the poor people. New developments and martini bars pop up to capitalize on the new money pushing the hipsters and artists out into the next set of neighborhoods. rinse lather repeat.

[Fe 26]

Fucking Yuppies.

I won't lie. If I had an army and a lot of money, I'd turn all those empty art deco buildings of Memphis into housing and shopping. Its really a shame that so much of Memphis is vacant because 75% of the city is a demilitarized zone full of crack heads.

[stormy]

once the neighborhood is "hip" and the mexicans get displaced prices go up, hipsters did it

[Razor Ramon]

The Yuppies explain the west side of my part of Brooklyn but they don't explain why my rent is so high when I'm at the total opposite side of town.

[Drewbacca]

Maybe you're a sucker.

[Frogacuda]

I'm just saying, there are a lot of hipsters here, and they're pretty much just like the ones in NY. You should go to Richmond, that place is like Little Williamsburg, I'm serious.

Also, you should come to DC, you can sleep on my couch and we can go to hipster bars and compare notes like anthropologists, and then kill ourselves.

I should head down to DC. Maybe I'll hitch a ride next time my roommate does a gig down there (which is often). Never been to Richmond at all.

Yeah, I can't tell frog enough, he really has no idea about this. Living in Williamsburg, having been to the places he posted pictures of, there is the EXACT same shit in both Baltimore and DC. Also Richmond feels like it has a higher per person hipster ratio than anywhere else. This isn't a New York is special kinda deal. The most I can say is, the area that "hipsters" seem to be located is much larger and more uniform in NYC, but then again, it is NYC, it just happens to be a bigger city.

I don't really know Bmore or DC like I've said. I mean I've been, but that doesn't mean I know shit. I've spent a lot more time in California and down south (and of course in Jersey and Philly) and I don't really see it happening there in the same way. Beyond that I can't really say.

[icarusfall]

This shit is literally all over the country. Frog just likes to think of himself as some kind of cultural anthropologist.

And he's not good at it.

[maruchan]

i wear rayban 2140 prescription sunglasses...

well today i was walking down the street wanting to buy something cool to drink.. I stop by and buy a bubble up. and a water for later.


does wearing raybans, and drinking bubble up make me look like a total douche?