Hipster How-To

How to like a Band with A View To Being A Dick About It « No Chorus:

At gigs it goes without saying that you shouldn’t wear the t-shirt of the band. No matter how cold you are or how damp your Daniel Johnston t-shirt is (always a safe gig shirt, awards mid-level cred and is impossible to be interrogated over as no one actually fucking listens to Daniel Johnston): do not wear the shirt you got from the merch table.

My default gig shirts are the Dropkick Murphys hockey-style one, and a holey, worn-thin Bosstones T-shirt from when they were touring Devil's Night Out. I suspect they establish that, although I'm old, I'm liable to be the kind of boozer that you don't want to be too close to when the moshing starts ... and the moshing could start any time, anywhere.

Also, pro-tip, the correct response to, "Dude, you like Daniel Johnston?" is to immediately sing "Speeding Motorcycle" from beginning to end as loud as you can until the interrogator backs away, eyes wide with fear. It's one thing to have checked it out because Yo La Tengo covers it, another thing altogether to have to have a conversation about outsider art when you could be doing something else.

Making Things Difficult for Fun

FreckledNest.com: Old to New: Typewriters:

Jack Zylkin has invented a Typewriter Convertor process that turns any manual typewriter into a keyboard for your computer! He sells ready to purchase typewriters or you can buy a kit and do it yourself!

via Freckled Nest

Is there a study that explains why we (or at least me and two other people) think this is just a neat idea? Nobody really wants to go back to manual typewriters. They're heavy, they're inefficient, and frankly, you have to be some kind of hipster doofus if you think someone, upon seeing your manual typewriter-to-monitor set-up, would say anything other than, "what's wrong with you, hipster doofus?"

Whoa, I just had some kind of weird olfactory flashback to the smell of freshly opened White-Out.

Hipsters

It is one of my most earnest desires that every black frame glasses-wearing hipster dunce record store clerk read, and meditate on, my man Mark's spot-on essay Wrecktheplacefantastic over at Popmatters. It's important that everyone read it. It is especially important that record store clerks and grad students do so.