LAist: The Anti-Hipster's Guide to LA: Shadowscene

Kokrra

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:05:13 -0800

seriously, they should drive tourists in the hipster places.. it can be a tourist attraction!!! ah...

cew008

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:55:28 -0800

Love it. Hilarity. I definitely think the term hipster is outdated and I considered that when coming up with the title. Hmmm. Also, I used to hang out at the Shortstop on Thursdays with friends from West Hollywood for the dancing, getting sweaty is not really something I felt 'comfortable' doing in Hollywood and I never felt looked down upon as I do in other Hipsterdoms...

eecue

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:06:24 -0800

Yeah but I don't like indie music!

Andy Sternberg

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:50:25 -0800

Oh come now, eecue -- with those thick-rimmed glasses of yours, you cannot be denied. The term "hipster" tho is just so dated, so post-rock, so last century, so emo-prog, gasoline drinking, scrotum-pierced and just rotten egg smelling. We should seriously consider making a lowball bid on hipstr.com and redirecting it to a big ass black-thick-rimmed glasses wearing goatse. Or not.

la_coco

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:30:10 -0800

Alexis, you truly made my day yesterday with that joke, thank you thank you. Hipsters and everything "too cool for school" have always been the thorn in my side.

eecue

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:15:26 -0800

Ok now for a real question, can a rotund Jewish fellow with no fashion sense ever attain the coveted hipster status? If so I'd like to know how I can transform myself... Actually no, I don't.

eecue

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:13:58 -0800

This one time, in hipster camp, I stuck a band up my... oh nevermind.

Elise Thompson

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:40:56 -0800

Hmm, I feel a hipster clarification post coming on. This is like a hotbed of ideas. Between this and the Kanye contest I will never have to think up another story idea on my own again. Keep 'em coming! Yay for comments!!! MORE!!!!

Zach Behrens

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:53:30 -0800

Hey Carrie, now the commenters are assigning you stories, it's quite fantastic.

thecoloured

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:27:07 -0800

PS. i swear that second picture from the last has someone who is too young to register to vote.

thecoloured

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:24:23 -0800

haha @ Carrie. That 'somebody who needs to define what "being from the city" actually means' could possibly be you.

harleene

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:57:00 -0800

oh man. i have to agree that the title to these articles needs to be changed. or put a question mark after anti. thats the point right? whether it's anti or not? hipsters. ha.

futureperfect

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:18:59 -0800

i'm currently penning "the hipster guide to being an anti-hipster." my thesis centers around the number one rule of hipstery: deny you're a hipster. idea #2: emulate this shadowscene broad by dating kelly osbourne's leftovers. idea #3: hang out at shortshop and say i do so not because i'm a hipster, but because i feel "comfortable" there.

Carrie Meathrell

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:30:47 -0800

Yeah. Somebody needs to define what "being from the city" actually means. Lived here for X amount of years? Born here? Parents born here? My grandparents grew up in Silver Lake. I think that makes me, like, so old school hipster that the rest of these tight-crotches are just fucking babies. Yeah I said it! BABIES!

Zach Behrens

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:00:28 -0800

thecoloured, it's a great point. Look at all those Los Angeles based bands heading over to SXSW. How many are truly natives? If a band forms in Kentucky and moves to LA vs a band of transplants who all happened to meet and form a band in LA vs. a band of natives that formed a band here in LA, are they "from this city?"

thecoloured

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:47:23 -0800

it intrigues me how most of these so-called "anti-hipsters" aren't even natives to the city. That really says something about the nightlife here.

greatgatsby2

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:37:38 -0800

Ah...I see your point...tricky, Behrens, very tricky.

Zach Behrens

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:27:57 -0800

greatgatsby2, I'm okay with people debating hipster vs. nonhipster, that's healthy.... bring it!

zik

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:18:49 -0800

Will everyone who claims to take dumb pictures of drunken club life for "art" please jump in front of a bus.

greatgatsby2

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:29:56 -0800

I agree, interesting interviews, but PLEASE rename the series. "Anti-hipsters' guide" will result in endless hipster vs. nonhipster comment wars, and 1/3 of your readership will hate everyone involved just on principle.

Zach Behrens

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:12:58 -0800

LOL to alexis' joke. Whether these people are truly hipsters or not, Courtney's look into the deluded word has been interesting so far.

cew008

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:06:11 -0800

Not a hipster, just because some of the people who are profiled might be. If I profiled Mario Diaz and Big Fat Dick, does it make it a Guide to Gay LA?

alexisthesheet

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:33:36 -0800

1) bad hipster joke: how many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? oh, you don't already know? 2)Ellei J: 'I also get to work closely with other artists and see the next great artists before most of the world even knows their name'= hipster in disguise as an anti hipster.

eecue

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:26:21 -0800

Isn't the "The Anti-Hipster's Guide to LA" really just a hipster's guide to LA?