Tuesday, January 11, 2011

HIPSTER RUNOFF

HIPSTER RUNOFF

Some grown ass man got a Justin Bieber tattoo right by his peen

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 03:35 PM PST

Link: http://www.tmz.com/2011/01/08/justin-bieber-tattoo-thigh-photo/


I just saw this human/internet meme of a grown ass man getting a Justin Bieber tattoo. Unfortunately, he doesn't really have a decent tattoo artist because it just looks like some white trash lesbian. Like the kind that shops at Old Navy/Hollister and dresses like a hornie twen boy. Not sure how I'd feel having a lil lesbian on my innerthigh, but I guess 'it takes all kinds' [via tolerance].

Not sure what this bro's deal is. Seems like he is just one of those dudes who watched too much JACK ASSES on MTV, and he was all like 'I'm gonna do something zany so that I can be famous' so he decided to get a tween tattooed right by his peen. Feel kinda bad for him. Maybe this is all just 'internet viral marketing for Justin Bieber.' Hopefully Bieber can go 'bat shit insane' [via the 2 Coreys] and this tattoo will be a little bit more 'authentic ironic' in 20 more years.

Is this bro '2 zany 4 his own good'?
Would u get a Justin Bieber tattoo on ur innerthigh so u could 'cum on his metaphorical face'?
Are Justin Bieber memes gonna 'remain relevant' in 2k11?
When will Justin Bieber go after a 'bad boy image' like when Justin Timberlake shaved his head and started singing abt 'banging bitches'?
If u had to get a tattoo on ur body 2 'go viral', whose face would u get and where would u get it?
Will the Snacks the Cat butt tattoo be a popular alt trend in 2k11?

Does Alice Glass look totally sexie in the new Crystal Castles video?

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:47 PM PST

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I just watched this new Crystal Castles video, but I am rlly confused. They don't really showcase Alice Glass' good looks and perfect alt body. Instead they hide her in an unflattering pilgrim dress and make her play guitar. Rlly confused. I am usually on #Team_Alice, but I just don't recognize Crystal Castles songs if they aren't bleepy bloopy. This sounds like some sort of 90s alt rock Sonic Youth band.

Kinda confused abt Alice/Crystal Castles.

Do u think Alice 'looks great' in this video?
R u worried that Crystal Castles are 'losing their edge'?
Do u think their sound is 'amazing'?
Is Alice Glass still going 2 be 'the #1 piece of indie a$$ in 2k11' or will some1 replace her?

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New York Times writes deifying profile piece on Girl Talk, compares Gillis 2 Warhol

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 11:29 AM PST

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/magazine/09GirlTalk-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all


The New York Times enjoys doing trend pieces, so it seems like the 'trend of the week' is Girl Talk aka Greg Gillis. They wrote some article abt him entitled "The 373-Hit Wonder" where they educate readers abt things like 'how alt is Girl Talk', 'how many samples does Girl Talk use', 'how famous is Girl Talk' and 'is Girl Talk way more innovative than Andy Warhol.'

Ultimately a piece intended for lamestreamers and uncool dads, but still kinda funnie when 'the mainstream media' tries 2 make an alt_wave/malstream artist seem 'kewl and interesting and innovative'.

Who the eff is Girl Talk? Did yall know he is totally innovative bc he uses samples and 'gives it away 4 free on the internet'?

Girl Talk is the stage name of the 29-year-old Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis.

In November, Gillis and his label, Illegal Art, released the fifth Girl Talk album, “All Day,” as a free download. Within 24 hours, several sites had posted annotations of “All Day,” cataloging the samples on the album —there are 373 of them. Download traffic was so heavy that MTV News ran the headline “Girl Talk Apologizes for Breaking the Internet” — hyperbole, but not far from the truth. Illegal-art.net reports that “All Day” was downloaded so often that the servers crashed. In Girl Talk’s honor, Pittsburgh declared Dec. 7, 2010, “Gregg Gillis Day.”

Kinda feel bad for Pittsburgh knowing that 'sample based music' is their #1 export and they are giving it away for free. Seems like they will be 'riding Detroit waves' pretty soon.

Tons of authentic pix of ppl 'partying hard.'

Here is a paragraph where they try to make Girl Talk's music 'sound beautiful', like it has universal appeal or something.

All this excitement is focused on a performer whose instrument is a laptop. Girl Talk songs are mash-ups: chunks of other people’s songs combined into new ones: the Rolling Stones and the rapper Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube and Devo. The mash-ups sound ironic to the ironically inclined and like pure joy to the joyfully inclined, and for both camps they’re fun to dance to. These are not just a collection of other people’s hooks; Girl Talk has created a new kind of hook that encompasses 50 years of the revolving trends of pop music. Sometimes cynicism is a hook, sometimes the hook is humor, angst, irony, aggression, sex or sincerity. Girl Talk’s music asserts all these things at once.

Did yall know that Gregg Gillis 'parties so hard' that he causes physical harm 2 his body?

Minutes before showtime, I found Gillis alone in a kind of abandoned break room. His baseball cap had been replaced by a sweatband, and his custom basketball shoes — Nikes that really do say “Girl Talk” — sat on a folding chair beside him. He wrapped athletic bandages carefully around both of his feet: for the next 70 minutes on stage, he would dance so hard that he would be sick to his stomach afterward, like a marathon runner. The intensity with which he dances occasionally makes his feet bleed. He can’t stop his feet pounding, his head bobbing. Before he found the right kind of table, adjusted to the proper height, he got dark bruises on both thighs from crashing against it in his trance.

Sorta wonder if this is true. Feel like maybe he should stop wearing basketball shoes or something. I feel like a healthy human being's feet would be pretty chill after DJing a show. He's gotta be doing something wrong/making this story up.

Wonder if this is a picture of Gregg Gillis' feet after a show.

Did u know that Girl Talk uses snippets of songs called "samples" which could be highly illegal if he wasn't so 'awesome'?

To secure permission to use the 373 samples on “All Day” would cost, Gillis estimates, millions of dollars. Some labels would refuse, others would draw him into endless negotiation. But he has never been sued. No one has ever asked him to stop doing what he’s doing. One of the acts he samples on “All Day,” the Toadies, proudly put a link to Girl Talk on their home page.

Did u know that Pitchfork Media is responsible for 'the success of Girl Talk'?

But by 2006, people were starting to take seriously what had started as Gillis’s avant-pop joke. Pitchfork, the influential indie-rock Web site, gave “Night Ripper,” Girl Talk’s third release, an out-of-the-blue rave review. Girl Talk was suddenly headlining the Mercury Lounge in New York. “I was weirded out,” he says of that night. “These people actually wanted to see this laptop show. I used to pretend that the audience was having fun. After six years of pretending, the audience was now actually having fun.”

Here is the part of the interview where the interviewer asks Gregg 'hey are u the new Warhol?' and Greggies is all like "Hell yeah I am, bitches. I shit on that dude's art."

I asked him if, in addition to the Pirates and the Steelers, he ever felt any identification with another Pittsburgh institution, Andy Warhol, who blurred the usual distinctions between shallow and deep, trashy and sublime (and who broke through with a “sample” of Campbell’s soup cans).

“I definitely see parallels,” he said. “He made work that was very visual. Very conceptually focused. But also art fans could easily dismiss it.”

Do yall have an easier time dismissing Warhol or Gillis?

Here is the closing paragraph where Gregg compares himself to a famous NBA player just because he gets free shoes.

It has grown into something absurdly bigger than Gillis ever dreamed. Something — his inner Pittsburgher, perhaps — keeps his focus not on the “big” but on the “absurd.”

“When the Jordan brand is sending you free shoes,” he tells me, “it’s pretty much the peak of success in my mind."

Is Girl Talk 'the ultimate frat boy DJ'?

Does Girl Talk 'come across like an a-hole'?
Is this profile piece 'a disgrace' 2 journalism?
Is Greggy Gillies 'the new Warhol'?
Is Andy Warhol 'spinning over in his grave' after this puff piece?
Is Girl Talk 'the ultimate mainstream DJ'?
R u worried abt the economy of Pittsburgh?
Do u think Girl Talk is jealous of DJ Pauly D for 'getting 2 date Chloe Sevigny'? [link]

Bill Murray gets shitfaced and chills with random lamestreamers at a shit hole karaoke bar

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 10:55 AM PST

Link: http://thechive.com/2011/01/05/what-if-bill-murray-just-showed-up-in-your-karaoke-room-9-photo-exclusive/


Bill Murray is an indie actor who has starred in such films such as Ghostbusting Rushmore and Lost in Meatballs. Anyways, for some reason ppl think he is amazing because he will constantly go places where 'the common man' is chilling. He chilled out with some lamestreamers in a karaoke bar, and they were all like 'BILL EFFING MURRAY BITCHES' then they sent his pix to a blog just 2 prove how amazing their lives' are.

"About 15 minutes later we get a knock on the door... IT'S BILL F@#KING MURRAY! We were all shocked of course but at that point we were already pretty trashed so the party just kept going. He was super nice and they all fit right in. His girl was really cute, and as far as i remember, from Amsterdam. She sang a bunch of random French songs!
At some point he bought us all a round of some weird green drink and wouldn't tell us what it was. I later found out it was Chartreuse some French liqueur made by monks. Apparently you are supposed to sip it ... like an idiot I just shot it down.
The high point was when Bill and I sang a duet of an Elvis song called, "Marie's the Name." Random I know, but so was the night. We were all drinking and dancing and screaming our asses off.
We tried not to make him feel uncomfortable though of course later we all joked about picking the Ghostbusters theme. Amazingly, they stuck around the entire night, about 4 hours. As you can imagine it was all pretty surreal. Something I will never ever forget…Viva Bill Murray!"

Worried abt Bill... He looks mad shitfaced

Just jonesing on bitches

'Yes, I will take a photo of u with ur digicam so that this moment can last forever.'

Is Bill Murray 'trying 2 hard' 2 be alt?
Do u think that it is 'kewl' that he chills with 'the common man'?
Do u think he is just a sad, drunk old man?
Do u think u can hire Bill Murray 2 chill at ur birthday party, like a clown?
Is Bill Murray 'still relevant' or is his indie career 'in the tank'?