Wednesday, September 1, 2010

HIPSTER RUNOFF

HIPSTER RUNOFF

PASTE Magazine ‘folds’, mp3 blogs celebrate ‘taking down a magazine’

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 02:22 PM PDT

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jFK2F7M6sJnK3zWtsFOxfeaClDjQD9HVB9Q80#


MP3 blogs are apparently ‘the future’ of content filtration and recommendation in the music industry. Old magazines are no longer profitable because no1 buys them cuz u can’t stream mp3s on paper. Some indie music magazine called PASTE just ‘went under.’ Did yall read that mag, or are music mags for ‘cool dads’? Do u like reading glorified blurbs about glorified generic sounding indie rock bands?

Not sure if that means they will still have a blog spot web presence, or if they will just ‘shut it all down.’

“Seems sad” -a cool dad who loves 2 read magazines

The music monthly is shuttering its print publication after struggling financially for more than a year.

Editor-in-chief Josh Jackson said Wednesday that the magazine based in suburban Atlanta will keep its popular website going but will stop sending print editions to its more than 200,000 subscribers.

Seems unchill to ‘axe’ all of their music writers. Wonder if they will just outsource content production to India. Feel like that will probably keep ‘writers’ from thinking that they are actual artists.

Wonder if they will ‘see a backlash’ from people who donated to their fundraising campaign, but now feel ‘effed over’ that it went under.

Last year, the magazine asked readers to donate money to help it stay afloat. That drew thousands of dollars. Jackson says the donations helped delay the inevitable, after advertising revenue dropped.

Good thing ‘website format’ is their core competency. Wonder if Pitchfork ‘dodged the bullet’ by not trying to make a paper edition ‘work’ in the early 2000s?

Paste started as a website in 1998 and was first published on paper in 2002. Each monthly edition includes articles and photos on music, film and culture, plus a CD with songs from up-and-coming artists.

It seems like all hype machine mp3 bloggers should ‘take out a bottle of champagne’ since ‘we’ just won another battle, taking down another antiquated media standard by ‘stealing their content + ads + improving the user experience.’ Seems exciting, like a ‘great day for new media.’

Do yall like mp3 blogs more than ‘rock n roll magazines’?
Which music magazine is gonna go under next? Rolling Stone? SPIN? Buzzband Magazine? Gorilla Vs Bear Weekly Zine?
Do yall miss ‘authentic ’?
Is it weird when blogs write about magazines dying being a ‘sad day’?
Should blogs celebrate any time a newspaper or magazine ‘folds’?
Is ‘’ overrated?
When will HRO ‘go under’?
When will blogs die?
Should HRO MEDIA ENTERPRISES hire the fired Paste Staff at ‘below market wages’, or should they just create some sort of ‘robot’ that scrapes the web and generates a crappy blurb based on other articles?
Is ‘indie dead’ or just indie rock magazines?

R u gonna miss PASTE?
Is ‘dead’?

An Am Appy employee is ‘found dead’ at their corporate HQ

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 11:44 AM PDT

Link: http://gawker.com/5627082/employee-found-dead-at-american-appar


Just read on Gawker, the official ‘let’s put Am Appy out of business by exposing their unchill ways’ blog, that a bro died while working at Am Appy. Not sure what happened.

just can’t catch a break. An employee was found dead at the company’s downtown Los Angeles headquarters yesterday, adding yet another misfortune to the clothing retailer’s ever-growing list of public relations woes.

County coroner officials identified the deceased as Danarichie Lyndon Sindo,

At this point, was kinda confused about the name. Figured that since it was ‘ethnic’, it was probably just a factory worker, and was wondering why the death wasn’t ‘covered up’, but then kept reading:

County coroner officials identified the deceased as Danarichie Lyndon Sindo, a 44-year-old native of the Philippines whose Facebook page says he worked as a data analyst for the company since 2008.

Details are still scarce, but LAPD spokesman Lt. Andrew Neiman confirmed to Gawker that Sindo reported feeling sick and vomiting before leaving to “get some air” on the roof. He “then went back inside and eventually went either into the bathroom or locker room and later was discovered deceased.” According to a source, the body was discovered around 5 p.m. in one of the building’s fifth-floor restrooms.

Not sure what happened. Do u think it was toxic t-shirt fumes?
Do u think it was ‘totally unrelated 2 work conditions’ cause of death and blogs are just gonna ‘assume it was from sex/drugs/corruption/enslavement of Mexican workers’ because that is the Am Appy brand?

R u worried abt Am Appy?
Have yall ever seen one of their employees ‘die’ at 1 of their retail stores?
Do u wish u knew what the bro looked like? Can we assume he was an Am Appy model, and that every1 who works there has a hot, alt aesthetic?

Is it ur ‘dream job’ to work in ‘corporate’ for Am Appy?

R u worried that Am Appy is ‘gonna go under’?
R u sad for this bro?
Does God h8 Am appy?
Do u hope they write a Law & Order / CSI about a ‘death at a retail factory’?
Should am appy outsource their operations to an AZN country so that we don’t have to find out abt it when some1 dies while they are working, and their body can just be ‘put in the furnace’ and their families will be compensated fairly with $250 (50% of their expected lifetime income).

Scene Emo Tweens release new MP3 vlog duet abt tween scene emo

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 10:06 AM PDT


Sigh…
Wish I could be young again
Have swoopy hair
and get tons of ‘free spirited alt pussie’

(Olive U)

Hair swooping over my eyes
learning how to finger pick my acoustic guitar
Convincing a girl with a ‘mediocre voice’ that she
totesally matches the post-Juno aesthetic that I’m going 4

(Olive U)

Just want to be a tween again
learning how 2 get my cock hard
Swoopy pubes hanging over the head of my penis
matching the swoopy bangs on my face
[via chi iron]

(Olive U)

Wish I could be a successful youtube tween / post-tween
making ‘mad bank’, more than Americans who work in Middle Management
would be the best way to ‘get a paycheck’ 4 being myself

(Olive U. Olive U. Olive U-you youuu u uu u u)

So hard to lock down premium ass these days
Back then, all u had to do was ‘be a dreamer’
and ‘sell them on the alt dream’
but now self-aware girls are sooo destructive + scary
(kinda sexie in a new way, though)

(Olive U)

I miss the innocence of my misguided alt teen past
But I am kinda glad they didn’t have HD Flip Cams + streaming vid back then
Just want to go back in time
and ‘finger’ a girl in a movie theatre again
and convince myself that I am ‘in love’

Do yall miss tween <3?
do u <3 some1?
Do think ‘Olive U’ is an amazing song?
Did they rip off the Plain White Dashboards?
Do u wish ur gf/bf cold sing an acoustic emo duet with u?
Are tweens more creative than 20somethings?
Are tweens more in touch with ‘the spirit of <3′ than 20somethings?
Can ur GF give u a piggy back ride? [via hetero-twink build]

GRAPHIC PHOTO: Snow Boarder tries to be too extreme, loses half his skull in a skating accident

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 07:28 AM PDT

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1306591/Skateboarder-makes-miraculous-recovery-doctors-saw-half-skull.html


Not sure if ‘snowboarding’ is ‘alt’ or if it just one of those luxury hobbies that rich people can partake in. Seems like it is kinda 1990-ish to ride the Tony Hawk wave, but I think there are still people who are in2 it. Bros who just wanna grow red hair and be more like Shaun White or something, get sponsored by energy drinks and participate in ESPN’s X-Games or something. Would honestly rather be in a buzzband so u can do ‘hard drugs’ on the road, instead of something that requires athletic focus.

Anyways, some bro got in an accident, suffered massive head , his brain ‘swole up’, then they had to cut off parts of his skull. Doesn’t seem worth it just to glide down a hill on a surf board. Don’t think it is a sport, and it should be outlawed, because people are just asking 2 get hurt.

Feel like I will never skateboard in my life. Seems potentially ‘just as gay’ as rollerblading or something. Huge safety risk. Really just want to move 2 South America and try to avoid snow + cold weather.

A skateboarder whose brain swelled uncontrollably after he shattered his skull in an accident has made a miraculous recovery after doctors sawed off both sides of his skull.

Kyle Johnson, 25, was given just a five per cent chance of survival when he shattered his cranium in more than ten places after falling off his board near his home in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Doctors said his brain swelled so much it ‘nearly exploded’, forcing them to saw off parts of his skull to save his life.

Scared. Hope thisbro is chill.

Are yall worried that u will suffer ‘head ’ and lose ur ability to live/think/be self-aware?
Would u rather lose a limb, or just go ahead and ‘die’?

Worried abt his skull. Hope it can still protect his brain.

The operation left him with just a tiny strip of bone down the centre of his head protecting his brain.

Mr Johnson was kept in a drug-induced coma and doctors feared he may not survive the accident, or be left brain damaged.

Doctors stored the rest of his skull in the freezer for two weeks while they waited for the swelling to go down, before putting it back together using plates and screws.

Worried about finding some ‘skull’ in my freezer. Just trying to grab some ice cream/ frozen yogurt / veggie patties / DiGiorno’s, and ended up with some skull.

‘I didn’t even think this type of thing was possible, you put peas in a freezer not a human skull.’

So scared about my annual family trip to Aspen. Definitely gonna wear a helmet when I ‘get my X-games on.’

‘I’ve done this hill countless times, normally I wear a helmet, but on this one day, I just went down the hill on a whim.

‘I think I may have struck a rock on my way down the hill and flew off my board, landing on the back of my head.

‘There was blood everywhere, I was lying in a puddle of blood around 4ft long and 2ft wide, which was rolling down the hill.’

One of the paramedics who attended the scene told Mr Johnson his head ‘felt like a sponge.’

Do u feel bad for this bro?
Is this ‘a miracle’?
If u get in some sort of accident, do u worry that injury will ‘limit ur cognitive skills’ and ‘opportunities for personal brand upgrades’?
Is snowboarding ‘fun’ or just some sort of gimmick ‘sport’ for rich people / rich teenagers who are on vacay?
Should I become a ‘ski bum’ or a ‘surfer bro’?
Do yall prefer ‘Vail’, ‘Aspen’, or ‘Tahoe’?

Fox News writes ‘hipster bashing’ article. Did they ‘nail it’? [via cultural commentary]

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 06:04 AM PDT

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/08/31/steven-crowder-hipsters-al-qaeda-usama-bin-laden-terrorists-consumerism/


From what I have heard, ‘backwards conservatives who hate brown ppl’ watch and ‘effing liberals who have white guilt’ watch CNN. Then there is some weirdo segment of people who watch ‘The Daily Show’/'The Colbert Report’ and think they are ‘smarter + more globablly aware’ than any1 else cuz they are able 2 ‘LOL @the_news’.

Anyways, I’m not sure what the deal with the website is. Maybe it is a blog, maybe it is a ‘news service.’ Probs just one of those things where they throw up stuff for SEO. It seems like some Bro wrote a ‘hipster bashing’ ‘article.’ Honestly not sure what it says/if it ‘says anything new.’ Might have been relevant in 2k1 or something:

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of "anti-consumerism," combined with a hatred for all things normal, dictate their every action. Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most unknown/least coherent band they can find, there's one thing that hipsters constantly want you to know: that they are better than you. That, and also, those frames that you're wearing are so mainstream.

Of course, it goes without saying that a leftist world view is a staple in the hipster's theological wardrobe. For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.

Sigh… when will those effing hipsters ever learn that they are just ‘bullshit humans.’ Yall are all the same.

The Article is titled “The Trouble With Hipsters.” Might start headlining every blog post ‘The Trouble With _____’ 2 let every1 know that I am about to ‘drop some mutha fuckin truth bombs’ [via opinion puff pieces].

Might take a Sunday stroll thru ‘NYC’s East Village’ sometime soon:

"I'll never be a corporate suit or sell-out!"…"America is an Evil Empire that rapes the earth of its resources, and robs from impoverished countries!"…"Islamic terrorists wouldn't want to kill us if we just left them alone and stopped being so arrogant….We don't own the world!"

These are all common beliefs of hipsters that can be overheard on a Sunday stroll through NYC's East Village. — Just be sure to avoid the tainted syringes. — If you were to ask the modern hipster, he… I mean she… Sorry, IT is likely under the impression that Usama Bin Laden is wearing skinny jeans in his cave, currently listening to Animal Collective as he throws back cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Certainly Al Qaeda shares a common bond with the trust-fund jackass, bobbing his head at the Vampire Weekend concert.

Vampire Weekend. PBR. ‘trust fund jackass’ Animal Collective. Is ‘Al Qaeda’ a buzzband?

Feel like the author of this article really ‘let down his readership’ by not including other buzz terms such as ‘Williamsburg’, ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘fixed gear bicycle.’

Not sure if he ‘nails’ the ending or not. Seems like he coulda been more apocalyptic in his tone, like maybe saying that Barrack Obama is a blipster who is going to end the world.

It seems to me that at one point in our country's history, young people adopted fashion styles that would come back to haunt them decades later.

Today, young people are increasingly adopting fashionable philosophies that could hurt the world for decades to come.

Also, they should shower more.

Steven Crowder is a 23-year-old comedian, writer and contributor.

Thnx Steve Bro. U ‘nailed it’ [via might get a Pullitzer or a Nick Jr. Kids Choice Awards]
If he’s a comedian on Fox, does that make him a MAD TV cast member?

Did u vibe out to ‘The Trouble With Hipsters’?
Is this ‘the greatest Hipster Bashing piece of all time’?
Do u watch , CNN, or just ur local news?
Is Steven ‘harshing the vibes’ for Middle Americans who don’t know ‘what a hipster is’?
Does ‘hipster bashing’ appeal to only liberals on the internet, or will it ‘crossover’ in2 middle America?
Does n e 1 know when Fox became a ‘news channel’? Thought it was just a station that syndicated episodes of the Simpsons, the Fresh Prince, and Home Improvement. Kinda confused.

XX BONUS STEVEN CROWDER ANTI-OBAMA RANT XX


XX BONUS STEVEN CROWDER YOUTUBE ZANY SONG PRESENCE XX

Who do yall h8 more–leberils or consorvetives?