Kidz Rage !

Hipster kids…i found this post written up on some randoms myspace account & thought it was hella funny!

11 Clues You Are a Hipster

1. You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn’t won a game since the Reagan administration.

2. You frequently use the term ‘postmodern’ (or its commonly used variation ‘PoMo’) as an adjective, noun, and verb.

3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-tyle glasses.

4. You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded.

5.You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation.

6. You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine.

7. You bought your dishes and a checkered tablecloth at a thrift shop to be kitschy, and often throw vegetarian dinner parties.

8. You have one Republican friend whom you always describe as being your ‘one Republican friend.’

9. You enjoy complaining about gentrification even though you are responsible for it yourself.

10. Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks.

11. Your own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City.”

Interesting, right? And you thought you were being original… Guess we’re all looking for a group to belong to belong to.

Since liberal thought, intellectualism, and a deep knowledge of independent music and film as well as popular culture, are all defining aspects of being a hipster, the fact that hipsters are seen to espouse such working class aspects of culture appears either ironic or disingenuous. The common perception of a hipster who receives minimum wage working as a barista, copy shop employee, music store employee, “hip” restaurant worker, or other job which provides low pay (yet lives in a gentrified “hip” part of town) does exist, but if said hipster indeed has a college education and a likely upper-class or middle-class upbringing, there arises a paradox of identity. From this conflict of class background vs. perceived current economic class, a stereotype exists of a hipster who receives rent and other financial assistance from their upper-class parents, sometimes referred to as a “trust fund hipster.”