I wasn't exactly sure what a "hipster" was even after all the facebook pics and posts lately so I googled it and read articles and even wikipedia entries on "hipsters". Problem is, I found out I've been a hipster all along and never even knew it!! But wait, it isn't possible to be a hipster and be unaware, so I must be the most awesome hipster EVER!!
IIN?
IIN?
I suppose I'm a hipster with regards to music, film, and other entertainment, but that's mostly because everybody has terrible fucking taste.
I'm not sure what the taste requirements are for a hipster, but if it's better than some of the crap people fill their minds with these good ol days, I'll give em credit.
I've been called arty-fartsy because of my taste in film and music.
To get back to the original point, if I was pretending to like it just to get all haughty, then I deserve my kicking. But what if I actually like it? As I kind of do. In fact, I absolutely love it.
I guess I'll go watch another Johnny Depp movie, even though I genuinely don't care to, so people won't think I'm trying to prove my coolness by being 'unique'. I swear it's a sin not to find that guy attractive.
I'm gonna go get sn exorcism performed on me til he's hot.
The only English-language horror film I can think of that both scares me and enlightens me is a film called Funny Games. It's intelligent, uncomfortable, disturbing, plays with the medium, breaks down the fourth wall, and also has a message. It's also, I later found out, a frame by frame reshoot of a foreign horror movie. :)
I'll have to check out that movie. TY.
So thank you.
I have very different taste from most people I know. Actually, the shallowness of how people around me feel toward such others with my tastes, along with criticisms I had gotten in the past, has caused me to mostly shut up about my tastes.
So I'm not sure where to begin. Heh.
There are mainstream things I unashamedly enjoy, and those are what I tend to end up talking about with other people (for obvious reasons) but the things I've got the most out of are the things that nobody else has heard of. I've been accused of liking them because they're different. I could argue that people are thinking: "I don't understand that. How could he like it? He must be doing it to pretend he's better than me". As time as gone on, though, I turn it inwards on myself and wonder what I'm doing to give off an air of aloofness.
It's not clear cut. There will be people who are unfairly labeled a hipster, then there are people that should be labeled a hipster who fly under the radar. But generally those that are trying hard to encapsulate alternative cool with every inch of their behaviour are noticeable. It won't just be their taste in movies, it'll be everything; the way they dress, talk, act, what they eat and drink, what they listen to... They live in a subcultural bubble of superficiality and pretension.
You might be able to tell hipsters are a personal gripe of mine, but that's mainly because I'm surrounded by them all the time due to studying at an Arts university. The repetition and blandness of it wares on me.
I like some truly embarrassingly bad things and I like some things that are so avant-garde that I'd be equally insulted for mentioning them. The only things they got in common is that I like them and they mean something to me. You sound pretty much the same.
Actually, when you describe hipsterism as a bubble within which all things are chosen for a certain value, it does begin to sound quite annoying.
P.S. I lied. I've just realised there are two English-language horror films I quite like. Wolf Creek was pretty good too. But yeah, Funny Games is just brilliant. Especially Michael Pitt. I'm trying not to introduce spoilers but the sheer throwaway casualness of the final murder still haunts me.
From what I just looked at, those kinds of people do not like 'me' kinds of people.
So now I'm more confused....