Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Stuff Hipsters Like

So I was at a Radio UTD dance party the other day, and like any other college radio station, Radio UTD has its fair share of hipsters. At said dance party, I noticed that these quote-unquote hipsters had a few things in common. So, I took the liberty of compiling a list of things you can do that would make you seen and be scene. Here's the list.

1. coffee
2. pointy shoes
3. apathy
4. other hipsters
5. Pitchfork Media
6. skinny jeans
7. wayfarers
8. satchels
9. plaid
10. American Apparel
11. vegetarianism/veganism
12. v-neck shirts
13. nose rings/septum piercings
14. thrift stores
15. sticking it to the man
16. obscure references to English literature
17. irony
18. paisley
19. going green
20. not liking other people's music
21. Ayn Rand
22. cut-off jeans
23. photography
24. plain-colored clothing
25. distinguished looking shoes
26. funny-looking haircuts
27. thick-rimmed glasses
28. vests
29. live music
30. elicit drug use
31. looking disheveled
32. music festivals
33. male cardigans
34. Members Only
35. the 80's
36. partying together
37. homo-erotic references
38. cheap liquor
39. Polaroid instant cameras
40. themed parties
41. NPR
42. Moleskines
43. mustaches
44. long hair
45. bleans
46. Pabst Blue Ribbon
47. nicotine
48. high-tops
49. sitting in circles
50. cloves
51. Tom's Shoes
52. cheap clothes
53. clothes that look cheap but are expensive
54. dance parties
55. pretending they are different than other hipsters
56. vintage
57. faux-vintagel
58. obscurely-themed parties
59. ironic / strange tattoos
60. their own music tastes
61. novels
62. Helvetica
63. hair straighteners
64. swooping bangs
65. poorly attended parties
66. scarves
67. The Mountain Goats
68. black music that actual black people don't listen to
69. ironic detachment
70. puppies
71. not working out
72. Neutral Milk Hotel
73. the proliferation of individuality
74. Barack Obama
75. integrating the internet into social situations
76. Hanukkah


Self-explanatory enough. If you're actually reading this and you have more stuff hipsters like that you would like to see on this list, comment below, or else. Or else what, you ask? Or else there will be no comment by you. Also, stuff hipsters like will be publishing a book in 2013. Keep an open eye. DON'T BLINK UNTIL 2013.

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