What has happened to hip? It seemed different back when hipsters were hepcats. Cab Calloway was hep. Louis Jordan was hep. Being a hepcat meant holding the key to a subculture, a world of music and fashion that existed on the margins of the square, white world.
Perhaps the problem is that modern hipsterdom is perceived less as a subculture than as a pose. Ideally, to be hip is to be ahead, to know things worth knowing. Hipsterdom is viewed as an expression of narcissism and self-regard. That connotation explains why even a hipster does not want to be described as such. The term has been made pejorative. I headed on over to the hipster jerk garage sale with high hopes.
Alas, the young couple were not jerks. Barely hipsters even unless owls are hip—there was a wide array of owl figurines and a DVD of Legend of the Guardians , one of the very few owl-based feature films. I should have known. How many hipsters possess the self-awareness to describe themselves as hipster jerks?
Japanese hipsters always seem to be finding the newest trend and then taking it up a notch. You want to put spikes in your skull? They go bagel-shaped saline bubbles. You put some ornamentation on your truck?
Well, why attract customers to your business with bird stencils when you can put an actual bird on the couch instead? Especially if those birds are owls, a. Treehugger explains :. And, yes, in some of these, under certain circumstances, you can touch the owls.
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