Word: hipsterism
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...vintage offerings is ironically the best geared towards the college crowd. At Proletariat, owner Kerry Simon relies on more than a dozen hand-selected buyers all over the country to stock his store with just the right kind of nostalgia-chic clothing for the college-age hipster. His buyers are true aficionados, the kind who “would see a shirt and it wouldn’t fit them, and they’d buy it anyway so no one else would get it,” Simon says. Still, every piece in the store has been approved...
This is not as to say that at times the Anomoanon isn’t good at what they do; like My Morning Jacket and Wilco, once upon a time, the Anomoanon straddles the divide between the hipster and jam undergrounds, finding little secure fit in either pigeonhole but appealing to both scenes. Though “Mr. Train” borrows from classic-rock railroad mystique, the music is constantly engaging, especially in the driving percussion and high-hat touches and the smooth vocals. Ned can cover a vocal range without his more celebrated brother’s cracks...
...different vibes and song structures—though the falsetto vocals serves as the bedrock of vapidity that they continue to fall back on throughout the songs. While “7 Daughters” starts out with potentially awesome-sounding Nintendo tracking, the boring song structures and hipster vocals fail to move anywhere. The song “X-Polynation” shows the potential to be a people-mover with its initial driving beat and idiosyncratically spastic flute, but crashes down as the band takes a trip to New York with their generic imitation-Rapture-or-other...
Both Campaigns offer official gear on their campaign websites. For the Northeastern urban hipster contingent, the John Kerry Online Store offers an array of vintage gear. In addition, they sell a variety of dog tags including a Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Rainbow Kerry-Edwards Dog Tag. For those who want to wallow in past democratic defeats, the online store also sells historic campaign buttons, including Gore-Lieberman, Mondale, and Stevenson for President. For those nostalgic Democrats, Hidden Sweets also sells a t-shirt that reads “Carter in ’80: ‘He?...
...begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear to me to tell me I'm on the right track?"). They follow him through travels he made for On the Road, "hurt and haunted by hurt." The quintessential hipster turns out to be a guy whose hallmarks are tenderness, bewilderment and yearning...