Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Long before ''cool'' got hot and poetry became the latest MTV fad, Rickie Lee Jones was striking beatnik poses on album covers and writing jazzy rhymes about a hipster demimonde of oddballs, outcasts and free spirits. On albums like Pirates (1981) and Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was balanced and embellished by her increasingly sophisticated flair for elaborate instrumental settings. Then, two years ago, she switched gears and released Pop Pop, a glossy collection of covers and old standards that showed a heartfelt respect for tradition but lacked the offbeat charm of her own material. On Traffic from...
Cities are hardly spaces in which one is made to feel at home. A bird’s eye view of the traveling routes that mold the city would show a human ant trail of Wall Street armor, lost tourists, and trendy hipsters. The financial analyst’s brow is lined by the latest economic woes. The leader of the tourist group is dismayed at having boarded the express train rather than the local. The hipster is fretfully correcting the tilt of his trilby hat. When someone is caught in the subway door, the disinterested glances of his fellow...
...they first appeared in book form in France in 1958. One year later a U.S. edition was brought out by Grove Press, the combative imprint that had published Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch. The Grove edition came with an introduction by no less a hipster than Jack Kerouac. Whatever you think of his feverish prose ("The charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power ..."), in one lovely line Kerouac got the book just right. "After seeing these pictures," he wrote, "you end up finally not knowing anymore whether a jukebox...
...half the fun of indie music. The absolute inscrutability of lyrics such as “Quart doesn’t burn / Rust doesn’t hum / Maybe we should blame it on the structures of the sun” is just the sort of thing that inspires hipster high school students to their deepest moments of literary analysis. Matched with the ludicrous but amusing image of a cartoon wolf playing erotic Twister in his briefs, Les Savy Fav’s new video provides hours of entertainment for indie intellectuals. —Kirsten E. M. Slungaard
...funny thing to have hanging under the branches of stately old Harvard trees. The tire swing has become the pagan totem of our spring rite, and we—its fanatics—flock to it out of simple glee or hipster irony. Like a hypnotic pendulum lulling away the vulgarities of everyday stress, the tire swing beckons us to Yardfest in a more complex way than the food monopoly and in a more subtle way than the rap stars. One can imagine Yardfest without the dining services’ cornucopia, without the spectacle of saccharine country and ironic...