Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fans, continuing to come up with edgy, often reckless, occasionally brilliant material. Other stand-up stars, like Pryor or Jerry Seinfeld, didn't win their greatest acclaim until they graduated to movies or TV series; Carlin remained, resolutely, "just" a stand-up comedian - one, moreover, whose long hair and hipster attitude came to seem increasingly dated. (Read TIME's 2004 "10 Questions For George Carlin...
...neighbor’s abode. The six to eight page paper-thin fire door separating our two rooms bars my curious eye and masks his more subtle sounds. But based on what I’ve heard, Piper’s definitely a brooding wannabe of a hipster intellectual. When other voices are present in his room, all I hear through the door is vinyl jazz and Débussy. But when the voices are gone, the mid-90s jams from the likes of Smashmouth and Sugar Ray that he bumps disturb my studying and make me want to vomit...
...pretentious, self-important yuppie hipster, I thought it was a great idea to pay a baby-name consultant, an occupation created just a year ago. For $35, I got 12 name suggestions from Jennifer Moss at BabyNames.com that included four names we were already considering: Elijah, Jude, Dashiell and Edison, which is particularly weird because we totally made up the name Edison, since it's the town I'm from in New Jersey. My main concern with these is that they'll all get my son beaten up. But Moss said, "When we've done our surveys, people...
...little groove. The Knux’s debut album, “Remind Me in 3 Days…” doesn’t necessarily change all this, but it tries to. In the process, the album also introduces a new and ambitious kind of hipster hip-hop—a repackaging of techno, jazz, rock, dance, indie, and rap into one, complete with Gym Class Heroes’ cheekiness and the soulfulness of OutKast’s “Ms. Jackson.” The Knux is a group made up of two brothers?...
...last few years, super-simple LA-based American Apparel has ingrained itself in hipster culture on both coasts while simultaneously expanding to become the USA’s largest clothing manufacturer, with hundreds of retail locations all over the world. The philosophy behind its fashion falls somewhere between comfy minimalism and 1980s thrift-store retro. But, given its prices, its clientele, and a recession, the question arises—will there be a place for t-shirts and spandex that simply cost too much?In the late 1990s, Dov Charney—hailed before as the Larry Flynt of fashion?...