maybe i am a hipster

i was reading this article by Robert Lanham, author of The Hipster Handbook, on hipster parents,

and let's see ... i like wes anderson, i like k records (fact: i stalked their building when i lived in oly, hoping to catch a glimpse of calvin johnson; it was an old wooden jewish temple and occasionally let transients live on their lawn), i agree with this statement: "Shrek is an apt metaphor for the ugly, bloated, corporate troll that America has become," and i like to read New York magazine...i do.

so what if i'm profoundly conservative? our generation doesn't care about a person's politics; that's personal, not political. obsessive leftiness and or neoconniness is a distinctive (ugh) Gen-X trait (check out today's Taki's Top Drawer for an article on the "9/11 generation").

right now i'm watching Midnight Express and reflecting on my love for the Muslim world. i miss (from India) the constant smoking of cigarettes and the overall feel of antiquity.

more to come on my experiences in India, hopefully, someday. it wasn't too big of a deal, but it was pretty different and weird.

OK, so i think probably hipsters can accomodate paleoconservatism. it's still covert at this point, but the two groups certainly share an appreciation of good taste above all else.

we just need to purge those disgustingly tired Gen-X tropes like post-feminism and its accompanying alternaporn like Suicide Girls. and some other gay stuff, like post-hardcore. stuff that belongs in the '90s. raves, ecstasy, Burning Man, San Francisco, internet 1.0, neoliberalism, PC, neo-metal, Silver Lake (heh), 1950s aesthetics, "grrl" anything...but most of this stuff is out anyway