All things considered, I actually dig that part of Supernaut BETTER than if Santana had actually did it, because it is is such a mystifying contrast of styles it is like snow in the desert. You are befuddled by it, forced inward to try and make sense of this sonically induced synesthesia..

I get the same effect from the jammy breakdown in Symptom of the Universe



Fucking shit, that is epic like Homer or Shakespeare

The power of contrast is the most moving in music

Symptom does have an amazing breakdown.

Sabbath always had more interesting sounds to my ears than the Zepp. I find a lot of Zepp riffs very stilted, and I hate that hipster-ass Robert Plant... ;)

I'm just fucking with you, though if you had to think about it..

that look is as old as moses (the 80s, probably)

that's exactly what i thought.

No worries.

then he might like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8D-xBfwC8c

those are lies, sir, and they wound me.

The hipsters now dress like hybrid of goths and ravers from the very early 90s i.e. black bomber jackets, those round john lennon style glasses but with black lenses, gold jewellery, tight trousers and a black beanie like this:

Like all the misfits outside the YMCA in Whitechapel Road. It's no wonder I'm so confused.

yes, I always think of hipsters are not being locked into one style per se, so much as being part of a constantly revolving series of very cliched "looks" from different eras and times, most often horribly mismatched. Essentially, hipster is the revisting of that terrible time in the early 1990s when cross-colors and surrealist cuts/styles were in vogue. Today hipsters look like transplanted anachronistic mannequins ;)

I have always thought that M.I.A, who I think defines the hipster sense of fashion in London at least, always takes inspiration from the window shops you get in the Aldgate/ Whitechapel areas because of their battered, randomly put together, wholesale nature. I'm not sure why I have quoted your post now.

threads like these are why i never visit here anymore. bye.

Don't be a hipster, Derek.

I think the pejorative sense of the word has less to do with fashion and more with a certain blasé attitude that got associated with the term.

See ya!

is that intellectual or simply hipster then?

Hipsters are lovely. They keep me in a job and are far too blasé to ever complain about how shit I am at it.

sorry, this pic depressed me.

in my time we had the fashion victims! i loved fashion victims.

oh maaaaaaaaaaan now that i finally have a popular thread!

ok. to be honest the moment i was typing hipster in the 1st post, i was sure it will get more replies because of that. you know, smth like the thurston drinking game upstairs.

Say what you like but this take on the ''hipster look'' is lovely.

Do hipsters even know who Swans are?

what derek meant to say, i think, was the old "don't hate me because i'm beautiful," but in a hipster kind of way.

http://www.quickmeme.com/Sad-Hipster/

Derek keeps saying he's gonna leave then comes back. we've got it, you're too good for us. just go.

A 75-year-old woman from Offenburg in Germany, was kept awake at night by a colony of ants ringing her doorbell. According to the Metro the woman became so fed-up with the nocturnal bell-ringing that she contacted the police, in the hope of catching the prankster.
After an investigation, local police discovered the culprit was a colony of “prank playing ants.”

They said the insects had built such a big home that the nest pressed the switching elements together, keeping the bell ringing.
In the end, officers removed the nest with a knife, allowing the lady to enjoy a peaceful night’s sleep for the first time in a while.
There was no news on the ants but we wouldn’t be surprised if they’re off playing pranks somewhere else.

It’s a small pity Saul Bass didn’t include such larks when he made Phase IV, his cult film about intelligent ants at war with humanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=IuhgBvOWb_k
http://dangerousminds.net/

too good for you maybe, not everyone else though.

but no seriously, you think sonic youth fans would be less close-minded and judgmental about how other people choose to present themselves. you're judging people by throwing a label on them and it is lame lame lame, all of you could be branded a 'hipster' just for the simple fact that you're posting on a SONIC YOUTH messageboard of all things but i guess none of you have been accused of being insincere about the things you enjoy because of your clothes (or any other trivial bullshit that doesn't matter) even if the opposite is true.

i swear i've had this argument on here before and only glice of all people agreed with me so maybe i'm getting nowhere with this.

the idea that its not ok to feel like you are better than this place because you'd be stuck up and thus not rolling around in each others faeces in the name of faux egalitarianism is exactly the type of shit that not agreeing with makes me better than anyone of this fucking board because of.

message boards are dead and sonic youth is a band for aged gen-xers



there is no intrinsic virtue in any of this.

anyway, i don't give a shit about your non-prescription glasses and i hope you stick around because, eh, i like this board and monocultures are boring and you're not an idiot.

why do we stay? is it addiction? is it fear? is it failure? is it because we want to remain in stasis without facing the crumbling horror of our bodies and identities?

it bothers me a lot more in real life. my friends are really concerned with it, because our whole culture is basically an imitation of the U.S. but it usually takes two-three years for everyone to catch up. so "hipster" is currently the new cool thing to say.

you listen to indie music? you're a hipster. you listen to mainstream music? you're a hipster.

i tried to have a serious conversation with this one girl, but she ends up calling everything she doesn't understand "hipster" and it ends at that.

i like some of the people here and i like that it isn't facebook

I couldn't give less of a shit if any of you are better or worse than me. For real. That doesn't mean I haven't got special affection for Nefeli, to name one. The peoplez of the internet sometimes annoy us. Nothing will ever change there. Get over it.

here is a fun little read

http://theimmanentdomain.org/?p=693

see i don't even know if they use "hipster" as a mockery anymore. some people seem to get flattered like it means you're a fashionable individual.

i guess that people just annoy you in general.

language is coined by usage and usage is always shifting hence demographics matter. there is no big dictionary in the sky. it doesn't have to (can't really) mean only one thing to/for all. it all depends on where and how and by whom and to whom it's said, and how much misunderstanding is always part of the meaning anyway. in other words, communication is a kind of hopeful illusion.

oops, and here is the mistake assumption, the kind that will always result disappointment in people.

anyway, i find all that small talk. nothing to be taken seriously and personally i like hipsters.
also i havent been accused of anything but many times i got from people suprised looks because of how i look and the kind of music i like listening to.
who careeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz.

Sure. I'm talking about The Peoplez of the Internet though. In the flesh if someone annoys you you can either ignore them or when you can't you have the option of spitting on their face and the chop their balls off and feed them to a cat. You know that already.

Neg-repped.:rolleyes: