Monday, September 8, 2008

The dead end of Western civilization

Hipsters are just another of the many counter-culture movements that are in fashion nowa days. They descend from the Punk culture, but not the "punks" we see on the streets, the real punks who actually had a meaning for being rebel who listened to real punk like the sex pistols or the ramounes. Hipsters have about the same style but the difference between old punks and hipsters is that Hipsters are just a bunch of ignorants who think they are following some kind of rebel movment by dressing in some way and smoking ciggarettes and drinking beer, but they are some crappy teenagers trying to follow some fashion, just like neo-punk, goth, emo, scene, etc.

Hipster support art and music, thats nice because there are few people who really enjoys these. It is nice to find people like that who really know some things about Arts, but finding people like that is exclusive for big metropolis where sub-cultures are easy to find. Here in Cali you wont find almost anyone like that because this "city" is so close minded and very influenced by the drug buissness and it has become a place where everyone must think the same way.

Back to the Hipsters, all these counter-cultures are temporary, they are just fashion and are full of kids who are just trying to fit-in in some kind of society not being them-selves. that kinda pisses me off.
anyway here are some pictures of some bands I think have some Hipster inffluence:

THE KOOKS

notice the do-it-yourself haircut, sking-tight jeans, leather jackets.

THE LIBERTINES


THE STROKES



Bands like this are not influenced by Hipster, its the other way around, These bands created the Hipster movement.

i dont know what else to say... goodnite

1 comment:

TOK said...

Quite the rant... But so what? Why did hipsters come to be? Why do they exist? How did come from the Ramones to the Sex Pistols to the now pseudo counter movements of the 20th century. Things to think about as to include in your blog