The Affable Hipster.
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foxmonkeyI've been meaning to post this for a while, and I'm finally getting around to it.
The July 2003 issue of Playboy featured an item called "The Hipster's Guide to Dating", written by Robert Lanham, author of The Hipster Handbook. I glanced at it, scanned a few lines and then turned the page.
What? Is that JC Chasez reclining on that leather banquette!?
The young man pictured in the "Hipster Seduction Gear" portion of the feature was not JC, but was instead an amazingly accurate facsimile. Tacky t-shirt. Worn jeans. Shades, ballcap, various leather items around his wrist, and a bottle of beer in his hand. Bwahaha! I don't have a scanner and I couldn't find the feature online, so the picture of the Chasez above (and those linked!) will more than serve our purpose here.
Hipster Seduction Gear
- Mesh baseball cap
- CHiPs sunglasses
- Wide leather-band watch
- CBGB t-shirt
- Cheesy Western-style belt buckle
- Checkerboard Vans
- Shoulder strap messenger bag with indie-band pins
From "The Hipster Handbook" by Robert Lanham:
hip•ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat.
(a few) Clues You Are a Hipster
- You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses.
- You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded.
- You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation.
- You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine. (or Suede.)
Hipster snippet that I loved...
"Keep in mind that homophobia is a big taboo for hipsters. Bisexuality is not necessarily an attribute, but openness to experimentation is something to which all hipsters strive."
...because it reminded me of:
"So many beautiful new people,
The game is lethal you don't have to kill them though.
Just look at everyone as equal..."
(courtesy of Mr. Chasez's 'Some Girls Dance with Women' song clip)
Googled the Handbook so you don't have to.
Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scot_ty for the Scoobylicious manbag pic (love ya!). Links above lead to batgrrl1975's fabulous Diva galleries, raedoro's LJ, and the NSync Glasses Archive.
Mmmmm, sparkly hipster goodness all around.
The July 2003 issue of Playboy featured an item called "The Hipster's Guide to Dating", written by Robert Lanham, author of The Hipster Handbook. I glanced at it, scanned a few lines and then turned the page.
What? Is that JC Chasez reclining on that leather banquette!?
The young man pictured in the "Hipster Seduction Gear" portion of the feature was not JC, but was instead an amazingly accurate facsimile. Tacky t-shirt. Worn jeans. Shades, ballcap, various leather items around his wrist, and a bottle of beer in his hand. Bwahaha! I don't have a scanner and I couldn't find the feature online, so the picture of the Chasez above (and those linked!) will more than serve our purpose here.
Hipster Seduction Gear
- Mesh baseball cap
- CHiPs sunglasses
- Wide leather-band watch
- CBGB t-shirt
- Cheesy Western-style belt buckle
- Checkerboard Vans
- Shoulder strap messenger bag with indie-band pins
From "The Hipster Handbook" by Robert Lanham:
hip•ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat.
(a few) Clues You Are a Hipster
- You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses.
- You have refined taste and consider yourself exceptionally cultured, but have one pop vice (ElimiDATE, Quiet Riot, and Entertainment Weekly are popular ones) that helps to define you as well-rounded.
- You have kissed someone of the same gender and often bring this up in casual conversation.
- You spend much of your leisure time in bars and restaurants with monosyllabic names like Plant, Bound, and Shine. (or Suede.)
Hipster snippet that I loved...
"Keep in mind that homophobia is a big taboo for hipsters. Bisexuality is not necessarily an attribute, but openness to experimentation is something to which all hipsters strive."
...because it reminded me of:
"So many beautiful new people,
The game is lethal you don't have to kill them though.
Just look at everyone as equal..."
(courtesy of Mr. Chasez's 'Some Girls Dance with Women' song clip)
Googled the Handbook so you don't have to.
Thanks to
scot_ty for the Scoobylicious manbag pic (love ya!). Links above lead to batgrrl1975's fabulous Diva galleries, raedoro's LJ, and the NSync Glasses Archive. Mmmmm, sparkly hipster goodness all around.
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Date: 2003-07-10 09:54 pm (UTC)How about one that actually says "country music" *g*
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Date: 2003-07-11 10:57 am (UTC)Woohoo!
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Date: 2003-07-10 10:38 pm (UTC)JC looked especially hot Hipster chic at Justin's Justified CD party thing when he rocked the yellow tassely-Indian-ish mail bag, remember? ::g::
A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat.
::ding:: Well there you go.
This: The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. makes me wonder if JC's more of a wannabe Hipster -- he just seems *too* sweet and mello and adorable to harsh anybody's buzz, you know what I mean?
And I am *sure* he's
madeoutkissed Justin, that's a given.no subject
Date: 2003-07-11 11:02 am (UTC)Oh, indeed I do! I originally linked to one of those party pics, but you just couldn't see the bag well enough.
Also wanted to link to the Zootopia thing recently - 'cause the man was absolutely *busting out* with hipster trendiness in that outfit, but alas, he was sporting a regular old backpack that day.
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Date: 2003-07-11 07:43 am (UTC)And have you seen the news today? You must be psychic girlie. Some Girls is officially the first single.
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Date: 2003-07-11 11:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-11 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-11 08:31 am (UTC)::glances up at comment about Meterosexual!Justin::
::beats bunnies away with stick::
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Date: 2003-07-11 11:05 am (UTC)::tackles the bunnies and drags their squirming asses to Gale's LJ::