forsit Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Well worth the read. http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/muc/2185820140.html "So I've decided I need to start a hipster band. Here is what I've got, and what I need. I am a bass player. I have the look, and that's the primary job of the bass player. I am such a hipster, than to me, even dressing like a hipster is too mainstream for me. My hipster look is so indie, ironic and underground that on most days, I look like a normal person. Skinny Jeans? no, sorry...way too mainstream. I wear Eddie Bauer relaxed fit, and they are not too tight or too loose. This is who I am. Typically, my shirts match my pants in some way too. Ironic. That's what I bring to the game. Image is nothing, and yet image is everything. Kinda like those sprite commercials from the 90s. I also have a bass and ironically, an amp. I also have a casiotone and an octave pedal so i will be playing some "bass-esque" lines on that. Singer: I need this position to be filled by a female. Everyone knows that hipster band's coolness factor always increases tenfold when it's a girl singer, and if you are of average talent, you probably won't make it here. I want one (or two) of the following: Terrible singing ability, artsy singing ability (like bjork, or Paris Hilton), or you are ironically a great singer. (if you can do all three, I have ideas for a great concept album). Average talent won't cut it. Can you play an instrument? it's not mandatory, but if you can, it's a bonus. Acoustic guitar preferred, but I hope that you can back it up with an almost masterful grasp of the Oud. Also, if you can play, please also have an ironic instrument--ukulele, mandolin, acoustic guitar (double ironic), accordion, or rock band controller. Looks are important, namely your clothing. You have three choices--Hipster, ironic hipster, or business casual. Please, no relaxed fitting jeans and a matching shirt--that's my thing. Guitar player: This can be male or female, I don't care. I need you to play an old guitar (please, no vintage) preferably from a company that nobody has heard of. Russian imports from the 70s and 80s are an absolute bonus. Also, if you play the guitar, you play the synth/piano. What synth do you play? your choice. I am bringing a casiotone to the game, so if you have a yamaha PSR-110, that's a great match, otherwise, you can be ironic and bring a roland fantom and rock our socks off. Piano is great, but keep in mind weight--if you bring a baby grand, I probably won't help you carry it to the gig, or ironically, I will. Band drama is a plus. Obviously the more you bring to the table, the better. If you could have some romantic interest in the singer, that'll earn you extra points. I need there to be some tension between the two most creative members of the band, because that's where hipster magic starts. When she hangs out with some random bass player from an ironic band, you write songs about tearing your heart out, and when she even glances in your direction, you need to be so inspired that you write songs about hipster love, like running through fields and eating blueberries and holding hands and all that stuff. Desperation is a plus. Looks? you need to be the most straightahead hipster off all time. Skinny jeans, a tshirt with a reference from the 80s, a tight leather jacket, keds, snuggies, scarves, capes, or keds...just ideas here...I am just laying a bassline here, you can riff on the clothing all you want. The irony here is that you are full on hipster. This will be so ironic, the hipsters in the front row will get nosebleeds and go home. Drummer: whatever. I don't care what you look like, but you need to be able to play. Listen: I am a bass player and you are the drummer. There are famous rhythm sections in every genre of music, and even most subgenres. We will dominate the hipster music scene, partly in the way I dress and look uninterested while I play, and you in your ability to drum. I also want to have a section in our concerts where we break out from the mainstream hipsters and break into a crazy Jungle D 'n B techno trance electro dream scape ironic hipster freakout. Also, Please have one PBR shirt. Unwashed if you can stand it. Rehearsals will be decided by the seasons. In the summer, we will go to the lakes and play acoustic with a guitar case in front of us, and then when people throw money in, we will act like it's not all about the money. In the Fall, we will go downtown and feel smug about how cool we are, and how uncool the suits are. In the Winter, we will practice inside because it's really cold. In the spring we will play to celebrate the end of the winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere. The days steadily growing longer, the trees and flowers coming into bloom as all of nature awakens, and the cattle being led out to pasture again. We will celebrate plants, fire, and fertility. Ironically, we will not play more than 1-2 gigs a year. Mainstreamers gig. That's lamestream. Ironically, we will record like crazy. Putting out 1-2 cds per month for years at a time. We will also record practices adding in audience noises, so that it sounds like we are playing gigs in places people haven't heard of, and they aren't cool enough to be told about them. IYDKYDG is what it's all about. Recordings won't be sold anywhere, but they will be leaked online. Mainstreamers go about the normal record distribution channels. We are hipsters. We will make music videos, largely consisting of us play on a pontoon in lake calhoun, and we have a inside joke about nutella and the drummer, and we commonly talk about it, but nobody will know what we are talking about. Drugs are mainstream, so no drugs, and alcohol is ok, but only ironic alcohols, like aquavit and Coors. I was recently informed that Zima is now considered ironic, so please bring an appreciation for the ironically refreshing taste of Zima. Occasionally we will all dress as select founding fathers (and mothers, like betsy ross for the singer) in period correct clothing, and we won't tell anyone why." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotsauceinthedickholewastaken Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 when I got to the third paragraph and found no humor I stopped reading. Someone let me know if it gets funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyViking Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Meh. One or two chuckles along the way.(ironically) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cro. Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 they have a craigslist thread already this one was alright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forsit Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 FUCK ALL OF YOU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anything goes Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 when I got to the third sentence and found no humor I stopped reading. Someone let me know if it gets funny. *fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONY MAYO Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 hipsterband essay did not result in lulz FUCK ALL OF YOU but this did^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 damn son you have that much trouble getting hipster laid? You dont need a band. All it takes is cocaine and pabst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopsticks Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Just one gear on my fixie bike, gotta +1 here for my gig tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Serious question. So sunday i was walking down the street and found a little ziploc bag with about 40 blue pills on the sidewalk. So i looked it up later and they turned out to be 20mg xanax. I dont fuck with pills like ever and tend to stay well away from cats that are about that....but i like money so whats the value on that shit ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindle Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 ill swap you some valium for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cro. Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 4-5$ for each pill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool_Hand Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 ...your looking at 10 years in the fed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindle Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 i play synth, we all play synth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 You mean 20mg total right? There is no such thing as a 20 mg xanax. Usually the blue ones are 1 mg and the .5 are peach colored and shaped like either pies or footballs. These are the most common generics you see on the streets. So if you found 40 blue xanax i would expect you found 40mg. Its possible you could get $2 per mg but not likely. If I had 20 mg i would ask for $30 and expect to get it reasonably quick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crocodile Tears Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 so my grandma lost her prescription xanax saturday night after church bingo, and now i dont know what to do, her panic attacks have been getting exponentially worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 you could call Moogle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONY MAYO Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 i play synth, we all play synth Beat me to the punch :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 really. Xanax gives me anxiety. As soon as you develop a benzo habit they become like cigarettes. If you didn't smoke cigarettes you wouldn't need them to relax. If i was to take 2 mg xanax all it does is make me want more which is manifested by discomfort and apprehension. Not a good habit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hmmm thanks Cause pills coke and herion i know nothing about.. Now i just need to turn that blue to green without slapping anybody cause this place is the reason i stopped hustling wacky tobacky in the first place. Wiggers walk around with electronic scales weighing 20 sacs of shake right in front of you. K no more drug talk..... Carry on with the old news thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urotsukidōji Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Just one gear on my fixie bike, gotta +1 here for my gig tonight. I play synth nu nuh nunu nuh we all play synth nu nuh nunu nuh :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feed Yer Ego Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Serious question. So sunday i was walking down the street and found a little ziploc bag with about 40 blue pills on the sidewalk. So i looked it up later and they turned out to be 20mg xanax. I dont fuck with pills like ever and tend to stay well away from cats that are about that....but i like money so whats the value on that shit ? thread relevance = zero but i'll overlook that you send them to me and i'll email you their street value Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feed Yer Ego Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 ill swap you some valium for them laff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenShit Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 im not reading all of that :mad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manute Bol Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I have a pair of Eddie Bauer jeans, they are pretty good jeans IMO I read the first paragraph and realized this is NOT a funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 My hipster would consist of me as lead singer. I wouldn't sing because I can't. So instead I would read poetry. I would subcontract Chinese high school kids to write the songs and then get them translated to English. The drummer would be British and really good. Guitar would be a rotating roster of people. Moogle would remix our songs. Kanye would blog about us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullnbones Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Ignore article Watch clip instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adolf.Hipster Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 *JUST ONE GEAR ON MY FIXY BIKE, GOT A PLUS ONE HERE FOR MY GIG TONIGHT* I want some of that electro southern hip pop, must be hella scene right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullnbones Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 That song is actually rad. I enjoy it thoroughly. But then again... I play synth... we all play synth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adolf.Hipster Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 :lol: favourited Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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