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ZOOEY DESCHANEL
No shit, hipsters like Zooey. Hipsters liked this quirky actress long before the mainstream crowd knew her name, and have even decided to bend the rules and keep loving her even after everyone else did too. Hipster girls seriously lovvvvveed the “50% bangs, 50% face” look she made famous, and it’s safe to say she just might be the queen of the hipsters.
THICK RIMMED GLASSES
Hipsters like all varieties of thick-rimmed and vintage-looking glasses. It has been rumored that if you wear thick-rimmed glasses as a non-hipster, your face will burn off and you will be uncool forever. It has also been rumored that when hipsters wear them they receive the gift of X-ray vision. One may never know for sure the truth of the thick-rimmed glasses, but the hipsters keep wearing them.
SMOKING CIGARETTES
Parlaiments, American Spirit, Camel Crush (menthols), and best of all Djarum clove cigarettes… all cheap, all terrible for you, and hipsters like buying and smoking one to three packs in an average night. Did you know that in Camel Blue actually launched a particular line of cigarettes named Seattle specifically targeted at the city’s hipsters? If hipsters are getting that much attention from a tobacco company, bless their lungs because they damn well like smoking.
East Atlanta
EAV= East Atlanta Village= THE spot for hipsters in Atlanta. Better yet, it’s the hotspot for hipsters in the South. While Nashville is full of country cronies music that makes our ears bleed, and New Orleans gets to claim Jazz and Lil Wayne, southern hipsters get to stake claims on this little gem of a neighborhood (Okay, they can claim the Athens music scene too).
East Atlanta is like a little slice of hipster heaven in a city filled with its share of post-frat and corporate conformists. Here, hipsters can wash their sins down with a PBR or shot at Church. It’s a bar (for the Christian hipsters, I apologize, because this place is as sac-religious as it gets). Want to listen to a new band that the rest of us haven’t heard of while still not looking like you are enjoying it? Head to The Earl or 529. If you are feeling up for mixing with non-hipsters at Graveyard, you are still sure to have a fun time partying judging the non-hipsters later than any other district in the A.
Hipsters like cats. No one really understands why… except they sometimes do cute things.
(via makingteainyourunderwear)
Instagram… the love child of Photoshop and social media.
This Instagram is brought to you by my dog Maddie. Hipsters like her, too.
Chuck Palahnuik
Contrary to popular hipster belief, hipsters did not make Chuck famous. A spot on the New York Times bestseller list and a movie every last American with a television has heard of, starring Brad Pitt, made him famous.
What’s so hipster about liking a famous author after the he had Fight Club adapted into a film? The irony (future post). AND the notion that Chuck Palahniuk himself might be an alpha hipster:
- He lives in Portland, and spends time in Seattle.
- Membership in the Cacophony Society.
- His books feature characters that have been marginalized by society’s norms and satirical plots. (How relative).
- In a personal favorite snippet of information, Chuck’s response to a particularly severe critic, “Until you can create something that captivates people, I’d invite you to just shut up. It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.”
- He’s openly gay. How progressive.
P.S. If you haven’t read any Chuck Palahniuk books you are missing out. Read them even though hipsters like him too.
Seattle
Seattle, Washington… could there BE a better mecca for hipsters?
Hipsters like Seattle for obvious reasons. In case you have never been to Seattle, or are 16/85 years old and don’t understand what a “hipster” is, I’ll explain this one:
5. Sucky weather (because you need another reason to blog in a coffee shop)
4. Soccer
3. Locally owned coffee houses (NEVER would a hipster go to Starbucks)
2. Bicycles (duh)
1. Capitol Hill, Crocodile, Chop Suey, Cha Cha, Kings Hardware & anywhere that serves PBR
Plaid
The only thing better than a plaid shirt is a plaid shirt with pearl snaps. A good plaid shirt is the hipster’s best solution for looking and feeling cool while not actually moving to the beats at their favorite band’s show. Not to mention, nothing looks better with a grizzly beard.
Beards
Beards, mustaches, and other variations of facial hair. Hipster males have been known to rock beards worthy of competing in Whisker Wars (not that they would admit to watching television). Facial patterns are essential to setting the social standard of hipster circles, where the man with the biggest and baddest beard becomes the automatic alpha hipster.
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Pabst Blue Ribbon. If you don’t choose to drink PBR any chance you get, you are definitely not a hipster.
