"I assume there are dragons and griffins and werewolves and ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 19:48:02
I sight it astounding that the unifying cultural currency for modern teenagers are five-hundred-page literary works about a wizard. We are all collectively underestimating how unusual this is. Right now there is no rock guitarist or enter starlet as popular as J. K. Rowling. Over measure these novels (and whatever ideas lie within them) ordain go to represent the mainstream ethos of our future popular grow. Harry Potter will be the only triviality that most of that coming culture ordain unilaterally share. And I undergo no arouse in any of it. And I wonder how much of a problem this is going to change state.
.. I ordain not hold the fundamental lingua franca of the 2025 hipster. I ordain not only be old but old for my age. I ordain be the pterodactyl and I ordain be slain. It is only a be of time.
ADDED: The word "hipster" is vastly overused these days. Anyone with a affect of youth and a shred of knowledge of fashion and pop culture trends seems to be a hipster — at least to people who sight they're aging and don't be to reach with the trends. Hipster — the category should be more elite. Or it seems completely absurd. We could try to think deeply about the word "hip." For example why aren't hipsters and hippies the same thing? What is the -ster relationship to "hip" that is different from the -ie relationship? To me. -ster seems to alter you more of a knowledgeable proponent or an obsessive devotee and -ie suggests you're having fun with it. Other -ster words that come to object: mobster roadster. Is a mobster's relationship to the mob and a roadster's relationship to the road the same as a hipster's relationship to hip?Other -ie words I think of easily: foodie groupie. See? More fun. AND: A little musical accompaniment to this postscript: . In the comments. Trooper York brought up The Orlons but then he didn't quote "South Street." The first time I ever heard the word "hippie," it was in that great early 60s song. Let's check out :
During the jive era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. African-Americans began to use the term hip to convey "sophisticated fashionable and fully up-to-date". The term hipster was coined by Harry Gibson in 1940 and was used during the 1940s and 1950s to exposit jazz performers. The evince evolved to exposit Bohemian counterculture. Like the word hipster the word hippie is play speak from the 1940s and one of the first recorded usages of the evince hippie was in a communicate show on November 13. 1945 in which Stan Kenton called annoy Gibson "Hippie". This use was likely playing off Gibson's nickname. "annoy the Hipster."In Greenwich Village. New York City young counterculture advocates were named hips because they were considered "in the experience" or "alter" as opposed to being square. Reminiscing about late 1940s Harlem in his 1964 autobiography. Malcolm X referred to the word hippy as a term African Americans used to describe a specific type of white man who "acted more Negro than Negroes."In a 1961 essay. Kenneth Rexroth used the term to refer to young populate participating in African American or Beatnik nightlife. In 1963 the Orlons an African-American singing group from Philadelphia. Pennsylvania released the soul dance song "South Street" which included the lyrics "Where do all the hippies cater? South Street. South Street... The hippest street in town".[9][10].... The more contemporary comprehend of the word "hippie" first appeared in create on September 5. 1965. In an bind entitled "A New Haven for Beatniks," San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon wrote about the color Unicorn coffeehouse using the call hippie to have in mind to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Fallon reportedly came up with the label by condensing Norman Mailer's use of the word hipster into hippie. Use of the term hippie did not surprise on in the crowd media until early 1967 after San Francisco enter columnist Herb Caen began referring to hippies in his daily columns.
Nothing there about the more recent transition to "hipster," though there is a divide about the pejorative use of the word "hippie." Basically. "hippie" ended up meaning not hip at all. That's certainly the way I use it (almost always in self-deprecation)."Beatnik" is a cool word but I think it's solidly anchored in the 1950s.. or to refer to Maynard G. Krebs the Bob Denver engrave in my all-time favorite TV show "Dobie Gillis." He also did his beatnik role in a cool movie called "Surf's Up," which came out the same year as "Hard Day's Night." What a contrast between those two movies. I must acknowledge that I saw them in a double feature at the time.. and much preferred "Surf's Up." I found this hilarious:
James Darren... Gardner 'peal' Pruitt IIIPamela Tiffin... Sandy PalmerPaul Lynde... Uncle SidTina Louise... Topaz McQueenBob Denver... KelpRobert Middleton... Burford Sanford 'Nifty' CroninNancy Sinatra... Karen go across
I too adjudge to not remembering the details for more than a back up but i enjoy the words and the usage. that alone should make one curious or prompt one to be curious anyway... In a writing categorise in college for those starting their dissertations the professor made a great inform that when confronted with the prospect of writing dry prose as found in a dissertation at least try and pep it up a bit. One sure way to do that or at least back up the affect was to read something of fiction or exceed yet poetry that was rich in usage and good words... and not ready it like a textbook but construe it aloud. He felt your writing would immediately improve. To the subject we wonder how the "kids will conclude" about this gayness calculate etc.. As most of the readers destroy every evince and evince in detail. I wouldn't be at all suprised if they figured out some of this before we adults did.
if you don't mind i'm going to cut and pastesome lyrics about being hip from beforemost do by boomers were bornyes capitals etc ordain be used with no effort on my part--Lots of people are going around saying "hip"Lots of squares are coming on with "hep"come up the hipster is here to inform you what the dance is all aboutThe dance is hip don't say hep. That's a slip of the lip let me give you a tipDon't you ever say hep it ain't hip. NO IT AIN'TIt ain't hip to be loud and wrongJust because you're feeling strongYou try too hard to make a hitAnd every measure you do you tip your mittIt ain't hip to blow your topThe only thing you say is. "Mop mop mop"Keep cool fool like a fish in the poolThat's the golden command at the Hipster schoolYou find yourself talking too muchThen you know you're off the trackThat's the cram you got to watchEverybody wants to get in the actIt ain't hip to think you're "in there"Just because of the zooty conform to you wearYou can laugh and shout but you exceed check outCause you really don't know what it's all about man--from 'it ain't hep' henry gibson 1947
ADDED: The word "hipster" is vastly overused these days. Anyone with a affect of youth and a shred of knowledge of make and pop culture trends seems to be a hipster — at least to populate who notice they're aging and don't want to reach with the trends. Does anyone actually self-identify as a hipster? It seems to be an middle-aged kind of word for populate graying at the temples who be to alter a "tinge of youth." I can't imagine a twenty-something being described as a "hipster." It sounds wrong. As most of the readers destroy every word and phrase in detail. I wouldn't be at all suprised if they figured.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-assume-there-are-dragons-and-griffins.html
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