Yall, this movie looks really interesting. It seems to do a good job of portraying the city that the gals from Sex and the City live in. I kinda also wanna see this movie because of all of the independent actors. They seem pretty authentic. I’m thinking of transferring to Parsons from Pratt to feel ‘closer 2 the city.’
I know a lot of yall have dreams of moving to NYC, but it isn’t always what u see in the movies. When u walk around NYC, the city doesn’t have speakers that play Mika, Vagina Spektor, and Feist in the background (no playlist exists that automatically plays songs utilized in iPod commercials). A lot of people come to NYC thinking that every1 listens to alt-ish mainstream hits, but it’s not like that at all.
I hope this movie doesn’t make suburbanites think that NYC is all abt ‘meaningful small interactions’ that trick people into thinking that they r alive.
What does NYC mean 2 u?
a) minorities
b) minorities who don’t speak English (the bad kind)
c) dirtie
d) overrated
e) not so alt after 2k1
f) a creative place 4 creative people
g) an okay place, but wish people didn’t make such a big deal abt it
h) the place where the New York Yankees play
i) the most authentic city in the world
j) the most meaningful city in the world
k) a place that entry-level alts go to graduate into 100% d-bag alt that they always dreamed of being
l) NYC is the only place where my dreams will come true and my self-concept will be realized
m) is that the city where they filmed ‘The Hipster Olympics’ viral video?
n) the city where my rich friend moved to
o) the city where my successful friend lives
p) ‘home’
q) Choose.Your.Own.Response.
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Post about about an authentic city – DETROIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I bought a one-way greyhound ticket to move there yesterday. This post makes me question my purchase.
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that flick sures looks authentic
AUTHENTICITY
but plz blog about AMERICAN TEEN, it’s like the flav of the month for latter myspacers !
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SO MANY AZNS IN THE CAST
that better be alt, or else…
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i know a kid who just got accepted to parsons. he originally comes from a very rich suburban neighborhood. he has decided to be a fashion photographer. this blog made me giggle because i know his reasons are very much i,j, and l, but for me its now n.
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is that GOSSIP GIRL THE MOVIE ?? ?
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nyc would be great if it wasn’t for all the alpha d-bags that populate it.
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NYC is my favorite shopping mall/nightclub/movie set in the world.
But seriously, the amount of fucking talent (in all senses of the word) here is just amazing. Whenever I leave and come back I am reminded of this.
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I’m excited for yet another spinoff mpvie series. what’s next, “Milan, Ti Amo” or “London, Fancy a Shag”
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the place where all the girls who STOMP ON MY FEELINGZ live for 15 dollars a trip away :((((
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this movie makes me glad i live in brooklyn, where authenticity goes to raise its family!
but seriously this movie might change my life, im just not sure if its for the best… :(
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nyc is home and that’s why i love her soo much
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i wish nyc was a poor crime-filled shithole again…. the good old days…
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<3wrming<3
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orlando bloom doesn’t look like shit for once.
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but he will most certainly eat it (shit. he’ll eat shit)
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As long as New York has a Chili’s, it’s OK with me.
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i love bragging about living here all the time. go green w/public transportation is my choose your own response answer! creative types that inspire instead of intimidate, carles, though i cant remember if we have a chilis? i know there’s a tgi’s in times square, but?
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i have a 25yo cousin from brooklyn, when she visited me two weeks ago she asked if i had heard that new song “w/ the gunshots”, cause its “really good” :(
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When does Chili’s open in Bushwick?
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union square is s0 alt
gotta love 14th street
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New York is a dirty shithole. (*)
/ \
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oh wow, another movie about NYC where almost EVERY SINGLE PERSON is white and speaks english. how fucking original is that…
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last time i visited new york it was all puerto rican and dominican republic black people hangin round in street corners selling dope or yellin at their kids, a gang of really short mexicans washing dishes and old school jews and their zany curls… none of wich are displayed on that shitty trailer.
Negro que?!?!
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haha, I live in new jersey, so for me NYC is definitely option K. every alt-level alt from the whiter NJ suburbs goes to NYC to become that d-bag.
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i obviously mean entry-level alt, not alt-level alt
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LUV NYC WANAN GO THERE SOO BAD!~~~!!
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@6:48 weird i read “entry-level alt” until I read 6:49 and went back.
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this movie is 100% barf-o-rama. carles, yes, please help ppl realize that moving to NYC can be one of the biggest mistakes of your life.
start out in philly. in addition to cheap rent, there are plenty of alt-pertunities for personal growth, lots of d-bags and chicks in art school, a wide variety of “minorities” to impose your beliefs about politics and farmers markets on, and wharton’s right there if you decide to go MNSTRM.
i hope netflix rec’s this movie to me in 3-7 months.
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worst than wanna be alts that upgrade in a month, the worst thing are wanna be hippies/beatniks that move to San Francisco thinking they will embrace a mythological and overtly great cause to the world driving their 2mpg pickups on weekends to the farm, and spending weekdays in their condos with the a/c blasting, but still saying they’re going green…
I’m actually moving out of the states in a couple of months, either to Florence or to Paris… couldn’t be more glad, Europeans are soooo authentic… Australia sounds cool too, but they speak English there…
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this post is 65% memorable! like a baby memorable post. <3 posts that aren't too long but still say a lot about who we think we are <3
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new york i love you…
but u bringing james murphy down
so no <3
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detroit’s not authentic, its just good.. and i guess that is pretty real, but not the kind of “realness” we’re all striving after haha.. oh, and carles your description of, “I’m thinking of transferring to Parsons from Pratt to feel ‘closer 2 the city.” were the exact words of my friends in NY.. haha, too funny
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@8.48
We dunt speak english
We speak ELECTRO!
Yall
- Rooroo
Yall think I shuld make a account so I can become fam0us
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ny is pissing me off. all my friends keep moving there and turning into a-holes and then getting chewed up and spit out and then they move back from ny like, “f that place but i’m soo much better than you because i used 2 live there”
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New Yorkers need to realize that there isn’t anything going on there that isn’t going on in every other major city in the world. Get off your high horse already. New York stopped being cool like ten years ago, and since then it was LA, Austin, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo, Rio, Ibiza, and then this last year Chiang Mai. Right now Portland is starting to smell of d-bags and I’m thinking Chicago goes next year – any bets?
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Oh thanks for letting us know your tips for what’s likely to become cool. I’ll hedge my bets.
It stopped being cool 10 years ago already? When did it start? HOW ARE YOU SO WISE?
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ny was only cool when they had gang wars between americans and irish in the slums and everyone had a big knife, and leonardo de caprio wore the same shirt for 30 years… wait, wasn’t that a movie?
I have to agree partially with anon @ 3.05, people think that NY is the only major city in the world, there are so, so, so, so many others that offer the same things (some possibly even more), but don’t have the attitude…
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hahahaha “small interactions that make u feel alive.” that is one of the funniest things ive read in awhile.
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Paris, Je'taime<3!!! this looks good too :)
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Who cares about NY anymore? That place is s0 19k5. Do ppl still live there even? I dno.
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so excited for this movie.
my response is I, J, P
and I LOVE NEW YORKKKKKKK so much, luv you
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idk how it could still possibly be alt 2 live in NYC since everyone trying to be alt moves there
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I live in NY and i can testify it SUCKs
the crowds here suck
and it is completely gentrified there’s nothing interesting
i blame James Murphy
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Is the lcd soundsystem song in the movie?
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