HIPSTER RUNOFF: AN AMERICAN BLOG
Every one remembers the day the towers came down. On that day, every one in the world felt more American than they had ever felt. Whether you were a kid who lived in suburbia, or some one from the North Eastern United States, you will never forget September 11, 2001.
We all have a personal story, and a connection with 9-11. We all have our own coping mechanism which helps us move forward. Some people ‘make 9-11 towers falling jokes’ to hide their pain, and others are more directly vulnerable in a traditional way.
But did u ever think u’d see alts ‘gettin they drank on’ in cardboard replicas of the World Trade Center in the year 2k8?
‘s000 buzzed’
Progressively Mourning or just ‘being inappropriate’?
[Photos by takeovertokyo]
Do alts in cardboard World Trade Center replicas just need attention, or are they ‘the future’ of learning how to cope with global tragedy?
How does this make u feel?
How do u deal with tragedies on a personal and global scale?
Is it difficult for you to ‘mourn’ because of the ‘mainstream way that u r supposed to be sad about stuff’?
Is it difficult for you to mourn because it makes u feel less unique if u r as sad/shaken as some1 who isn’t as smart & interesting as u?
Who is the real person inside of u?
<3 Let’s get vulnerable: Coming this week <3
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this looks like the most depressing party ever.
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listen i think 9/11 is as hilarious as the next person, but i don’t recognize any of these people, so this obviously can’t be NYC, which means they are not allowed to joke this hard about 9/11. are these L.A. kids? FUCK THEM.
ONLY NYC KIDZ CAN MAKE FUN OF 9/11
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is bin laden alt or stream
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he was alt, became stream, but now he is just cool dad.
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http://www.swamp-rat.com/4images/details.php?image_id=317
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I’ve wanted to incorporate terrorism into my personal brand for a while now, but I’m a bit of a sheep to be perfectly honest…glad these pioneers of alt-mourn have paved the way for those of us with a less innovative style yall.
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feelings make me feel less unique :(
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i am actually almost offended
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I find it ironic, how alts are making fun of terrorism, when terrorists are the paragons of counter culture.
Counter-culture used to be about fucking shit up, appropriating metaphors, and shifting paradigms. However, now, counter-culture, and by extension, youth culture seems to want the panoptic gaze on them–Instead of gouging its fucking eyes out. wtf.
Although I don’t agree with the terrorists’ tactics, you have to admit they are the only group fucking shit up @ the moment. Those motherfuckers are instantiating worlds as you’re strapping fucking colored cardboard to your chest, and do the hockey pockey.
Think about this as you sip on your Cambodian goat milk-latte- frappa-frappachino. beootches.
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they ganked my costume from halloween 2001
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hey, does n e 1 know where to get those building jackets? do they come n diffnt colors?
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dear confessions_of_an_ordinary_dewshbag…
i’m just trynta get ridonk and chill yo. i don’t want 2 ‘fuck shit up.’ i like my shit. this shit is pretty good right now. it would suck if ‘shit changed.’ we gotta protect america. if it weren’t 4 capitalizm and ‘our boys over there,’ we couldn’t live our shallow, vapid, cocaine-party lifestyles and get our pictures posted on sillie weblogs every weekend. we might have to occupy our time with other activities like ‘hunting 4 food’ and ‘learning how to build a teepee.’
we are alts. not revolutionaries. if u want to ‘fuck shit up’ or whatever, you should be an ‘underground commie hip-hop enthusiast’ so you can fight the power and ‘kill whitey’ and all that crap.
l8r.
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WE’RE ALL NEW YOURK KIDZ NOW
that is what i felt like in october 2001 thru july 2006 enyway
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Is M.I.A. being preggers and giving birth to a Vevendi heir reason for a good costume?
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alt != counter-culture
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Is this a good costume? Perhaps the next face of American Apparel?
http://www.trashmenagerie.com/blog/2008/09/14/the-presets-won-4-aria-awards-they-are-like-grammys-yo/
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At least they’ll always “rember” the events.
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twin towers costume = fuckin tennenbaums mainstream
united 93 costume = alt. those bros stuck together and fought back like things were getting too rough at a crystalcastles show.
let’s roll, yall
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fuckin nick avey. haha
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hey Anonymous fucktards.
I’m not trying to telling you how to live your life.
snort your blow–fuck your hookers, and play with your guns… fuck, if I care.
However, I am trying to de-construct the increasingly ‘shallow’, ‘vapid’, and ostentatious alt ethos, I encounter among the general population. Afterall, alt claims to be the cultural avante-garde. no?
let’s look at your textual footprint.
you said:
“we are alts. not revolutionaries…”
“we are alts” is a claim. Moreover, it’s stating you exhibit the properties of alt-ness. Do, fucktards like you, even know what alt is? If you look at the genaeology of the term ‘alternative’, it has constantly focused on opposing, and ‘revolutionalizing’ private and public spheres of discourse, and social practices. Therefore, your aforementioned claim is absurd. To be alt is to stand towards the world in a revolutionary posture. Historically, this has been the case. But I guess fucktards like you have forgotten this–or never really understood it to be begin with.
But maybe I am wrong. Maybe I don’t understand ‘alt’. If ‘alt’ isn’t ‘alternative’, then why is it worthwhile to persue an ‘alt’ lifestyle. It could have been otherwise.
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i think this bro needs to lay off the sparks
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alt is alt dumbass. alternative is something that kennedy and courtney love made up…alt is worth pursuing becuz you get to be (a) rad, (b) get tuggles of tugs, (c) do coke as a lifestyle choice, (d) serve in the electrowars, (e) look awesome n/m what you are wearing, because it is funny to someone, (f) irony as lifestyle (g) auth. irony as lifestyles, (h) sandblast your brain until you forget situationism, (i) j/k aboot aNYthing, (k) have no feelings, (l) advance on an alt. path until you realize the One of Altness and transcend Alt/stream, (m) start a vintage store, (n) start a str8wear brand, (o) sk8bored as accessory, (p) pick up tugz talking about how selfish you R (so they know you R not stalker/bf matirial), (q) never declare a sexuality or be a drunkhighstonedasexual, (r) PARTY PIXXX, (s) never read a magazine or blog w/out American Appy ads, (t) know that vice suxxxx, (u) go aNYwhere in the world and see yr. people, (v) everything is funny, (x) everytime you laugh a serious emotion dies, (y) luv your parents because they were alt. when you were sperm, (z) like MIA because her politics are STY-lish she is super alt has no feelings.
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@blingityourself.
thank you for the clarification. I had confused ‘alt’ with ‘alternative’. So I am in the wrong.
However, I’d like to make one final point. Standing towards the world in a revolutionary posture is an ageless activity. Underlying the list you provided are n-degrees of dependencies on youth–and youth culture. So let me problematize ‘alt’, as I see it.
How will one relate to the rest of ones’ life, if the rest of ones’ life never happens because one is so focused on preserving ones’ youth. Quite the existential dillemma, since each present Now is heavily weighed by gravity of the past–almost to the degree where the past and present are substitutable.
sol.
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huh????? where are you getting that? the point is to live in an eternal now of party pix, pixie sticks, sticky photos and…
the point srsly is that we live in an age of eternal adolescence. Even if yr. thirty (five) you don’t have to grow up or change or become an ‘a-dolt’. Just stay obessed, raddd, blahg, have fun. what yr. talking about is the sort of stuff grad students worry about, not people who are doing stuff. if yr. active, then life is one island to the next of Orlyness.
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http://twinkle.tapulous.com/index.php?id=1789732
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the amount of non-anons in this post is quite frightening. they feel so much more entitled than us!
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the people in these photos were between the ages of 7 and 12 on 9/11/01
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so does alt stand for alternative?
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i wish someone had lit these bros on fire at the end of the night. i mean, if you’re gonna be authentic…
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oh how i love me some nick avey
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My friends and I had a 9/11 party. But really, it was just an excuse to drink excessively on a Thursday. We didn’t play Jenga or anything.
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i like the person who said they were between 7 and 12…
nice math asshole
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Wait, what’s an alt again? Alt? Also, what’s a ‘bro?’ These people are decidedly not bros. I would imagine bros wouldn’t be into costumes or haircuts so much.
People are offended – I think that’s the point. But I wouldn’t call this anything original or new – ‘shock for laughter’ is as old as when those in power stopped killing people for doing it. Ultimately, these are kids making NO statement, making NO point – getting drunk on a Thursday because school’s out on Friday.
Had people dressed up as a hurricane and fucked-over African-Americans would you have been more/less or same offended? Remember that to some of us (especially us ‘alts’ in California) 9/11 is not only tragic in its death toll but also in its representation as the jumping-off point for the worst 7 years of foreign policy in American history and more senseless tragedy. If these kids really wanted to be funny maybe they should have an Abu Girab party.
Oh yeah, and from the website, it’s pretty obvious this is in Sacramento, CA. I’m sure they’re thrilled you mistook them for LA, though – baby’s growin up!
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if ppl gotta die and be poor/oppressed so i can shake my ass and get drunk, high, tugged and photographed… SO BE IT.
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i used to think the term ‘alt’ as it is used on HRO carries with it a certain connotation of political apathy. obvs i was wrong.
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fuck you, McAvey!
Love,
yr friend,
CarlB
This car came up to me and said “dude, i just got hit by a McAvey, and i feel like shit!” i was like, “Dag, yo!”
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these are the best costumes ever. halloween anyone?
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I’m sure my friend that died on 9/11 would really appreciate you dressing up like this and getting hammered. Is this some sort of celebration or mockery? We’re talking mass murder here folks, not something to take lightly. Thanks for being assholes about it…
It’s really sad that I recognize people in these photos. I’m sure I’ll have something to say to you when I see you next time.
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confessions_of_an_ordinary >>>>>> you seem very insecure and jealous…. just chill out, doob it, and listen to "alien lanes" by guided by voices to help you through your current spell of depression.
blingityourself >>>>> you said it so well, that i had to copy and paste your statement into a texct file on my desktop. hope to c u soon at a partee.
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Maybe when L.A. Riots are tag-teaming Nick Avey and teabagging must.not.die next week they can beg them to bring them back to LA.
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LOL These pretentious elitist pricks must feel so good about themselves for making it on here. While I’m at it takeovertokyo, It doesn’t take much to wave your arm in the air and snap a photo. Especially when theres ugly drunk bitches make out with eachother just for it.
and REMBER?
wtf? did only a few people catch that?
I’m so glad I don’t live in whackromento.
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LOL LA RIOTS NICE NAME DROP
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mad roflz@theze commntz. are yall srsly arguing abt wht it meanz 2 be alt? wooowwww. maybe im jst immaturez th0 & dnt understnd.
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this shit just got too out of hand is all. people just got all personal. we wuz just havin some funz.. and yes, r’ember we will.
love,
the horse’s mouth
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let’s get vulnerable yall
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I printed the pictures off and dropped them off at the fire house downtown, I also let them know you idiots hang out at Old Ironsides on Tuesdays and R15 on thursdays so… good luck and I hope you make it threw the night
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hopefully you download like you spell and they “threw” those pictures away.
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my intern just called you snarky ha ha
my spelling is at least not as bad as “Rember”
point to you sir, I cant spell!
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it is so rediculous how much attention this thing is getting. the photographer nick avey is actually gonna be on the local news tonight. i thought it was funny. i didn’t even realize people would get so fucking upset. they act like 9/11 was a goddamn genocide.
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you guys don’t have a life. and are stating judgements that are completely ridiculous. they didn’t mean anything by it. they weren’t stating that 9/11 was a GOOD thing or anything. they weren’t wearing signs that said yay terrorists! or anything. get over it.
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The fact you think its not serious is very serious.
By the way-
id rather suck a lumberjacks dick than fuck any of those ugly chick-dudes you tools hang out with.
heres your 15 minutes… use them well
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which photos are more controversial??? Those or…
These ones?
get over it.
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One of the consequences of shock art, which I consider this to be, is that it’s difficult to relate to. One tries to grasp for metaphors to explicate the phenomena–metaphors that never come easily–It’s just so fucking new and alien.. So you’re there with this dumb look on my face in a moment of existential paralysis trying to form new metaphors.
9-11 was our generations’ JFK moment. We all remember where we were and what we were doing when the towers fell–looking dumbed face. But for a lot of Americans–they’re still in this state of shock–and have not formed a personal narrative to explain the senselessness of the act.
No doubt you alts will you use your cliche lines of, ‘don’t be so seerius’, and turn your gaze. But for a lot of other people, they can’t help but remain transfixed by the horror and tragedy.
And this is why they take your shock art ‘sirsly’–they hold that moment sacred in their hearts because they were transformed by it. It permanently colored their horizons, and interpretation of the worldly world.
So when they see you with your beers in your hands–all shits and giggle like–they say to themselves, ‘oi–don’t you know your outfit looks like 2 massive grey tombstones? Have some respect for the dead.’
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Atleast in sactown you can be cool and hip and still far from attractive. Wheres that wannabe dj diamond nigger? Lord knows the bashing comments would go up by 50 if he were in that box
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THATS MY GIRL!!! HAYYY U SO FAMOUZZ!
-bk
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how is this any more offensive than turning on the teevee during nearly any time on 9/11/2k2-8 and seeing the towers blow up over and over and over again and again and again… etc. ad nauseum?
it’s been 7 years people, 7 YEARS and for people who lost loved ones I don’t think some alts dressed in cardboard are going to make them any sadder than they already are. Some day when we can open a newspaper or turn on the teevee or look at google news without seeing any references to 9/11 then I will think it to be in bad taste but I don’t think we will ever see that day so LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP ALREADY.
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o0o0oh I LOVE MY GIRL SHE SO FLY, EVERYONE FUCK OFF. ITS FUNNY HOW IT TAKES AMERICA SO LONG TO OPEN UP THEIR EYES. I MEAN REALLY…. WE ONLY REACT WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS
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It was obviously a joke. I’m not offended and I have a hard time seeing what exactly is offensive about it. Would it have been more offensive if they just had their perty without any mention or rememberence of 9/11? Get over yourselves and your wannabe emotions and go cry to someone who cares.
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what the fuck is this shit?
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