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Still searching for my ’summer look.’ I know that fanny packs have been something ‘ironic’ to mention since the beginning of time. But srsly yall…I think that fanny packs are actually really functional now that I have finished my design school curriculum. I was fortunate enough to major in Product Design & Engineering, and had a class taught by the guy who designed the first generation iPod Shuffle.
I feel like soon, ppl will want to carry ‘less belongings’ than ever. All u really need is ur debit card and ur smartphone. We will soon eliminate pockets, and either have specially designed pouches for specific items, or perhaps some sort of ‘camelbak’ that you can fill with the beverage of ur choice.
I’m not very creative, but I do come up with good ideas sometimes. Sorta wish that bars would sell pre-loaded camelbaks full of beer / well drinks / sparks / etc. Feel like it would make business more efficient, and decrease ‘foot traffic’ within the bar, allowing people to enjoy themselves’ even more. U could even encourage people to ‘bring in their own huge container.’ Might just use a camelpak because I am worried about dehydrating in the summer sun.
Yall… I’m just looking for a better way to live–and I think the best way to improve your life is to bring as many ‘kick ass products’ as possible into your life. I don’t really understand why ‘we were put on this Earth’, but I do know that u can do whatever is in ur power to make urself look kewl/have a ‘functional wardrobe.’
might buy an iPhone 4.0
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ghay
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//////////Reply by nana
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
@gaay, FANNY PACKS make life easier
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fanny packs are for tourists & colostomy users.
- designer hankerchief & stick is all alt-one needs.
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//////////Reply by alt hobo
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
**all an alt-one needs
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fanny packs are in. at dollywood only
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i don’t think fannypacks match my personal brand.
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u seem to have something there. . . might go ‘thrifting.’
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fanny packs have been tryin really hard to be cool for years now and it’s just not working. Fanny packs remind me of that band Phoenix. They keep tryin and they think its gonna happen but it doesnt. belt bags are the new thing but i feel like they are too sophisticated atm like it might take a few years until people “get it”.
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//////////Reply by DICKZ
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
http://www.americanapparel.com/rsasv501.html
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am appy fannypack.
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//////////Reply by dangerbroom
//////////Posted June 18th, 2009 at 11:47 am
@▲,
seemslike somethingan entrylevelblibsterwouldwear/rok
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I like fannypacks. its a good way to be hands-free for hiking or dancing.
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hipster runoff is both authentic and meaningful
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//////////Reply by *-*
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@damnbro, and zany
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//////////Reply by sOO zany name
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
@damnbro, and ghey, sometimes.
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@damnbro,
bro
did u read that online article?
about hro?
‘Bob Mould calls HRO ‘meaningful and authentic’…’
at the end they give some props to the commenters
but they also implied that we were ‘rude’, and ‘out of control’, and ‘a lil racist’, and ‘tactless’
and i didnt kno that this was a point of contention
so i am somewaht concerned
and want 2 kno what u think
cause u seem like a bro ‘who has his head in the right place’
idk
i thought the comments were a metaphor
and we were all ‘a lil bit of carles’
but i just dont kno anymore
and feel depressed or something
:-/
plz help
also
@Carles
p0st moar MyChemicleRomances mp3sssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!
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where is god on this? i mean what i want is a body pocket kangaroo style although maybe not a “gut pocket” and i certainly would not be putting my kids in it. but what i want is a built in pocket under my boob or maybe even my boob could be the pocket… just thinking we’ve got eyelashes fingernails hair and shit but no effing pocket????
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What do you do when you’re wearing an Amparell flanny pack (flannel) and you see a fat computer dork Dan Deaconing in his non-Amparell flanny?
I say fuck it and just get a cool earth colored EMS hiking frame bag. They’re huge and you never have to worry about everyone else having one.
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can’t believe this is even being discussed. If fanny packs become the new summer look, that makes my great uncle dallas a trendsetter.
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//////////Reply by k
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
@believepeyton, you haven’t seen the glasses young people where these days?
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//////////Reply by Anon
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
@k, nw gt ff m lwn
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//////////Reply by nana
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
@believepeyton, your great uncle isn’t wearing it right.
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I ♥ fannypacks! but hate them when used to make a statement. seriously.
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ew, hell no to fanny packs
-M
MaruMaru.etsy.com
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I think this is my first comment (might have posted something lame on some post somewhere), but yeah, been reading for a while, even got the RSS feed thing. Ever since I listened to your podcast, Carles, I read every one of these posts in your voice, and your voice talking about fannypacks is great. I’ll only get one of American Apparel sells them in neon/knit fabric, though.
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By the way, HR was waaaaaaay off about the wolf shirts. Thurston Moore, always a pillar of fashions five to ten years in the future, was wearing a wolf shirt about five years ago. Once Thurston rocks it, it’s over. Duh.
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is this a sideways reference to alt gods, teh fannypack aka america’s 2nd best dance crew
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my summer break-thru fashion accessory is better.
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fanny pack is purely utilitarian from an alt point of view. who has room in the pockets of their skinny jeans for their polaroid camera, spliffs/joints/blunts/smokes, their french ticklers,fake ID, pedo glasses, pedo glasses’ case, game boy, iphone, dime bag/dub, car keys (or keys to the lock on your fixie), maybe some ancient sparxx or pbr??
fanny packs connects humans to nature through our natural connection with marsupials such as joeys (thats outback talk for a young kangaroo) hope eventually alts can evolve to grow a fanny pack-esque appendage somewhere on my underdeveloped, malnurished bod~
pz,love,bros
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//////////Reply by nana
//////////Posted June 17th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
@zakaweee, i agree. if i didn’t have my fanny pack at bonnaroo i would have never made it back alive.
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//////////Reply by don't worry about it
//////////Posted June 18th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
@nana, bonnaroo? eww
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25th
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I love this blog. i hate thick-rimmed glasses.. almost as much as i hate fanny packs
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lolz@ “some sort of ‘camelbak’” followed by that pic of it (the ‘classic’ version no less)! That’s like one second from idea conception to quasi-reality! i want 1!!!!1!
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Fanny pack were 200late’s accessory in Chicago. SNEWZ
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doesnt n e 1 else call them “bumbags?”
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i’ve been wearing fanny packs for SEVEN years.
SE7EN years… they’re not cool, they’re functional as hell. i got my cigs, phone and bank card. and they’re not getting stolen or lost. boner
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You need some Han Solo thigh holsters.
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fanny packs are style bubble approved
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