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Recently, I saw the popular indie film Where The Wild Things Are after seeing it advertised on every media website/blog/tv channel that appeals 2 me. It changed my view of the world, and sort of made me want 2 ‘get back 2 basics’, and ‘become a child again’, kinda like Animal Collective lyrics. I feel like the inside of me is just a lil boy, and I live in a world with tons of metaphorical monsters.
That’s kinda why I decided 2 dress up like the lil boy, then attend a relevant music festival. It seemed appropriate, and I was able to give my Am Appy hoodie a ’second life.’ It seems like ever since the altbro aesthetic died, most former altbros are trying to ‘pick up the pieces’ of their former personal brands, and trying 2 sculpt themselves into something modern/’real.’
I want to feel ‘real’ but I also kinda wanna be an ‘escapist.’ I feel like finding a popular movie character to mimic might ‘bring me back 2 basics’, kinda like the year of my life where I tried to be/think/act like Tyler Durden/ZBraff/miscellaneous Tenenbaum character. I am a lil bit distant and dark, but there’s also a lil bit of ‘hope’ in my brand.
What movie character would yall morph into?
Will u use Halloween 2k9 as an opportunity to ‘morph’ in2 some1 else?
Isn’t it weird how we want 2 be ‘more than human’ now that we have already evolved from apes/chimpanzees/guerillas?
Do yall know if it is still alt 2 go 2 a music festival dressed as a Starship Trooper?
It seems like a storm trooper might have been relevant if u were going 2 woodstock, but now, it might mean that you are an ‘old ass bro’ from back then, or something.
Sorta feeling like I wish I could be any1 but myself right now. Wonder if the next decade will be all about ‘escaping from urself’ instead of trying to ‘enhance urself.’ Wonder if they are the same thing. :-(
Previous Where the Wild Alts Are
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/06/what-is-more-alt-where-the-wild-things-are-or-gooby.html
Srsly though…what are some good ideas 4 alt Halloween costumes?
Is PeeWee HermanAlt still a ‘relevant’ costume?
Or should I be a vintage ironic human meme from the Electro Era?
Miss u Australian Partie Bro Meme.
(Will probs just be a balloon boy meme costume 2 ‘get ppl talking.’)
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im bein a vaccinated cheerleader, gonna do tha funky walk
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
@bloopie, damn. that was my idea 2. but since you were “fist”, I guess you win.
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Yessssssssssssssssssss
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cool story bro.
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felt like ‘where the wild things are’ was ‘terrible’. felt strange watching something that was so blatantly trying to appeal to my alt sensibilities but failing miserably.
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//////////Reply by actual bro
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
@chill bro, dunno what I should do about my friend who is seriously getting a max tattoo, might have to defriend him on facebook any ideas
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 8:04 am
@actual bro, gonna get a ‘full body onsie type outfit’ with hood + ears + whiskers sewn 2 my skin. going 2 actually b come a ‘wild thing’. going 2 howl at the moon.
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yawwwwn *fart**
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currently changing my life to be brodie from mallrats
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 8:05 am
@anon, waste not want not, my friend.
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miss australian party bro like a kindly aunt who has ‘passed on’.
hey anyone else read the Ha Jin short story ‘Kindergarten’? i’m just kind of bored and feel like talkin lit
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the stranger hj high five the wall no clean up
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
@HJ, woah. did you just do that?
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
@Anonymous, that just happened
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corey worthington is authentic. they dont make memes like they used to. bro doesnt take off his glasses for NOBODY.
theyre fuckin famous.
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 1:54 am
@DAT ASS, hey bro, wanna start a bizz-venture wid me? making and distributing ‘i am corey worthington’ t shirts?
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Feel like I should enhance my personal brand and be a Hornitos bottle for halloween (via HRO gimmick popups). Wondering if AmAppy sells Hornitos costumes.
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Someone in my class said the soundtrack was good. Then someone else started talking about film paranormal activity. Then I got in my car and drove around and smoked marijuana until the next class
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 8:07 am
@Chet, sun wuz high so was yall!
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went to that festival. it was quite nice. at least six guys dressed up as max from where the wild things are. storm tropper dressed up as a rabbit the second day and then got into a fight. it was funny. i got high and hooked up with some guy. it was a good weekend
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//////////Reply by JJ
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
@you,
Murs looked at my friend, who was dressed up as max, and made a comment about him. I felt so relevant as I was standing right next to him. I told him that he probably was going to end up on HRO, but he was oblivious. I gave up trying to explain the implications behind the drive to become a child again. I don’t blame him because I sometimes do it myself (gonna be peter pan for halloween. sooo 2k4 right?)
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im bein carles for hallowein. should i be azn or mexican? damn bro u coulda made bank sellin costumes.
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//////////Reply by JJ
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
@ironlung,
are you going to wear an i am carles tshirt? i feel like that would be too mainstream for those who know of the shirt, yet there needs to be ways to identify your costume to not seem too esoteric. i would dress up as a hispanicbro. rumor has it that carles is of this ethic background.
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//////////Reply by ironlung
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
@JJ, my carles costume will be so authentic that no one will be relevant enough to know what i am.
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//////////Reply by mr.jeffers
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
@ironlung, i love it
i feel like “carles” is the only person who writes all these “comments
” ” ” ” ” wtf stop with the quotation marks.
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i think hro is ded
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//////////Reply by paul
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
@le CEECEE, i miss D.A.N.C.E. too
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//////////Reply by gottabeanony
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
@paul, i SO agree.
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chilis two for $20
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//////////Reply by octoman
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
@no fish today,
Took my gf there the other night, felt like a bitch with all the marketing placement inside the restaurant, the commercials really don’t help either. She told me it was “ok”.
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is that crown and those hair-like thingies really a wtwa referenece? i don’t know anything about the movie/book except that it’s kinda twee but the monsters are actually really mean, or something.
but if it IS omg that’s as lame as being a joker alt circa that batman movie. chrissakes, at least dress up as barbarella or whatever, being ‘inspired’ by some huge movie production ‘in theaters right now’ makes you seem like you have the cultural awareness of a pimply suburban mallpunk tween living in some dismal bubble of nickelodeon + mtv + mall cinemas + burger king.
i think a lot of hipsters are like st00pid suburban tweens except slimmer + with better skin + a bit better at color coordinating their clothes + can afford more expensive hair product.
also maybe dude is being ironic with his little golden paper crown but it’s still lame.
tho upon looking at his picture again he doesn’t seem like such a legitimately cool bro anyway, like he probably doesn’t hang out with really cool people, which makes me feel bad for so forcefully indicting him personally. :-(
but this is not a personal matter. it is a larger, more important matter. for the hipster must die. for he is the dead-end of western civilization. ugh fuck ‘hipsters’
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//////////Reply by adrian
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
@gaston,
you just embarrassed yourself.
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//////////Reply by Mari
//////////Posted October 25th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
@gaston, stfu.
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//////////Reply by Paisley
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 12:17 am
@gaston, So…yepp…this is my first time relevantly on here and I’m the guy in the WTFWTWTA costume…so Gaston, stfu plessss like my good chum Mari suggested. It’s a costume. It has no relevance. Only HRO has relevance…good lord.
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Jim Henson > Maurice Sendak
I’m just sayin’…
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//////////Reply by mr.jeffers
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
@Anti-Dentite, dance your cares away
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think im gonna be the bitte orca cover for halloween ‘after all we’ve been thru’ in 2k9.1-2k9.10. just want to go head 2 head w/nietzche (via yale degree).
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@ditchdork, cool story bro
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the few months or so that I tried to align my brand with ‘Jim Morrison’ ‘ruined my life’ :(
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miss corey worthington meme badly. was kind of hoping he’d have a second life organizing Coachella pool parties featuring cut copy, men at work and the avalanches. let me dream
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www pitchfork com – change p and f to D’s
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 8:11 am
@ella, stfu
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//////////Reply by JJ
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
@flowers4alger-anon,
ew that is disgusting. how did she get the shit to go back in her mouth?
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Now I feel like a tiny member of team HRO now that my photos documenting culturally relevant zany concertgoers have appeared here.
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That’s a STORM Trooper dumb ass. And it’s “to” not “2″ dumb ass.
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