HIPSTER RUNOFF

Sometimes I want 2 do something crazy
Do something that rlly let's 'the man' know that they are full of shit
Feeling so sad/repressed by society
I want to kill every1
so much pain inside of me

Every time I 'pay a bill', I feel trapped
Every time I 'don't get a job promotion', I feel trapped
Every time I eat fast food, I feel 'trapped'
Every time the principal calls me abt my son who is 'acting up', I know there is nothing I can do
Every time my peen doesn't get hard when I try to make love to my wife
I shake my fist at God/President Obama
And blame him for my troubles

Municipal, Local, State, Federal, International
I am insignficant
There is nothing I can do
I will 'shoot up' some sort of 'institution'
Ppl who are just as trapped as me
Except they are 'pretending they are free'
Pretending they are 'hot shit'

I am trapped in suburbia
I am trapped in society
I am trapped in my life

I wanted to make a statement
But in the modern world
I just became an 'oddball internet meme'
Didn't even kill any1

I am a failure
On multiple levels
Overweight, pathetic, diabetic, insane, uneducated
Less than middle class, poor, unloved

U created me, society
I will take u down, society
I will take me down, society
You will take me down, society

Goodbye world
Love,
Trapped_In_Society_Raging_against_the_Machine_bro
Me

Photo by thecobrasnake

Every day, I walk around
See so many disgusting effing faces on the street
Going to their 9-5 jobs
Raising families
Watching TV shows to make them feel connected 2 society

If only they knew
that they were not just mainstreamers
they were lamestreamers
succumbing to society's trends / interests / pressures

When I am around too much lamestream culture
I must protect myself from toxic vibes
This uniform is not 4 the sake of personal branding
I wear this gas mask
2 stay alive in our toxic ass society

I live in the metaphorical darkness
emerging at night
2 connect with a group of like-minded people
We meet in a safe, dark environment
which has been aesthetically treated to
keep us safe
keep us thriving

No, I'm not just a bro who recently saw the hit film Trilogy 'The Matrix'
I am not a dude who JOs to anime / hentai porn on the reg
I am not 1 of those dudes who is obsessed with Japan
I am not just another 1990s gothwave bro who never grew up
I may or may not be the most authentic alt on the planet

Gas Mask Bro

Techno house rave music culture
Existentialism absurdism green post-societal apocalyptic wave lifestyles
This is my life

Mainstreamers will 1 day die [via their God rapturing their asses]
But I will live 4ever
escaping with my bros who participate in my relevant counter-culture lifestyle

What do u do 2 keep urself save from lamestreamers?
Is the gas mask going to be a relevant trend in 2k12?
Will the world end in 2k12, or just the mainstream world?
Does society have harsh toxic vibes?

Sometimes I doubt the world so much
I lose faith in humanity
Honestly believe that 'money' is the only thing that makes the world go round
'Oil' and 'cash money' have torn apart our relationships with the A-Rab world
leading to terrorism & acts of mad violence + hate

Every1 just wants to be rich and famous
gathering piles of moneys in buildings called 'banks'
Wish money didn't exist, and we could just barter goods & services
People would pay to be an artist
I could pay 4 my bread and cold cuts with cool paintings and digital .jpg memes
Wish ppl didn't give a shit about Rolex Indiglo watches, Macbook Pros, and 'huge houses in suburbia'

I guess the Arcade Fire was right when they sang the infamous line
"H8 u the Suburbs, yall."
And also AnCo was right when they sang
"I'd rather be chilling in Adobe slabs... Seeya!"
Vampire Weekend was also right when they sang
"Sigh... Wish we lived in the 3rd world, appreciated our lives' and chilled on Horchata."

How can I get back 2 basics?
How can I restore my faith?
How can I believe in us again?
How can I believe in humanity?

A meaningful interactive real life art installation
Taking place outside 'in real life' [via on my street]
Going to put several hundred $1 bills into a tree on my street
and see if real life humans
act like 'hunters and gatherers', 'savages'

Each piece of US currency will also have an 'inspiration note' on it.

It seems like I only live in a white neighborhood
and every1 'adhered to chill societal rules'
taking only one or two dollars
And took a moment to read the meaningful note on the dollar bill

As a white person, I can guarantee that minorities would have been 'savages'
about this tree
Homeless people would have acquired a month's supply of drugs, alcohol, and Burger King
relieved they didn't ruin my video
Relieved I picked a safe location
outside of the apartment which my parents pay 4 with their metaphorical money tree
which I pull dollar bills from

At the end of the day, maybe I wasn't really even interested in 'improving society'
or 'restoring faith'
I just feel better about myself for creating an art installation in public space
creating a meme that exists on the internet
even though it was a pretty trivial 'experiment'
that offers no valuable insight in2 humanity/consumerism/greed

Did this unique artistic project transcend society?

Do yall feel 'inspired' by this project?
Was it 'brilliant'?
Do u h8 society/consumerism?
Do people and tweens only care about money?
Should they have 'manned up' and put $100 bills in the tree?
Should they have done this in a black neighborhood?
Is some 'generic white neighborhood in Chicago' representative of humanity/society?
Do u think black people were arrested if they took a dollar from this money tree?

[Photo via Lookbook]
Every day, you have a normal series of tasks to complete. You have to shit, eat, commute, etc. We are all the same. We all have access to the same facilities. We all walk on streets. We all travel through airports. We all go to our local grocery store/everything-store to get what we need to stay alive.

While this process sometimes makes me feel less unique, I am sometimes reminded that there's more to life than mainstream sustainability. Unique snowflakes like the one pictured above remind us that there is a plane of authenticity which exists that we should all be pursuing. While the constraints of society have 'shackled our metaphorical arms', it does not mean that we should resign our individuality over to Fortune 500 companies.

The pictured alt lives in the same society that I do, but he is bold. He is different. He sees the world in a different way, and he is not afraid. So while poop does fall out of his butt just like every1 else, he is not afraid to let things mean something.

There's nothing wrong with meaning meaning.
I want to be an authentic alt in a mainstream society.
I will not let society bring me down.

[Photo by HipsterDBag]
Is America really a FAST FOOD NATION? Is it ruining our great country? Does our country need more reality shows that help people lose weight since people can only lose weight if they are on TV?

Does n e 1 know if people outside of America are fat, or if only Americans are 'gettin a lil chunky'? I remember when NME tried to write an article about how American bands are awesome, but I think it is harder for all Americans because we have to do more to watch our weight. This is why we aren't involved in the Electro War--we are busy consuming, and not creating enough. There's more to life than McGriddles and reading blogs, yall Americans... Let's save our nation b4 it's too late and we run out of whatever that liquid they use to cook fries is called.

On every corner in America is a McDonalds, Pink Berry, Chili's, or Wendy's Frosty Stop. We drive cars a lot. Do we need to get exercise? Is America in trouble?

What can we do to save ourselves before our lives' end without ever proving that life is meaningful?

kinda scared...hope this doesn't ruin my Friday night...

XX BONUS TAT XX
What r u doing this weekend?

r u gonna have some PBRs, or r u just going to get some tattied on to your wrist?

Yall,

This weekend, I sacrified a lot of my time to go and see 'The Dark Knight.' It took me a while to decide whether or not I was going to see it because I couldn't tell if it was mainstream or alt, but deep down, I wanted to fit in. If it is going to be the biggest movie ever, I thought it would be a good idea for me to 'connect with the human race as a whole.' I thought it would be a rewarding experience to 'connect' with my fellow audience members as we watched a wonderful piece of art that achieved mainstream success.

I felt a lot of pressure to go. According to what I've read in blogs and newspapers, 'The Darky' is a big deal. I wanted to be able to appreciate what has been described as the most authentic-mainstream movie experience EVER.

However, after going through the process of 'going to the movies to see The Dark Knight', I have realized that I will never be able to appreciate what mainstreamers think they are supposed to appreciate.

1. Going to the Movies
DARK KNIGHT = way 2 long. Kind of like one of those bad HRO posts where Carles just 'keeps tlkng & tlkng abt stuff he doesn't know abt.' If you're going to see THE DARKIE, expect to lose 5 hours of your day. If u see it in the IMAX, a teen usher with acne will tell u to put your iPhone away when you are trying to liveblog abt how the movie is 'kinda long.' SRSLY tho... kinda wish some1 would embed the movie in youtube, or maybe I could watch it on HULU. The best solution would be for some1 to open a theatre chain where you had to pay like $40 per ticket, except u didn't have to watch previews/commercials. You can have the option of having these ads emailed to you. N e ways... I just think stuff like 'going to the movies' and 'watching baseball' are for people in their prime from the year 1989.

'OMG...POPCORN AND SODAS R SO EXPENSIVE' - old people
'OMG...I DEFAULTED ON MY MORTGAGE BC I HAD TO BUY AN ICEE AND WHOPPERS WHILE I SAW THE DARKIE' - rlly old people taking their grandkids to the movies

I thought the whole movie was going to be Heath + CBale chillin in this room.

2. Heath Ledger
Heath may or may not be dead, but his (fake) death was great for BOX OFFICE $$$$$$$. I wish some1 had told me that he was only in the movie for like 15 minutes. I went into the theatre thinking that the movie was going to be about him. I felt kinda lied to when I had to sit through a bunch of 'stuff blowing up' for so long. If I wanted to see stuff blow up, I would have gone to a Justice concert.

Remember people who thought they were 'visionaries' because they were into anarchy/punk music?

3. The movie had a bunch of ghey themes
Another thing that really bothers me was that 'The Dark Knight' had themes that were made to appeal to people who didn't-go-to-college-but-like-feeling-smart. Basically, the movie exposes the audience to themes that are so complex that smart people don't bother trying to apply the themes to our modern society but they can convey an abridged version for mainstream dummies to feel like 'they are actually thinking about important issues/philosophy.' This makes them feel deep. They went into the theatre solely looking to be entertained, but since they were also exposed to ideas that a freshman in college would have been exposed to in his Political Science 101 course, they feel like they come out of the theatre a better person. I feel like movies like 'The Matrix' or 'V for Vendetta' are some of the most popular films in this genre. They usually deal with concepts like 'why is our society so zany/capitalistic/controlled by 1 person?' or even 'what makes us human, yall?' It would have been nice if Heath Ledger just read some Foucault to me for 3 hours. I mean srsly..what's the deal with society/prisons/social systems/'the world'/'how history has altered the way things are(that's kinda unfair--especially 4 minorities)'.

4. Heath Ledger as the Voice of these 'Deep, Complex Themes'
This weekend, I was walking down the street and I saw a little Mexican kid dressed as the Joker. He had facepaint, a big red smiley, green coloring sprayed over his dark mexi-hair, and was dressed just like Heath in the movie (aka he was wearing the church clothes he used to wear before he rebelled against his ever-loving Catholic mother's dead ideologies). I'm sure last week the same kid was into identifying with Linkin Park lyrics that commented on how 'people r full of shit, there's no such thing as love, and I hate my dad, too.' Ultimately, exposing impressionable tweens to concepts that they don't really need to be aware of is bad for humanity. I understood when goth-ish people dressed like they were in 'the matrix' to seem interesting until high school administrators determined that they 'looked like they were going to shoot up the school' in the post-Trench Coat Mafia era, but I just think 'dressing up like the Joker' to let people know that you 'see the same world that he sees' is a little bit much. I wish the Joker just wore business casual so I wouldn't notice audacious little JokerMexis any more. It's sort of like the 'deep version of a little girl dressing up like Hannah Montana.'

A lot of people say that Heath Ledger killed himself because he 'couldn't pull himself out of this dark, dark role.' If that is true, then we can assume that Heath Ledger has the same mental-makeup as a 13 year old angsty kid who dresses up like the joker.

5. Christian Bale
I feel like every one is just waiting for him to turn into Patrick Bateman in American Psycho again. He did a lil Batemen with his Bruce Wayne impression, but he sounds kinda sillie when he talks with his Batman voice. Is Batman even a difficult role to play? People who have played Batman: Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney. N e ways...I hope Patrick Bateman does a good job in the new Terminator movie. I miss Edward Furlong, though. He was pretty alt when I was a kid, so I think John Connor wedge haircuts might be big in 2k9.

Remember Arnold b4 he was mainstream/conservative?

6. Morgan Freeman
Remember when he played a Black President in 'Deep Impact'? Remember that time he played 'God' in that other movie?


7. The Most Troublesome Part of going to the movies was being exposed to this commercial:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMy35Aw0bjI&hl=en&fs=1]
JC Penny is trying to appeal to ___________?
a) people over the age of 30
b) Emilio Estevez fans
c) lil alts
d) people who listen to ska/punk cover songs of 80s anthems
e) tweens who are still searching for their sexuality but identify with bands like Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, and Panic!@the disco.

****IN CONCLUSY (SRSLY)****
SRSLY tho... I'd rather slit my wrists with broken Criterion Collection DVDs than go 2 the movies again. It took a lot out of me. So many people, so m
any lives', so many differences, so many similarities. I mean, r we all just 'trying to make money to thrive in our society?' That would be s0 random if we were...

Theoretically we all want to fit in (be mainstream), but sometimes u just have 2 realize that ur gonna be an alt 4evr. You should surround yourself with a network of alts who understand their positions within the alt-mainstream social graph and how their social interactions from grades K thru 16 impacted their social self-perception.

Maybe I should just loosen up and 'enjoy goin out to the movies + grabbin bite 2 eat at TGIFridays.' <3333

I like the tracks that I've heard of Kanye West on Hype Machine. I'm pretty apprehensive about buying the actual album. I remember when "College Dropout" came out, I was pretty quick to buy it. I liked the songs with TWISTA. Eventually, I got pretty tired of the album. Maybe Kanye's samples are so good that they are easy to get tired of. Does that make any sense? Think about your relationship with his song "Touch The Sky." What kind of lasting power do his songs have, or do you just listen to them 20 times and get tired of hearing him talk about himself + his obvious observations about American society mixed with typical hip hop references?

MP3: Kanye West - Good Life (Feat. T.Pain)
MP3: Kanye West - Flashing Lights Ft. Dwele

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