HIPSTER RUNOFF

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I have always felt out of place in public high school. Just too many people. Too many regular people. And the people who 'look alternative' don't even 'get' what being alternative is about. Too many poors and coloureds who are from the apartment complexes that they recently built in my district

I went to a private school for a while thinking things would be better, and I think people are just too rich to be alt. Sort of like Mary Kate and Ashers. I also h8 wearing uniforms. I just want a place where I can be me. I want a place where people know what I am talking about. Tired of people pretending that Gossip Girl is authentic. Tired of meeting other people my age who listen to buzzbands from 2 years ago and tween rock.

In the fall, I will be attending the School for the Authenticification of the Young Alts of Upstate New York. Basically, it is a school that takes in alternative kids with potential, and teaches them how to take their alternative existences to the next level. The school is meant to prepare kidz for the rigorous social demands of high level alternative scenes. It is a battle for survival.

The posted picture shows the first graduating class on their senior trip. The majority of senior year is spent traveling across the globe, visiting every relevant city on this planet. In order to become an authentic alt, you must travel, and see people in their natural element. This is how you build your personal brand and personal fashion. This is how you learn 2 <3 life.

Here are a few of the aspects that make me excited about going to this high school:

• Weekend shuttle so kids don't drive drunk
• Teaches u about important stuff like bloghouse and technology
• Gives you 4 hours per day on campus to browse the internet and read blogs
• Sponsored by a vodka company
• Freegan meals
• Vending machines with alt beverages on campus (Sparks, PBR, Belvedere)
• Class that teaches you how to start a party pic site, from buying a DSLR to how to upload pix to the web
• Teachers are from yesteryear's indie buzz bands and some people who threw some sweet parties back when 'the scene' was just forming
• Strategies on thrifting / getting good deals at retail stores
• Dealing with ur mainstream past
• No mainstream events like prom, student council, or athletics
• What u should look for in a soulmate.
• Reading progressive books, magazines, blogs, and zines.
• There are no 'grades'

What do u think I should demand in my curriculum?
Do yall go to high school? Do you think this is a good idea?
Do u think it will help me get into a good college/ivy league / art school?
Should I go to a school for the arts/technology?
What will help me become the person I want to be?
What was ur high school experience like?

All I ever wanted to do was look like the beautiful people in the pictures on the internet. [via Crystal Castalt]

Yall, I was watching this new Crystal Castles video

but then it turned out 2 be a Toshiba commercial trying to get me to buy a new computer screen for my Macbook Lappy.

Reminds me of the time that I thought I was watching an 'authentic viral video' but it ended up being a popular scene from the alt-gone-mainstream indie comedy 'Napoleon Dynamite: the Story of a Zany Bro with a Mexi bff.'

h8 it when I am misled when I thought I was watching something authentic.

Just wanted to hear some Crystal Castles/Alice Glass vocals/deep samples, and see a well-executed video. One time I read in a magazine that 'advertising' is the 'master art.' These days, I kinda wonder if blogging is the 'master art.'

(For those of yall who don't know, the 'master art' is a term 4 the most authentic way for a human 2 express himself/humanity. Some people say it's politics. Others say science. Some say it's organic farming. I think it has something 2 do with the internet/HTML/web 2.0).

Maybe Crystal Castles = the 'master art'

Wonder what Crystal Castles bought with their royalties?
a) new hoodies
b) ice cream headz (different flavours)
c) new laptops
d) renewed their photoshop license
e) a lil bit of eye makeup
f) leggings with holes in them
g) indoor soccer shoes
h) an AZN
i) Choose.Your.Own.Response

///Just//searching//4//the//'master art'/////

HIPSTER RUNOFF wants to be what you want it to be. A lot of people who pretend that that they've been reading HRO 'for a long time' always try to tell me that HRO has changed too much. They want less words, less music, and more myspacers.

There is a new myspacer worth blogging about coming soon. It's been too long. I was beginning to forget what HRO was all about, particularly after the TERRIBLE cliched-music-blog comments on the Sexton Blake post.

Sometimes, we need to take a break from our insatiable appetite for 'new, cool mp3s from blogs that are sooo terrible cuz they all post the same crap', and rediscover the true beauty in humanity. It's time to reconnect with real people--the myspacers.

2k8: H3 WLL B BLGGD.

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