I love my son. He truly is the mirror image of me. It’s kinda weird how kids are so impressionable… sorta reminds me of consumers… Maybe kids and consumers have the same kind of brain… all of us have so many wants and needs, and maybe products really can fulfill us/make us happy. Srsly though… u should see his iPod… we have a lot of the same pop-electro sensibilities, but also an appreciation of indie conceptual ballads.

I feel like I might buy these Daft Punk dolls for my son. I never really let him watch traditional kid programming (crap like Sesame Street, Muppets, Dora The Explorer, etc). Mainly just put art films/indie movies ‘on repeat’ in his play room DVD player. He absolutely loves the hit film Electroma. I don’t really think it is healthy for him to identify with characters that every other kid on the planet has identified with for the past 20+ years. I want him to be a pure alternative spirit (This is why I made his mother birth him in a pool of Sparks while listening to Animal Collective’s hit album “Sung Tongs”).

I want my son to have a ’special’ Christmas, and not just because it is Christmas and kids ‘get kewl shit.’ I need my son to have a truly unique Christmas that he will remember forever. I am considering ‘booking’ a relevant buzzband to play a few of their hit songs when he comes down the stairs on Xmas morning. Might also commission some sort of mp3 to be created by Sufjan Stevens.

////beginning 2 brainstorm my xmas list
////what do u want 4 xmas?
///worried about getting 2 many iTunes gift cards from relatives who don’t ‘get’ me

Previous Lil Alt Coverage
I am the littlest alt
Should I buy a lil alt?
Lil Alt beer holder
Lil Alt human accessory
The First Lil Alt

I was kinda sad when I found out that some of my fave chillwave hits were actually ’sample-based songs.’ Apparently this is a ‘problem’ that has caused many indie music purist bros to ’shit down upon’ much of the conceptualcore era music and chillwave music. I am conflicted. I feel like the music is ‘good’ and ‘chill’, but something inside of me ‘wants 2 believe that all artists are responsible 4 coming up with their own riffs/melodies/ditties. Not sure how to feel about this ‘epic chillwave scandal.’

Original Chillwave Hit: Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
Sampled Song: Todd Rundgren – Izzat Love?

Original Chillwave Hit: Washed Out – Feel it All Around
Sampled Song: Gary Low – I Want You

Do u feel like a metaphorical rug has been pulled out from under U?
When u find out that music is ’sample-based’, do u ‘respect it less’?
Or do u say that ‘finding a sample to use is an art that few musicians can master’?
Is chillwave ‘bullshit’ or ‘legitter than ever’?

I know that rappers and mainstream artists use samples, but it makes me sad to know that ‘indie musicians’ aren’t ‘creative enough’ to come up with their own melodies. Feeling misled, like it might be more authentic to

Seems like you can become ‘a very lucrative artist’ if you sample shitloads of artists from the past. Seems like Kanye West made ‘a shitload of money’ by ripping off songs that were already good.

I feel like I am supposed to consider Daft Punk to be ‘authentic’ even thought their entire albums are electro-fied reinterpretations of classic samples.

Maybe the best musicians in the world aren’t actually ‘original.’ Maybe Girl Talk is a chill bro after all, since he only ‘mashes up’ songs, and doesn’t ‘rip them off.’

Hope that the chillwave era wasn’t just a sham. Feeling naked (metaphorically), not sure who or what 2 believe. Just thought I was listening to good/chill/relevant music, but I guess that it is no longer just ‘buzzworthy mp3s.’ Seems like the mainstream has ‘finally found out’ about chillwave, and we might have to ’say goodbye’ 2 those artists now that Rolling Stone ‘wrote a profile on Washed Out.’

Chillwave was a genre created by the internet, 4 the internet?
Do u support sample-based music?
Is ur life a sample-based life?
Should there be some sort of indie music standards committee that limits the extent to which samples can be used in ‘our scene’?
Should CDs/MP3s make it more clear that a song is sample-based, kinda like how products must list nutritional information/cigarettes must tell u that they will kill u?

Searching for a ‘new aesthetic’ now that summer is over. Want a new ‘movement’ to ‘get jacked up about’/listen to on my iPoddy.

Previous ‘Chillwave’ Coverage
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/07/is-washed-out-the-next-neon-indianmemory-cassette.html
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/04/should-have-taken-acid-with-yall.html
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/chill-wave

Feel like u’ve proven that ur a meme worth blogging about if some1 makes an 8bit video game about you, possibly for their final exam grade at the community technical college that they are attending. In the game, u r a Daft Punk robot who has 2 steal back samples/records from Justice. Feel like if I were a blogger from the year 2k7 (the golden era of electro/bloghouse), my head would have ‘exploded’ from this meme. Think that this game is more fun/worth ur time than Electroma.

Here is my feedback/’constructive criticism’ for the game:

• Enable weapons, including electro lightning bolts
• Utilization of the Daft Punk sound pyramid as a ‘home base’
• Show France experiencing some sort of Earth quake
• Have manager of both bands “Busy P” get ‘held hostage’ or use him as a gimmick in the story line
• Make both forces come together to fight against Australia in the electro war
• Have the band ‘assassinate’ another non-electro band, or something
• involve Obama/ Osama Bin Laden
• Have a level where u have 2 ‘take down electrosnark bloggers’/have 2 navigate through

After u play the game, feel free 2 leave ur suggestions.

Damn. Sort of would be ‘pissed’ if some1 stole all my samples.

Kinda hope this game ‘gets green lit’ for a Wii/Playstation/Xbox version so that I can sue them [via usage of the original HRO term 'electro war']

Play game at website.

WHAT DO YALL THINK OF THIS GAME?
THINK IT WILL BE BIGGER THAN GUITAR HERO/GTA/NBA JAM/ THE SIMPSONS ARCADE GAME?

In the future, will all bands have video games instead of ‘albums’/'EPs’/'myspace pages’?
do u think 1 day a band will make music from 8bit video game chips?

Then today I was reading a blog on the internet, and I saw that there is a new singer who is using Daft Punk as her backing track. Not even sure if this broad is famous, or if this is just a mashup, but I’m just tired of hearing my fave songs being ruined.

Video via Eat Skeet

Daft Punk is what ‘made me realize that it was alt to like electronic music’ so just kind of sad right now. Feel like these songs are RUINED and EXPLOITED (will start typing in caps to emphasize emotions).

I guess maybe I need to chill out, and realize that ’sampling’ isn’t that bad. Most of these songs are like 10-20 years old. Need to realize that it is authentic to license samples/give ur song 2 a car company to use in a commercial after a lil bit of time has passed. I guess I should just be happy that samples are probably sold for a lot of money so that Daft Punk can construct new identities/robot suits.

Current Mood: Sad but Learning How 2 Grow up
Current Music: Daft Punk – Verdis Quo

Question 2) M.I.A. is

a) just a meme
b) pregant
c) should have stayed home
d) trying too hard 2 reach out 2 mainstream audiences
e) just taking care of herself/her career

Question 3: Deadmau5 will be remembered as

a) a zany masked DJ
b) just some weirdo at the Grammys
c) “what is that bro doing at our show?” -Taylor Swift
d) being responsible for bringing ‘masked djs’ to the mainstream
e) just a meme on the day after award shows

Question 4: This is a picture of

a) the coldplays
b) a band that steals songs
c) the writers of the rock album + song of the year
d) bros who need to retire their gimmick
e) Cool dads searching for meaning

Question 5: These bros are chilling at

a) the Grammys
b) A Cool Dad convention
c) A Kidz Health convention
d) A McDonalds playgrond
e) A liberal arts professor conference

Question 6: When I see this single, I think it is

a) Just another bloghouse mp3
b) just another crappy mp3 posted by a lame entrylevel blog on the hypemachine looking to get hits
c) worth a Grammy
d) the best Remix of all time
e) other

Question 7: Kanye West won a grammy for

a) Best frollet
b) Best blogger of the year
c) Worst black person of the year in America
d) JackOfAllTrades/Renaissance Man of the year
e) Best guy who sounds like a robot on his albums

Question 8: Who wore it better?

a) the broad on the left
b) the broad on the right
(this is a test 2 see if ur a racist)

Question 9: The Lonely Island Bros are

a) going to win a Grammy in 2k10
b) a gimmick for bros
c) comedy for bros
d) glorified bro Weird Al bullshit
e) really funnie
f) really progressive
g) going to make the Flight of the Conchords obsolete for bros
h) something for people who smoke weed and watch dvds/ funnie youtube vids

Question 10: This bro won a Grammy for

a) best assault of a broad
b) best knuckle sandwich 2 a broad’s face
c) Best job of ‘putting a woman in her place’
d) Most likely 2 be the next OJ Simpson
e) Future Ike TurnerBro
f) Strongest Pimp Hand
g) Artist of the Millennium who Hits Women
h) Bro Who is above the law
i) bro who is above society’s norms

Question 11: Daft Punk won some Grammy because

a) they deserve it for this live album thingy
b) there are too many Awards categories
c) people only heard of them after Kanye West cobranded with them for that meaningful duet about becoming stronger on the inside

Question 12: Christian Bale won a grammy for

a) being Heath Ledger’s BFF
b) being in Batman
c) becoming a viral meme on audio
d) pretending ‘to get angry’ as a marketing gimmick for the new Terminator film so that Entertainment Magazines will profile him as being ‘complex’ and ‘deep’ and ‘really into his craft’
e) he sang a lot in Newsies

Question 13: The name of this band is

a) 3 Tweens and a Blind Black Man
b) Blind, Black, and Musical: The Band
c) Searching for Our Sexuality thru the blindness
d) Bro Circle Jerk in a room with a blindman
e) Guy Who Should be able to see + need Talent Managers who protect their brands a lil bit better
f) The Grammys: Where Legends go to Make Bad Decisions
g) Steve WonderBro
h) Tweens Who Might be GheyBros

Question 14: This band in this picture is

a) the Spice Girls
b) Paramore
c) Blink 182
d) Girls Aloud
e) The Pussy Cat Dolls
f) Aqua
g) Jen Aniston and the Skanky McSkankBroads
h) Chris Brown’s “Pimp Hand”

Can’t believe I missed the Grammys. Feel really ‘out of the loop.’ Just want to connect 2 ‘pop culture’ since it is kind of the fabric of society that relates us all.

Kinda feel like this picture represents the state of modern music.
In this picture is everything that we want.
We want bloggable content with stars who attract viewers by saying zany things and being progressive enough to blurb about.

Did yall hear M.I.A. is pregnant?
Are yall excited about how twitter gives u such direct and instant access 2 ur fave celebs while they are at a meaningful event like the Grammys?

[via diplo's drunken memes during the Grammys blogspottwitter]

Should I get a tattoo that tells the world I am human after all?

Did Electroma prove that we’re all robot after all? (h8 that m0vie)
When we are captured by the opposing army during the electrowar, will they tattoo electro bloghouse catchphrases+lyrics on us to identify who we are? Hope I can be “I fucked my American Cunt” or “Lights and Music r on my mind” or “Ready to Uff.” What do yall want 2 b?

Just wanna showcase who I am, yall.

[Photo via Whp Ths]

//just//want//some//altbro(fggt)//2//get//an//HRO//tattoo//soon//(help)

XX BONUS FUTURE OF AZN XX
In the future, will all AZNs have fade mullets? (unisex AZN theory)

[foto via Azn Dan]

Does the election happen every year?
Do the candidates ever release mp3s that get posted on hypemachine?
Is every blog on the internet supposed 2 ‘endorse some1′ kinda like a newspaper?
How does this stuff work, yall?

I’m also kinda worried about what will happen 2 the world after a ‘new bro’ is elected? Do u remember the personality type of your fellow classmates who ‘wanted to be a politician’ when they grew up? Have yall ever chilled with politicians in real life. Are they like a (High School Class President)^10000 ?

Hope the w0rld doesn’t end. :-( Just want 2 beLIEve.

Or these Daft Punk Dolls?

Or the Busy P + SoMe sneaker?

Don’t u h8 FRENCH PEOPLE BANTER in English?

Should I buy the Ed Banger ED PHONES?

Should I buy this FEADZ Mighty Kids Meal // Happy Meal?

Or should I get the Uffie McFlurry maker?

Or should I just ‘cum’ with an an androgynous McDonalds character? <3 Grimace <3

[Photo by GVB at Grimace's DJ Set @ Pitchfork Music Festival (2015)]

Or should I be Justice in a Palestinian scarf for Halloween?

[Shoes via Sean Ahern Tumblr]
[FGGT Dolls by Daily Swarm]

Or should I just buy a pack of Sharpies and huff them until my brain starts leaking out of my nose?

What are yall gonna buy?

H U M A N   A F T E R   Y A L L

H U M A N   A F T E R   Y A L L

H U M A N   A F T E R   Y A L L

by CRLS

HUMAN  // AFTER   // YALL

Maybe because of the Masked DJ era, it’s more difficult to take a film about masked DJs who put on human masks seriously. I’m sure it provides relevant commentary on technology, humanity, and other important teen issues, but I don’t know if I will ever ‘get’ it. Maybe it’s a concept film like that one Wall-E.

Maybe I can identify with scenes like this where you feel like an alt in a mainstream world. :-(

h8 it when I go out in the sun & my face starts to melt.

SRSLY THO… who has actually SEEN all of ELECTROMA?

Do u know n e 1 who has actually sat through Electroma?
Do u know n e 1 who owns Electroma?
Do u know n e 1 who went to a [RARE] screening at an authentic movie theatre in a major metropolitan area in order to see it? Do u think they wasted ___ minutes of their lives’ watching a sillie robot film?
If this film was made in the 1960s, would we have seen it on Mystery Science Theatre 3000?

When a movie has a 4 minute long face-melting suicide scene, should we take it seriously?

(do scenes like this make ELECTROMA the greatest film ever made?)

I’m in crisis, yall. Don’t know how to feel about Electroma. Was it a landmark in filmmaking? Just wanna know if people have actually seen it. Have yall?
Why do all of the modern electroActs just make documentaries? Why can’t they make fictional stories about themselves and their quest 2 b __________.