Have no idea what 2k10 will be like… Feeling nervous/anxious… Might need some sort of anti-depressant.

Will Steve Aoki still be relevant?

Photo via every1 is famous

Maybe Steve Aoki will be a good ‘ironic’ costume in the year 2k26.

Photo via dirtypreston

I am not sure if it will still be authentic to be a DJ for Halloween in 2k10, since DJ+Electro culture may or may not be dead.

I still feel like M.I.A. deserves tons of alt points for her concept, craftsmanship, timeliness, and execution.

Photo via cobrasnake

Empire of the Sun bros seem like they also deserve ‘mad props’ for their dedication to ‘the Aussie scene.’

Maybe I should just go 2 Halloween as ‘the fat Jonas Brother.’

Photo via whoopthis

I feel excited about Halloween 2k10, but I just don’t rlly know who I should commit to.
Will Animal Collective still be buzzworthy in 2k10?
Will the Neon Indian Bro be a bigger alt Celeb in 1 year?
Will Washed Out have a more developed personal brand?
Will Girl Talk still be ‘relevant’?
Will MGMT ever ‘come back’?
Is it still alt for mainstreamers to like Of Montreal?
Will Grizzly Bear’s next album ‘chart’ at #1?
Is it still ‘alt’ 2 say that Phoenix is ‘good’/'catchy’?
Is Owl City ‘the new alt’?
What is the ‘best album’ of 2k9?
What is the ‘best mp3′ of 2k9?
What will happen when twitter dies?
What will happen when minorities stop using myspace?
Will I get a job after I graduate?
Is it cost effective to go to live shows/music festivals, or 2 just check the internet 3x per day?
R u worried abt the indie apocalypse?
What new genres will emerge in 2k10?
What genres will die in 2k10?
(Am I gonna die? Or will scientists discover a way 2 live 4ever soon?)
Is Obama gonna get re-elected?
Will Panda Bear release an album that makes it clear that he is both the ‘John Lennon AND Paul McCartney’ of Animal Collective?
What mediocre ‘buzzbands’ will emerge in 2k10 that major alt sites grant an unwarranted shelf life?
Does n e 1 know some bloggable music that has been released since the Chillwave Era?
Will the indie blogosphere be ‘dormant’ until an established indie band (Vampire Weekend/Arcade Fire) releases an early 2k10 album that every1 can ‘talk about’ again?
What popular blog will ‘die’ in 2k10?

…nervous abt the future….

Please use the comments section to ‘reflect’ on 2k9, and forecast what the year 2k10 will be like.

It seems like every bro wanted to be dryhumping bro.  Sorta like a male figure who ’she belonged to’, both physically and emotionally.

I decided to ‘dig a little bit deeper’ [via journalism] and found a video of her ‘nipslipping around’ on stage while the popular bloghouse banger DJ duo ‘Crookers’ played. She seems fun, like an ‘exhibitionist.’

Really missing 2k6.5 right now. I feel like this woman is the last memory I will have of ‘electro culture.’ She is sorta like the final ‘candle in the wind’ of the spirit of electro.

Really miss the days when it was authentic to ‘flash ur titties all over the place.’ Miss u electro era. Feel like I wrote this post with the now defunct 2k7 Carles voice.

Do yall miss the electro era?
Will California always have a relevant electro scene?
Have u ever seen titties flash at an AnCo show?
Does the XX broad have the perfect alternative breasts?
Do u think this woman is a ’safety hazard’ and could potentially be ‘groped to death‘ if the bangers were hard enough?
R u an ‘exhibitionist’?

Do u remember the search 4 the perfect alternative breasts?
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/perfect-alternative-breasts

I was walking through Brooklyn on Halloween nite when I stumbled past these 3 authentic children, all dressed as relevant architectural landmarks. I had to do a google image search since I ‘recognized that the buildings were relevant’ but didn’t know their names. Turns out that they are the Guggenheim, the New Museum, and the Whitney.  All of the children seem happy, knowing that they are ‘way smarter’/generally ‘better’ than most regular kidz and their boring-ass costumes.  Sorta feel sad looking at the lil grim reaper bro in the background.

I am not sure if these costumes are authentic, or if they are kinda like when a ‘parent completes a school project for their kid.’  The kids seem ‘pumped’, but not sure if all kids love architecture.  Wonder if the parents are ‘projecting their own interests/profession’ on their kids…but it seems likely that these kids are just more culturally aware than I will ever be.

It seems like it took me 17-26 years to cultivate my cultural-connectedness to all things alt/kewl/relevant. It seems unfair that these kids have parents who can train them to be relevant at a young age.  I wonder how I coulda turned out with ‘proper guidance’ instead of just existing in suburbia, and eventually ‘raging against’ suburban consumer identities.  Feeling insecure, like these kids have more insightful opinions on the world than me, and I am just sorta pretending to be ‘me.’

I feel like I missed out on a lot in life.  My parents used to drive me to public school in their ‘gas guzzler’, but some kids have it totally different.   Some kids grow up using public transportation in a meaningful way. When I lived in suburbia, I always ‘made fun of the poors’ utilizing public transportation.

Wish my parents cared more about making me a bloggable internet photo, instead of ‘dressing me up in some lame costume that they purchased at Wal Mart’/utillizing their limited artistic skills to draw a skeleton on my face.  Feeling ashamed and then feeling guilty for feeling ashamed.

I feel like I possibly ‘fucking h8′/’resent the fuck out of’ my parents for not creating a meaningful-enough childhood for me (on a global scale). I understand that there are pure moments which I will hold near and dear to my heart…but I can’t help but feel incredibly sad right now, looking at these kids living a life that I deserved.  Seeing these parents giving their kids the life that I think my parents deserved to give me.  I wish I could some how make them understand.

Do u ever wish that ur parents were ‘more than they are’ for ur own sake? Do u wish they were famous/snark bloggers/local celebrities? Sometimes I feel relieved that my parents aren’t ‘too snarky’/'too cultured’ because it brings me back down to earth when I come home from college, but then I wonder how my life coulda been different if an adult-version of me raised me. 

Coulda…shoulda…woulda…
Guess that’s life.

I’m gonna do a lot of things different when I raise a kid.

Tell me abt ur childhood.
What did u get from it?
What do u want from life now?
Do alt parents yield mainstream kids?
Do relevant parents raise ’snooty’ kids?
Should u give ur kids a mainstream childhood so they can choose to seek alternative authenticity on their own?
How do u raise a child so that he or she can discover their interests on their own?
At what age can ppl truly ‘get’ architecture? (age 34?)

These are the alt-est costumes of 2k9. Which 1 should win the most ‘indie pitchfork points’ for being creative/original/relevant?

Banger-era masked DJs.

Daft Punk bro costume.

Justice lesbians.

Justice Xavier DeRosnay Rentacop.

PoliceBro of Justice #2.

Pregnant M.I.A.

Zany bro from the Office


Continue reading 4 more zany alt costumes…
Where the Wild Alt Bro

Mel Gibson on a Jew Killing Spree.

A metaphorical ‘golden calf.’

The buzzband ‘The XX’ (slutified remix)

Mario and Luigi (supersize yall)

Have an AZN build u a transformer costume that ‘actually transforms.’

2 Google employees looking for some huge titties 2 marry.

Contestant on ‘The Biggest Loser’

Photos by lastnightsparty

The Lady Gaga.

A ‘liberated’ homosexual feeling ‘comfy in drag [via Nautica]‘

Broccoli Bro

A slice of pizza [via pizza alt]

A group of banana bros.

Snarky Alt Comedian David Cross

A ‘zombie flasher’

Photo via sbtvc

Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dali

The Chromeo Bro as ’some sort of gansta’

A cum dumpster.

A resident of Seattle in the post-Kurt Cobain era.

Hunter S Thompson bein all gonzo

The Host of ‘Reading Rainbow’

Mickey Rourke

Tao Lin and Bebe

Photo via ronysphotobooth

A bro dry humping The XX broad

Nappy Dynamite (miss u)

Amelia Earhart if she shopped at Hot Topic

A commenter

John Lennon and a failed AZN

A baby juggalo.

Carles

Photo via Nick McGlynn

What was ur fave costume of 2k9?
When is it time 2 ‘grow up’ and ’stop playing dress up’?
Was this the last Halloween of my life?

//Photo credits
Lastnightsparty//thecobrasnake.com//Streetboners&TVcarnage///theArabParrot//ronysphotobooth//Nick McGlynn

Last Year’s Halloween Post
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/11/the-best-halloween-costumes-of-2k8.html

I am the lil alt. The mini alt. The lil-est alt.
Learned how to be alt at a young age
with the help of my older sister
I am young, with my entire life ahead of me
many years to evolve into the perfect personal brand
but today I am young
I am alt
I am small
but my heart is strong
I am sure of myself

The kids at school do not ‘get’ me
But I have learned that is a good thing
I am oblivious to the tween sensations that mnstrm kidz are in2
(had to google ‘Kanyegate’)
I am literally the youngest person in the world to genuinely appreciate The Dirty Projectors

I will start a mp3 blog 4 kids by kids
carrying the alternative torch to make the kids scene
a lot better 4 every1
There’s just so much more to the world than Disney bullshit

I am proud.

One day I will be an old man
on my death bed
looking back on the life that I had
so many missed connections and casual encounters
I will look back on my youth
and smile

A large grin for my alternative innerchild.
I am the lil alt
The embodiment of the alternative spirit.

(miss u. say hi 2 Heath 4 me in meme heaven)

U cannot put out
the flame
of the alternative fire
in a tru alt.

So much alt in such a lil alt.

///learning how 2 blog again….
-crls

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.’)

Just saw this bro front row at a MSTRKRFT show wearing a MSTRKRFT mask.
Kinda reminded me of the past. One time some lil altbro wore a mask of theirs, and then some time when an authentic bro wore a non-golden mask to prove that he was their biggest fan.

Still trying to figure out if it is ‘kewl’ to wear a band’s t-shirt to their concert/show. Feel like it was something that entry-levels do, but I think I might start making my own t-shirt that proves that I am a more authentic fan than every1 else.

For example, I might wear a shirt to a Panda Bear concert that says ‘We’re bros who are comfy in nautica.’ Or might wear a shirt to a MSTRKRFT concert that says ‘I listened to the one bro in ur band when he was in Death From Above 1979.’ Or might wear a shirt to a Metallica concert that says ‘h8 napster, yall!’ Or maybe will wear a shirt to a Coldplay concert that says ‘I used 2 rule the world Gwyneth Apple Yellow.’

Does n e 1 remember that song ‘Romantic Rights’ by DFA1979? Was music more authentic back then? Do u think the MSTRKRFT bro should have stayed in that band

Does n e 1 know the difference between DFA1979 and DFA Records?

Kinda wonder if it is more difficult to make a MSTRKRFT mask or a Daft Punk hemlet. Might go to a design school/technical college.
Need 2 make more arts + crafts to prove that I am a high level fan of bands that I ‘love.’ Need 2 do more 2 set myself apart from all of the ‘mainstream losers’ who go to see bands just because they think it makes them cooler and they have nothing better 2 do.

Should I be Animal Collective 4 Halloween?

Do u think a costume is successful if you have 2 write lyrics to 1 of their popular songs and tape them 2 ur back?

(miss u Deakin)

Not sure if Animal Collective is ‘interesting’ enough to be for Halloween. Seem a little bit too ‘low key.’ I’m not sure if Mainstreamers are supposed 2 be able 2 identify who u r, or if the goal is 4 people not to recognize u.

Might need to be Lady Gaga for Halloween, but I’m not sure if I will have the budget 2 dress like a tired, middle-aged Italian woman wearing a 1 piece bathing suit and a platinum wig.

Photo via Jezebel

Might also be ‘a tween’ or ‘a blog’ 4 Halloween. Might also be ‘Wavves’ 4 Halloween

What are u gonna b 4 Halloween? Or is it 2 early 2 start thinking abt?

Might be THE KNIFE, but they haven’t had a new album in like 200 blog years. :-(

Probs will just end up being ‘Naked Bjork.’ Authentic Muff = free spirited authentic zaniness.

This past Halloween was a flop, so I’m just gonna do whatever it takes 2 get back my concept of ‘fun.’

XX BONUS CUNT XX

[Photos by thefriendattack]

not even sure if i’ll dress up nxt year. this year took a lot out of me. Not evn sure who I am n e m0re. sux. kinda let down. nite didn’t go as I had planned/envision. h8 it when things fall thru.

HIPSTER RUNOFF’s BEST ALTERNATIVE COSTUMES of 2008.

PRESENTED BY CARLES OF THE HIPSTER RANOFFS

The Justices

Girl With a 3rd Nipple on her back

FGGT Indian from the Village People

S0 FUCKING DISC0 BR0

AltWayne and AltGarth

HeartsRevolution PaintedMask Ninja Turtle

JokerAltMainstreamer Pack

////KEEP READING///
////FOR MORE GREAT////
////HALLOWEEN KOSTUMES!////

“Interesting Looking Guy” who was made to be photographed on alternative media websites

Floating Alt

HeartsRevolutionGirl + Woman whose husband just left her

Edward “Meaningful” Scissorhands

Edward “AZN” Scissorhands

Passed Out Girl Who Got Felt Up like krazie

Girls Who Were Born To Have Objects Enter Their Bodies

Katie Couric

Mexican

Kreepier Bjork

Commentary on the duality of Race Relations in the United States, h8 crimes, the Los Angeles Riots, the O.J. Trial, Rodney King, and Barry Obama (a think-piece costume that makes u unCultured if u don’t ‘get’ it)

Hamburgler Alt eating a Pizza Alt (Pizzaburgler Alt?)

Child Predator French Fry Alt

Mickey Avalon pre/post Heroine addiction

Neil AZNstrong

The guy who works on the highway repairs by my house

AltBros Who Read 2 Many blogs

JokerAlt

Bronques From Last Night’s Party’s Illegitimate Son

Bearded Lady

Authentic Jesus

ElectroWar Soldier

AltBloody Tampon

The ‘Zany Guy’ from The Office

Marc Jacobs’ self-concept

JokerAlt?

Captain American Apparel

iPod fggt circa 1994

The Zeitgeist of Ed Banger

the Knife

Sad Lil Boy George

Girl Who Slept Over at Her Boyfriend’s House

Danny Devito JokerAlt

Tom Cruise Joker Alt

Daft Punk’s Illegitimate Brother

GaspardAlts

Jousteece

Justice’s business model when they decide to franchise their brand

2nd place: Authentic Chili’s AltBro

HIPSTER RUNOFF’S #1 COSTUME OF 2K8
James “Authentic Disco” Murphy as Fred “Authentic Caveman” Flinstone

“Get Innocuous 4 some1 great!”
-Fred Flinstone

WHO WAS YALLS FAVE COSTUME OF 2K8?
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM 2K8 THAT WILL HELP US IN 2K9?
WILL HALLOWEEN ALWAY BE ‘FUN’ OR IS IT ‘TOO MAINSTREAM’?
WHO WILL BE THE ‘JUSTICE’ OF 2K9?
WHO WILL BE THE JOKERALT OF 2K9?
WHO WILL BE THE FRED FLINSTONE OF 2K9?

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[ Lastnightsparty]

[Thecobrasnake]

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