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		<title>What should I buy? (searching for products that represent my personal brand)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What should I buy?  (I just made like a hundred dollars doing some freelance design).
I just want to accurately represent my personal brand based on solid consumer choices.  I want to make sure people know that I am tech-savvy, but I can still appreciate &#8216;the small, quirky stuff about life.&#8217;  S0 tough [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What should I buy?  (I just made like a hundred dollars doing some freelance design).</p>
<p>I just want to accurately represent my personal brand based on solid consumer choices.  I want to make sure people know that I am tech-savvy, but I can still appreciate &#8216;the small, quirky stuff about life.&#8217;  S0 tough to be a consumer in our modern world with s0 many choices, yall&#8230;</p>
<p>Should I buy this mp3 player that is shaped kinda like that Chinese Sports Arena Stadium called &#8216;the place where the birds live&#8217;?<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/birdsnest.jpg" /><br />Architecture is so zany these days, yall.  R.I.P. Frank Lloyd Wright (miss u s0 bad)</p>
<p>I need a new computer since I have over 1,000,000 GB of mp3s of underground electro/fidget-core/meaningful-core/Iranian-Power-Pop and traditional French House music.  </p>
<p>Whenever u buy a computer, it&#8217;s important to assess your basic computing needs.  My basic needs for my computer are as follows:
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<li>wireless internet anywhere in the world</li>
<li>ability to use facebook/myspace</li>
<li>ability to upload pix to fb and myspace</li>
<li>ability to take pix of myself while I am on the computer &amp; put zany effects on the pic</li>
<li>ability to watch youtubes</li>
<li>ability to spend late night hours having meaningful chat convos with close friends</li>
<li>has to look kinda kute</li>
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<p>Should I buy this new Dell that appeals to mainstream free spirited alts that are &#8216;afraid of having to learn how 2 use a Mac&#8217;?<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/dell.jpg" /></p>
<p>Or should I buy the new Mac that is supposed to be better than the iPhone.<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/3ibooks.jpg" /></p>
<p>Is it alt to buy a desktop computer and pretend it is portable, so when u go into a coffee shop, u can just plug it in and pretend that u r a normal bro.<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/ancien-imac.jpg"></p>
<p>I kinda wanted to buy a DVD&#8230;<br />should I buy a movie that helps me deal with teen issues regarding faith, society, organized religion, &#8216;fitting in&#8217;, being disabled, and teen pregnancy?<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/saved.jpg"><br />&#8220;I&#8217;m smart.  I see the real world.  I h8 mainstreamers who go 2 a weekly Teen Bible Study that incorporates current day teen issues.&#8221; &#8211; a teen atheist <br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/18414013.jpg"><br />I love the genre of movies that are written by old people who have the mindset of a progressive high schooler. (the JUNO theory?)</p>
<p>Does Zach Braff have the mindset of a Progressive High Schooler?  How did Progressive High Schoolers take over the <span style="font-weight:bold;">mainstream &#8216;authenticity&#8217; perception market</span> from 2k0-2k6?  I feel like the &#8216;respected&#8217; Hollywood celebs are always those who have the mindset/outlook of a Progressive High Schooler<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/414fcdb96505a-53-1.jpg" width="99%"></p>
<p>(I know what yall are asking&#8230;is Macaulay Culkin alt?  I don&#8217;t know the answers to everything, yall)<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/culkin.jpg"></p>
<p>Should I buy an alternative watch without numbers to show how quirky I am?<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/007_glowinthedark.jpg"></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to leave my home in suburbia and live a free-spirited intellectual lifestyle in France.  Should I just buy a Dell Desktop computer and get this keyboard baguette wrist cushion instead?<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/picture_16.png"><br />I read in a wikipedia entry that in France, they don&#8217;t use traditional &#8216;money&#8217;, they just exchange liberal ideas &amp; musings on life+society.  (sounds like a terrible place 2 me)</p>
<p>n e ways&#8230;<br />I have always wondered what it would be like to be a Father-Who-Doesn&#8217;t-Have-An-Authentic-Connection-With-His-Son.  It seems like the only bond they know how to share without getting vulnerable is sports.<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/FAM049.jpg"></p>
<p>If I were a Father who &#8216;didn&#8217;t know how to show my son the love I had for him but just ended up talking about sports all of the time&#8217;, I would consider getting him this memorable box of cereal.<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/293phelpsbox082008.jpg"></p>
<p>If you were Michael Phelps and turned down Wheaties, you would have picked the following cereal:<br />a) Cinnamon toast Crunch<br />b) Cookie Crisp<br />c) Rice Krispies<br />d) Cocoa Krisps<br />e) Fruity Pebbies<br />f) LIFE<br />g) Golden Grahams<br />h) Corn Pops<br />i) Smacks<br />j) Kashi Go Lean Crunch<br />k) Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cup cereal<br />l) The cereal in bags for poor people/minorities/white trash<br />m) Clusters<br />n) Honey Bunches of Oats<br />o) Cocoa Pebbliers<br />p) Honey Comb<br />q) Apple Jacks<br />r) Raisin Bran Crunch<br />s) Cheerios<br />t) Chex<br />u) Crispix<br />v) Doesn&#8217;t eat cereal&#8211;only pop tarts<br />w) parents didn&#8217;t love me so I never had breakfast&#8211;i had acne and ate hotpockets<br />x) McGriddles<br />y) Chili&#8217;s Breakfast<br />z) Alphabits<br />aa) I have diabetes from eating cereal every day of my life<br />bb)  KIX<br />cc)  TRIX<br />dd) CHOOSE . YOUR. OWN. RESPONSE</p>
<p>S0 MANY CHOICES&#8230;.<br /><img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/2131899460_09b0fca34a.jpg"></p>
<p>what&#8217;s ur fave cereal?<br />Remember the mid90s marketing campaign to try to convince people that cereal in bags didn&#8217;t taste like cardboard?<br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="VxhISBxSIJs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent" ></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxhISBxSIJs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></p>
<p>[birdnest via <a href="http://idolator.com/400654/">idolator]</a><br />[watch &amp; baguette via <a href="http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2008/07/glow-in-the-dar.html">swissmiss</a>]</p>
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