HIPSTER RUNOFF

Antsy. Doing some online shopping. Might regret it.

Think I need to buy this new keyboard, to remind me of the city/graveyards/death. I think this is supposed 2 remind u about how the whole world is built on computers [via data entry on keyboards], or something like that. 'and then we all end up 6 feet underground.'

Paul Chan meme

Might get this Photoshop tie. Need it 2 prove that I 'get' design. Need people to know that these icons are the tools through which I can make anything happen.

Might get this shirt that is 'a clever take' on that line from the Sixth Sense, and talks about how I feel like I am superior to most people who I encounter during the day.

Might get this shirt that also lets people know that I have a higher state of consciousness/self-awareness than they do. Want them to know not to try to have some dumb conversation with me--I don't have time for that shit.

Might 'brand myself' as some creepy, foreign douchebag who probably 'has too much confidence around women' and 'at his job', and decide to buy a new computer. Will talk about how I am so informed, and in touch with my own needs, then buy a sillie Dell computer

Maybe I'll just 'get blazed' and go 2 IHOP. Eat some pancakes.

Not sure if I am even interested in 'buying shit', but probably more interested in convincing people 2 buy shit. Might start an ad agency, and organize a cult's mass-suicide as a viral marketing campaign for Nike/the company of ur choice.

Will build a shoe inspired by the event, and have Kobe Bryant/ LeBron James wear the shoes at the Olympics in China.

This will be part of a global plan/brainwashing scheme to 'take down the Chinese' and take back control of being 'the most relevant country on the Earth.'

Need investors. Ideas take money, whether it is buying something 4 urself, or executing a creative project.

Worried that I don't have much money left in my bank account. Might have to fly 2 France so that I can 'pretend I am rioting in the name of change', but actually just 'try to steal some cash from an ATM.' Might have to alter my physical appearance to make me seem like a 'bro with no will to live' who would actually 'do something THAT crazie.'

Have yall seen n e thing kewl 2 buy lately?
Have any ideas for projects that u'd like 2 do that would impact the world/ur local community?

I have always wonder what makes 'the perfect woman.' I think she needs to be alternative, creative, endowed with a treasure chest of electro accessories, and she must have similar interests as me. She must 'like alternative music and culture' and 'enjoy eating pizza.'

Do yall think my expectations 4 a woman are 'too high'?
Ppl say that 'there's plenty of women in the sea', but just feel like I might be asking too much.

Sometimes I wonder what people did 'before the internet could handle videos.' I feel like people were still making 'shitty music and rapping over it', but I feel like now that you can make a zany video to go with it and more ppl will have 2 hear your zany song while watching your zany video. Feel bad about the attention economy.

What's yalls fave kind of pizza? [via Dominos advertising to alternative demographics]
Do u yall still think that altbros are evolving in2 pizzaAlts?

Previous Pizza Alt Coverage

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/10/pizza-alts-the-next-altbro.html

I recently saw a life changing public service announcement. It made me question 'who I am as a blog.'

I just realized that my blog might be a 'cyber bully', yall! Not sure if I should stop blogging, or maybe just focus on blogging about crappy mp3s + mediocre altNews bits. Sometimes I see people on the internet, and I think 'omg... they are s00 zany. I need 2 blog about them so that we can understand the modern state of altCulture.' However, maybe I am 'being a lil bit 2 harsh'... Maybe I am a cyber bully

I did a mini-research paper for my community college psychology & teacher certification course, and came up with this power point slide. Do yall 'get' what it means to be a bully in cyber space? Do yall realize how it's apparently 'cowardly' 2 be a cyber bully? Do yall realize that cyberbullying is responsible for 60% of tween tragedies [via school shootings and suicides]?

People on the internet are REAL, and whether or not their personal brands are authentic or not is none of my business. The internet shouldn't be a place where 'u come under fire 4 being urself'--it should be a safe haven, where any 1 can post a picture without having 2 fear 'being made fun of.' Just because ur 'hiding' 'behind a screen' doesn't make it any different than 'real life.' Why would u say something mean abt some1 on the net that u wouldn't say 2 their face? Internet feelings are the same as 'real life' feelings, yall. Do u agree? Am I making sense?

Wonder how I will raise my kids. Might not let them have the internet until they go away 2 college. Will probably print out the entire wikipedia for them instead of buying a set of Encyclopedias. Will let them have graphing calculators 2 play games on. Just don't want their lives' 2 fall apart b4 they even start. If I walked in on my 12 year old son/daughter vlogging, I would punish them swiftly (physically and emotionally). There is no reason 2 let ur kid have a computer before the age of 16--just sayin... be careful yall. There's more 2 raising a kid than 'feeding it' and 'changing diapers.'

N e ways... should I ban cyber bullying on HRO?
Is HRO an altCyberBully?
Am I a cyber bully if I talk about people without internet, like 'poor'/'3rd world' people?
Is Pitchfork a 'cyber bully' of musicians?
Are 'gossip blogs' a 'cyber bully' to celebs?
Is 'the newspaper' a 'paper bully' to events?
Am I a cyber bully 2 myspacers worth blogging about?
Are rich tweens cyber bullies 2 poor/coloured/fat tweens?
Is hotornot.com a cyberbully 2 ugly ppl?

Just trying 2 'get my head around' cyberbullying. What does it mean 2 u?

I just want
people to like me
both
in real life
& on the internet

If ur ever feeling 'alone' or 'bullied' on the internet, come to HRO as a safe haven, yall. We 'accept' every1. Kinda like an interracial church.

[Note: PALESTINIAN SCARF ALERT LEVEL = RED]

I remember a while ago, HRO spent some time talking about the personal brand of being 'toteally s0 rand0m.' I feel like this post-emo, eternal pre-entrylevelAlt is the perfect execution of the 'totes rand0m' altFGGT.

Does being 's0 rand0m' mean that u have an 'interesting personality'?
Does being 's0 random' mean that ppl think ur funny because u don't abide by the 'order' which defines our universe/social universe?
Does being 's0 rand0m' mean that u have an original personal brand?
Does being 's0 rand0m' get u m0re tugs from guys/grls?
Does being 's0 rand0m' mean that you collect a lot of memes from pop culture, and find a way to incorporate them into your personal brand, enabling people with minimal personalities to identify with you/respect you because you are able to talk with them about the only things that have ever made their lives' meaningful: references to old movies that u saw when u were a kid + other miscellaneous totesally rand0m references that u were under the impression 'no 1 else saw it the way that I did' when in reality, the majority of American kids all had the same childhood (+/- $10K, depending on ur parents' occupations)?
Does being 's0 rand0m' mean that once every 2 months, you have a mini-identity crisis where you go out for ice cream with a group of overweight girls to 'bitch about life' and 'express uncertainty about the direction of ur life' and 'the people in ur life'?
Is being 'totesally rand0m' a personal brand that worked better for Gen X alts, as opposed to the modern Gen Y and Gen Z alt?

Just want 2 figure out how 'rand0m' to make HRO. Might have to hire some toatally s0 fckng rand0m vloggrs who know how to use Windows Movie Maker + invest in a black curtain 2 put in their room.

[Reverse Meme Hijack via Rawkblog]