HIPSTER RUNOFF

Thnxgvng...
Rlly h8 u
4 personal reasons that I don't even want 2 go in2
(h8 my parents + older brother + spoiled tween sister)

But I want to share joy
With the ppl who truly understand me:
Bros on the internet who read blogs and live in the same reality as me

What r u thankful 4?

I am thankful 4:

• 10.0's
• 8.4's
• 0.0's
• tweets
• memes
• blogspots
• wordypressies
• tumblies
• "@"
• white people 4 being in2 indie music
• tweens and entry levelers 4 the mad hits
• buzzbands 4 making blggbl mp3s
• buzzblogs 4 harvesting buzzbands
• perfect alternative breasts
• #Project_girl
• Unchill AZN bro
• Zooey Deschanel's tight lil a$$
• Alice Glass
• the ALT REPORT Robot
• Chill Murray 4 being chill
• Vajengas 4 being a place where I can put my peen in
• Slutwave 4 making me hornie
• the Lord Saviour of the White World Jesus Christ Son of Mary and Joseph who died 4 our sins
• Pitchfork.commy
• Gorilla Vs Bear core
• Mark Zuckerberg 4 being famous
• Jeff Twitter 4 inventing Twitter
• Ryan Schreiber 4 inventing Pitchfork
• Mike Google 4 inventing Google
• Jimmy Yahoo 4 inventing Yahoo
• Larry Friendster 4 inventing Friendster
• Tom Myspace 4 inventing Myspace
• Barry Obama 4 saving America
• Craig Listy for inventing Craigslist
• George W Bush bc he thinks slavery was chill
• Ronald Reagan 4 inventing the internet
• Al Gore 4 creating global warming
• Brooklyn 4 creating Brooklyn-based buzzbands
• South Carolina 4 incubating chillwave
• Best Coast 4 smoking dank and tweeting
• Salem 4 learning me how 2 get in touch with my darkside
• rape gaze cuz i'm hornie
• Chili's cuz they have food that is yummie in my tummie
• Obesity + diabetes cuz they are a pandemic that is getting rid of worthless ppl

Stuff I'm not thankful 4:

• WAVVES 4 getting 2 be with BestyCoastyy
• Magazines that try to blog about buzzbands on paper
• Websites that get more hits than mine does
• Kanye West 4 ruining white man's indie
• 2k10 for being a 'pile of shit'
• MGMT bc they let us down
• MIA 4 being an 'effing loudmouth'
• gingers
• Sufjan Stevens cuz he ditched the banjo
• Panda Bear cuz he hasn't released TOMBOY
• Unchill AZN bro
• Not having enough followers on twitter 2 feel 'famous'
• Ashton Kutcher and Bruce Willis
• My parents even though they still pay my rent but they are effing butt holes

What r u thankful 4?
What are u unthankful 4?
How did u celebrate ur Thanksgiving?
Was 2k10 a 'pile of shit' and r u glad it is ovr?
Do u have a good relaish with ur parents or are u alone?

As yall know, I am a vegan/vegetarian. I am looking for a good alternative for 'serving turkey' on Thanksgiving. I wasn't able to make it home for this Thanksgiving, but fortunately, there's a few people staying behind in our dorm. Hopefully we can come together as a community to create a memorable experience. Even though the food might not be the best in the world, maybe we should be thankful for all of the options we have to eat in America/the World.

Do u know any good alternatives to 'turkey' on Thanksgiving?

Kashi frozen pizza?

Snackwell's Devil's Food?

Hummus?

Miscellaneous biscuits + cinnamon rolls [via cans]?

7 layer Mexi Dip?

Chili's Babyback ribs?

CLIF bars?

Soft Pretzels?

Guacky?

Taking my family on an annual trip to Golden Corral 4 authentic buffet style slop dining?

Couple bags of Pirate's booty?

Peanut Butter Cup milkshake?

Chex mix sweet and salty?

Zany dorito flavors?

A bento box?

Some tubes of gogurt?

a kid-sized serving of fun?

A duck marinated in Sparks?

turkey with PBR sauce?

Yall...
what should I buy to celebrate an alternative thnxgvng?

R u having a mnstrm thnxgvng or an alt 1?

Holiday traveler
I am one of you
I am one of many
I am the only 'me' in the world

Going home to see mom, dad, sister, brother
Reuniting around a turducken
Not sure how to tell my mom that I don't eat meat
and that she will have to make me a tofurkey

Feeling anxious
about my extended family
'commenting' on my new personal brand
that that won't understand

I have changed so much since school started
New personal Brand
Finding out about new bands
Genuinely connecting with fascinating humans
Who want the same life that I do.

I have learned what life is all about
I have learned why I needed 2 leave this house
and see the world
and l-i-v-e in the c-i-t-y
I just want to live inside of a living mishmash of humans/architecture/public transportation.

But now I am going home
Afraid to see my family now that it is 100% impossible for them to 'get' me
But maybe I need to 'get' them
to understand what I don't want to be
To motivate me to pursue a meaningful alternative life
with no fears

I am older now
A self-sustaining human being
Honestly have broken free from the constraints of my childhood
and the metaphorical shackles of suburbia

But now I am ready to go back
and reunite with some old classmates at a bar/restaurant
and make it clear that I am on a level
that they will never even understand
Momentarily I will get 'caught up' in the moment
and start to reconnect with zany high school stories
but then will remember
'That's not who I am any more. That bro is dead.'

'I don't want. Your life.'
-James VanderBeek in Varsity Blues about how he is the local community's only alt searching 4 meaning

This bro is me
This bro is thankful
This bro is coming home.
(big headphones blasting indie music)

///blogging from the airplane yall////gotta love internet in the air///worried the guy next to me is watching me watch porn/////

I am back home with my mainstream family. I feel so displaced coming back to suburbia. It's like I don't even have a home n e more, and I can finally relate to the theme of most indie movies made from 2000-2005.

I look across the dinner table, and wonder who these people are, and how they have forged my independent spirit. They have no knowledge of what I know and what I have seen, but some how, they made me into the person I am today. While I am thankful for my parents' support, I wish I could prove to them that I can make it on my own. I wish I could prove to them that there is a reason that I live my life the way that I do.

This will happen one day.

They see me, and they don't quite 'get' me. Perhaps they are just relieved that I am pursuing a degree. Perhaps they are relieved that I am not a 'ghey' like they probably thought I would end up being during high school. Sometimes I wish I could authentically communicate with them in the same manner that I communicate with a group of my closest friends when I am buzzed. But that will probably never happen.

Part of me longs to get this table of people who I am related to [via blood] to 'get' me, but the alternative part of me wants to stop honoring mainstream concepts like bloodlines and family.

*****
I look around my childhood room, and I take a moment--a moment to think about how far I've come. I used to be so disillusioned/impressionable/out-of-touch-with-reality. Now I know who I am. I know what I will become. I take solace in this fact.

What am I thankful for?
I am not sure.
I am sure.
I know.
I know what I am thankful for.

//// What I am thankful for.
////// by Carles

I am thankful for social networks, a place that helps me express myself and connect with friends.
I am thankful for blogs, a form of media where I can truly express myself without the constraints and excess noise of social networks.
I am thankful for my friends because they help me to feel better about myself after I find out how sad/alone they are bc they have parents who didn't love them as authentically as mine love me.
I am thankful for Napster for creating the mp3.
I am thankful for Mark Zuckerburg and Tom for being my friend.
I am thankful for vegan bc it made my family make me a 'special lil meal' at the Thanksgiving table.
I am thankful for computers for making electro too accessible.
I am thankful for Apple for creating the iPhone so that I can do lines of blow off it.
I am thankful for Macbooks and iMacs for giving me the opportunity to 'connect' and 'create' to build my weblog website thingy.
I am thankful for Fiji water for giving me the opportunity to differentiate.
I am thankful for frozen yogurt for giving me an alt+healthy 'smart treat.'
I am thankful for Justice for being a meme that can be blogged about until they make a new album and inauthentic people will 'say it is good' but they will just be holding on to how the world used to be/who they used to be.
I am thankful for party photographers for 'going out' so that we don't have to.
I am thankful for girls who show their breasts in party pix for coming from fractured families.
I am thankful for child predators who made child predator glasses possible.
I am thankful for Anthony Volodkin for creating the Hype Machine and adding value to the long tail of meaningless, crappy, terrible, unjustified, poorly written music blogs.
I am thankful for the man who invented the remix.
I am thankful for cool dads who drive Priuses.
I am thankful for free spirited moms who drive Lexus SUV hybrids.
I am thankful for free spirited moms who make 28K per year and dress like they just came out of a dumpster.
I am thankful for my blog bffs for posting a few good songs per week so that I don't have to listen to the crappy mp3s that entry level producers send me [via email].
I am thankful for street fashion bloggers for being the kind of people who 'still carry a camera around with them every where they go' (this is what people did when digital cameras came out, but now with camphones, it's a whole new landscape).
I am thankful for tumblr for taking the meme economy to a place we never thought it could.
I am thankful for people who hang out on message boards who 'have opinions.'
I am thankful for people who are trying to take their alternative personal brand to the next level.
I am thankful for Sparks for keeping me awake when I am abt 2 fall asleep at 1 p.m. every day.
I am thankful for my boss at my 'real job' not knowing what Sparks is, so that I can drink it at my desk at work.
I am thankful for blow.
I am thankful for sluts in bathrooms.
I am thankful for God, for creating people of all colours.
I am thankful for AZNs.
I am thankful for blipsters.
I am thankful for Obama.
I am thankful for MexicAlts/Altinos.
I am thankful for white people for oppressing s00 many people, enabling some of the most 'bad ass' art which has inspired college dorm room art for mnstrm bros.
I am thankful for my brother who doesn't 'get' me.
I am thankful for my sister for 'trying to understand me.'
I am thankful for airlines so that I can fly abroad to find myself.
I am thankful for Australia, France, the UK, and other altCountries for passing laws which legalize study-abroad programs.
I am thankful for HIPSTER RUNOFF.
I am thankful for Carles.
I am thankful for 'meaning.'
I am thankful for authenticity.
I am thankful for finding a place where people who 'see the world the way I do' go to talk about life.
I am thankful that Carles 'gets' me.
I am thankful for me.
I am thankful for my personal brand.
I am thankful for American Apparel for creating a simple, yet [highly branded] way for me to express myself.
I am thankful for Barry Obama.
I am thankful for the War in Iraq for helping our economy through tough times.
I am thankful for the Financial Crisis for giving us something 2 blog about.
I am thankful for Sarah Palin, the meme of 2k8.
I am thankful for trivial electro producers.
I am thankful for RSS/GoogleReader.
I am thankful for my brain for letting 'memes' happen.
I am thankful for ________________.

What are u thankful 4?
Do yall know what the first alts served at the first THNXGVNG?

(miss u)

//wish u were here [via miss u]