Comments on: DEFENSE INDUSTRY REPORT III: Nobody wants to be a hipster but everybody wanna be hip

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:49:32 +0000

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:38 +0000

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By: Mr. McGinnis

Mr. McGinnis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:44:58 +0000

I am NOT Gavin. I am from The Tremé and 9th Ward of New Orleans, plagued by the same problems as New York. And way MORE problems, actually.

See, my point is who the hell cares what people dress like, how much money they have or whatever – what counts is what you DO. The DNO crew actually gives a fuck about the hood – they actually DO defend New Orleans. Also, I very much like fashion – so I don’t see that as a criticism.

“Defend New Orleans” is a mantra that has been in use since the revolutionary war – people had signs on their windows when I was a child. It’s basically something you see ALL OVER THE SOUTH on front lawns, so I don’t know how they are any more of plagiarists than you.

By: DAVE REEVES

DAVE REEVES — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:29:51 +0000

dear gavin,
if you think that those Defend New Orleans assholes are more than the worst kind of fashion hipsters who have had to swaddle their plagiarism in charity then wait for the next Defense Industry Report.

By: Mr. McGinnis

Mr. McGinnis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:28:24 +0000

P.S

Firstly IS a word.

By: Mr. McGinnis

Mr. McGinnis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:23:19 +0000

Times are changing. Instead of trying to keep neighborhoods poor for our inner film fantasies, we can buy Defend New Orleans products – made by “hipsters,” who use proceeds on inner city non-profit housing and art organizations!

By: DAVE REEVES

DAVE REEVES — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:11:21 +0000

dear gavin,
firstly is not a word. secondly the whole article is absurd, my style is absurd and it’s absurd that you don’t see that. So don’t get your panties in a bunch preaching that sixties hippie doggrel to me. This are new times, pal.

By: Mr. McGinnis

Mr. McGinnis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:04:51 +0000

Firstly, I never said you were not poor, however, there is something very telling in the fact that you’re writing for a major alternative paper while mourning the passing of crime and filth. ACTUAL poor people (people born in poverty: black or white or anything else) would never argue to have needles thrown around their doorsteps so they can keep rich people out. It’s absurd.

By: DAVE REEVES

DAVE REEVES — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:50:53 +0000

hey gavin,
see the gay neighborhoods are usually like the west village and chelsea have traditionally been turned out by the art crowd before the double income no kids crew moves in.

here is an article in the washington post that might help you understand what i am saying and then we can get back to your more general kvetching about “Poor people” , which may be the most racist and overbearing part of your scree. What makes me not poor? My whiteness?

this kind of press from the washington post

“Overnight, another preserve of working-class American culture is rendered unaffordable to thousands of families — and to the hipsters themselves. Want to know the next move? Toll Brothers, the nation’s preeminent McMansion builder, has built a new luxe waterfront condo. Its ad features a preppy and distinctly unpierced blonde and the line: “Williamsburg, All Grown Up.”

Anthropologist Neil Smith of City University’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics has tracked gentrification with an obsession worthy of Ahab. He’s charted the transformation of blue-collar neighborhoods, from Shaw in the District and San Francisco’s Mission to the wharfs of London and the canal-lined streets of Amsterdam. This isn’t the old block-by-block stuff, the grinding rehab of old rowhouses by scruffy young gentry. He’s convinced he’s found a new beast.
“”We are witnessing the corporate and geographical restructuring of cities — the wealthy are suburbanizing the center and pushing the poor to the fringes, and it’s turbocharged,” Smith says. “Artists are disposable — developers just toss them out in hopes they’ll colonize the next ‘hot’ neighborhood.”

By: Mr. McGinnis

Mr. McGinnis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:31:57 +0000

The problem with “hipsters,” in NY particularly, is that they move in and create an insular society, that uses the poverty around them as a backdrop to fuel their suburban refugee fantasies. They are just as guilty as the apparently rich, who wear different costumes, who move in to open boutiques and condos with doormen. These are all people who could care less about the actually poor people around them. I just wish more of these people, regardless of their outfits and bank accounts, actually cared more for people who aren’t as well off as they are.

By: Mr. McGinnis

Mr. McGinnis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:28:57 +0000

“The Gays” do not come after the “alpha hipsters,” they come BEFORE, during or ARE the”alpha hipsters.”

I also think it’s a bit creepy that you want people to live in blighted poverty so you can live in a picturesque fantasy. THAT is what makes “hipsters” irritating. New ones or old ones.

By: Anton Lachey

Anton Lachey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:15:45 +0000

In a post 9/11 world I find this kind of arrogance and pretension refreshing.

By: Staunch Crowleyite

Staunch Crowleyite — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:59:57 +0000

Yes, run – all the way to Territory Records & Barbecue!

By: DAVE REEVES

DAVE REEVES — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0000

good. run for your life.

By: hiponeta

hiponeta — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:35:29 +0000

IN A POST 9/11 WORLD I FIND THIS KIND OF ARROGANCE AND PRETENSION TERRIFYING