Wednesday, January 5, 2011

ANTI BLOG

"Definition of a Hipster- Hipster - One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat."
  -http://www.hipsterhandbook.com/

The purpose of this blog is to be an anti-blog; which enables me to write a blog without being one of those pretentious hipsters who writes blogs all the time. See example :

Above is a beautiful specimen of the hipster blogger as shown on the left, with her camera-crazed friend. (I do not know these people). This girl on the left falls into the stereotype of "chick with cheap sunglasses, extremely pale from lack of sunlight and over-priced american apparel dresses." This also qualifies her as a girl who would like to blog about her life. (Please note the guy on the right would mostly likely enjoy independant and underground music, and has an extreme distaste for bands he knew a couple years ago and have since become "popular". He also, therefore, writes a blog.)

The ANTIBLOG (my way of not becoming a "blogger") is an ingenious solution to my problem. By calling my blog the ANTIBLOG, I'm not only admitting to the fact i was forced to write this against my will, but also that i stand for dying forms of media- newspapers, magazines and paper back books (because hardcovers are too expensive). Blogs are unreliable, opinion based entertainment. ANTIBLOGS are people who dont like blogs, writing blogs. This is my standpoint.

1 comment:

  1. Well put...Sorry to force you to do this! Seriously, it is showing your talent for the written word...love to read more!

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