Hipster
There are many reasons to move to Sydney’s inner west but none of them is more compelling than your girlfriend telling you to.
And so it was that a few months ago I overcame my bitter prejudices and moved across town, upholding a fine family tradition of men doing whatever it is they are told to by their partner, wife, mother, sister or the nearest woman in the street.
The inner west, for those of you who are not from Sydney and indeed the vast majority who are, is a small enclave nestled snugly between the CBD and the real world. People in the proper suburbs have no desire to go to the inner west and people in the inner west don’t want them there. However despite this the people in the inner west have spent the past 10 years campaigning against a motorway that would give both parties the exact result they wanted.
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Just when you think mainstream culture couldn’t get any shallower along comes the hipster.
No, I don’t mean the hipster sub-culture that beat writers like Jack Kerouac identified with in the 50s or low riding jeans most of us shouldn’t wear, I’m talking about the new breed of inner city trendy taking over small bars, laneways and cafe\bookstores everywhere.
Somehow draping yourself in ridiculous clothes and capering around while being deliberately ironic has become highly desirable for thousands of twenty and thirty somethings.
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Ari says:
“Somehow while no one was paying attention the previously separate sub-cultures of indie, emo, fashion victim and dilettante Lefty coalesced into a super scene where saying and doing nothing of substance is considered profound.” Saying and doing nothing of substance [yet considering it] profound = the very essence of this… Read more »
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Dicko says:
Is this why the rainbow drawers are becoming scarce in Newtown? They are morphing into Hipsters! I got a laugh out of this piece. Read more »
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