ITP V.013 EDITORIAL: ON HIPSTERS

This is my neighborhood, this is where I come from, you call this place a slum, I call this place my home, you want to run the people out, this is what you're all about"-LIVING COLOUR






We're not Generation X, we're Generation FUCK YOU!-CYPRESS HILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CZeR3Fk9w0
I have a whole editorial about JAMESKCHOU video commentary regarding the previous journal entry, regarding again, cultural stereotypes, generalizations and stigmas, as not all hipsters are spoiled, some are, some aren't.
Every generation has it's meltdown of dysfunction, and so on.
When  JAMESKCHOU compared the 60's hippies to generation X and Y, I felt that was unfair. Lucky, us, we did NOT grow up in a generation of protest nor an extended war as some even went to serve in Iraq post 9/11 with college degrees.  Indeed class issues were decisive on whom went to Vietnam and whom didn't, college students were exempt from the war in the 60's. Then the hippies PARTIED, self destructed on drugs, and became a part of the corrupt establishment. Certainly many civil rights movements were at stake in the 60's. As now we in Generation X and Y, with technology at our disposal are left with baggage of 60's to 80's excess, (generation baby boomer, "I ME GENERATION") including a huge national debt, increased wars in the middle east, big bank bailouts as these hipster college students are in huge debt with college loans. 
Yeh, a job at the coffee shop is as much as you get post college, and that is where OWS is relevant.
Generation X and Y don't protest, We're not progressive? We do ONLINE, and you were the one spitting on us during OWS. 
Metal, however, is a working class, blue collar genre as most indie bands of all genres have day jobs when off the road.
The gentrification of NYC, New York has been an issue since the 70's and 80's with families moving to the outer boroughs (cheaper rent vs. NYC high rise condos ) and the influx of those moving to NYC from other states and even countries.
So the working class,middle class and poor moved to the outer boroughs in the 80's, had kids, and some of their kids became hipsters amongst a certain percentage of both working, and middle class and even poor.
Some come to NYC for college, and....Of course no one can afford to live in Manhattan and Brooklyn anymore.
This has been going on since I could say "rawk and roll" as a teen in NYC during the 80's. NYC's the village was completely gentrified as far back as the 80's, the hippies, gone, upper west side slum of the 60's and 70's, very hip, gentrified and expensive now.
LIMELIGHT, gone, CBBG's gone, The Bank gone, Wetlands gone, Coney Island High, gone, and LAMOURS. R.I.P.
I hear Brooklyn has an arena now, some 80 year old dude is screaming "bring the bums back".
What else is new, smells like New Paltz, NY, too pretentiously hip, too expensive, and the suck.

ITP's author, formally from Manhattan, NYC I noticed the gentrification in NYC in the 80's even more obvious regarding visits now, from housing, stores, clubs and lack of record stores.
Gentrification is far more complex that a few families moving to the outer boroughs, a shaky economy, home mortgage foreclosures, and NYC IS a melting pot of cultures, media, and let's face it, show bizz and the failure American (or success) of the American dream.
I can't believe you all just noticed the gentrification now, even Harlem has been more gentrified since the 80's.
Hails to the C and B squats for becoming co-ops and rent stabilized in NYC, and yeh, rent stabilized, look out for warehousing.

OMG, here come the hipsters with...Organic coffee shops, I'm so... "offended".:sarcasm:
Point your finger at big, corporate developments.
Yeh, fuck these cunts (YUPPIES and hipsters) whom inherited property from their parents, with corporate consumer attitudes.
Other than gentrification, I would think of that as better than the high crime, drugs and corruption of NYC via  the 80's. Or is it?
Color me neither so offended, nor so impressed, as some of the commentary, via JAMESKCHOU just isn't true, and cultural stereotypes, tisk, tisk.
Gentrification is far more complex than hipsters.

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-