Stop the Hate

Is it time to stop the hipster hate? For the last five or six years there has been some big time hate on the youth of today. Hipsters are much maligned all over for lots of reason. They are unoriginal, overly ironic, or just plain dumb. Some of these complaints are not without merit.

Kids today are wearing fashions from the '80's its true. And you probably wore some bell bottoms and a tie dye in your day, or a Sex Pistols concert shirt or something similar. So what.

The irony attitude? I can't really speak against. Kids are always full of questions for authority. Add that to modern technology that makes you wonder if every slightly extordinary feat captured on film or video is a photoshop and you might become skeptical about the whole world too. This isn't just post-Watergate/Viet-Nam distrust, this is post Clinton blow-job/Gulf War 1 & 2 ditrust. I can't say I blame them too much here either.

As for being dumb, I doubt it. They are however mostly under thirty so if it is so hard for you to remember let me remind you. You did some really stupid shit when you were a that age. Like the time you...whatever you did some dumb stuff you learned that doing that stuff has consequneces and you do it less now or not at all. The point is you had to do it yourself. No amount of parenting, older sibling or peer warning was going to stop you from doing it. You had to do it yourself, so you did, and so do they.

So get over the hipster hate. Yes they move into your neighborhood and it gets fancy. Yes they drink PBR and wear bandanas and scarves. Get over it. You pissed off the hippies and punks and disco dnacers too. You were just to sefl-absorbed at the time to notice.

Still hating hipsters like it is 2004? Then this is the site for you.

http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com

That is Baltimore's own Dan Deacon on the April 29th pic.

AIR RAID!

The air raid sirens are being tested in Baltimore right now. Well maybe not air raid sirens, but at least loud sirens to alert the people that things ain't going to be copacetic for the next little bit and you might want to get it together and find a hole to crawl into.

I am pretty sure that there is no emergency, but since I don't have cable, and the radio is turned off I am not 100% sure. I am however on the internet, but it ain't telling me nothin'. I think it is high time that it did.

I think the Emergency Broadcast System should link up with the internet and broadcast alerts to people who are online.

Whose #*$@ Did Anthony Kiedes Suck?

I'm not saying Anthony Kiedes is gay, or that when he was addicted to heroin he may have done nasty things to get a fix. I am wondering though who did Anthony Kiedes and the Red Hot Chili Peppers blow to get their songs in constant rotation on the radio. Every time I put on the radio I hear a Red Hot Chili Peppers song sometime in the rotation of my listening. Its damn ridiculous.

My local station WTMD 89.7 FM Towson Univeristy Radio is doing a countdown promotion of the 897 best artists of all time. I was checking off the list in my head and in surely in the top ten I came to RHCP. Since 1985's Freaky Stylee (or 1983 if you want to be a music douche and talk about some first time preforming under a different name bullshit) the Chili Peppers have been making excellent music, but after the band shake ups, break ups, and hair cuts they reformed and released Californication in mid 1999. At this point it seems the dick sucking must have begun in earnest, because I only hear RCHP songs from this and subsequent albums. Basically the first 14 years of music is ignored and the last 10 years of less and less relevant slow ballads about California can be pooped at me in heavy rotation.

I seriously like the Chili Peppers. I would not hesitate to go see them in concert, and they are definately one of the best artists of all time, but the over playing of basically three songs, Californication, By The Way, and Dani California are ruining them for me. I wish the radio would play some of their older songs, which would be perfectly acceptable since they have not produced a new single in 3 years, but apparently every program director in the country was well fellated and we are left listening to the same three songs all the damn time.