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Title: The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham, Bret Nicely, Jeff Bechtel ISBN: 1-4000-3201-6 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How to read this book as a 'hipster'
Comment: (Short answer: Ironically)
If you are reading this book in hopes of becoming a 'hipster', give up, for this book like 'hipster culture' oozes irony and laughs at those who take it at face value. Instead you would become what laymen may term a 'poseur', analogous to the 'fashion punks' who brought punk to the near mainstream in the 80s, and would quickly be revealed by such gaffes as the use of a term like 'deck' with any seriousness or lack of irony.
However, 'real' hipsters need not despair. This book can still be read by them without shame and be prominently displayed on their thrift store used coffee table in their small apartment as long as it is done with an excess of irony. Doing so is in fact essential in some ways to remaining a 'real hipster' in the face of the subculture's sudden commodification.
With the sudden entrance of this book into mainstream consciousness, as once once 'hip' statements of 'hipsterdom' such as the trucker hat and the messenger bag are paraded around on mass media (MTV and NBC respectively--although any self respecting 'hipster' would only ever be caught watching Queer Eye on Bravo), the essential exclusivity and irony of hipsterdom has come under attack.
'Hipsters' of course must defend themselves the only way they can, with further layers of irony. They must show that they get the joke, that they are not the sheeplike wannabe 'hipsters' trying to be like them by copying their fashions and terminologies a day too late, that they can still tell the 'real thing' and keep their 'club' exclusive in the face of scrutiny by the dumb masses. This book can become another obscure reference by those in the know, not to be talked about overtly, but to be subtly slipped into conversation.
And of course a true 'hipster' would never refer to his- or herself as a 'hipster' nor would one identify his- or herself as part of any movement. And of course if you took any of this at face value or learned anything you did not already know in this review, then neither are you a 'hipster' nor will you ever be.
With much 'irony',
'j'
Rating: 4
Summary: Deck
Comment: As the editor review says, a TRUE hipster would never read this...but for those of us who want a few tips on how to be a little hipper it is a funny, quick read. A bit of 'hip'ocrisy though, in that the book says by definition hipsters know that as soon as something becomes mainstream or trendy it loses its coolness (or as they would say, it's totally fin); so does it follow that hipsters will no longer be deck (hip for "cool") because this book might make being a hipster trendy?
Rating: 5
Summary: funny book, yo
Comment: I know this book is a joke, but it is filled with helpful info. Good record tips. Good film selections. It's a great culture guide. Oh yeah, it is funny as hell too. I heard the word "deck" on the Sopranos. Maybe the glossary started as a joke (though the author claims it is real) but words like "deck," "fin," and "frado" are entering the lexicon. Hipster Handbook is a good, fun read. Very funny
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Title: A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster by Josh Aiello, Matthew Shultz ISBN: 0767913728 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll by Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, Shane Smith, Suroosh Avi ISBN: 0446692816 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach ISBN: 0894801406 Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1980 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Decharne ISBN: 0767908406 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell, Martim De Avillez ISBN: 0671792253 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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