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Hipsterism is a religion to which you must be devout.
You must be seen
as in between
unpopular and hated
or else get excommunicated....

That isn't really the best of the songs either. The dog one is the best.

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I'm going to Florida in a couple weeks to be a groupie at the Winter Music Conference...that is, i'm not registering for the conference, but i'm going to a bunch of the great shows it attracts. So i'm going to see Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Junkie XL and all the tons and tons of people at UMF and the afterparty. I yoinked the cd from last year's UMF ( Read more... )

What are some songs that get everyone dancing? In particular i'm looking for things similar in style / tempo to trance or breakbeat, so i can mix them into a set pretty easily. Some examples of what i've come up with so far are the Thriller album and Haiducii (that Romanian thing that the crazy guy on the webcam dances to).

I'm getting cats ( Read more... )

You know what Japanese word annoys me? "Furigana". I think it's partially because the sound "f" doesn't really exist in Japanese and so it sounds more like a really fucked up "h"...but probably mostly just because it sounds like "furry-gana". q:

A local news guy here is claiming that McDonalds was silently adding dairy to their fries all along and just recently added that fact to the nutrition information on their website because of new FDA rules. (http://kutv.com/consumer/local_story_045202138.htmlRead more... )

Was having a conversation just now about the irony of naming a clothing store "Banana Republic", and how bizarre it is that more people aren't always chuckling every time they see it. I was likening it to naming your store "Child Labor" or "The Sweatshop". Then, on a whim, i hit google. And found this: Read more... )

Learning the katakana opens up so many more opportunities to be amused by hijacked English. For example, i learned today that in Japan, you call a private automobile a "maicaa". That's awesome.

Also i learned where the N.G. thing in DDR comes from. Apparently "enjii", which is supposed to stand for "N.G.", means "blooper" in Japanese.

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