Learning Curve

I like surprises and this world is full of them.

Friday night I was a place called The Inconvience which is basically an illegal hipster bar. It's an artist collective in a giant loft on Lincoln just south of Belmont and they have all ages shows filled with music, performance art, and all kinds of things.

The people there were not ready for me. I tend to get associated to hipsters or get called a hipster by friends of mine, but the more I'm around these supposed "hipsters" I don't like the term. To be hipster has become a cool thing to be so a lot of young (and I'm also noticing more older people) are trying to act the part of being a hipster, but it's corrupting the term.

Hipsters are really just 21st century bohemians and carry the philosophy of the beats from the 1950s. To be a hipster has more to do with your personality and ideas than your image and people don't understand that.

I identity with the hipster movement because I understand where it comes from and agree with the ideas it's suppose to incorporate and stand for, but now all the marketing and commercialism of hipsters has ruined what it really is. You can pretty quickly tell the real ones from the fakers, and a lot of them are fakers. Not all of them obviously, but these so-called hipster should open up their hearts and minds a little bit more and try to understand the world better.

On another note, it's weird sometimes how things come together and weird in a good way. A few days before this past weekend I had it with the city of Chicago and about hated the place, and after this weekend those angered feelings are all gone and replaced with feelings of anxiety and a sense of discovery.

It's strange how sometimes you can meet someone, but not really know them and then be associated to that person for a while and then existential like circumstances which seem almost random can bring you to better know the person and connect. You never know who you might share common interests with and I've just felt lately that the mysteries of the universie are more mysterious than I previously believed.

I've become more and more of a fan of tye dye recently. Tye dye is probably the greatest thing the hippies gave the world.

I have a new trip I'm planning for now. This August I'm looking to go out to Portland and check it out to see if I like it and if I should consider settling down out there one day. While in Portland I think I'm going to go to Missoula, Montana, which is actually suppose to be a pretty 'hip' city (yes I used the word hip haha) for no other reason than it's the hometown of my favorite film maker David Lynch.