If this doesn’t make your day I don’t know what will. Producer Psycosis has created an incredible mashup album that takes Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and adds Dr. Dre, Kanye and more. Listen to In My G4 Over Da Sea
It’s officially official, I’m launching a Dad’s are the Original Hipsters giveaway. Unfortunately I can’t give away cases of PBR, but I think I’ve lined up the next best thing. But, before I tell you about that, here’s how you enter.
1) Scan your dad’s best old photos of him being awesome.
2) Send those awesome photos to dadsaretheoriginalhipsters@gmail.com
3) Put “Giveaway” in the subject line
4) Go tell your dad he’s way cooler than you’ll ever be.
I’m going to spend countless hours analyzing each photo for hipster gold. The best 3 will win. (The crazier the photos, the better your chances of winning.)
Here’s what you can win.
1st Place:
1 signed copy of Dads are the Original Hipsters
$100 gift card to Urban Outfitters so you can look even more hipster
1 large Moleskine for your “art”
And…
1 Limited Edition Dads are the Original Hipsters T-shirt for your awesome Dad (There will only be 2 in existence, and my dad will have the other one.)
2nd Place:
1 signed copy of Dads are the Original Hipsters
$50 gift card to Urban Outfitters so you can buy skinny jeans
1 large Moleskine for you write your band’s lyrics in
3rd Place:
1 signed copy of Dads are the Original Hipsters
$25 gift card to Urban Outfitters so you can buy deep-v neck shirts
This contest ends in 2 weeks, so start sending those photos in now.
Cheers,
Brad
Your dad ate local, fair-trade, organic produce before you did and he’s still got the cultivation skills to prove it. With a leather tanned neck and a green thumb, he seduced Mother Earth into growing him the best vegetables anyone has ever seen. But, he wasn’t a gardener. Gardeners are old ladies with sun hats and bad knees. He was the John Wayne of farming that had a quiet confidence he could grow anything. He didn’t need even need pesticides because he was intimidating enough to keep pests away from his food babies.
So hipsters, when you’re sitting in a restaurant you found on yelp and you’re pestering the waitress to see if the tomatoes in your salad are fair-trade, locally grown, organic and sustainably farmed, remember this…
Your dad wasn’t into eating local, fair-trade, organic so that he could smugly look down upon everyone else who doesn’t. He ate that way because it just taste damn better and all he cared about was enjoying the best things in life.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha. This may be describing my life.
Nas reads.
SEOUL, South Korea — Most of us associate the spread of Korean culture across much of Asia, and now Europe and North America, with catchy pop tunes and improbable TV drama plot lines. Less well-known is the third member of the “Korean Wave” triumvirate — the country’s bold and colorful cuisine.
(Source: unabashinglyme, via pleatedjeans)
My life.
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Brett Dennen - Ain’t No Reason
I guess I wrote this song to speak about, you know, humanity and the horrible things that we do to each other as people. I believe the most atrocious crimes against humanity happen every day, and we allow them to not because we agree with them but because it’s our routine. We do what we do because things have always been done that way. Instead of trying to change them, we’re all waiting for some sort of savior or someone else to come and change and bring us salvation when we’re the one who are gonna make change. You know, we have these things imbedded into the framework of our society, into our institutions, like prisons and war, and these are systems that are unfair to some people and fair to other people. Most of the people in prison are people of color and getting younger and younger by the day. We make laws that put these people in prison. Our school systems are set up, you know, so that some people can succeed and other people can’t—other people are forced to turn to other ways to succeed. And it just keeps happening over and over again on a small community level and on a global level. I just think it’s not only crazy that this is the way we live, but it’s also crazy that not enough people, especially not enough young people, are speaking out against it, and I wrote this song, ‘Ain’t No Reason,’ through that perspective. I mean, it’s partly in the perspective of someone saying you know, ‘We gotta stop this; this is insane,’ but it’s also—I’m writing it from the perspective of someone who’s caught up in the routine of their day-to-day life, you know. As someone who’s very privileged in this world, you know, I have a lot to be thankful for, and it’s easy to just neglect all the people in the world who have suffered or are disadvantaged because of my own personal privilege. It’s easy to forget about them, and it’s also hard to think about: ‘Well, what do I gotta do to change the world? That means I’m gonna have to be very brave; that means I’m gonna have to be very bold; that means I’m probably gonna have to give up a lot of my privilege; that means I’m gonna have to make a stand; I’m gonna have to speak out for other people.’ And I think that scares a lot of people. And so I want these things to be talked about, especially amongst us young people, I want us to talk about ‘em more. And that’s what this song’s about. -Brett Dennen
I tried to shorten what he said about this song but everything was just so poignant.
-Zach
Another Hyun Bin and Andy Photo :)
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Gil Ra Im’s message tone! Also, I my current message tone! :D Whenever I get a message, my whole family stops whatever they’re doing and go all, “Munchavaseo Munchavaseo” xD
