Subject 5: When a Hipster hits a lady, she'll ask for more.

Leland asks the question,

"Would a Hipster Hit a Lady?"

Yes

And She Likes It!

Red-Headed Woman (1932)

begins with Harlow seducing her boss Bill LeGendre and intentionally breaking up his marriage. During her seductions, he tries to resist and slaps her, at which point she looks at him deliriously and replies

"Do it again, I like it! Do it again!"

My Last blog  

was dedicated

to

Men.

Public Enemy (1931)

James Cagney explodes on the screen in one of his most famous roles as a notorious criminal.

This is the film with the infamous "grapefruit scene."

Ladies, this one is for you.

Introducing... 

The "pre-Code era."

"When people are stupid and try to drag me down…I just think of Missy…

who has no fucks to give."

http://florencefallon.tumblr.com/

It refers to a roughly five-year period in film history,

 beginning with the widespread adoption of sound in 1929 and ending on July 1, 1934,

with the inauguration of the Production Code Administration and a policy of rigid censorship.

Before July 1, 1934, restrictions on movie content varied widely, depending on local laws, mores and public taste.

As a result, "pre-Code films" tend to be

racier, sexier, more adult, more cynical, more socially critical, more honest and more politically strident

than the films produced by Hollywood on up through the early 1960s.

http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/precode.jsp

The “Yum Yum” scene from Ball of Fire (1941)

They have the capacity to take viewers by surprise,

by virtue of their honesty but also simply because they weren't made according to a prescribed formula.

They startle us with their modernity.

Women in pre-Codes,

for example, act recognizably like women –

independent, shrewd and worldly - and not like the bubbleheads, girls next door, martyrs and rueful sluts you often find in American film through the early 1960s.

http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/precode.jsp

Palmy Days (1931)

Though the reformers considered pre-Codes immoral,

 Hollywood, in fact, never made so many films directly concerned with morality as in the pre-Code era.

 The difference was that the reformers didn't want morals to be examined,

debated,

discussed

or

discovered.

They wanted them to be accepted blindly.

http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/precode.jsp

A Farewell Pre-Code Woman Tribute Video
"Breathe Me" Sia

ONE MORE FOR THE BOYS 

 "Here's looking at you kid...."

"the longer they no, the harder they yes"

Ladies, An era must come to an end...

….the maxim was that

"any theme must contain at least sufficient good in the story

 to compensate for,

 and to counteract, any evil which relates..” (Doherty 11)

Hollywood could present evil behavior, but only if it were eradicated by the end of the film,

"with the guilty punished, and the sinner redeemed."

(Doherty 11)

Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934

www.scribd.com/.../Pre-Code-Hollywood-Sex-Immorality-And-Insurrection-in-American-Cinema-1930-1934-0231110944

^{What Ever Happened To Class?
Clips taken from these films.....}

 

1) The Stolen Jools (short, 1931)

2) It Happened One Night (1934)

3) The Scarlet Empress (1934)

4) Alice Adams ('35)

5) The Garden Of Allah ('36)

6) The Women ('39)

7) Gone With The Wind ('39)

8) His Girl Friday ('40)

9) Waterloo Bridge ('40)

10) Philadelphia Story ('40)

11) The Lady Eve ('41)

12) Penny Serenade ('41)

13) Meet John Doe ('41)

14) Woman of the Year ('42)

15) The Spoilers ('42)

16) Mrs. Miniver ('42)

17) Casablanca ('42)

18) Random Harvest ('42)

19) Lady of Burlesque ('43)

20) Lifeboat ('44)

21) Meet Me In St Louis ('44)

22) Mildred Pierce ('45)

23) The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers ('46)

24) Sorry, Wrong Number ('48)

25) Adam's Rib ('49)

26) On the Town ('49)

27) Sunset Blvd. ('50)

28) Singin' in the Rain ('52)

29) Pat & Mike ('52)

30) The Quiet Man ('52)

31) Titanic ('53)

32) Kiss Me Kate ('53)

33) A Star Is Born ('54)

34) Cattle Queen of Montana ('55)

35) Escape To Burma ('55)

36) Crime Of Passion ('57)

37) Desk Set ('57)

38) An Affair To Remember ('57)

39) McLintock! ('63)

40) I Could Go On Singing ('63)

41) Mary Poppins ('64)

42) Die! Die! My Darling! ('65)

43) The Lion In Winter ('68)

44) Mommie Dearest ('81)

45) On Golden Pond ('81)

46) The Thorn Birds ('83)

^{And this is what} came next….

"Curly Top"
Shirley Temple 
Animal Crackers In My Soup

Men Giving Birth is Hip

This blog is for
the man.

Women, get the dish pans out and start scrubbing. Mind ya’ business.

(Woman, I know you like it when I talk to you like that because you’ve always craved a man in your bed rather then an emasculated little boy.)

 “Hip’s central romance, the myth of reinvention, is a quintessential male fantasy.

It allows birth without the womb.”

(Leland 87)

Picture this.

You’re a man living in America between the decades of the two World Wars.

What do you have?

Dehumanizing Work. Smothering Woman. Kids.

That bowl of pressure

Is a crimp in your masculinity.

With no destination

Escape on the open road

Is your promise for growth and enlightenment.

The answer is

A hard-boiled hero:

“Big shoulders, strong chin, smart lip, big pistol, and a taut gift of gab.”(Leland 90)

The private eye:

“…an independent operator, unmarried, childless, and motherless.

He cowed neither to women nor to work.

He did not suffer an employer;

...he gained the upper hand by walking away from a check

…he cut a sexual swath

but did not have any attachments or obligations

…he gained advantage by walking away from hot nookie.” (Leland 90)

The Big Sleep (1946)

“film noir traded on the hip premise that language means more than it says, and that silence communicates more than words.” (Leland 102)

Rage.

It was displaced for a while.

When it is Hip

it becomes productive, articulate, and edifying—not repressed.

“Slaves encoded their rage in language and art—cool on the surface, hot below.”

“..Pulp writers packaged violence in choppy, kinetic prose.

 It was contained rather than masked.”

(Leland 91)

“I used my knee on his face. It hurt my knee.  He didn’t tell me whether it hurt his face. While he was still groaning I knocked him cold with the sap.”

 Raymond Chandler

Farewell My Lovely (1940)

http://vinpulp.blogspot.com/2009/01/farewell-my-lovely-by-raymond-chandler.html

Now that we’re all men now,

Let’s talk about the fertile grounds of

L.A. and the West Coast.

Pulp and Film Noire.

How would you like to lay one down and honor a place that has

the “biggest, baddest, sickest, ugliest, most sex-saturated, unformulaic, most pervasively evil, profound fucking crime novels of all time.”

Thank you James Ellroy

For that sympathetic tribute.

Eventually the open road runs out and

The coast is

The place to contemplate failure.

 California is a state full of dark, violent outcasts, drifters, and grifters

Who ran out of room to run.

A pulp hero is born.

He didn’t rely on East coast bohemia or intelligentsia.

They were civilized and primitive.

A western outlaw, detective, but not a criminal or exactly law-abiding.

Los Angeles

Its first building was the jail.

The cities chief product was fantasy.

There was an absence of history.

Violent surrealism replaced myths.

Torn between the luster and decay

“I smelled Los Angeles before I got to it. 

It smelled stale and old like a living room that had been closed too long. 

But the colored lights fooled you. 

The lights were wonderful. 

There ought to be a monument to the man who invented neon lights.”

Robert Chandler

Arrival in L.A.

1912

 

In a city without history, hard-boiled detectives did not have

 mothers, wives, steady girlfriends, or children.

 “It was a cliché of the genre to have nothing to lose, neither future nor past.”

 (Leland 101)

Hip is detachment

                                                                       

                                                          Scene from Lady Killer (1933)

“The threat to hip is not women but domesticity.”

(Leland 101)

“Like the motherless detectives, rappers were their own invention; in the absence of roots, they invented their own names and surrogate families. They were outsiders’ outsiders.”

(Leland 108)

NWA 

 Fuck Tha Police + Lyrics

"Evolution is the solution!"

 Vince Russo

NWA

“Hip is not the ability to talk like Marlowe or Ice-T, or to sulk like Bogart…

(that’s) missing half the message. 

Hip is the ability

to hear both meaning in their voices,

to catch the undertones complicating the plainest prose.”

 (Leland 110)

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hip-History-Mr-John-Leland/?isbn=9780060528188


AND FINALLY...SOME DESSERT

Tupac
"How Do You Want It"

Just by looking at this video one would assume it is only about sexing the ladies up right.
But the lyrics reveal the ambivalent voice of the blues.
Hardship with transendence.

LYRICS
How do you want it? How does it feel?
Comin up as a nigga in the cash game
livin in the fast lane; I'm for real
How do you want it? How do you feel?
Comin up as a nigga in the cash game
livin in the fast lane; I'm for real
[Verse One: 2Pac]

Love the way you activate your hips and push your ass out
Got a nigga wantin it so bad I'm bout to pass out
Wanna dig you, and I can't even lie about it
Baby just alleviate your clothes, time to fly up out it
Catch you at a club, oh shit you got me fiendin
Body talkin shit to me but I can't comprehend the meaning
Now if you wanna roll with me, then here's your chance
Doin eighty on the freeway, police catch me if you can
Forgive me i'm a rider, still I'm just a simple man
All I want is money, fuck the fame I'm a simple man
Mr. International, playa with the passport
Just like Aladdin bitch, get you anything you ask for
It's either him or me -- champagne, Hennessey
A favorite of my homies when we floss, on our enemies
Witness as we creep to a low speed, peep what a hoe need
Puff some mo' weed, funk, ya don't need
Approachin hoochies with a passion, been a long day
But I've been driven by attraction in a strong way
Your body is bangin baby I love it when you flaunt it
Time to give it to daddy nigga now tell me how you want it
(Tell me how you want it! La-dy, yeahhhyeah)

[Chorus]

[Verse Two: 2Pac]

Tell me is it cool to fuck?
Did you think I come to talk am I a fool or what?
Positions on the floor it's like erotic, ironic
cause I'm somewhat psychotic
I'm hittin switches on bitches like I been fixed with hydraulics
Up and down like a roller coaster, I'm up inside ya
I ain't quittin til the show is over, cause I'ma rider
In and out just like a robbery, I'll probably be a freak
and let you get on top of me, get her rockin these
Nights full of Alize, a livin legend
You ain't heard about these niggaz play these Cali days
Delores Tucker, youse a motherfucker
Instead of tryin to help a nigga you destroy a brother
Worse than the others -- Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole
You're too old to understand the way the game is told
You're lame so I gotta hit you with the hot facts
Want some on lease? I'm makin millions, niggaz top that
They wanna censor me; they'd rather see me in a cell
livin in hell -- only a few of us'll live to tell
Now everybody talkin bout us I could give a fuck
I'd be the first one to bomb and cuss
Nigga tell me how you want it

[Chorus]

[Verse Three: 2Pac]

Raised as a youth, tell the truth I got the scoop
on how to get a bulletproof, because I jumped from the roof
before I was a teenager, mobile phone, SkyPager
Game rules, I'm livin major -- my adversaries
is lookin worried, they paranoid of gettin buried
One of us gon' see the cemetary
My only hope to survive if I wish to stay alive
Gettin high, see the demons in my eyes, before I die
I wanna live my life and ball, make a couple million
And then I'm chillin fade em all, these taxes
got me crossed up and people tryin to sue me
Media is in my business and they actin like they know me
Hahaha, but I'ma mash out, peel out
I'm with it quick I'se quick to whip that fuckin steel out
Yeah nigga it's some new shit so better get up on it
When ya see me tell a nigga how ya want it
How do you want it?

[Chorus 2X]

[2Pac]
How you want it?
Yeah my nigga Johnny J
Yeah, we out

[Chorus]

[2Pac]
Tell me

[Chorus]

[2Pac]
Cash game, livin in the fast lane, I'm for real

That is hip.

Subject 4: The Reclamation of Cool is Hip

That is hip.

Let’s talk about COOL

In comparison to HIP

Hip is a state of enlightenment or awareness.

Cool is composure or balance in an individual, or stability in a group.

“…cool begins the journey to hip. “In the African sense,” Thompson says, “I would argue that cool is the mask of mind itself.” Hip, then, is the process behind the mask.” (Leland 58)

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hip-History-Mr-John-Leland/?isbn=9780060528188

Cool is connected with hip.

The ancient “hip” that resided deep in the plaid and polyester bellows of my 90’s hippie youth surfaced and motivation came to create the official

reclamation of my coolness in this very moment of realization.  I thought it was

 hip

to realize

that I needed to be more cool.

Days later or not…time doesn’t matter in the mind of a hipster….

there she was, staring me in the face under the blaring lights and bargain section of a local Barnes and Nobles Bookstore.  An ugly orange book titled,

“How to Be Cool.”

http://www.johannaedwards.com/

It was a gift from my heightened awareness.

I begin the process of reclaiming my coolness by studying such chapters as,

 “Cool Rule #3. Always play the part of the one who cares the least,”

and

“Cool Rule #21. Cool people are sometimes down, but never out.”

MUSIC.

 I don’t talk about it as much as it deserves to be brought up.

It is hip

and cool.

“Within the aesthetic of the cool, Thompson notes, this interplay of the musicians and dancers suggests a philosophy of

beauty and ethics.

Its underlying values are spiritual.

Through rhythm and inflection,

It signals stability in the social order and composure in the individual, even amid the hottest of blowing.

In other words,

Cool.

“Perhaps one reason many American Negroes sing a sad song happy

and

some whites sing it sad,”

he writes,

“is that the Negro is an heir to an aesthic of the cool and the latter is not. 

It is cool

 to sweeten hurt

 with song and motion;

it is hot to concentrate upon the pain.”

(Leland 67)

 

May there be happy day love birds and marvelous Monday free birds.

Enjoy this dedication to you all on this

Valentine's

evening
occassion.

Hot Diggity Dog, That's Hip!

  ***Being a solid day over the deadline because of the improtu

Glitchy Itchy Glit Glit Glitch It dance performance

 that my 3 year old Gateway tech-baby decided to put on last night, I produced and re-produced this

 piece of crap blog 4 times.

 If you find that the fourth time not quite as charming as the third, let's be fast friends and purchase an Apple I-Pad together. 

 Those adorable, little suckers will never claim supremecy over the continuous array of colorful spiral notebooks that I carry with me

 but they sure look a lot easier to throw at the wall when the inevitable Glitch It dance occurs.

Enjoy that which is crap.

This is not hip.

Does urbanization, or the city itself, play an essential  role in the creation of "hip?"

YES

"The neighborhood drew a combustive mix of hoboes and Wobbles, Harvard idealists; Freudians and Jungians; anarchists and tourists; office women and grifters; society types and penniless artists; open gays and lesbians.

The Wierd people from towns too small to accomodate the weird migrated to the Village." (Leland 68)

Mr. John Leland speaks of "urban anonymity" that I believe is a major appeal to the rural residents in America.

Las Vegas uses this idea as their main marketing pitch,"What happens here, stays here." and now,

"Be anyone."

Start a whole new identity with their new online program

http://www.visitlasvegas.com/vegas/features/be-anyone/be-anyone.jsp?sweepstakes=1

You can print out personalized business cards, a certificate of achievement, and a length character guide!  I tried it out and this is what was produced...

"Hi, My name is Lolita and I'm a hip hop producer from Iceland. I'm building an empire on beats and brains.

Lyric Tip: Nothing rhymes with orange."

Can hipness begin outside of an urban setting, in the suburbs or rural areas of America?

YES

Possibly you and all others who frequent

"The People of Walmart"

website voted this picture number two

in the "top rated" category. 

                                                                   April 23rd, 2010

                     

On a scale of 1 to 10, where do you think his level of giving a f*** what you think is? What I’m feeling right now is straight jealousy for that dude.

Tennessee

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?page_id=9804'

YES! YES! YES!

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 8 YEARS TO TAKE OUT MY

HOT DOG BASEBALL WIENER CAP 

AND WEAR IT PROUDLY DOWN THE STREETS OF

 OLA, IDAHO AND BEYOND!

NO WEIRD WILL BE FOUND HERE!!

JUST PURE HIP

AND

  COOL.

**"This hat is perfect for Barbecue, Halloween, Mardis Gras, Baseball or NFL football games or tailgate parties. It is a one-size-fits-most type headpiece.

It is a real head-turner."

Make this dream a reality for $9.99 plus $4.95 S&H

http://www.ioffer.com/i/HOT-DOG-HAT-LARGE-YELLOW-MUSTARD-BASEBALL-WIENER-CAP-13878140

Subject 3: I Don't Want To Give This A Title So I Will Be Hip and Title It "Title"

am·biv·a·lence

   /

–noun

1.

uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.

2.

Psychology . the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambivalence

OR

"All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you."
— Joseph Campbell The Power of the Myth

http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Campbell-Power-Myth-III/dp/B00005MEVQ

OR

A conversation on YouTube inspired by this song....

                                "Conflicting Ideas"

                                                             By Tragedy

                                                                (LYRICS)

When the scientists find our remnants, what will they say?
When they find our bloated carcasses, ridden with sickness and cancers, what will they find?
And what... what will they say?

Will they recognize our self-abuse as a product of the abusive hands that molded our lives?

Or will we remain, a mystery?

Deformed from malnourishment, our blood coagulated and inced with disease: the preservatives, the alcohol, the cigarettes. The meat we gorged ourselves on, for all those years.

Will they recognize our self abuse as a product of the abusive hands that molded our lives?

(As experts scratch their heads, as doctors shake their hands and wonder what we've done.)

@leviticusamadeus666 i luv this record .. thatz punk history

Kropotkin75 3 months ago

Why does most punk suck? Why can't there be more like this?

ctiebs 3 months ago

there's plenty...called crust and hardcore

atzusxritzus 3 months ago

This song is a rip-off of Phantom of the Opera.

Cormy82 3 months ago

@Cormy82 what the hell is phantom of the opera?

1978deus 3 months ago

Los vi hace poquísimo! Sin duda, Buenísimos! y me quedo corta!

oscurasolitaria 2 months ago

2 months every thing is punk.. if you want it.. but this... this is a kind of art... its so fuckin awsome!

greats from germany... plz come back again

volxstuermchen  2 months ago

this is crapppppppppppppp

                  Goshenden 2 months ago

@leviticusamadeus666 Is there time in your busy schedule to learn proper English?

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@leviticusamadeus666 idiot

                  2405Ramon 2 months ago

d-beat crust punk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                  RedCarGuz 4 weeks ago

@mediattackrecords not bad i guess reminds me of '79 a bit the toms sound nuts it sure isnt d beat or crust it sounds overall like american hardcore with a slight bit of post punk. not bad A and R seems way influenced by 80s DISCHORD AVENGERS or UXA

                  mediattackrecords 3 weeks ago

@mediattackrecords yeah theres a crust and d beat influence but not really very 70s Crass or 80s Mortarhate

                  mediattackrecords 3 weeks ago

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mediattackrecords 3 weeks ago

@mediattackrecords f*ck off so you dont like stadium or concert rock noone cares here this does have a stadium sound. i dont quite like the toms they do kind of bug me but it is very weird and i like weird bands infuenced by dischord a bit they have a sound that is very concert sounding.

               mediattackrecords 3 weeks ago

@mediattackrecords f*cking excellent musician skills definitely 8 out of 10 music isnt really about skills or coordination overall but theyre pretty good at composing music

mediattackrecords 3 weeks ago

@leviticusamadeus666 shut the fuck up hipster go back to soulseek

Serial520 23 hours ago

My Point Is...

It's Okay To Be Hip.....

Or Not...

Because Whomever You Try To Be....

Or Not...

That is Hip.