SFist Top Ten of 2007: Annoying Hipster Trends
1) Waxed Mustaches. We've seen a few guys wandering around with this look, which takes the wispy mustaches that hairless hipsters of yore sported, and turns them into pointy weapons. Rollie Fingers did it better.
2) '70s-style tennis headbands. We first saw this last year at a Ratatat show, when we thought we had somehow wandered into a Bjorn Borg lookalike contest. This year, it got really out of control, as every eighteen-year-old with a vintage Iron Maiden shirt decided to discover his inner McEnroe.
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3) Ultra-tight pants. We're pretty sure that the Mission boys have started binding their feet in order to get into these. How can that possibly be comfortable? The only way these can fit is by their obvious reliance on...
4) Male Butt Reduction Surgery. It's impossible to be concave instead of convex, but some of our local cooler-than-thous manage it. If there was a gay Sir-Mix-A-Lot, he'd be very sad when wandering the Valencia Corridor.
5) Any weekday show at Mezzanine. Doors 9, show 10...I mean, 11, I mean, headliner at 12:30 on a Tuesday morning? Come on - some of us have day jobs. Oh, wait...we meant "the conditions of our trust fund require us to wake up by eight!"
6) Fixies with really narrow handlebars. We're decidedly in the "they're ok if you can really handle them" school when it comes to fixed-gear bikes. We also think that most people who ride them in this city should probably still be using training wheels. But why, oh why is everyone sawing off the handlebars? Is steering now lame?
7) Hanging out in front of Kilowatt and loudly scoffing at the bridge and tunnel crowd on a Friday night. Guys, it's Kilowatt. You aren't exactly on the road less traveled at Sixteenth and Valencia.
8) Two-hour lines for weekend breakfast at Boogaloos. (see picture at top) It used to suck to try to go there...now it's just pointless. It's not that good.
9) Hating Ritual because there are too many hipsters there. Get over it. The coffee is really good, it's locally owned, and ever since they covered up the electrical outlets, the Web 2.0 "I'm using this place as my office and am talking about synergy on my Blackberry" factor has dropped dramatically.
10) Hating on hipsters. It's ironic, it's self-referential, it's a giant meta-circle of hipster haterdom!
Images:
Rollie Fingers from CNNsi.com, Bjorn Borg from the Encyclopedia Brittanica (concise.brittanica.com), jeans from findcoolclothes.com, Web 2.0 from Wikipedia, hipster stencil from Flickr user brainsik under a Creative Commons License, fixie bike from velospace.org, boogaloos pic from flickr user TfUnQ under a Creative Commons license, Ritual Roasters photo by ldandersen under a Creative Commons license