Hippies, Hipsters, and Steampunk! OMG!

[apple_pathways]

I have created a game! Ish... Take a series of identities/cultural identifiers/nonsense phrases, and list the ways in which you might fall under that category of personage. Sounds like fun, right? (This is the part where you play along...) It's also a good way to get to know each other! Let's play, shall we?

Five Ways In Which I Am:

a Hippie:

1. I have an organic garden.
   
2. I compost.
   
3. I make my own laundry detergent.
   
4. I have long hair.
   
5. I make people uncomfortable at parties when they confess to shopping at Wal-Mart.

a Hipster:

1. I have black, acrylic-framed glasses.
   
2. I own more than one plaid shirt.
   
3. My music snobbery interests.
   
4. I listen to NPR.
   
5. I shop at farmers' markets.

a Yuppie Suburbanite:

1. I have a Starbucks gold card.
   
2. I tell people I'm from Detroit, even though I live in the 'burbs.
   
3. I wear yoga pants out of the house for non-yoga purposes.
   
4. I spend way too much time bitching about a lack of parking.
   
5. I consider the soup and salad lunch combo at Olive Garden to be a 'good deal'.

a Goth:

1. I own more than three types of black eyeliner.
   
2. I like Joy Division.
   
3. I was once officially 'initiated' at a Goth club in Detroit by a dude who claimed to be a vampire. (He bit my neck. It was adorable. True story!)
   
4. I have an odd fascination with death, and I love cemeteries.
   
5. I ♥ Gothic literature. (I took a class in college, though I don't know if that fact makes me more or less Goth...)

I wanted to do 'Nerd', but this entire journal could very easily be considered evidence for how I fit into that category! So let me turn the tables and give you:

Five Ways In Which I Am Not A Nerd:

1. I'm not into video games.
   
2. Never got into Star Trek.
   
3. I enjoy talking to strangers at parties.
   
4. Also: I will dance. Even if no one else is dancing and the music is really lame. I am going to bust a move.
   
5. I have never in my life said: "OMG, you should see X Movie, it's got awesome special effects!" Fuck special effects. AND High-Def. I am more than happy with regular-def.

Now's the part where you play along at home: either in the comments or on your journal, pick a label! Pick one of the ones I used, or make up one of your own. Give me five reasons why you are or are not like that label. The challenge comes when you pick one that doesn't really fit: I am by no means a Goth, but with some creative thinking, I was able to come up with five ways in which I could be.

Basically: help distract me from the fact I'm dying AGAIN! (I know, right: inconvenient!) My throat hurts, my chest feels heavy, and my shoulders and neck are achy. So play with me, please, and we shall make merry! (Also: what are some good labels you might suggest for anyone who wants to play?)

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Comments

[ladylovelace.livejournal.com]

I NEED TO PLAY THIS. But later, in the morning, when I am more 'witty' and less 'think I'm witty'. ::ponders stereotypes::

ALSO, don't die. I would be sad if you died. The family remedy for feeling like that is Stone's Ginger Wine (pretty sure you can't get that in the States but this is only theory so never mind), warmed to blood temperature with an equal measure of lemonade (as in the kind that has never been near a lemon and is fizzy), also warm. Inhale the fumes, drink the liquid, feel better.

The step they forget to mention is drinking the rest of the bottle of Ginger Wine (which is delicious cold with lemonade, and as a substitute for Ginger Beer in a Vodka Mule. Y'know, if it needs a higher alcohol content. Only in Australia would you add more alcohol to what is essentially half a pint of vodka.)

Son of Also: If there is such a thing as a 'true' hipster, you would be one. I mean, as opposed to the steretype which is full of people subscribing to a philosophy they couldn't explain to save their lives. Maybe Indie is a better term with less baggage (not that I want to shove you in a neatly labelled box, mind, except that if the world was full of neatly-labelled boxes it would be an easier place to live).

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

YAY DON'T FORGET TO COME BACK AND PLAY! *ahem* That is: if you still want to. :P

I am trying very hard not to die. I've decided it's most likely allergies/change in weather that's bothering me, and my mother reminded me that this is what I have an inhaler for! (I tend to forget.)

I like the sound of your home remedy! Much better than a similar remedy of my grandfather's that involved a cheap blackberry brandy. (I think the theory was not nothing, including half of a body's living cells, could survive a dose of the stuff!)

I really need to get my hands on a bottle of this 'lemonade', because you've brought it up before. I'm pretty sure that, if it's not a direct import, we don't have anything like that in the states!

I am flattered in a half-embarrassed sort of way to find you think I'm a hipster! I've never been anything other than a massive dork my entire life, so 'hipster' is a major upgrade! (You know me and categorization! Though it rarely works very with people, I am on a constant quest to put everything into a neat little box!)