"EXHAUSTING, ABSOLUTELY EXHAUSTING"

For anyone still wondering what exactly constitutes a hipster, consider this quote from "Chris," one of the study's subjects: "There are probably even indie approved beverages, like Pabst Blue Ribbon.  That's the hipster beer.  There's that with everything.  It's exhausting, absolutely exhausting.  And that's why I don't try to keep up with it, 'cause, I'd waste my whole life trying to keep up with it.  If I was sitting here right now, and I had girls' jeans on, and a funky haircut, and, was drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon all the time, and getting import copies of Swedish psychobilly folk noise pop, whatever the hell, and reading David Sedaris and, watching obscure samurai-trash-cult movies.  If i was going for this, just way obscure cooler than you in every possible conceivable way thing, I just wouldn't really feel like myself anymore.  I'd just feel like this imagined cultural ideal.  I wouldn't even feel like a real person anymore, you know what I mean?"

- from Elle