What is it that annoys me so about Cape Town’s wannabe-hipster crowd? They absolutely rub me the wrong way. When I say wannabe-hipster, I am not using some sort of umbrella term for everyone everywhere who likes cool, happening things. I mean the certain “skinny jean ironic tee/check shirt and trilby hat” wearing clan. Yes you. Graphic design-animation-illustrating eggheads often found at media colleges like City Varsity. They amble about with a smug self-satisfied look – proudly showing off their incredible belief and conviction in their own indefatigable coolness. When really they’re a sad suburban bunch with no actual edge to speak of. Their street fashion does not come from any actual understanding of or interaction with “the streets”.
To better understand why they irk me so lets get to the bottom of that look. Skinny jeans, an ironic tee/or check shirt (it’s latest mutation comes with a pea coat for winter), and the inevitable trilby or fedora. It’s a uniform by now. A straightjacket strangling the life out of lifestyle. This is an old look actually (think the disheveled Beats in the 1950s and train-riding bums from the 1930s) that resurfaced in up to the minute style circles in the early Noughties. Right around the time the Mohawk (or Fauxhawk) and the mullet (another topic for another day) re-emerged.
Kate Moss and her then boyfriend, that enervated douche, Pete Doherty helped popularize it. Of course it became huge and retailers jumped on board. So for the last few seasons this look has reigned. Even our own Mr Price – go to outlet for watered down de-fanged fashion styles – has been regurgitating it ever since. It is old. It is done. It is over. I call bullshit. If you’re gonna do it give it an interesting twist. Do some bloody research or better yet leave it to suburban teenagers and pre-pubescent life forms trying to come to terms with coming out of the closet!
Another thing that irritates me is the resemblance to old pictures of Fokofpolisiekaar. That antiquated hipster thing is theirs. Leave them to it. The ‘Kaar need to move their look on and quite honestly I don’t care – I’m more concerned with the lack of originality. This crowd seems incapable of putting together a fresh silhouette – let alone starting a band. Coming out? If only most of them would stay in. I’m well aware they’re mostly heterosexuals and I know the South African straight male is generally not endowed with the gift of a fly fashion eye. But to dress in a way that explicitly shows one to be estranged from strong personal style is a tragedy. A tragedy. And don’t get me started on the hair. And the gel.
So on a Sunday recently specimens of the kids in question assembled at the AMICOLLECTIVE GARAGE to view a poster exhibition (and drink free Black Label). The posters were created with specific bands in mind. I haven’t bothered to Google the exhibit or interview anyone (this is Mahala). But in my sweepingly uninformed opinion, poster art combined with a few tokes of Swaziland’s finest just looks dated and juvenile. Much like the crowd. I’m not saying there isn’t a place for poster “art” in the world – I’ve admired a few posters in my time – why I’ve even read those big ass coffee table books from Taschen – but the stuff on show here was routinely unimpressive. Much like the crowd. We can safely assume that original thought and the WOW factor were not part of the brief. We all know the feeling of gazing upon something supposedly cool – that leaves you neither stirred nor shaken. How fitting. Hipster art for a hipster crowd. The Emperor wears skinny jeans. If only he were naked.
*Malibongwe Tylilo, Mahala’s Style Guru, is responsible for the fabulous fashion blog Skattie What Are You Wearing.
*All images © We-Are-Awesome.
i thought i was the only one who thought this!
Is this really what you guys are all about? Bunch of cynics bitching about how crappy and pretentious youth culture is or how stupid this band / scene / fashion trend is? Isn’t there anything that gets you excited? Nothing that makes you happy? It’s getting real old, Mahala. Or maybe that’s just your writers.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
yee ha haaaaa
let the fun begin
Malibongwe, your article made my day. It also made me read Dylan’s article AGAIN (http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/a-is-for-ageing/) because let’s face it – it’s just too entertaining watching hipster kids slate each other for slating each other. This city is too small for egos.
[and, isn't it funny how some of the pictures even feature the same people?]
how about some happy life-is-good stuff, rather than this everyone-is-kak wristcutter stuff. there IS a way to be entertaining without just criticising everything.
mahala needs a revamp.
Good job on being the first person ever to blog about hipsters/skinny jeans.
@ expired: my thoughts exactly:) this Fucking Shit website and all it’s little asshole writers just sit around tearing down everything they review. I challenge them to write something thats good and constructive. What you all are doing is very easy and very old.
First I would like to start off with a quote from family guy.
Olivia: You are the weakest link, goodbye. (laughter)
Stewie: Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that’s funny! That’s really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. You are the weakest link goodbye. You know, I’ve, I’ve never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You’re the first. I’ve never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that’s what she says on the show right? Isn’t it? You are the weakest link goodbye. And, and yet you’ve taken that and used it out of context to insult me in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart girl you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That’s so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we’re hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you’re so funny!
@trumpetman
Why you mad? hahah sensitive little fag
Take your bitch friend Expired and go read another blog.
Its 2010 there are lots of websites now.
Does this blog make any money? Im being serious…if it does, please by all means let me know…because if it does…im quiting my career and would like to get onto this gravy train of bullshit…this “subculture” has been pretty much alive and very active since the late sixties…and it wont disappear any time soon. Its not about the cool factor for every single person that runs jay jays to buy a reduced prized skinny jean…or carefully and patiently awaits for a country sale to take place…some people…actuallly dress like this…because they simply enjoy it….does we are awesome give these writers permission to use their photos…because this blog can be glad my face isnt featured on this little write-up, otherwise they would have heard from my lawyer….and oh yes..mr mahala…some people actually have decent jobs to pay R250 a month….to get access to a lawyer whenever they need it…Hey HIPSTERS, maybe we should all kill ourselves so that this reader can reduce the bullshit that he or she has to blog about…to afford that four seasons bachelor pad…and arnolds breakfast
Trumpetman – check out Brandon’s Benguela CD review. Did you miss that one?
If you want to see something a little more original check out what Andrew Putter has been doing with his SKETCH ASSEMBLY project (part of his bigger vision – MERRY COMPANY). Just a bunch of creatives getting together doing some really fun and amazing stuff. I think there will be an exhibition in a few months time. If someone has something off to say about that I will laugh.
Hip hipper hippest,
Im also glad your face isnt in the write-up.
oh,
oh my…quite correct…im glad your face is where it belongs…up Malibongwe Tylilo beautiful rear end.
haha
e-thugging
e-thugging…seriously? more like tigerstriking or tigerstrike (urban dictionary)
the comment boards only light up for pieces which insult the intended audience. thoughtful, inspiring, positive pieces (http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/hope-street/) dont get the attention. ignore them and they’ll go away
haha urban dictionary
you on there often?
http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2009/01/WESLEY-LOL-WUT.gif
jesus i feel sorry for the writers who put themselves out there and receive such a rap in return whether it’s kak or kif what they write. plp have different opinions. maybe this comment board shouldnt even exist! or should be moderated. its not right. it would make me turn away as a writer because whether you’ve got chops or not you’re gonna be slated. pfff…
haha
its all innocent fun.
luvz it. Got a job to do. Will comment later bitches
We’ve all been disliking skinny jeans for the last five years. So, what a topical piece this is.
I wish Mahala would run some self-deprecating pieces. Here’s my challenge to Malibongwe Tylilo, or Mahala’s “style guru” (haha! please) as he’s been called by the editor: post up some snapshots of yourself and your syle, and then let the posters have a go ripping off the way you dress.
Usually I wouldn’t issue a challenge like this, because you can be an excellent music critic without being able to play an instrument, or a fine film academic having never made a film. But a “style guru” should have some sense of style himself.
So, here’s VOTE 1.
If you can’t laugh at yourself, then don’t go laughing at everyone else. And next time you do, be a little more witty, more topical – sigh, you bore me Mahala. But you’re train-wreck addictive.
VOTE 2.
What a great idea!
Hip hipper hippest > some people actually have decent jobs to pay R250 a month….to get access to a lawyer whenever they need it
making a killing on commission at astore huh…did you recently graduate from a Bob-T account?!
VOTE 3
I’ve been asking for the creditentials of the Mahala crew for a while now and as yet…nada.
Would be interesting to read.
like i said above, i’ve got a job to do, so i can’t spend my day commenting on mahala like some of you future Big Issue vendors. But i gotta let you know i’m getting a major boner from all these loveletters you keep writing me.
and if u curious about my style insights and u’re looking for sycophantic happy harmless drivel like expired, happy and snapper up above, visit my blog http://skattiewhatareyouwearing.blogspot.com. Y’all can get together and have a sugar-coated fuckfest there.
Here’s Malibongwe, the great:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=723333899&v=info&ref=ts
Looks like a cam-whore to me.
Tigerstrike? Are you for fucking real?
I’m sure the last time you lifted a leg was to piss your pocket money down your boyfriend’s hi-tops.
truth hurts, get a new wardrobe and stop trying to look like someone else. It’s been done time to move on. And if you hate skinny jeans, there’s fat attack! time you start considering your health and lose fucking weight hah!
This is the first time I’ve seen we-are-awesome lend itself to a genuine social function.
cutting edge, as always, mahala.
some new ideas (all to be written by some afda student in cape town, of course):
1. how i just discovered banksy
2. how i just discovered the wire
3. how i went to a coffee shop and it made me feel whimsical
4. how i went to a gig and got wasted and hated the band but saw hot chicks
5. how i went to obs on sunday morning and took pictures of poor people
you forgot one..
6. leave a clever little comment on a blog
Finally the truth we have all been thinking it and all you little cape town cool rich hipster kids dont get mad because you know this is true. Great article mahala telling like it is. Rad awesome article, did the We-Are-Awesome know there there photos where going to be used in this content.
KILL COOL
one horse town
hahaha people get so worked up. it’s awesome
fucking hipsters
Malibongwe i’m with you dude… you’re experiencing something I’ve call the hipster recoil. These nasty douches are obviously the ones in the firing line. Pay them no mind. Your blog rocks. Stories like this get a lot of hate – but it’s obviously because you’re stepping on some insecure cat’s tail.
This site has a great selection of content on a daily basis. The positive Mahala pieces don’t seem to get any love. Anything that points fingers at skinny jeans and hipsters causes a riot…. Check these:
http://www.mahala.co.za/art/paragons-of-misery/
http://www.mahala.co.za/leisure/riding-in-buses-with-natives/
http://www.mahala.co.za/music/theory/
http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/uncertainty-and-the-delmas-wimpy/
http://www.mahala.co.za/music/dance-the-bus-stop/
http://www.mahala.co.za/music/black-south-easter-2/
http://www.mahala.co.za/art/an-average-man/
http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/a-peaceful-riot/
http://www.mahala.co.za/surf/5-minutes-with-the-king/
http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/hope-street/
That’s just from the last 2 weeks… And that’s why I call the hysterical and hateful reactions on your post “Hipster Recoil” what a bunch of pathetic, insecure douches! Catch a reality check with your R30 buck lattes, bitches…
Fuck ‘em! We want more Malibongwe
sycophantic [ˌsɪkəˈfæntɪk]
adj
using flattery to win favour from individuals wielding influence
the massive influence those zimbabwean refugees have, who wouldn’t want to cosy up to them? grow up, or at least get a dictionary.
ps: your website is full of those trilbys. only acceptable if worn with dangly earrings?
http://catandgirl.com/?p=2573
Of course We-Are-Awesome let us use their images… they’re not insecure like some of the fuckers on this comment thread
So you didn’t like the exhibit and the people that went there, cool, but your article sucked and left me uninspired, like the posters you saw.
Ha! I happened to walk past this event as it was happening. I didn’t know what it was but I heard the music and was intrigued… until I looked and saw all the hipster. I was wearing my nice shoes and didn’t want to step in any.
@snapper, once you done with ur little cat&girl drawings, pull ur little finger out ur behind, take out
ur little dicktionary, look up self-deprecating, then go back and re-read my comment numbskull.
@bob, ur comment is very inspiring
@ andy
Sorry, I don’t wear skinny jeans, son. Why is it you assume we’re all ‘insecure’ and trying to defend our taste in fashion, as opposed to – pointing out that this article is 5 years too late and just plain uninteresting by now.
um ja whatever Anonymous… although you’re not really worthy of a quote from the Bard
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Hamlet Act 3, scene 2.
I doubt there would have been as much hipster hate if there were more melanin advantaged tribly wearers present at the event. Am I right Andy pants?
ok. that was an unecessary comment. Though. It cannot be denied that Mahala has a huge have-not hard on and the haves are firmly in your ekasi loving sights.
The Copy kids!
The aim is not to be original but to be similar, you obviously don’t get it.
The copy is better than the original, the generic cheaper than the original, we are the bi-polar generation, your balls to big for skinny jeans and you are not cool or Asian enough!
@Anonymous, 2 things. 1. Yes ur comment was unnecessary, and propably stupid. 2. You interest in this very “uninteresting” article is interesting. Can you act uninterested already, as in fuckoff.
“Your hate for skinny jeans is five years too late and so are the people still wearing them.”
Basically sums up the comments here.
Stumpy, What do you suggest they wear now? since you are 5 years ahead
and thank you for the summery, now go bath your baby.
okay ladies, let’s clear this up once and for all. I DO NOT HAVE BEEF WITH SKINNY JEANS, i take issue with dumb ass people with weak ass personal style, as in not being able to put together your own look, as in using the same dumb ass combo, as in people who cant read. And whilst an article about skinny jeans maybe a bit dated, an article about bad personal style is not.
This is so stupid. We all look the fucking same. Jock boetas look the same, hipsters look the same, even snotty fashionistas look the same. There are essentially three things you can wear, top, pants and shoes. With billions of people out there, and so many people with shared interests, its impossible to not have people looking the same. It’s like listening to music. I like Slayer, millions of others like Slayer, am I a hipster? Am I unoriginal? Seriously, this is so pathetic.
Send us a pic, Malibongwe. I’d love to see your oh-so-original-self-expressive-I’m conventionally-unconventional look. Can’t wait. As for the article… If you think you’re ever going to get anywhere by turning up to events and writing about how they make you fell, and how they highlight how angry you are at the world, then, my best of luck.
Don’t quit your day job. and if this is it, well, good fucking luck.
If I wanted a cynical bird’s eye view of the event, I would have just driven past it and glanced out the window. Don’t they pay you to do some research, find some sources, speak to the people there? Not comment on Mr. Price and the unoriginality of what looks to me to be some pretty interesting people. I think you have a cool kid complex. Intimidated, much? This is not good journalism.
Good luck.
Man keep it up if only for the comments,haven’t laughed so much since England’s football game against Germany.
Wow Malibongwe.
Didn’t get enough of your wimpy coffee this morning? Veldies too tight?
Shame man. Good luck with writing in the real world. Thank goodness for you you have mahala. Mahala: Shame on you for publishing this shit.
More! More! Harder! Faster!
Sho, Malibongwe. I’ve read your blog, and you don’t have a problem lapping up and sucking up to this style when its people you know, or people in the circles you’re trying so desperately to break into, that are donning it.
Plus, you are your own ‘postponed revolution’, as you say. Can’t wait for you to save us from oursleves.
But your writing style is okay, I guess. And good on you for getting we are awesome to take your pics. They give the story a little bit of cool. Even though the irony of their logo on their pics may be a little lost on you.
They keep asking why we keep coming back.
Shitty shit-slinging articles like this. They encourage lots of funny comments, and we all know how hate can bring people together. Thanks Mahala, for keeping up the national blood pressure and bringing all the haters together.
By the way, you suck!
Why don’t you come spend some time in Woodstock and get an idea of what is really happening in design, what did you expect to see at a show done by 10 and 5 at Am I collective?
“Even though the irony of their logo on their pics may be a little lost on you.”
the only irony is in the fact that you think that any exists at all.
@know your way. Jokes and sarcasm aside, where and when in woodstock? Drop me a mail on malibastard@gmail.com
@bored
He fell? Where? I can’t find it in the story?
aaaaaaaaannnnnnnddddddddddd Go Nitpickers!
fuck too many people forgot to take their anti depsressant pops today. We want PEACE in our LAND ekse Mampara.
By the way, Malibongwe, are you gay? Because you write like a gay cliche.
@Anonymous, not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you.
hmmm Anonymous what exactly are you saying? How does a gay cliche sound? And is that a good or a bad thing?
So you’re basically saying he writes like a moffie. Way to show your prejudice. What a poster boy for tolerance… You’re worse than a douche, you’re an enema!
Funny article. Please note Fokofpolisiekar is spelled with only on a in kar. Kar as in car in Afrikaans, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokofpolisiekar
“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing” Aesop
If you look at the pics that were used to illustrate this story you’ll see that only that penis Ian ‘Dagger’ (ooh, scary) is wearing skinnies. The rest of the pants that are pictured are pretty baggy. What’s your first language Mbonginlile? Stick to it.
the only thing skinny jeans show is that the wearer has the mentality of a sheep.
in magazine. must be cool. must buy pair. look like poes. but. in magazine. must be cool. repeat to self “i am cool, i am cool.” will get laid. sometime. in the next 10 years.
Who gives a fuck about skinny jean wearing wannabees?!? seriously?
You can buy those posters here: http://shop.10and5.com.
buy buy buy!
making a killing on commission at astore huh…did you recently graduate from a Bob-T account?!
hahahahahahahahah
i feel embarassed for this writer. ironically (yes, irony, so hip right now), it is he who is blatantly out of touch with both the medium and the “culture” he is reviewing. Next time, dearest, try and actually engage with your subject matter in a meaningful way, so that your opinions are insightful, and hold water. any dipshit with a pen can whine about ‘skinny jeans’ and ‘hate poster art’. hipsters/hating hipsters…. opposite sides of the same, cliched coin.
oh, and no matter how many sweetie darlings you throw in, dont for one second think youve fooled anyone that youre some sort of credible opinion where pop culture/fashion is concerned.
kate moss/pete doherty the popularisers of the faux hawk?
in your own words, sweetie darling “do some bloody research.”
“…Their street fashion does not come from any actual understanding of or interaction with “the streets”….” But Malibongwe, what does this even MEAN?
Really? So, they’re not allowed to wear what they are because you reckon the style has some old connection to some vintage street culture? Please man… you’re like the guy who was still getting angry at people in the late 90′s for wearing baggy jeans, ‘cos it came from prison culture and so no one should really be allowed to wear them unless they’d been ‘through the system yo!”. I’m not a cowboy, and boy do I feel ashamed about wearing my denim jeans… You just gotta let it go Tylilo.. let it go man…
I guess this article got so many people fired up because it comes across as an angry 16 year old’s knee-jerk reaction based on pre-conceptions of a crowd of people, rather than any real debate. I know it’s kinda funny to just hate on people sometimes.. but it doesn’t win you much respect.
You’re being a passive elitist – the ‘Graphic design-animation-illustrating eggheads’ you picked out are by your reckoning not allowed to fall short of the fashionista gods on the cutting edge by making an effort to dress well… because they can’t quite match the heights of an ‘actual’ fashion crowd. Clearly you’d prefer they leave the fashion to qualified people only and maybe shamble about in Oakley’s and rugby jerseys? Know your place you design-and-illustrating assholes!
A great many people at these events annoy the shit out of me too – they come across as too convinced of their coolness, too wrapped up in themselves and the ‘importance’ of their craft. ‘We’re changing the world!’ etc.. But, really – an angsty, judgemental opinion piece does nothing to further your case…
You got the hits though if that’s what counts!
Ha ha, great article. I too call them hipsters and they make me avoid art openings like the plague. The more earthy/ hippy types all sport beards. It’s an identikit look.
What slays me about these types (well, all white Capetonians actually but let’s stick the the hipsters) is their arrogance – they really think they are ‘it’, living in the coolest city in the world, and that they don’t have to try very hard at anything because of that – when in reality they are woefully ignorant of the wider world and live in what is basically a village and have nothing interesting/ original to say for themselves.
I would forgive them for it if they were actually kind, friendly and SINCERE, but instead they are by default exclusionary of anything outside their limited frame of reference. Are they threatened by outsiders or merely apathetic? I don’t know.
All I know is that as a result there’s no community spirit in CT, no genuine collaboration or sharing of ideas, no embracing of all. As a result culture here is stagnant and it never evolves or changes. Hell, people have been saying ‘awesome’ and ‘rad’ since… at least the 80s. There’s nothing fresh or exciting about this place. No one gives a shit about anyone outside their little group, and no one tries to raise their game and do something different. I’m grateful I have other options and don’t have to stay here.
Capetonians’ lack of self deprecation is a big problem and I welcome any attempts to burst the bubble. Seems that those in it really don’t like being mocked or criticised! Hence the stagnation/ lack of willing to take a hard, honest look at themselves.
I subscribe to Mali’s blog via FB and he is clearly passionate about fashion & follows international trends. So I think he’s qualified to comment from a fashion perspective. I’m commenting from a cultural perspective. Regardless, those hipsters are self-regarding twats with zero sense of irony
I actually like the comments on Mahala more than the stories. It’s a story in itself! I used to wear skinnies but had to much trouble getting in and out of them in the heat of the moment. So maybe skinny jeans will solve the issue around teenagers getting some nookie in club bathrooms hehehe.
Come on people, light up a wee bit. If you get angry at these types of ‘journalism’ go and read Beeld. Let the youngsters go through their phase. when they are old and toothless, their grandsons & girls will have something to talk about “Could you believe grandpa was that skinny??!!”
And for poster art? Dude, let them be. If I see another poster with Gerrie Pretorius on I’ll puke. I’ll rather take the so called pretentiousness than pluck out my eye balls with all the other cheap crap that surrounds us.
“Not comment on Mr. Price and the unoriginality of what looks to me to be some pretty interesting people. I think you have a cool kid complex. Intimidated, much?”
I think this is the effect these people are going for. We are only awesome because you are not. Yawn. Boring.
@Malibongwe that’s an impressive bit of hating you’re doing back there….Mahala brings together the world of haters! vive la haine! Lets hate one another!!
Loved the article. Sometimes these imitating and supposedly “trendy” groups need some shaking. The way you choose to dress says a lot about the way people view the world and this inner culture is not saying much.
they look pretty cool to me
If you read the article clearly, he’s not hating, HE’S TAKING THE PISS.
Well done to 10and5 and Am I for organisng a great poster show. The work was outstanding and the atmosphere at the opening was great.
Who gives a shit about skinny jeans and hipsters. This article is asw boring as hell. Seriously man, this is such a bunch of superficial shit. The event was about the work. Did you miss something?
Kind Regards
Bored Reader.
MORE! MORE! MORE!
damn! all this from a shitty boring uninteresting article. maybe i should drop my gardening gig, go back and finish high school so i can apply to unisa for a writing course, where i can learn about interesting educated people concepts like irony, so i can write exciting interesting articles, so all these clever enlightened folk don’t have to go to the trouble of posting comments.
thats a hell of a lot of comments about clothes..
i think we should all just wear orange overalls and dig holes in the road
@Malibongwe
I notice all your comments are sarcastic and insincere. Try engage with the debate here, especially what Danni wrote. The ‘sweetie darling’ thing is exactly what one of the anoymouses was talking about when he said gay cliche. In terms of substance, this piece is as thin as the hipsters it tries to rip off.
haha, you are a terrible writer. Most unoriginal piece i have read in a while.
thank you for wasting my time.goodbye.
Erm, I took this as a light hearted piece. And all this nonsense about “engaging with subject matter in a meaningful way” and “in terms of substance, this piece is as thin as the hipsters it tries to rip off” is just the type of self-important tripe that is the problem with you people.
Danni disagreed that the faux hawk whatever is not Pete Doherty/ Kate Moss but didn’t substantiate her point – who then? “Do your bloody research” – you have, presumably, Danni, so, care to enlighten us? I personally would agree that Doherty started it off, it’s gone via Williamsburg and is now limp and tired.
Actually, Mali, I wonder if half the problem is you can’t buy decent clothes here, so there’s nowhere for the hipsters to buy anything different.
“damn! all this from a shitty boring uninteresting article. maybe i should drop my gardening gig, go back and finish high school so i can apply to unisa for a writing course, where i can learn about interesting educated people concepts like irony, so i can write exciting interesting articles, so all these clever enlightened folk don’t have to go to the trouble of posting comments.”
You said it.
http://www.we-are-awesome.com/nights/serenadeyourwalls/img_0068.html
ooh, yes, terrible. would rather be looking into a nice wrinkled scrote, eh Mali?
How can someone so gay, be so grumpy?
Hmm, Mali, I think you should write an in-depth article into the correlation between hip poster art and the inexorable pull towards tapered jeans and hats. I’m sure there is a very deep and meaningful connection, and the exposition thereof will be of great sociological and cultural value to us all.