re: Athens Construction Thread

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I put my own arse through college

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We know.....

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d probably pass by 8-9 homeless just walking down broadstreet to my car on week nights.

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That happens in every city.

To be fair, Athens has had hipsters since before there was a word for hipsters. We've not jumped the shark just yet.

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To be fair, Athens has had hipsters since before there was a word for hipsters. We've not jumped the shark just yet.

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Exactly. It's not my crowd, but without hipsters Athens would be a lot more sterile and Auburn like than it is. They aren't the problem in this case.

Yea it's really a semantics thing like deeprig said.

My main point was that, as much as you or I may satirize them, the creative type that may be a hipster and may one day be a townie is part of what makes Athens unique and great.

Agreed...

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..the creative type that may be a hipster..

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Apparently, people have different definitions of what a "hipster" is then. Because I would never ever lump "creative types" into the hipster category, as you do.

To me, "hipsters" are the mostly useless rabble that leaches on to an artisitic/creative/musical scene that others built and that others sustain. They are not the actual scene itself. Because: Hipsters couldn't create something if their life depended on it.

And i'm not talking about the honest people who buy the art or pay the cover charges or listen to the stupid spoken word poetry or whatever. I'm talking about the ones that gravitate towards these scenes only TO BE SEEN. Instead of add to it. The impotent ones who define themselves and place so much hilarious emphasis on all their trivial superficial likes or dislikes.....or that walk or loiter on the streets of THE TINY SPECK of downtown athens trying to live out their "urban" fantasies they saw on tv. Etc infinity,.

I'm talking about the ones that have turned athens into metro-sexual disney world because the creative hosts have been outnumbered by the impotent parasites.

I think everybody did at least once during those two years! Fred's Historic properties hated us because we were basically a damn bar that was BYOB and BYOW. Had a Halloween party in 96 that was insane there was a line out my door, down the steps and out in front of High Hat. There were glow light vendors walking through our place selling shite.

The claim to fame party was a post concert party that the High Hat owner had arranged to hold in our place. Widespread Panic was playing under the alias "Bar Tab" one night for a private charity invitation only benefit show for Vic Chestnut. The front door was locked and all attendees came in through the back alley on Jackson Street where they had security people checking the list. The steps to the apartments on our 2nd floor were accessible to anyone leaving the High Hat through the rear exit so all concert attendees who wanted to go to the post party just came up that way. All the Panic guys, Micheal Stipe, Mike Mills, Jack Logan, John Keane, Drive by Truckers, Randall Bramblett, Bloodkin, Dashboard Saviors and a ton more were partying in our pad. Athens music royalty of that era. Very cool.

The best thing was that my roommate Will, got legit propositioned by Stipe. I mean Stipe asked him to come home with him. Will kindly declined but to this day, 19 years later, I rib him that he must put off the gay vibe since Stipe misread him as a homo. He still gets pissed.

Yea, I'm no advocate for that crowd you described. I'm probably just using an overly broad idea of "hipster"

That group you described is neither creative nor responsible for Athens being special.