And we’re back!

But we’ve moved!

The new blog is up and running at conservativehipster.com/blog. The layout has been tweaked, the software and plugins seem stable, and new content is forthcoming. Anyone pointing to this blog (http://hipamcon.wordpress.com/) is encouraged to point towards their links towards the new blog, and update their RSS feeds to http://conservativehipster.com/blog/feed/. The inagural post there has some more information on some of the things that will be going on soon, and the blog itself has been updated with most of the content from this one (unfortunately, not all of it as the wordpress content update is on the buggy side).

So, I’ll see you on my own webserver, and I hope to see you soon!

Meanwhile, at conservativehipster.com

Dear people who still are subscribed to this feed,

I have a new blog site. It’s really cool. I’ve been posting cool things there. Like my post on Sarah Palin that got picked up at a few places, or about my new job, or the first in my new series of music posts. So go to http://conservativehipster.com/blog/ to view it, and to http://conservativehipster.com/blog/feed/ to subscribe to the RSS feed. And get rid of this one. All the cool people are over there…

Love,
Adrian

When the Party tells you to dress like Elvis…

I’m working on a Saturday, and still behind in life and work. However, this is continuing to bring a smile to my face.

And to everyone who is going to ask (as I’ve already had a few ask me): No, these aren’t the real lyrics. They’re bs lyrics added to the actual official song of the games for lulz and social commentariez.

Transition

So, I’ve been obviously absent recently. I had my mother in town, and have been too busy to post any of the cool cool thing I wanted to. Anyway, it will be a few more days before I have anything written up of importance, but you may see a few music posts soon. ALSO! I have got web hosting elsewhere and that will soon be set up, so this blog will be moving. “conservativehipster.com” already is pointing away from the blog, so you can only get here through the “hipamcon” wordpress link at the moment. This is exciting, because I’ll be able to have more than just a blog online, and I’m looking at possibilities or having a store and some other neat things up there. Once the blog is there (which may take some time) I’ll send everyone a reminder to stop checking here and to begin checking it there, including the RSS feed. Anyway, see you all sooooooooon.

Twee is for me!

So, I had a wonderful weekend up in Northampton, MA (where I picked up a vintage coat, a Talking Heads LP and a cute little rainbow sticker that says “All Families Matter”), and I have some writing I did while up there that will hopefully find its way onto this blog tomorrow. Right now I just wanted to post some wonderful twee music for a friend, since she admitted to me tonight that she didn’t know the band Camera Obscura. So here are three songs I’ll share with everyone: the first from their newest album, and the second two from their first (which was produced by another Scottish twee master — Stuart Murdoch).

• Camera Obscura – Loyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken
• Camera Obscura – Eighties Fan
• Camera Obscura – Happy New Year

Oh man, the good old twee days. How I, little indie boy, miss them.

Hipster government

Probably not the most fiscally conservative government ever.

My favorite detail? Watch what he’s sworn in on.

Dinosaur win.

I’m going out of town tomorrow, so my two longish posts in the works might take until the end of the weekend to actually find their way onto this blog. However, I am making things very purdy with my hand-coded html + css at work. Randall would be proud.

Security Concerns

Quickly, because I’m at work (where I’ll soon be working on securing the application I am currently working on), but Wired has an interesting op-ed piece on what the next president should do to help security. I’m interested to hear what a certain someone has to say on it.

Goddamn right, it’s a beautiful day

In celebration of my having landed a DJ’ing and bar tending gig in New York next week, I has a muxtape.

The playlist is as follows. Title links to an mp3. Band name links to purchasing. And the above is how to listen to the entire playlist as a whole.

• Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues – Eels
• 5 Years Time – Noah and the Whale
• Time After Time – Jake Shimabukuro — Acoustic ukulele cover of Cindi Lauper
• The Richest Kids – This is Ivy League
• New Soul – Yael Naïm
• LDN – Lily Allen
• Future Faberage (MGMT & Of Montreal) – AmpLive — Of Montreal’s new album is out soon, too.
• Lolita – Throw Me the Statue
• Quiet Town – Josh Rouse
• Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac
• Strange Overtones – David Byrne and Brian Eno — From their new album together.

Post-weekend linkfest

  Noah and the Whale

Nathaniel has a great post up detailing the work of this fine band. Make sure to grab their single “5 Years Time” from him, which is a perfect twee pop song for the morning. Even I feel chipper after listening. And, if you liked that, check out their myspace page this Thursday at 9 am EST to hear them play a streaming show (which is one of those little tidbits you get to learn when you speak another language).

  Wood punk?

From Wired comes a neat photo gallery of wooden sculptures, many of which have a sci-fi bent to them.

  Conspiracy theories are my guilty pleasure

Which is why reading Glen Greenwald’s Slate column is so fun. Over the weekend he’s posted three long articles regarding the ongoing anthrax investigation. He’s right about one thing: whatever the role of the government in the scare (and I still have a hard time believing any stories about the US attacking its own; yes, I’ll probably be one of the first to drink the Kool-aid), the media played a pretty despicable one.

  Fin

And finally, I had a good weekend with this guy et al., discussing all sorts of politics and culture. So now I must get to my real job, but I’m looking forward to this week, where I plan to post a bit more on music and have a longer article in the works. Also, in the distant future will be coming a bigger project with a better-known blogger, so I’m really excited about that. I’ll let y’all know as it happens.