Mic Check Mic Check / Mass-Market Counterculture.

Posted on January 14th, 2006

Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:32 am

This post will be a test of my blog, which is now operating on Version 2.0 of WordPress. Already, I’ve got some issues (no mySpace crossposting, again. LJ is up only because a different plugin, and that plugin needed some pruning of annoying blog-plugging code.)

Anyway, class was cancelled in the second day in the row (teacher has a rip-roaring cold,) so after my usual general gabbing at BCC, I made my way down to Anime Kingdom, where I got some new stuff and chatted with people. I went by Starbucks while I was there too, I got a Chai Tea Latte w/ some friends and family (thank you mom for footing the bill for everyone :D,) came back, hung out some more, and then made my way down to Hot Topic in Southcenter to meet back up with Zoe, Lucy and Mike (some of the other Anime Kingdom regulars for those of you just tuning in.)

Now, this is where the fun comes in. Normally, I don’t shop at Hot Topic. Maybe when they get an anime shirt in, or some cool Drum n’ Bass EP falls into their record bin for some odd reason, I’ll buy, but usually they are just to expensive for my blood. I can’t justify more than 40 bucks for pants, especially pants that a nerd like me can’t pull off. I mean, I’m a practical guy, so as much as I’m enamored with design and thus at points fashion, particularly counter-culture fashion (albeit mass-marketed, pre-packaged, nationally sold counter-culture fashion,) because I like the DiY (well, psuedo-DiY) attitude of those designs, I just look at things in terms of function over form most of the time. However, today, they had stuff that was already on clearance with an extra 50 percent off on top of it.

Oh snap! Bargains? My kryptonite.

So, for a mere 18 bucks including tax) I now have a Tohru from Fruits Basket t-shirt (originally meant for a woman, but with some modifications, I can make it a man shirt. Besides, it was 5 bucks. That’s worth the risk of wrecking the shirt, and/or wearing a girly shirt,) a mooninites wrist band (1 buck!??! the moon definitely rulz #1 at that price) and a cooler-than-me jacket that at about 10 bucks I couldn’t pass up on. If I put on one of my geek shirts under the jacket while wearing one my pairs of cheap and now well worn-in jeans and I’ll probably be “ironically hip in some flip universe.” Or something like that… 🙂

Mic Check Mic Check / Mass-Market Counterculture.

Posted on January 14th, 2006

Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 4:32 am

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