Are you young and hip?

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Am I young? Certainly. Am I hip ? Most definitely not. I'm mostly a loner so I'm not into the things people may age are into. People my age want to so call "live a little" and party, I don't. I really do not fit into my generation whatsoever, I'm like a boring old man in a young adult's body.

Im young but not hip. At least I don't think I'm hip. I work nights so I dont get to go out all that much. Which is ok with me. Church and work is enough human contact I need for right now. Also I am mormon (PLEASE don't flame!) So that would take any possible hipness from me.

I am older than dirt , and I think I need a new hip .

I was never "hip", and I am still not "hip". I don't even have "it" , and I do not think I ever will.

I am an and an "oddball" .

Young man, the gods have called you
Geek-chic rules OK

Thats what i was thinkin.

Anyway, yh im awesome, cool, immense, sick, whatever word you want to use. (insults not included RRp £4.99)

I'm 21 right now.

No, I cannot stand anything my age group likes. And I don't care what others think of me.

I'm old and spikey!

I did have a phase of being 'hip' in an extremely 'unhip' way.... I was so untrendy as a teen/early twenty something that I think it was considered quite cool.

That's sadly gone now, I do have a little niche in the music world, revolving around very retro DJ-ing (30's, 40's a little 50's) but it would never be considered 'hip'.

Well...

I'm forty, and I spent my teens in a sort of geek limbo where I couldn't have been hip if I tried. Then I got married and tried to be the middle-aged (at 21!) materialistic yuppie wife, which also sucked. So at age forty, I've developed a healthy disdain for mindlessly following any kind of pre-packaged template for how I should live my life, whether that's being 'hip' or anything else.

Most of my clothes are from thrift stores, and are bought with a complete disregard for what anyone thinks I 'should' be wearing at my age (or, for that matter, size). I listen to bands you've never heard of, bands everyone's heard of, and bands everyone else stopped being into ten years ago. I don't care if any of it's 'hip' or not. The important thing is 'Do I like this?' - if not, fuhgeddabout it.

I used to feel gutted when the 'cool' kids talked about me behind my back, but these days I think I've reached the stage where I can ignore it. If a clique has to put other people down to feel good about itself, I don't think there can be much going for it.

mitharatowen, the explanation for the YouTube thing, at least in the UK, is here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/200 ... io-youtube
The PRS likes to make out they're there to help the musician get their share, but in reality a lot of what they've done recently doesn't profit the musicians and alienates the listening public. As a musician I have big issues with the way they handle licensing and how they define a 'public performance' (playing a CD, which you have already paid for, in your workplace now requires a licence, did you know? ) Sorry, OT, rant over, but that's why, anyway.

OT rant endorsed here.....PRS insist our folk club pays them and fills out a tedious form listing every title performed for every show, copyrighted or not. We've sometimes sent the forms in with most of the details missing, yet never had a complaint from them about it in 2-3 years. They're supposed to use the info to pay authors who are members of PRS, but they obviously don't (I know of some author-members who paid a £200 member subscription and have had their songs performed but never received a penny). The word on the street is that the money goes straight to the big music companies who are fixing the "file-sharing hole" in their massive incomes by hook or by crook.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 581353.ece
Thus is the dirty world of PRS revealed.
Please forgive my OT rant..... I just can't resist naming and shaming the wicked. I'll shut up now.

I'm young and certainly don't act like most of my generation. All they talk about is sex, parties, celebrities, and what someone did today. The few people in this world with a rational mind can make the world change, but unfortunately, those idiots who only think of parties, celebrities and what-nots change the world for the worst.

As for me, I have an odd way interacting with the world, mainly through how I act, how I think, and and how I get involved with things. Since I'm a black youth, I'm supposed to be listening to rap and hip-hop according to the other blacks. I instead listen to instrumental, jpop, celtic, classical, and anime music. Sounds wierd to them, but not to me. I also look at anime openings during my free time, probably enough that I'm an anime opening freak. I get involved with writing, but I put some anime influences in their to make it more me. I wear what I want to wear, and what most peole think is fun, I don't.

In other words, I'm just an uninteresting person if you're the typical youth, but I like it that way. They can leave me alone, and I can leave them to their petty partying. God wouldn't have it any other way.