miami's got a home-grown local music scene and within the scene comprises a broad group of local hipsters. a lot of them went to either your high-school, middle school, or your friend's high-school, etc.
im not too involved in the scene down here, but i would say i contribute what i can to it. and if i have any idea what the scene is, or who participates in it, it would only be a view from afar. what i'm trying to say here is that i use the internet to gaze at the scene and i hardly actually hang out with any of the people in it.
i lurk on facebook or myspace or blogger or tumblr or flckr and look at amateur photography, bedroom blog-diary entries, and miscellaneous links posted on facebook. these are the things that paint the identity of miami hipsterdom, at least for me. i can't speak for everyone.
so it's very strange for me when i see photos of local hearthrobs or well-known scenesters back in their middle-school/early high-school haydays looking not so alt (as hipster runoff would call it) as they do now.
i would glorify these local hipster images and make these people untouchable in my eyes.
i would follow the goings-on of a punk-hipster who dresses really grimey and dirty; she pretty much looks like a homeless girl. she has photos of her travels (she's gone all over the world, seriously). then i find out she's actually really rich. and her parents are really nice people.
it was all a facade. and that disappoints me a bit.
all these "cool" people have a history and are actually pretty normal when it comes down to it.
i can't wait for some of them to grow out of the whole hipster thing so we can be friends. i feel like we're not at the same level.
maybe i've grown out of trying to be cool.
i guess im trying to say that i'm pretty touchable ;)
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