it makes you strong when you hurt so long

What comes to your mind when you think of Skateboarders? Graffiti?

awesome, can i come? i bailed pretty badly on my longboard the other day so i’m a bit skittish about it but yeah, definitely easily aligns within the culture of cool. it’s a whole different reaction from people when you walk down the street carrying a board too. graffiti has a darkness to it, linked to crime, is a crime so there’s that clash against society edge afoot. very punk. also gangster. graffiti is like the old-school method of relaying messages, advertising. some advertisers are big on the geurilla style advertising oft’ involving graffiti. they’re desperate for the cool edge most of all and have the dollars to make it happen. mess with the system activist graffiti is everywhere and totally great some of the time. this is about as much as i consider graffiti. for now anyway.

Name me one thing that really pisses you off right now about what’s cool or hip.

i have a massive interest in advertising and social media, namely blogging. being creative and organic and genuine about things. it’s hard to get the attention of the bigger guy though and tell them what they’re doing wrong. this is my offer to the world, my special insights and consultation of cool branding. that’s what pisses me off, my cunning talent is slightly going to waste. i love telling people when they’re fucking up and how.

coolness cannot be taught, it is ingrained. some can fake it but it’s blatantly obvious to the “real” cool ones that they are doing so and their project, ad campaign, whatever, quickly dies off. with cool you have to be proactive and ahead of the curve. always.

When you think of New York and cool, what do you think of? Or more importantly, do you think anything is cool in new york (Brooklyn, etc) now? When’s the last time youve been in new york?

three years ago was the last time i was around. i love the LES and williamsburg, despite its hipster disneyland quality it’s still a great scene for toolin’ around in. i can’t wait to go back single. fuck, yeah. i’m gonna get on that asap. Everywhere is cool right now though. you could make a forest cool, in fact, try to think of a band brooklyn vegan would blog about, they have at least one video (or many) featuring forests. seriously, i’m going to be the lead female of one next week and guess where the singer of the band (who will be playing my boyfriend) wanders off into…that’s right, a fucking forest. so anyway, tangent aside, when i think of new york and having lived there for several months, i think it’s great and i admire anyone who makes it there, even to just live there period. it’s a lifestyle choice. to actively choose to be urban. to live in a $2k a month box scraping your way by, music, bar/food industry, artists, writers, partiers, whatever, it has its faults but its pluses are great. enviable. LA’s got nothin’ on it. tho there are cool scenes there too and these guys will show you all about that.

i’ll share the rest of that garbage another time hombres.