Portland is a hipster sort of town. Because it is all around me, I sometimes have a hard time admitting that I like Miller High Life and ironic mustaches. But then there are moments like this morning…
I shared a bus ride with a young woman in chunky plastic-frame glasses and old school Vans. She was listening to music on a casette tape, not because it’s all she could afford or the only available media, but because she is just that hip. At one point she loudly opened the hatch of her Walkman and flipped the tape over with glee.
As a public service, I provide two additional portable music options for her fellow hipsters. If you would like to listen to MP3s, but not be found out as non-retro, consider hiding your iPod in a Walkman case. On the other hand, if casette tapes aren’t old enough for you, you can always get a portable record player.
Nothing says cool like “Cool 20 years ago”. I admit that I fall victim to it, but overall I think it’ll be a good thing when being retro is “so 5 years ago.”
Hah. I wrote a similar blog posting a couple weeks ago. Someone said it was a trend, and Google sent me here. 🙂