Seen the Scenesters Lately?

OK, so I haven't been out for quite awhile, and I spend my days with 6 year olds. I had not seen the "Scenester" Scene in Downtown Vancouver for a long time. In case you haven't either, please read on!

The crowd waiting to see 12o Days and Ratatat were total Scenesters. If you are not familiar with the term 'Scenester', please refer to the following:

According to the exprerts at Urban Dictionary, a scenester is:

A boy or girl who wears tight jeans, white studded belts, black band hoodies, bandanas, nerd glasses, 50's sunglasses, etc. They tend to shop at thrift stores because they're too "cool" to shop anywhere else. Scenesters think they're individual, but they're actually all just conforming to the current trends. You may find them listening to emo, indie, hardcore, synthpop, electronica, and many other subgenres of pop punk.

A Scenester guy might be heard saying, "I'm mother fucking X straight X edge X because it's cooler to be SXE when you could just not do drugs. I listen to the most obscured music as possible so you know I'm scener than you. My band is too cool to play at big venues. Actually, it's because we completely suck at playing music, but we're still too scene to play anywhere big."

A Scenester may hate the world while desperately seeking its attention.

Scenesters may wear any of the following:

Girls Fashion:-
Tight Trousers
Cheap Pumps
Dyed Black hair cut straight across the eye brow
Footless tights

Boys Fashion:-
Tight Trousers
All black converse
Dyed black hair swept across the face(sometimes with a blonde streak

More specifically, however, a scenester is a person who models the abstract and later specific behavior of individuals trying to make a claim on certain media,i.e. literature, art, books, poetry, movies. A trend will then arise of "packaging", at which point, genres will mix into socially acceptable grab bags of media and somehow spawn a fashion, normally causing these disillusioned individuals to start resembling the traits of characters, band members, and each other because he or she likes this " underground" lifestyle and wants to be accepted by a discriminating crowd. In short, the sucker thinks these people have all the answers and conforms to some " be- yourself-but-be-us-subcul ture". Scenesters can range from genres of music such as Indie, emo, hardcore, nerd rock,(math rock), metal heads, ska kids( skankers,Moonstompers), ravers, club kids, goth kids, mod kids,space rock,concept artists,retro throwbacks, punk, pop punk, to Donnie Darko fans and other cult movies such as Heathers or Velvet Goldmine,poetry by Bukowski or Frost, cartoons such as Sponge Bob or shows like Nip/Tuck and The Simpsons, books such as Catcher in the Rye, The Virgin Suicides, Valley of the Dolls, Ask the Dust, and occasionally, The Communist Manifesto,as most scenesters are anti-war and unless straight edge, are heavily into drugs and alcohol,nomadic,anti-reli gious,poor with rich parents, and slumming.

Essentially, Scenesters are their friends, although some people will like what they like and be accused of being scenesters by mistake. The smart scenester will say that is the case, because he or she knows it can't really be disproven except by baby pictures, second grade stories, and by God Himself.