Wow! I was quite sure that by now the “Brooklyn-based” amazing band Drew and the Medicinal Pen had made it to the top of the music world. Do you remember them? I posted one of their quirky videos a couple years back. Here it is again:
Oh here is another one of them pussifying the train station to the max:
So anyway, the big news is Drew is getting married to a girl he met in Australia during his “world tour”. Just look at those two; such a true Brooklyn couple. And how did he let this woman he’s known for a few months know he wants to marry her? The zany hipster way of course. A little bit of “look-at-me-ism” by using a billboard and then telling the media; a little bit of grit by hopping a fence and climbing a ladder and a rusty bus (and fucking lying saying cops saw him and kept going); and a little bit of hipster faux-graffiti. All the clichés are there. Now if a true graffiti artist had been exposed like this – he’d already be in handcuffs. However Drew is a member of the B.G.G. – the Bloomberg Gentrification Generation and he will get to sit pretty in his up-and-coming Bed-Stuy loft and play his fucking kazoo while his girl Chelsea dices up some sustainable rooftop veggies.
They better prepare a fresh billboard back in Flyoverlandia for when Drew’s Brooklyn playcation is over and runs out of suburban subsidies and has to write “Chelsea, I want a divorce.” Damn, I hate these waste of space hipster cockroaches so much – all of them.
got my post up:
Brooklyn, check
Fedora, check
In a band? check
quirky hair color? check
mentioned bed-sty?, check?
northern Brooklyn ,BQE? check?
making sure everybody knows about it? check?
Hipster much? and still this stunt only brings them second place in the hipster/yupster who cares if you are getting married sweepstakes?
and the winner is…….
JESSANDRUSS.US
You also forgot Asian girlfriend and iphone
Change “Band” to “Shitty band.” Check and double check.
Wow. I can’t really check off any of those things above–guess I am not a hipster.
Another wow. Isn’t making a site/blog where people get a attention for whining about people who try to get attention just a bit moronic?
Wow again. How in hell did I end up here, and why am I writing this fucking post? Aaaahhh! We’re all fucking needy!!!
WTF? I know there are newer TRUE Brooklyn bands out there (like Brooklyn Militia) but I can only assume they’re drowning in a sea of twee shit. I don’t get it .. . . from Carnivore/Type-O, YDL, Biohazard, LOA, Merauder and Lord knows how many bands from ’87 to ’93 to . . . “Medicinal Pen” (and tons of other flavor of the week twee shit)? Ughh. Fucking hipsters.
You make a great point; loved Lordz of Brooklyn back in the day. Disgusting to think that we are now left with pretenders like this fucking transplant pussy playing whimsical staycation adult infant games.
I defy ANYONE who is not a hipster to watch the 2 videos and then click on the photo Urban Infidel posted and not get fucking furious. I almost had to turn off the 1st video 15 seconds in; it is literally one of THE most repulsive things ever captured on tape.
Fucking twee dweebs !
Lordz of Brooklyn = Criminally Underrated. The should’ve been much bigger.
The thing is a lot of the real Brooklyn bands and musicians are too busy doing things like working and feeding their families, and if they still do music – it’s in their spare time.
“They should’ve”
Here’s another shot of that same guy selling burlap “Brooklyn’ vests. Somebody wanna tell me what burlap has to do with this borough? Check out his ratty t-shirt that says: ‘Can’t afford to love NY’. And he’s got a kite tattoo. Yes, a kite.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46896052@N00/7671988308/in/set-72157630437622300/
I updated the photo: http://i50.tinypic.com/20rtb9.jpg
I like that photo better – now if we could just put a one way plane ticket back to Iowa in their hands!
Maybe we should put up a kickstarter campaign to raise bus fare money to send a hipster back where ever they came from.
More accurate!
I’m so glad I remember Brooklyn LONG before these losers took over.
This is what I have to deal with on my street:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46896052@N00/7671989628/in/set-72157630437622300/
RIP Brooklyn.
My Friend, Last night I went to see the Phillies play the Washingon Nats at National Stadium, crowd of 25,000 plus and not one- not one Hipster. Crowd was %95 white, average age 30,- 65/35 male to female, no sleeve tatoos, very, very few beards, all trimmed or at least clean. Thousands of 30 ish Dept of Labor lawyers, or government anaylyst, not knowledgable baseball fans, and for the most part semi-obnoxious preps, but no where near as bad as what you have the misfortune to catalog. 80% percent of the crowd leave on the Metro, by far the cleanest safest subway in the country, no hipsters. Have to change trains twice and finish the ride on the Orange Line,(considered Washington’s worst) – no hipsters, musical outbreaks. Probably in all I saw 35,000 people and maybe a dozen would fall into the hipster category and tha’ts stretching it.Sadly I see Easton, Pennsylvania in your future.Sometimes It’s better to just make a clean break. Your Flickr posts might well need some kind of warning for the viewers, but you are fulfilling an important function, documenting the fall.
“…Metro, by far the cleanest safest subway in the country”. Bullshit! I used to ride it daily. http://unsuckdcmetro.blogspot.com/2012/07/fares-raised-bars-lowered.html
It’s Congress’ toy train set compared to the NYC subway system.
And if you want to see hipsters on Metro, ride it when the Caps are playing, or ride the Red lines pretty much any time (when it’s not “temporarily delayed” for a few hours, that is). Or hang out around the Rosslyn station after 4 p.m. – it;s hipster central, complete with shitty house band of the day.
Um that has nothing to do with NY and hipsters. You can go to a Knicks game and not see hipsters just the same.
Yessir Urban. You live near me. And aren’t weekends the worst? RIP New York City is more like it…
The weekends are the worst, I don’t like to even step outside my building on the weekends anymore. I can’t even take out my garbage without being mowed down in front of my own stoop by hordes of skinny bearded ‘men’ wearing stupid hats, burlap vests and white framed sunglasses glasses, tattooed women addicted to their ‘smart’ phones, and mobs of European tourists dragging their bored kids around rushing to buy crap at flea bag flea markets and food festivals. And when I do have to go out, I am within and inch of choking someone for not giving me any room on the frikkin’ sidewalk. I just stand my ground and stare at them until the get the fug out of my way. AND I have to keep my front windows closed because I am so tired of hearing people saying ‘awesome!’, and ‘like, ya!’ thousands of times a day.
RIP NYC is right. I long for the days when all I heard was gunfire on the waterfront. At least the prostitutes, homeless and junkies that used to be here had manners.
Maybe where you live but – thankfully – Bay Ridge is still a mostly hipster-free zone. The local politicians arranged for Third Avenue from 82 to 89 to be closed to traffic Friday nights in summer to help businesses and all you see are real people, families with kids, and not a beardo in sight (and not too many sleeve tattoos). The bands they do have cover “real” music, at least what this geezer considers music.
As long as the hipsters stay above the line I don’t have to look at them on a daily basis.
Yes to all of that Urban. I walk my pit bull and they have the nerve to look at him like he doesn’t belong in “their” neighborhood. Excuse me, pit bulls are THE FUCKING MASCOTS OF TRUE NYC. I love it because he hates these retarded freaks as much as I do, and he starts lunging at them like crazy. He’s mama’s little baby, oh yes he is..lol
4 seconds into video #2 makes me glad I don’t have to take the L train to work anymore.
If they were to remake the movie Summer of Sam an update it for 2012 the dog would definitely mention HIPSTERS.
“KILL HIPSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“KILL HIPSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“KILL HIPSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” “KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” “KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Isn’t that what high school kids do in flyoverland? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen some variation of that during my time behind the wheel…not sure if that’s special or just ordinary stuff that ordinary, non-zany people do when they’re seventeen and in love with the hot girl in gym class. point being: it’s not newsworthy. I’m sure there are at least twenty dudes named daryl doing the same thing right now in a place that is neither zany, nor quirky. maybe drew could move some place far away, where he’ll feel at home…maybe….
be honest, guys, you know you want to execute the hate plow on that chick
I’d tie them together back-to-back and use him as a mattress while I plowed his wife’s bean field.
SWEEP THE CANKLE
ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART
URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN
Seriously these guys need to go back to Ohio. Speaking of Ohio, Ohio transplants created a website For Ohioians living in NYC
http://www.ohionyc.com/
That’s just sick.
Its fucking retarded.
i suppose lumping together succesful musicians like the O’Jay’s with those nobodys make the seem more authentic
A strong contender for The Most Boring Website of All Time Award.
Wow. Really?
I used to live in Ohio. That state really sucks. Other than Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinatti, there really isn’t much to it. All of those cities are spread really far apart from each other and there’s really only farms, small towns, and small college towns in between all of it. It’s not really near any desirable destinations either…save for Detroit. There really is nothing to do there. I ended up moving back to Pittsburgh after two years in College there cause it was so boring. I did meet some great people there…some of which I still consider friends to this day.
The one thing I will say about it is this; it has produced it’s fair share of great people. But really, those were the people who moved the fuck out as soon as they could!!!!!! For example, the majority of the Astronauts in NASA’s history are from Ohio. As I type that out, I’m reminded of how utterly crappy Ohio is…so crappy it makes people wanna leave the planet.
Seriously…what garbage. If you miss Ohio so much…go back there. I’m not even being mean saying that…it just doesn’t make sense to move somewhere and only associate with people from your hometown/homestate and completely ignore everyone else. Cultlike sheepish mentalities if I did see them. I say this mainly because the last time I checked, NYC is not Ohio nor does it want to be.
Okay…I’m done.
I had to Ohio 4 years ago to do a walk down of a nuke plant.
I took the guys out to lunch. The entire lunch hour conversation evolved around “fried perch and the new Olive garden that was opened up.
*opens mouth….inserts gun*
I believe the great Chrissie Hynde said it best:
Another site for the collective to take over…
I just check out the site…atleast there’s some range and diversity in the people featured on there.
*shoulder shrug*
Seriously ohioians should be considered a race.
gawwwwwd-duh!!!
anyone notice the asian dude who’s renamed himself to…
“c spencer yah”
as in….”See Spencer run” or “Spencer says ‘Yah’”.
what a farking DORK!!
used to be asians worst ‘stereotype’ was being mistaken as very smart and hard working…
GOD FORBID!! <—sarcasm intended
When I saw “Medicinal Pen,” I knew I’d heard that name somewhere before. Here’s where: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07lofts.html?pagewanted=2&fta=y
I distinctly remember reading it back when it came out 4 years ago and thinking, “With a name like ‘Medicinal Pen,’ of course he got mugged.”
Great find! I’d love to kick every ‘creative type yearning to make it as artists’ as the article states, all the way back to their real homes. Like yah, we’re playing urban artist – LIKE YAH!!!
I remember that article. LOL
“Still, Mr. Henkel, the musician, says local teenagers have shot him with paintballs and called him “cracker.” He plans to move out of the McKibbin after touring with his band, Drew & the Medicinal Pen, this summer.”
Die hipster show us your fanmail! Dc metro blows, maybe you could finally get sucked off
Here’s a classic snippet from that article:
“The community is a microcosm of artists, musicians and D.J.’s,” said Kevin Farrell, who is 29 and works in video production. “You don’t have to leave this building, with the exception of food. I don’t really speak to the locals.”
Nothing but lily white artists, musicians, ands DJ’s in his building – LIKE YAH!!! Oh, and if Kevin Farrell is claiming 29, it means he is definitely in his mid to late 30′s but too embarrassed to admit he is still living like an infant at his real age.
At least lofsters stick to a building, rather than creating outposts that transform the whole neighborhood into a virtual loft.
By microcosm they mean petri dish of cultured doucheteria.
And here’s the McKibben st lofts where Drew lives.
Look at these young people having fun.
Look at the sense of wonder in their eyes as they contemplate their next art projects. Look at the chick in the first video making the dude read the dictionary while planning on moving her art project into his space while he thinks he’s getting laid sometime this side of the Rapture. Look how the only guys getting laid are the 2 gay guys.
Remember folks, these people are America’s future. You know, the ones who will rescue this economy from bankruptcy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTVqvYi1eW0
1:10 of the first one was all I could stand. The noose could definitely stand some use…
No wonder they idolize Lou Reed so much….he’s something they’ll never be:
a) a real New Yorker and
b) successful
I don’t think the new crop even likes Lou Reed anymore. Their idols are probably musicians who transplanted just like them.
oh thank the gods for THAT!! i’d give uncle lou another long, hard look if they did….i say there IS an accounting for taste, and most of them ain’t got any!!
re-inventing Camel = animal collective = 2 bands worth of stinking horse shit listening for spoiled, daytripping, suburban brats
(sorry, having to type w/ 1 hand till cast is off the other )
“Chelsea’s the kind of girl that you have to win over. You have to scale something large and show her you’re serious.”
I can’t even… anybody else wanna take a stab at it?
A black dick will take her away apparently…
Any dude with at least normal testosterone levels will take her away . . . if she isn’t into brothas or latinos, there are plenty of Guidos and Eurotrash types at the clubs (yes, she will get bored of rooftop parties) who will bang her senseless.
Try cash…
She is literally the big fish in the little pond. She’s a cute Asian chick in a social scene where the competition is the average Meghan, and the dudes are the biggest beta-male pussies on the planet. She will get bored. She will find herself missing the stereotypical “Australian Hard Man”. The PR, Black and Ethnic White street dudes will start looking better and better as time passes. If she’s the type that I think she is, she will be creeping on his ass in no time. Drew = involuntary cuckold to be. When that kid is born, I can imagine her saying “Oh, my Thai side is from the Isaan region and they’re very dark!” Whether he buys it or not, he won’t do anything since he’s a beta pussy and she’s the best he’ll ever get.
LOL at Involuntary Cuckold to be. What the fuck is this with hipsters dating Asians. And who are these Asians that date them back. I’m an Asian lady myself (grew up in Flushing. Miss NY. Hate to see what’s happened to Brooklyn.) and I would fucking become a nun before I ever gave it up one of those hipsters. They look like pasty emotional 14 year old girls. I like my fellow Asian ethnic men.
they count on the tendency for asian women to say they’re good in bed when they’re really not….they r simply 2 closet queer 2 handle real sex with women who want good sex and aren’t afraid 2 tell da truth about that…normal men handle that fine….latents and virgins don;t….
This woman hit paydirt with this Drew cornball. All she needs is a good pair of lungs and willing to go down on her knees for a while and he’s hooked. Green card + $$$ in her future. I wonder did he pay for her ticket from Australia to Brueklyn? Give it a few years and see how long his money holds out. Once the green card comes through, she’ll be out the door with half the proceeds from the Medicinal Pen and his dad’s bank pension fund.
Well, he scaled something large all right. Here he is illegally hopping on a freight train (like the real man he isn’t) to make an 8mm movie for his next music video.
Uploaded by Drew on Jan 22, 2008
http://www.MedicinalPen.com
2012 UPDATE- I’m working on a new line-up for this project,
CONTACT ME HERE:
DrewandtheMedicinalPen *at* Gmail.com
This video is quite old, but still one of my favorites. The stuff I’m doing today is much more stripped down / low-key
-Drew
http://www.MedicinalPen.com
I’m getting real tired of these hipsters and their weak ass graffiti. They will do/say anything to seem like risk takers. I wish he had slipped and fell.
That is some of the worst graffiti I’ve ever seen. I remeber when writers would take some time to master their craft before putting up a giant piece like that.
But then again, judging from the “music”, old medicinal drew isn’t really interested in mastering anything…
Prepare yourself New York. Another quirky whimsical blogger is on the way to improve your downtrodden artless city. Living life as one constant artisanal cruelty free (well unless you are a not white middle class) staycation. http://www.cestchristine.com/2012/08/the-risk-of-wanting-to-make-it/
oh, great
Christine, do us all a favor – have your quirky, ” I’m an innocent, creative, whimsical Zooey Deschanel type girl just trying to make it in the big bad city” adventure somewhere else; I know you think you’re your quest is very unique, and you’re a precious flower that the world needs to know, but no thanks, we’re gonna pass this time.
Go West, Young Megan
Yet another professional parentally-funded world-traveler. Must be nice. Real jobs or careers mean NOTHING to these people. SMH.
What a skank!
“I travel, I write, I take photos. I believe in daring to live the life you dream of living, and so I quit my job to blog, soak up the sun and parler Francais on the French Riviera. Then I moved to Australia and fell head over heels in love with hipster Melbourne. Next I booked a one-way ticket to Bali to do sun salutations, and then to Thailand to eat spicy food and lie on beautiful beaches. And now, I’m never quite sure what’s next.”
I’m ready to go on an rampage with these parentally-funded travel bloggers. Hopefully “what’s next” is that upon her anticipated arrival to NYC she gets smeared across the pavement by a garbage truck.
It’s “parlez Francais.” Fucking idiot and professional tourist.
I know the feeling. walk into a coffee shop after a really bad day at work and some nasally
latte performance artist is giving you major attitude because you’re actually wearing a suit
and charges you 5 bucks for coffee.
If it weren’t for the fact that I have a family, I’d re-enact the convenience store scene from “Falling Down”
It’s the hipster “Eat, Pray, Love”!
Jesus. What is this about “making it?” If you can afford to work a low-paid hip job and live in an expensive hip neighborhood, you’re ahead of literally millions of other people. You’ve already made it. You’re not striving.
You haters are the “real” New Yorkers? And you say the hipsters are the ones who are “attention starved”? That’s some serious projection, kiddies. You know who else hates hipsters? Yup, those tolerant and peaceful libertarians!
Why do you keep going on about libertarians on here? Take it to a libertarian site or something. We’re not the ones making a big show of reading Atlas Shrugged on the subway.
If you are not a native NYer, get the fuck off this site. Your opinion is irrelevant.
OK, you got a gratuitous hit for me to look at your bullshit site. Fuck off and die.
There are all types on this site (not just NYers) you boring, pseudo-intellectual git. I tend to vote Libertarian. So what? I like my guns and I like my weed. A lot of hipsters pretend to be libertarian when it’s fashionable.
I know your kind. You’re a socially inept dork who wants to be a hipster, but the hipsters won’t truly accept you because you’re so annoying. They tolerate you, but are happier when you’re not around. Every time you open your mouth you either get insulting “Who is this idiot?” looks or you’re told to STFU. You know this. Were it not for the internet, you’d be another nameless, faceless, boring omega male trying to suck up to beta male hipsters for acceptance while you creep out and gross out their girlfriends. Your vapid, cliche spouting, pseudo-intellectual internet persona is a pathetic attempt to hide from that fact. Too bad your persona is so transparent. I bet you look as pathetic offline as you appear to be online.
LOL @ Omega Male. Very true.
What’s the big deal about Libertarians? They are all about the sovereignty of the individual and getting government the hell out of our lives.
He’s some agenda driven Obamabot who tries to hang out in hipster social circles. What he doesn’t realize is that, for the most part, hipsters really don’t care about politics — they only pretend to!
Most of the posters on here don’t talk about themselves unless it’s an anecdote involving hipster retards, so as for “attention starved,” it’s you’re the one who’s projecting.
Choke on a dick.
Bloomberg Gentrification Generation – you NAILED it!
Has anyone made fun of the band name yet? “Like yah, my pen is medicinal. When I write with it I cure people.”
Maybe he’s referring to his epi-pen, which he’s forced to carry in his man-purse, in case he goes into anaphylactic shock because mommy hasn’t been able to enforce the entire state of New York to be a “peanut-free zone”, like she did at his school, back in Wisconsin?
Drew’s attention-getting vandalism was also “spilled” to the Daily News. I wonder if Mummy or Daddy works at a Chicago PR firm:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-man-paints-marriage-proposal-billboard-bqe-article-1.1126989
They just wanted everyone in the NY metro area to know just how big a douche he was.
“He drew courage as drivers stuck in traffic on the BQE began to honk and cheer.” That was his version. What they were really yelling was “Jump! Jump!”
I wonder if there’s a prenup…
Why doesn’t somebody call the police as this is basically an admisison of criminal trespassing and vandalism?
Because he’s a non-Hispanic white.
Wow! DH made the Times!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/fashion/montauk-feels-the-effects-of-too-many-hipsters.html?_r=1
That’s so funny. Months ago I had thought of the hat sign with the big red slash through it! I wanted to post them around my neighborhood.
But it’s a trilby. Not a fedora.
http://www.fashish.com/styles/114.jpg
“a more privileged crowd that is intent upon importing to your neighborhood higher real estate, food and drink prices — and a new attitude that says, “I’m richer than you, I’m hipper than you and, gosh darn it, some things are going to change around here.”
Like yah, the Megans and Joshes have discovered the ocean, beach and all the great things associated with it that they could never have experienced on the class trip to Lake Erie. “Like they stand on these wooden planks and paddle and then stand up in the waves. I’ve never seen anything like it!” and “Welcome to Hannah’s Teency Weency Bistro. Try some clam chowder infused with seaweed and garnished with artisanal sea salt.”
$27 lobster roll…haha. Lobster’s cheaper than ground beef in N.E. Lobster roll is cut up lobster, mayo, seasonings served on a hot dog bun or “bulkie” as they call it in N.E. It’s almost like paying $27 for a Nathan’s. SUCKERS!
One of my best friends bought property out there in 1985, off Old Montauk Highway, and built an old school classic house. The locals have accepted him, he’s knows most of them but they are really tight out there and they tolerate no bullshit. He emailed me this back in March
“also Surf Lodge has 600 fines and dragged into court, I sicked the EPA on em for destroying wetlands.”
was just reading about the invasion of montauk by the hipsters and feel a great need to vent. I’m 60 and lived in carroll gardens bklyn from birth to 55. i actually owned half a brownstone and when the cousin half wanted to sell, we couldn’t afford to stay. i’m now out in dreary, suburban staten island thanks not only to the hipsters and their mommies who pay their rent but to the greedy (former neighbors) landlords who rent to these transient morons. they actually think they discovered bklyn. all they did was ruin it for my generation, my son’s, his son’s and all future hard working, middle class people who, if it wasn’t for us, there would be no brownstone bklyn. we fixed our homes, gave it the culture it once had, took care of our own, etc. what a blight this group of people has become. just as I thought, crime has risen dramatically in these areas. kids and families have been replaced by laptops and dogs. there is no more community there. so so sad what has become of these neighborhoods. i watched it happen first hand. i belong to a fb page where hundreds of us lament the loss of our beloved neighborhood and reminisce about the good old days where we had hundreds of friends to choose from, street games parents who lived near us, intergenerational help, strong religious affiliations, etc. now we’re scattered all over the place and we’re downright scared and lonely. our lives were taken away from us. we’ll never get it back and what can we really do. thanks for the opportunity to vent and say whatever i want. i could never put this on the fb page.
Such an unfortunate story. I’d never been to that neighborhood back in the day. It’s good to hear about what it used to be. If you read the NY Times, you’ll read about how it’s “still just like it used to be,” or how it was “revived.” Jesus.
I am so happy. This is quite possibly the best website on the internet. Die hipster. Die.
That wannabe punker girl with the stripey shirt, fauxhawk, and black skinny jeans…. Man, she has a nice butt. Just saying.
That guy on snare drum, I want those sticks.