“Hale to the hipsters” is a motto of respect I have always had, and adored. Vinyls, vintage, and collectible old-schoolers. Keeping the modern birth of technology alive by living the lifestyle people used to live before the internet. Granted, the hipster culture has changed a lot in some places where it started out thriving. A good portion of so called hipsters just sport the fashion and not the lifestyle living. A lot of the older generation has abandoned the lifestyle and just bask in the collector arena. But the true believers are still going strong.

I used to have tons of records, VHS’s, cassette’s, floppy/hard disks, comic books, sport cards (roller derby cards were my bread and butter), magazines, way too many books for just one person, first release consoles, pristine stereo system/speakers, laser disk player, VCR, and home computers. 1000’s of CD’s, almost 100 Laser-disks, and bad ass skateboard decks. So much stuff to have and hold onto as the decades progressed.

Then there is the moving from place to place. Rule of thumb… being a kind of nomad does not bode well when you have a caravan-of-crap to lug around with you. It gets to be a pain in the ass very quickly.

It took me a solid year and some change (¢) to digitize everything when the technology was good enough to preserve the music and movies. I sold everything else for a pretty penny and bought a nicer computer than the soon to be outdated one I had. The new one lasted about 5 years before it became outdated as well.

I still have all my games and consoles from when the Xbox360 came out. Everything game related up to the present. And it is too much. I am slowly going to be cutting all those loose (older game systems) as well. So I will have only my cd’s and dvd’s left. I honestly don’t think I will ever get rid of those. Everything else is digital. Saved on burned DVD’s and on hefty portable flash hard drives.

I still miss the analog way things used to be. Having good quality tactile tech, to me; seems classy and cool. Not to say I am not strapped with the latest phone/tablet/computer tech. As for the vintage clothing? I will be happy to my core if I never see a pair of corduroy pants or a velveteen vest ever again.

It’s Japanese tech-wear for me. ;)