Interview with a Hipster, Part 2

Probing the mind of the hipster, one interview at a time. Today, we speak with… yet another Jared.Hillel: Why is everyone around here named Jared?
Jared: [referring to the Jared that works here] He’s my Intelligentsia friend.
Hillel: What’s the name of your band?
Jared: Weird Dreams.
Hillel: Where’d you get your t-shirt?
Jared: I don’t know. It’s an old one.
Hillel: Is it actually inside out, or is it just made to look that way?
Jared: Well, I got paint on it, and it looked like bird shit, so I turned it inside out.
Hillel: Where’d you get your sunglasses?
Jared: A vintage store.
Hillel: How long have you had the beard for?
Jared: Maybe… 3 weeks?
Hillel: It took you 3 weeks to grow that beard? It would take me like six months to grow that beard.
Jared: Really?
Hillel: Well, the problem is my moustache. I look like a suicide bomber when I grow a beard. Thick, curly beard, whispy moustache. People are afraid of me.
Jared: Oh no.
Hillel: You gonna shave that beard when it gets hot?
Jared: It grows so fast, when it gets big, I just shave it and start over.
Hillel: Is that a metaphor for your music at all?
Jared: [thinks] Is my beard… like my music…. Well, it grows! Hahaha.
Hillel: What do you keep in your messenger bag?
Jared: I have… [starts to pull stuff out] a copy of Kerouac’s Big Sur. And my poetry book. Where I write my songs, and drawings, and whatever.
Hillel: Ok, let’s talk about music. Morrissey, Yea or Nay?
Jared: Big-time Nay.
Hillel: What about that one song that goes, do, do, do, do, do, do-do, do-do…
Jared: I don’t know that one.
Hillel: What mainstream band do you like, but you’re kind of embarrassed about?
Jared: Well I LOVE Hall and Oates.
Hillel: That’s pretty embarrassing. Which do you like better, Hall or Oates?
Jared: Oates. He’s got the moustache.
Hillel: Do you like Journey?
Jared: Name some of the hits.
Hillel: Don’t Stop Believing?
Jared: How’s it go?
Hillel: [singing] Just a small town girl… Living in a something something…
Jared: Oh yeah. Yeah I like Journey.
Hillel: I hated them, until that last Sopranos episode, and now I love em!
Jared: Were they on it?
Hillel: You didn’t see the last Sopranos episode?
Jared: No.
Hillel: You don’t have a T.V.?
Jared: Well, we just use it for DVDs.
Hillel: What everyone around here got against T.V?
Jared: I don’t know.