Nickname: Spannah
Age: 21
City: Bodymore, MD
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
Definite all time Top Two:
Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin : Once a week since I was fourteen.
Hunky Dory, David Bowie : B/c Bowie is the love of my life.
Alternating favorites selection 3-5
’58 Sessions, Miles Davis : “Stella by Starlight” –solid gold brick.
Midnight Organ Fight, Frightened Rabbit
The Ghost of Fashion, Clem Snide
What band would play at your ideal wedding?
Sly and the Family Stone. Our first dance would be to “(You Caught Me) Smilin’” and everyone could escort us out to “Dance to the Music”. Then we’d drive away in a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado.
If you had a kid, what would be the first song you played for it?
“Happy Birthday” Clem Snide if it’s a boy
“Rejoicing in the Hands” by Devendra Banhart if it’s a girl.
What decade are you most nostalgic for and why?
God, the 90s. I know that’s atrocious but I would have made a killer Seattle grunge rocker. There are days when I wake up and KNOW I should’ve been around to be Eddie Vedder’s wife.
What’s your favorite venue?
Honestly, I always have a really good time at the Hexagon. I like Ottobar (for some shows). the Annex in New York, which is almost exactly like Ottobar. In DC, I suppose it would be the Black Cat.
What qualities do you possess that would make you an ideal hipster wife?
I am a stellar brunch cook and take pretty decent photographs.
I still listen to and collect vinyls, but not on a scary Rob Gordon level.
I read and write latin, and can read and speak spanish and french (with mediocrity).
I’m a cheap date- I like daisies, pho, and old movies. That’s what? $25?
Great explorer of the world and of the thrift store.
What do you look for in a potential hipster husband?
Height.
Intelligence (beyond your basic literacy).
Wide film and music tastes (sometimes I want to watch Fellini, sometimes I want to watch Future Wars on Mystery Science Theater); passionate pursuits– no hipster bums!
Self-awareness and a sense of humor (If you ride a fixed gear, your favorite color is plaid, own more music than everything else you own combined, and drink PBR/Boh when you could afford something better, you need to be able to acknowledge things about yourself and laugh about them).
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Spring Break is for sure over. We’re back in Brooklyn and Baltimore, so now we’re ready to provide all y’all with the best in babes, music and more. Hipster Wife Hunting will be announcing some exciting stuff soon…so! Keep your eyes peeled and your ears open.
Tell us, how was YOUR spring break?
We’ll leave you with some tunes we’ve been loving lately.
Move This by Selebrities
Blind Muslim Girl by Fergus and Geronimo
You Got the Love by Florence & The Machine
Girls FM by Happy Birthday
Tightrope by Janelle Monae
Some Small History by Portastatic
SPRING BREAK!
We are taking a tiny break but will be back with more pin-ups and features soon!
Nickname: Katie
Age: 19
City: New York
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
Super hard… I’m gunna cheat a little bit and form semi-related categories… so:
1. Velvet Underground’s Loaded or White Light/ White Heat depending on my mood; the Sonics’ Introducing the Sonics; New York Dolls’ self titled; The Jam’s The Sound of the Jam compilation
2. Devendra Banhart’s Cripple Crow; Akron/ Family’s self titled; Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day
3. The Shins’ Wincing the Night Away; Animal Collective’s Sung Tongs
4. Sparklehorse’s Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain; Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space; Olivia Tremor Control’s Singles And Beyond compilation; The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request
5. The Zombies’ Odessey & Oracle; The Kinks’ One for the Road; Simon & Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
What band would play at your ideal wedding?
Erm, Devendra. And I’d aspire to manipulate people into dancing awkwardly to him. And there’d be some sort of hippy activities going on. Or, perhaps I’d go in the opposite direction and resurrect Edith Piaf, and have her sing some tunes while people perhaps jitterbug or foxtrot to her, dressed up all proper and tragic and romantic. Yes, I think I’d have it be half tragically romantic themed, half hippy themed. Costumes of the sort would be provided, as well as amazing French food.
If you had a kid, what would be the first song you played for it?
Hmm, off the top of my head, I’d say CSNY’s Find the Cost of Freedom, ‘cause my dad used to play that for me, or Simon and Garfunkel’s Bookends. Those may impose a sort of premature sense of melancholy on the kid, though, so I’d have to think of a few lighthearted songs to throw in the mix…
What decade are you most nostalgic for and why?
Mmm, nostalgia… a longing for something that never was or will be. So, I’m nostalgic for the idealized and glorified late 60’s counterculture—supposedly a time where protests were more effective and when good concerts were (for the most part) free and when there seemed to be some sort of strong, prevalent community where people liked trees as much as I do now.
What’s your favorite venue?
St. James Church! But that’ll never happen again… so, I like Shea Stadium or the Newsonic Loft. And I went to a pretty rad party in Jamaica Plain in Boston recently—in the basement of a house that’s apparently dubbed ‘the moth house’… free admission, free beer, indoor smoking, an interesting variety of down-to-earth music and people.
What qualities do you possess that would make you an ideal hipster wife?
Well, to revert to gender stereotypes, I like cooking. Although, only vegan food, so I’m not sure if that’s a plus, but it’s probably hipster… I do make great vegan food, though, I promise. As for other hipster wife qualities—I own a bike, so we can go on awkward bike rides together. I’ll smoke the occasional cig with you and can even roll you one if you’d like. I’m good at putting up with any possible bullshit you may throw my way. There’s no way you can dress too eccentrically for my liking. If you are a hipster musician, I can sing in your band (and I have a theremin available for your use). And I’m really not as intense in person as I may seem in this questionnaire—I just don’t know when to stop writing—therefore I wouldn’t be the outwardly overbearing, emotional type, but rather would be generally nonchalant (which is certainly hipster).
What do you look for in a potential hipster husband?
A combination of a seemingly nihilistic, self-destructive artist who is secretly passionate, and an adventurous, fascinated hippie freak… not to be too specific, or fanciful, or anything… But really, just someone whose presence enchants me to stop thinking so goddamn much.
Wild Card: if you could run away anywhere for a week, where to and what it do?
Is this with my hipster husband? I’m guessing so. Perhaps I’d like to go into the middle-nowhere-Vermont, and sleep under waterfalls, record nature sounds, and perhaps mistakenly eat psilocybin mushrooms thinking they’re shiitake? They probably don’t grow up there though, so sleeping under waterfalls and recording nature is just fine.
Here at Hipster Wife Hunting, we value not only pretty girls and pretty good music, but also (and always) a pretty damn good make-out session. We all got together and picked out our favorite albums to make out to– and we’ve made you a mixtape to get things going. These are our picks:
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1. Diplo Presents: Free Gucci by Gucci Mane (download here!)
If you’re aiming to get laid, let Gucci Mane do all the work. I promise you. It will work.
2. Lust Lust Lust by The Raveonettes
This album makes me feel like I’ve been whisked away by some beautiful European rock star to some cute Parisian nook. Even if it’s really a dude who works at Trader Joe’s and just his shitty apartment in Bushwick.
3. Face Control by Handsome Furs
You know that awesome, throwing-each-other-against-the-walls, pinning-you-down, not-caring-if-the-neighbors-see kind of making out that totally rules? This should always be blasting over such canoodlin’ sessions.
4. Teen Dream by Beach House
Making out to Beach House is like a tall glass of iced tea on a hot summer’s day. Or a falafel after a bender in Manhattan. It’s just….well, perfect.
5. XX by The xx
One time, I was at this dude’s house. I had just gone over to pick up my scarf I had left there at a party. He put this record on. Um. Needless to say, I ended up taking a cab home the next morning.
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