Bennington

11-22-2008
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16:03 EST

While we were in Madison, there was this wonderful dental hygienist who we drank with at a bar called the Caribou on Johnson St. She told us of this rich jewish family that she worked for. The mother was a ridiculously successful/frightening lawyer and the father did some other rich thing but the...

Someone just honked their van, rolled down the window and yelled "Dude, that's a classic! I used to have one of those..." That's all I remember. That guy looked just like Gobey from the SNL skit called "Jared's Room."

... Daughter of the family was a total brat. Not just brat but also quite dumb in conjunction with being spoiled. Apparently the mother skipped her daughter ahead a grade by threatening to sue the school on medical grounds and at some point during this girls enitre school year, the mother did her homework. This girl is now attending Bennington College at the ripe age of 16 but probably being. Essentially, these brief and boring details lead me to Bennington College.

Bennington College is, I imagine, the Evergreen of the East Coast where the grades are conceptual but mostly rich yuppie hippies (yippies) attend; it's a rich persons Evergreen in a sense. I estimating that all of the kids will be out of their minds, and according to Ryland, they are out of their fucking minds based off the last show he played here a few years back. He says I'll know it when I see it. I'm going to probably spot some friaries, VW's, and some other variety of cars that are probably owned by some of these "yippies" but just like always, I may be wrong.

It's been an interesting experience, so far, observing social behavior in the various places we've been but especially for those folks that are in the music scene. It's interesting seeing the audience vs artist interaction and the differences between how each lives. I'm thinking of when I made cookies with Jessie of Pepi Ginsburg and ate dinner with the band/their company in Kansas. Also, I've been taking mental notes on what defines a hipster and all of the disposition jargon that coincides with that. I've been becoming less keen in using the term hipster since there is a paradox I've noticed of hipsters calling hipsters, hipsters but the thing is that I don't really think anyone knows what a hipster is exactly. Characteristics that I've observed attributed to the 'hipster' are the same that you could attribute to anyone. It seems incredibly arbitrary.

It's the prejudice that's killing me, I'm not a big fan of it, quite sick of it. It just feels like a prejudice outlet.

This is the part where I start taking more notes...

We're driving into Hartford CT right now. It looks very packed togeather and clean as far as tall buildings go. I wonder what the streets are like; most likely clean as well. CT seems like a pleasant-ville type of state. Also, it's freezing outside. The leftover water from the car-wash is frozen onto the car. It's probably ~28º.