  So there is this look that I advise you not to touch. I like to call it the MTV Aging Diesel hipster look. You know what I'm talking about. These are the kind of people who almost look all L-trained out except that they wear really clean American Apparel tee-shirts and the prerequisite expensive faded Diesel jeans. This is a look that may have worked for them when they were twenty-one/twenty-two but looks drab/sad/dated when they are twenty-six/twenty-seven. (They also look like -- even though they know better -- they might still have their trucker hat hanging around). The female aging MTV Diesel hipsters also favor those awful pleated short skirts they sell at Urban Outfitters that are popular with the fourteen year old Jersey set (I call these skirts finger-me skirts because that is basically what they are asking any man to do) except instead of pairing it with a tank top, flip flops, and a precious shoulder bag, they pair it with a mullet, bangs, or 80's inspired earrings. The first time this cultural stereotype really fell into place for me was when I encountered one such MTV Aging Diesel hipster at a bar a couple of weeks ago. The guy was wearing this tattered tennis wrist-band thing, a suit blazer, and the prerequisite Diesel jeans. He also looked like he was wearing make-up: concealer or matte powder or something. Anyhow, he was a disaster.
I almost wanted to give him a makeover right there in that dirty East Village bar but then I decided, what's the use? Aging MTV Diesel hipsters, as disastrous as they look, tend to do well with the rich LA film crowd. I mean, this guy claimed to be hobnobbing with all the right kids. Quite the schmoozer in his matte Cover Girl make-up, he had a screenplay agent and everything. Yeah, so I guess that maybe this is a good look if you want to be successful in film in New York.
Otherwise, do us all a favor, and avoid it like Eve Ensler. Also -- in my last post which I just deleted I wrote that I hated my dad. I don't hate my dad. I love my dad. What I do hate, however, is looking for apartments. It is so stressful. My dad rocks. 
