Law & Order: Hipster Intent

How do you know a trend is played? It's featured on Law & Order.

Turns out Jeff "The Genius" Goldblum's first episode as a CI regular is about the death of a Williamsburg hipster. Seriously. They actually use the word hipster in the episode description (titled "Rock Star," by the way).

Things I learned about my neighbors and neighborhood by watching Law & Order: CI (in real time):

• Hipsters are rich, white, and racist
• They live in loft communes
• Williamsburg is where "worlds collide," what with all the Jews and "Urban Blacks" and Musicians
• Williamsburg is a slum
• The difference between Rappers and MCs (see below!)
• Every hipster is in a band
• and has bedbugs
• and go to Spelling Bees? "Nostalgia and beer. Who can resist?" (ok, I have to give L&O that one, that actually sounds like real hipsters)
• It is extremely hard to get gigs as a hipster band
• Girls can drum
• No-name hipster bands magically have audiences
• Everyone wants to be a rock star (ok, that one's true too)
• JEFF GOLDBLUM PLAYS A MEAN PIANO (holla!)
• Hipsters kill to get spots in hip bands
• A girl who paints canvases with her own body fluids! (that sounds like a hipster too)
• Bed bug epidemic. ew.
• You have to be "ready" to play clubs in the East Village
• All 20-year old girls sleep around
• Developers are trying to push out the artists to build condos (true story!)
• OMG! that's Albert Hammond Jr's (and Medium Cool's) guitarist Marc Philippe Eskenazi! What's he doing on Law & Order? as the bassist?
  
• scarves and leather are totes in.
• "He's gonna be bigger than Brooklyn"
• Near McCarren Park is a "dangerous neighborhood"
• No one insults Bo Diddley and gets away with it! Irreverant kids!
• The Grammy's are irrellevant (true)
• Don't trust aging "rock stars." (oh, i get it....)
  

Also, how dare that redhead doubt Jeff "The Genius" Goldblum's brilliancy, even for a second!

Despite the ridiculous premise, JGold is AMAZING. Tivo it if you get a chance.

Here's a taste (courtesy of Videogum):