NYC to the H.I.P

Wednesday. In the smoking area of a restaurant where all the food is organic. A random young guy approached our table right as we we're about to have post conversation cigarettes.

EXT/SMOKING AREA/DAY

NYREE & BRIAN sit at a table rolling themselves cigarettes. An unfashionable RANDOMER (20's) walks towards their table and speaks.

RANDOMER: Oh hey! Listen, I was meaning to talk to you.

NYREE & BRIAN: What is it?

RANDOMER: I really wanna be a hipster!

NYREE & BRIAN: ....

RANDOMER: So, what do you think? Can do it? Can you help me?

NYREE & BRIAN: ....

RANDOMER: .... Are you gonna say anything? Why you making those faces?

NYREE & BRIAN: These are our faces.

RANDOMER: You know what I mean. 

NYREE & BRIAN: Nope. Don't think we do.

RANDOMER: GUYS! (Lowers tone) I really wanna be a hipster. Im serious. Do you think you can help me?

NYREE & BRIAN: What's your name?

RANDOMER: Frank.

NYREE & BRIAN: Frank?

FRANK: Yeah Frank.

NYREE & BRIAN: We thought only old men were called Frank.

FRANK: Ok, you know what? If you don't wanna help me that's -

FRANK goes to walk away.

NYREE & BRIAN: Wait. Easy now. Hush now child. Maybe we can help you. Sit down.

FRANK does so. NYREE & BRIAN light their cigarettes. Slowly. 

NYREE & BRIAN (CONT'D): Why do you want to be a hipster?

FRANK: I don't know. I just have this feeling inside me that I'm meant for great things. That I'm meant to be hip.

NYREE & BRIAN: Like a warm fuzzy feeling?

FRANK: Yeah! Like that!

NYREE & BRIAN: Ok. How do you wear your jeans?

FRANK: Skinny. And if not, then I wear baggy pants in an ironic way. 

NYREE & BRIAN: Shoes?

FRANK: Deckshoes, boots, slip-ons, anything that is fashionable but could be construed that I don't care what I'm wearing and the fact that the viewing public find my shoes fashionable is purely by coincidence. 

NYREE & BRIAN: Glasses?

FRANK: Always thick rimmed glasses. Even though I don't need them.

NYREE & BRIAN: Coffee?

FRANK: Always over tea. And if they have no coffee then I go someplace else.

NYREE & BRIAN: Favorite film and album?

FRANK: I could tell you but they are so obscure that you've probably never heard of them. 

NYREE & BRIAN: Belgium? 

FRANK: Spiritual home.

NYREE & BRIAN look at each other, stub out their cigarettes and turn back once more facing FRANK.

NYREE & BRIAN: Ok, I think we can help you.

FRANK: No way! Seriously?! I'm so excited!

Pause. 

NYREE & BRIAN look at each other again. Then get up and get their things together to leave.

FRANK (CONT'D): Guys?...

NYREE & BRIAN: No.

FRANK: Huh? What's going on?

NYREE & BRIAN: Hipsters don't get excited. You got excited. We can't help you. See you around.

FRANK: (Close to tears) But what about the warm fuzzy feeling? What about that?

NYREE & BRIAN: Listen to Coldplay.

FRANK: I don't get it.

NYREE & BRIAN: Of course you don't.

NYREE & BRIAN walk away leaving FRANK, now on his knees and crying, alone.

Sam Homan, international model, man of mystery, Panda lover and all around good guy sent us in these from his current home in New York!

"Joyful Abandon: Alone with bike and bridge and only one thing to do......peddle!!"

"Joyful Abandon: Living with 11 people, sharing a room with 3 other boys and working in a big City like NYC its hard to find time that you alone so when you do find it you just take it all in..."

He sent us in a bunch from his time in South Korea that we'll put up soon. Danke Sammy!  

Nyree & Brian

Hipsters we met and liked

"Whatev's, we're over it"