Dads are the Original Hipsters

Your dad listened to big headphones before you did and he’s got the blown ear drums to prove it. After a few lung-hits of magic, your dad would lean back and slip on his musical earmuffs. Then, he melted into the sonic-seduction that was making love to his eardrums and watched imaginary music videos dance across the backs of his eyelids. His noise canceling technology was a volume knob, which he used liberally. The ear sound-blasters were his escape from the world, even if it was just for a B-side.

So hipsters, next time you’re designing a shitty band poster on your Macbook Pro while listening to a band that nobody else has ever heard of on Spotify with your large, vintage inspired headphones, remember this…

Your headphones were modeled after the pair that Beethoven’ed your dad’s hearing, and he hasn’t been intentionally ignoring you for years, he’s just deaf from listening to life at full volume. 

Thanks to Joseph for the killer photo. 

P.S. Is it just me or does this guy look a little like Rick Moranis? His next movie could be “Honey, I hipstered the kids!”