What annual events should I attend if I want to stay edgy and hip?

Hep, as in “He’s a real hep cat!”

Also, hubba hubba.

I’m so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Could you explain what exactly you’re wanting to do? If you want to stay up on the somewhat popular but still cool music, then your plans to go to SXSW and Coachella isn’t terrible. If you want to impress cool people with how cool you are, then smaller festivals would be a better idea.

All of four of your suggested events are big and overwhelming and I’d only suggest that someone go to them if they really want to go, so I’m trying to figure out what exactly you are aiming for.

If you have heard about it then it is no longer edgy and hip.

It started off nerdy and uncool. It became edgy and hip. Now it is overly commercialized and mainstream.

I should just point out that quoting Monty Python is definitely not hip…anymore.

It was in February.

It probably will be again by May.

Today? - well… sorry. You failed.

(But the guy who quoted Beeblebrox? Woah. Definitely hip. No doubt).

If anybody has any more queries about the rules of being hip, edgy and cool, I’m here to help. Remember, these rules are for your benefit.

Another decade or so and that will be the style the kids wear. If you told me ten years ago that wearing super-skinny jeans and dorky glasses were the way to go, I would have thought you were insane.

Apparently Hoboken, NJ has them beat