Pillowfight Club in Bushwick

Brooklyn Ink tells us that the first rule of Punk Rock Pillow Fight is you do not talk about Punk Rock Pillow Fight. This is also the second rule, so you have most likely never heard of this underground feathered fight.

The anonymous arena for this event is like Fight Club for hipsters. We exaggerate (slightly) but were forewarned not to give away too much about the pillow fight’s underground location in Bushwick. Two rows of three mattresses cover the middle of the living room — yes, living room. We would go into more detail about the industrial venue looking suspiciously like someone’s house, but we aren’t allowed.

Mattresses make the ring, an announcer gets the crowds attention -- mic in hand, and the regulation size pillows are held firmly in the contender's hands. There are 16 guys and girls in all, fighting one-on-one until an elimination is made and one moves to the next round. At the end, the “Master of the Mattress” is declared -- and if there's a tie, the audience decides. Fighters have been known to get eliminated at this point based on outfit choice alone, so please wear your most hipsterest of couture if you plan to find a way into the underground pillowfight club. Apparently these kids weren't paying attention when Tyler Durden declared, "You are not your bank account. You are not the clothes you wear. You are not your f*cking khakis."

Photo via eveb's flickr. Posting photos of Punk Rock Pillow Fight online is not a rule.

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By Jen Carlson in News on December 11, 2007 4:00 PM

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neapolitan

Jen, you just broke the first two rules of Fight Club.

moneda

Are most hipsters closet gays...?

You're thinking about Republicans. Most Republicans are closet gays.

freddyhere

Are most hipsters closet gays...?

sonyactivision

I hear they are forming a league, just in time for the writer's strike to end. We're talking Ben Stiller piece of shit.

FuckingNiggers

is this a gay thang?

matty

oh and there was a good article from gawker via the times that was all like "the new thing is for your daughter to play squash to improve their chances of getting into vassar!" That's the kind of hogwash people rail against.

well, unless they love it, but that's a whole nother issue entirely.

matty

jen's alright. i got mad after that whole patrick moberg thing which was so obviously fake!

also i couldn't date her cause i live in chicago.

sorry, jen, you probably don't need me saying this stuff. just, uh, don't try to create "new media" or "viral" news please? It insults everyone.

Dude69

Hipster scums have ruined another fun childhood activity. At this rate adult hide and seek or musical chairs are gonna be ruined by hipster irony soon! Someone please burn Billyburg down!

camera_club

Silent Barn

chuzzlewit

matty - you got a crush on jen, dontcha

westernqueensland

Infantalized white middle class punks gentrify another neighborhood. My mom was the third white woman on the block I grew up on and 20 years later my dad was the last straight black man when we sold our home. Change is constant.

smitty

What a bunch of grups.

Reality Czech

Here's what happened: coddled twenty-something hipsters who never had any discipline in their lives find growing up extremely uncomfortable so they need to revert to their childhood in the hopes that their doting parents will save them.

Reality Czech

Here's what happened: coddled twenty-something hipsters who never had any discipline in their lives find growing up extremely uncomfortable so they need to revert to their childhood in the hopes that their doting parents will save them.

matty

yeah i was joking.

gossipgirl

I think that's where the irony comes in...

maevemealone

The first two sentences of this post are negated by the fact that this event was publicized in just about every magazine and website I've seen in the last 3 weeks. YAWN

JenChungsBaby

Thanks E.D. "Bad Boys" is now 24 years old. Yikes.

petebfd

its not a big secret where this is.

and the bedbugs aren't in bushwick they are in billyburg! in bushwick we just have roaches...

babyhitler

my friend said it best. "WHITE PEOPLE"

matty

thanks jen. really excellent coverage of this new phenomenon!

emilydickinson

@JenChungsBra: Excellent reference to one of the great unsung films of all time in my opinion.

Do the Bushwick hipsters provide the bed bugs in those mattresses, or is B.Y.O.B.B.?

emilydickinson

@JenChungsBra: Excellent reference to one of the great unsung films of all time in my opinion.

Do the Bushwick hipsters provide the bed bugs in those mattresses, or is B.Y.O.B.B.?

amsci

Fascinations with pillowfights, dodgeball, kickball, cupcakes, and burgers? Have all these so-called hipsters reverted to 2nd grade or something?

amsci

Fascinations with pillowfights, dodgeball, kickball, cupcakes, and burgers? Have all these so-called hipsters reverted to 2nd grade or something?