"chloe is just another one of those obnoxious self-righteous nyc'ers too blinded by her own vanity to actually give a shit about anyone else but herself."

Boy you sound cranky --

finally this chick gets some much deserved haterade. all my trendy friends from nyc/tri-state area hate on hipsters from the midwest or wherever, yet they all co-opt culture from chicago, or detroit, or austin, or portland.

the way i see it, anyone born within commuting distance of the (arguably) greatest city on earth has certain advantages that no amount of education or adulthood experience gets. chloe is just another one of those obnoxious self-righteous nyc'ers too blinded by her own vanity to actually give a shit about anyone else but herself.

Paging Vincent Gallo...

Wait a minute, didn't NYU exist before you did Chloe? Get back to porn, pls.

she loves the neighborhood she still (sometimes?) lives in. good for her.

Is this a problem because she's successful? Or because she wasn't born in the East Village?

(sorry, didn't have the nerve to watch the whole video, maybe there's a terrible revelation about her somewhere there)

How odd, or maybe not (since it's part of the cliche), that you don't notice that it is Sevigny who has a problem with people who weren't born in the East Village--it's precisely why this barrage against her authenticity. You see, there's nothing that destroys authenticity like shortsightedly attacking someone else's authenticity. As the saying goes, don't hate the playa, hate the Game--if Sevigny hates the Game then she'll realize she is, like everyone else, a playa, and nothing sets herself above anyone else. Now, I'm not talking about her success or her craft--on those accounts she's perfectly fine.

agreed, I didn't watch the video long enough.

You made a very valid point.

I live in the east village for 15 years, and I wasn't born here, and I love the neighborhood.

She, in her position, should be very careful criticizing new neighbors.

I however, am free to do so! quietly.... :-))))

when underground gets sold as coca-cola is really really pathetic.

but when coca-cola is sold as underground is totally hilarious, the case of Ms Sevigny!

swish!

Further evidence that the earth's magnetic poles are swapping: much of the East Village is now cheaper than the Lower East Side below Houston Street, and Williamsburg. Take a look on Craigslist and you'll see it's true.

I would love to bust all over her bust.

Call CS a hipster is funny in several ways. She's not a wannabe hipster -- she's a consummate hipster who gets steady acting jobs in film and TV. She goes to red carpets and "knows everyone." Not your typical hipster folks and yes I say that with fully intended ironic value that only some folks will actually get here.

regarding the video -- She basically walks around buying useless stuff from small EV stores, which is a sad representation of the EV even today.

She's probably more new york than the majority of people bashing her on this site.

To quote the artistic director of The Poetry Project, the longstanding EV poetry org that has occupied St. Mark's since the late 60s, "we think it might be [Chloë's] admitted fear of pigeons that keeps her from crossing Abe Lebewohl Park through the gate to enjoy any one of the eighty readings that happen each season."

Dude. 3 readings a week w/ poets from all over the world, a New Year's Day marathon that almost always features your girl Patti Smith, and you wish someone would start something up again? Or you could just walk through the door, darlin!

http://poetryproject.org/project-blog

i dont get the BJ thing. all women are cocksuckers, and so are many men .. ? what am i missing here

alright nevermind, i looked it up. let's just say she's dedicated to her craft, haha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Village,_Manhattan

From the wiki, which interestingly de-emphasizes the history of Puerto Ricans in the Lower East Side with the uncritical "culture of immigrant, working class life" and the tensions between the Puerto Rican community and their gentrifiers:

"The 'East Village' separates from the Lower East Side

Definitions vary, but the boundaries are roughly defined as east of Broadway and the Bowery from 14th Street down to Houston Street.

Until the mid-1960s, this area was simply the northern part of the Lower East Side, with a similar culture of immigrant, working class life. In the 1950s the migration of Beatniks into the neighborhood later attracted hippies, musicians and artists well into 1960s. The area was dubbed the "East Village", to dissociate it from the image of slums evoked by the Lower East Side. According to the New York Times, a 1964 guide called, "Earl Wilson's New York," wrote that "artists, poets and promoters of coffeehouses from Greenwich Village are trying to remelt the neighborhood under the high-sounding name of 'East Village.'"

Newcomers and real estate brokers popularized the East Village name, and the term was adopted by the popular media by the mid-1960s. In 1966 a psychedelic weekly newspaper, The East Village Other, appeared and The New York Times declared that the neighborhood "had come to be known" as the East Village in the June 5, 1967 edition."

And one last thing that proves Sevigny needs a geography and gentrification lesson when she says she would never go to the Lower East Side: honey, back in the day, before persons like yourself moved in, there was no East Village. What you know as the East Village was formerly part of the Lower East Side. That portion was renamed the "East Village" to encourage your sort of residential tourism. Which, of course, brings us back to the irony of your pretty Puerto Rican boy--the reasons why it was renamed involved minimizing the terror settlers felt back in the day when "Lower East Side" meant "Puerto Rican."

it always amazes me how many people don't know what "Loisaida" means.