Local vids: The Joe, Christian Hansen

The Joe's You're Cool rivals LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge when it comes to making fun of hipsters. His take is a step-by-step guide to coolness -- learning to skateboard, getting an arts degree, volunteering at CJSR, hanging out with local celebrities, going to the Princess, voting for the Green Party ... I don't want to spoil the rest.

This video, directed by Arlen Konopaki and Mike Robertson of Highwire Films, perfectly illustrates The Joe's words -- and features such local celebrities as Michael Rault, Christian Hansen, Global's Gord Steinke and a guy I saw in a Fringe play ...

Hansen, by the way, and The Autistics have a video for their sublime Sonic 102.9 FM smash, Cocaine Trade, which also makes fun of hipsters. (Yet another local celebrity, CityTV's Bridget Ryan, directed the charmingly goofy clip.) The electro-popsters are now working on the follow-up to Power Leopard. "We have 8 songs for the new album done and done!" reads one of their posts on Twitter. Can't wait.