Hey you guuuuuyz, how do I be indie?

It seems like everyone all of a sudden wants to be this new thing called "indie", but little do they know it is an old as hell catergory, and not one that measures people. If you were to simply type "what is indie" into your little google task bar it would probably tell you that indie is "a pop group not affiliated with a major record company" or "Indie is a slang term which appeared in the 1940s. In the 1990s and 2000s it was used in various, sometimes contradictory ways, often to describe types of young, recently-settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream fashion and culture." Either way you look at it, indie is nothing  new, and yet the masses seem to think it is. Once someone tries to fit into this "category", if one can even call it that, it loses its true non-mainstream aspect. Anyway, why can't everyone just wear what they want and listen to what they want? I go thrifting, I frequently make trips to h&m, I listen to The Pixies and Beach House....does that make me Indie? Even if it does, I don't give a flying fuq because I just want to be me, not same lame version of me pretending to be cool. I love my old man sweaters, and my bright red keds, but only because they make me happy, not because they make me cool. Come on y'all be who you are, not what some "friends" want you to be.

But while we're at it I might as well share with y'allz my top indie (if we must call it that) picks:

Music: The Pixies, Bright Eyes, Lissy Trullie, Beach House, Architecture in Helsinki, Halloweentown, She and Him, Grizzly Bear, Talking Heads, Of Montreal and Passion Pit.

Movies: Manic, George Lucas in Love, How To Be A Serial Killer, Sunshine Cleaning, (500) Days of Summer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Wackness, Saved!, Clerks, Fargo, anything Alfred Hitchcock and any other cheesy as fuq horror filmz.

Books: Rats Saw God, Catcher In The Rye, Running With Scissors, Mark Twain, A Clockwork Orange, The Virgin Suicides, Shakespeare and Hemingway.