I just met someone who has never heard of it and is telling me it's obscure. Please take this poll.

1.) I have heard of the Oregon Trail

a.) Um, duh
b.) no

Looks soooo awesome! I'm totally not jealous or anything that it got printed on mint. Also whoa I didn't know you were brothers!

Let's reminisce about it.

Carflags



Crocs



Swine flu + CSI



Lady Gaga



Açai Berries

Seeing as "indie" music is a broad, vague and oftentimes contradictorily used term, for our purposes it's the music that a lot of people on this website tend to like. If you are one of those people who continues to be mystified as to who Elliott Smith is or what The Shins sound like, well here is "Indie" music 101 in playlist form. Once you conquer the basics you will be able to move onto even more obscure bands like Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Scotland Yard and Camera Obscura.

Indie 101 pt. 1

1. The Funeral - Band of Horses
2. Skinny Love - Bon Iver
3. First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
4. Do the Whirlwind - Architecture in Helsinki
5. Fight Test - The Flaming Lips
6. Pictures of Success - Rilo Kiley
7. Intervention - Arcade Fire
8. Absent Afternoon - Calexico
9. All Good Things - The Weepies
10. The Trouble I've Been Looking For - Magnetic Fields
11. amsterdam - Peter, Bjorn and John
12. Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl - Broken Social Scene
13. You Own Me - American Analog Set
14. Proofs - Mates of State
15. Phantom Limb - The Shins
16. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens

Indie 101 pt. 2

1. Such Great Heights - Postal Service
2. White Daisy Passing - Rocky Votolato
3. Another Sunny Day - Belle & Sebastian
4. Racing Like a Pro - The National
5. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect - The Decemberists
6. Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cutie
7. Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
8. Oslo in the Summertime - Of Montreal
9. Sleep Tonight - Stars
10. Peace & Hate - The Submarines
11. NYC - Interpol
12. Heartbeats - José Gonzalez
13. How We Breathe - Pinback
14. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
15. Twilight - Elliott Smith
16. Eyes - Rogue Wave

I have a collab up with Eric aka opifan64**



*proceeds may or may not be used to purchase a puppy †

**collab refers to me chicken scratching a lay out on paper and Eric waving a magic wand to make it the delectable creation you are about to vote on

† this dog is awesome though:

It's this product I saw sold on late-ish night tv a few years ago. It was a make up/make over kit where this like fat white chick was hawking it and it basically was a way to look "younger" and "sexy" but really all it was, was a kit and instructions to make yourself have that porn star make up. I need to know the name of it for something I'm writing. Most you indie dorks hopefully have no clue what I'm talking about as it's awful but maybe one of you knows.

Skip to 2:45 if you don't like to watch people saying awesome hilarious things.

She had a really bad headache early this morning and when she woke up she felt fine but then she started having difficulty talking. She's been in the ER since 8am PST and they couldn't find bleeding on the X-ray so they're waiting for MRI results.

Please send out positive waves or whatever it is you do. I wish I could go home =/

There's nothing about this I don't like.

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I have a coworker who is a very serious Christian. Somehow aliens came up and he said it was inconsistent with the Bible and that if aliens ever visited he would abandon his faith. I thought this was interesting. Any other Christians who believe in aliens? Why or why not?