It's ok to want to be Juno

Today, my dearest blog reader, I come to you with a defence of indie. Now, as anyone who knows me even slightly knows, i'm a bit of a twee fucker. I knit, drink tea, make cakes and don't leave the tap on whilst brushing my teeth*. I listen to Frightened Rabbit and My Tiny Robots and I go to gigs to dance and they know me by sight if not by name at my favourite cafes. As I type this i'm wearing a jumper and listening to this. The point i'm trying to make, is that people might call me (gasp) a bit of an indie. And I'm happy with that.

I'm writing this defence following something on facebook, isn't it always? But bear with me. The original comment was as thus (spelling and grammar preserved):

HAtes the fact that everyone grows up. What happened to the good old days i still dress and listen to the same music i did 4 years ago. Its seems like if u wanna be a student u have to dress boring or make urself look like a Gochwang man bag indie. God i hate indie people they look like utter knobheads wit thier stupid boots lesbain hair and fat ass glasses !!! i say DEATH TO KINGS OF LEON !!!!!

Yes. Quite. Kings of Leon aside, might I ask what is so good about not growing up at all between the ages of 16 and 20? I don't know about you, but I was a bit of a wanker with questionable dress sense at 16. In fairness, I'm still a bit of a wanker with questionable dress sense, so yes. Actually, come to think of it, this is something of a moot point because i'm largely the same. I was a twee indie fucker at 16 and I still am at 18. So that's a bad point.

But I digress, to return to the defence, I've got lesbian hair and heavy rimmed glasses (they happen to suit my face shape) I live in boots all winter and I own two pairs of grubby converse. I would not be offended if you said I was an indie kid, i'd probably blink owlishly at you over my cup of tea and be shy. (Yay stereotypes!).

I'm not sure what i'm trying to say with this, maybe that if you want to be like the cast of Juno that's cool. Hell, do what you like if you're not forcing it on me. I just don't think it's cool to shout people down and dismiss whole swathes of society because you don't like the way they dress. The poster of this comment is a metal head, I personally think he looks a bit of a twat, but he's a really lovely bloke the rest of the time and so I dismiss it. So maybe that's the message of this blog. Fuck what people look like, just be nice to each other.

*I don't know that caring about the environment is very indie, but you catch my drift?