Indie Rock My Valentine

Well I don't have a "valentine" but I love you all. And I'm not sure if I had a girlfriend I would even celebrate this "holiday". The things people do to celebrate Valentine's day are literally things they should be doing like every other weekend or so. It's a shame if you can only get it up once a year buddy.

Now, I shall woo you with my "would be" Valentine playlist!

(not ALL these are "indie" and/or "rock" but most are)

"Burn, Don't Freeze" - Sleater-Kinney
"Arrow" - Tegan & Sara
"Electric Feel" - MGMT
"Lost Without You" - Robin Thicke
"Valentine" - Kina Grannis
"Love Gun" - The Cliks
"Lay Lady Lay" - Bob Dylan
"I Want You" - The Beatles
"Autograph" - Sick of Sarah
"Sex Type Thing" - Stone Temple Pilots
"And I" - Ciara
"Your Little Secret" - Melissa Etheridge
"I Can Be" - Aaliyah
"Dance With Me" - Hot Hot Heat
"What It Is To Burn" - Finch
"Catch & Release" - Silversun Pickups
"Skin On Skin" - Queens of the Stone Age
"Hold The Door" - Armor For Sleep
"Ocean Avenue" - Yellowcard
"Still In Love" - The Stills

ok....so all these aren't exactly "love" songs. But they express what we are feeling at any given moment around this time: love, lust, anger, regret and frustration. This post is for everyone, not just those in love.

So check out these songs. Maybe you'll just fall in love with your ipod all over again. When's the last time you showed your itunes some appreciation? Told it to play something new? Well me and my Walkman have a hot date! Later days dudes!

Internet Compensation

I'm not going to go on a long rant about lesbians/bisexuals not being represented in the media, mainly because I strongly feel Sarah Warn has taken care of that. But I do feel like lesbians are the dirty little secret of the media. Only being able to show ourselves through the world of "www dot". Like we're well hidden. We're not on Gossip Girl, 90210, or Private Practice, o no! We're not obvious, we're tucked away. We have to be scoped out manually through laptops, desktops and iphones. We have to be searched. We have to be downloaded. We have to be written in shows created by us and for us. We don't stream in the mainstream, we stream over the web in streaming video.

It's a small world but at least it's ours. We've claimed it, and Afterellen is our kingdom, with more lesbian media in one place than probably any other website has "straight" media. I mean props to AE right, have you checked the "video" section? But it's sad because straight people aren't going to look for us there or on any other website, which is why we're not seen in the media cause everything about us apparently remains foreign to them.

So now what? We just have to remain content with cyber visibility? Perhaps, here are some of my favorites:

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