via innumerable people on my flist:

You can boil the Indie Girl down to two words: cultural literacy. Or how about these two: media consumption. As the Gourmet Girl loves food and all that goes with it, the Indie Girl loves media: books, movies, music, and art. The good news is you don’t have to be rich, good-looking, or famous to win this girl’s heart. The bad news is she will judge you based on your music choices, the books you read, and the films you watch.

i have never, to the best of my recollection, started a sentence with “it’s like that one simpsons episode, …”; however, i’ve participated in innumerable conversations that involved such sentences. it’s not that i don’t like the simpsons: i’ve just never really been into watching it unless it’s already on. but this describes most of my television-watching habits, in general. i did find it interesting that the indie girl description is all about the pop culture other than teevee.