The combination of alcohol (usually imported, therefore stronger than usual), dancing (all indie kids dance at some point during the night) and all the general merriment combine to make the worst feeling in the world the next day. So, when you wake up with that feeling that makes you want to hurl yourself on front of a truck filled with Amy Winehouse CD's, here's a few things that can help:
1. Sleep
Not The Big Sleep, but regular sleep. Sleep is the indie way. When not lounging around your favorite coffee shop, record store or book shop, or enjoying the latest film to come out of northern Sweden sleep is the distraction of choice. Coupled with some motilium beforehand, sleep is the most effective weapon in the indie arsenal against indie hangovers.
2. Music
Sun Kil Moon, Sigur Rós, Sparklehorse and the likes. Anything acoustic will do, or with nice jangly electric guitars. Nice music can take your mind off anything, including an incapacitating pain in your head and/or stomach.
3. Food
Ok, so you've managed to drag yourself out of bed and have a shower, but when then? Pop down to your kitchen or failing that your local café. If you can stomach it (and the motilium should have helped) some nice coffee, tea and breakfast. The nice ambiance of an indie coffee emporium should help awake those senses and get you ready for the day ahead.
Today's snaps belong to the following... The café one is from Danielle Blue, indie awesome photographer from Baltimore. The CD collection belongs to White Plains, NY resident Joe Mad. The photo of The Big Sleep is Jonathan Feinstein's who is an awesome band photographer (check his stuff on flickr).
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