You Need to Know Lindi Ortega

I first heard Lindi Ortega via Myspace (yeah, I just dated myself a little) on a Monday in January 2006 ... two days later I was seated in a tattoo parlor having her lyrics ("It could be worse... You could be feeling nothing at all) injected into my veins (sort of quite literally).

Lindi has all the makings of a star: great voice, awesome look, talent.

Lindi is also very real. I'm writing this after watching videos she has posted on her YouTube, photos I've seen on her Facebook. I love that though we've never met, all because of her music, the internet, and/or because I spontaneously decided her words need to be with me forever, no matter how blurry the lines become over the years, we have become what I think of as friends, in a sense.

So, I'm raising my Dia de los Muertos flask full of Jack Daniels to one incredible chica. Here's to you, lady! *clink*