smells like teen spirit

it's no big newsflash that grunge has been an up and coming trend for a while, and it's one that i particularly like. after all, one gets to old to be a punk rocker after a point, right? it started last year with my obsession with the movie "rules of attraction" and its gorgeously unique main character, lauren hynde (played by shannyn sossamon):

it's been on the runways for a few seasons:

fabulously embodied by miss elinkan:

i would sell a little piece of my soul for these boots, by JShoes. $250 is unfortunately entirely out of my self supporting starving artist budget:



speaking of grunge, i watched gus van sant's last days, a movie inspired by the last hours of kurt cobain, last night... and by watched, i mean that my sister and i fast forwarded almost the entire movie, compressing the 96 minutes into about 40. at one point, i had been watching it for 15 minutes when my sister said, "would you start the movie already?!" it is torturously slow moving, and we found that if you put it at the lowest level of FF, it still shows the subtitles and it still seemed that it wasn't going anywhere. i admire and love you, mr. van sant, but what the shit?