Nineties Teen

At my parents place I came across some of my old photos and diaries and thought they were worth sharing with the whole internet. I was a teen in the nineties, so get ready for a grunge overload!!

Slacker, a defining grunge era film. I believe the film still used with this review is from the 'Madonna pap smear' scene. I haven't seen this film since it was released 20 years ago (JEEEEEZ), but I still remember that scene.

I was a massive Pearl Jam fan.

It was shocking when Kurt Cobain died, but I wasn't that sad about it, which you can tell by the 'RIP Kurt Cobain" followed by 'Yay! It's the weekend!' I went to a friends house that evening and one of the boys was hiding in the bedroom crying. We were a bit mean about that, because we were terrible immature teens. I was more upset when River Phoenix died.

One of my pals, rocking the Bjork do. So Nineties!

Lyrics to the song Super Brian Krakow, by the band Krakow, which was me and my friend Debbie.

I was also a massive Lemonheads fan.

The article says Courtney is filming an 'arty' movie, where she plays a prostitute. I think the film was Basquiat. I don't think her character was a prostitute though.

No one was cooler than Drew Barrymore in the Nineties. I mean, could any actress today get away with flashing a talkshow host, and still be the COOLEST GIRL IN THE WORLD??

Elastica !

'Nineties teen bedroom with school blazer'.

And here I am a bit later on in my room at one of my flats while at University. I rememebr those New Balance sneakers! I wore them every day.

Youth in Revolt

Seen via Andrea Inspired, how amazing are these LIFE magazine photos titled: Teenage Wasteland: Japanese Youth in Revolt, 1964. (such a good title, I'm itching to add an exclamation mark after it, but that would be wrong)

"Kako, languid from sleeping pills she takes, is lost in a world of her own in a jazz shop in Tokyo."

"The teen in the center is the 17-year-old leader of a pill-popping crew of jazz fans"

"They find violent release in homegrown Japanese Beatles."
 

"[Yoko] often ends her long nights sprawled on a futon in a friend's room."