Gen-X!

[NewKindOfHero]

I want to come up with an 'essential Gen-X' thingy for my site. which is exactly what it says on the tin.

Essential literature, music, films, and other stuff for the Gen-Xers.

As a start point, this is what I've come up with...

Lit:

Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Fight Club by Chuck whatshisname.

Music:

Nirvana

Films:

Reality Bites
Slacker
Kevin Smith films, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, etc.

So, let's come up with the definitive list! or not... depending on if we feel like it... whatever

[admin]

lol

Just remember that I'm from Generation When-Dinosaurs-Roamed-the-Earth so my contributions might be suspect.

Lit:

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis (too old?)


Music:

Sub Pop Records, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, R.E.M., The Pixies


Film:

Trainspotting
Dazed and Confused
Nowhere (1997 film - I think everyone hates this but me)
The Doom Generation (another James Duval film)
Singles



I'll post more as I think of 'em.

[NewKindOfHero]

They be some fine choices!

Would Fear and Loathing fit into the Gen-X category, do you think? Both film and book.

[admin]

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
© 1971 by Hunter S. Thompson

That's older than I am!

Disqualified!

Also the back cover has a quote from the NY Times Book Review that sums it up as "The best book of the dope decade." I take that to mean the late '60s - early '70s. I think the loose definition of Generation X refers to people born between 1965 and 1981. [ cite: www.wordiq.com/definition/Generation_X ]

I might allow the movie for the sake of Monsieur Depp but I ain't feelin' it.

[NewKindOfHero]

True, true! I was a bit dubious about Fear & Loathing, anyway.

Technically I'm not Gen X, since I wasn't a teen during the 80's. I read ages ago that it included people born between 1967 and 1977. I'm borderline X/Y, I guess - hence my confusion about stuff! ;D

Any more thoughts on what we should include/exclude?