Slouchers: The Novelization

Named One of Vultures Top 5 Humor Books of the Year!The novelization to the 1992 Gen X movie SlouchersIt is the early 1990s in Seattle ... and the MTV video for Nirvanas Smells Like Teen Spirit has just premiered the previous week. Lethargy is in the air. Grunge fashion is all the logy rage. Something is brewing beneath these moist overcast Seattle skies.Twenty-two-year-old Willow Montgomery has freshly arrived in town having just graduated from an elite liberal arts college back east.Willow soon befriends a motley crew of twenty-somethings who live in the parking lot next to the alternative record store where she works for $5 an hour a store run by a cantankerous irritable grouchy older man (hes 29) named Skip.Willow wants to desperately capture the brilliance of her generation on her Fuji DS-100 digicam with 3-power zoom (10-byte digital flash-memory card first of its kind) and to have her documentary ultimately broadcast on MTV. What a dream!In the meantime shes dating Toody part-time bike messenger part-time lead singer of the grunge band Thats Your Problem.But theres a new man in town Mr. Straight an important businessman who works downtown and who also has eyes for Willow after having met her while buying a Best Of Aerosmith CD at Skips store.Whom will Willow choose? The Grunger or the Straight? The man who digs this new music called grunge or the one who still listens to classic rock? Will she achieve any semblance of happiness? Will she continue to work a minimum McJob for the rest of her life or can she somehow achieve her artistic goals as lofty as they might be?Will the Lost Boys and Girls as they call themselves ever leave the parking lot to achieve their own dreams?Moreover will the famous inventor of the hacky sack ever arrive at the parking lot in a stretch limousine like hes promised?Lastly: Is it true that the worlds most famous MTV VJ Tabitha is coming to Seattle to host the first Great MTV Grunge Off competition to be filmed for live TV for all the world to see?!Its 1992 in Seattle and the world is about to change forever. Or maybe not.Regardless: Its all about the look ... its all about the collective alienation ... its all about the deep-seated delicious apathy ...Its all about ... Slouchers.