Chuck Klosterman on Reality Bites

“Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawke)?

Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994:

She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.”

- Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Here is Ethan Hawke and his planet of regret.

Sometimes the 90s were wonderful

By Francesco Clemente

From Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations, 1998.

You take up my time
Like some cheap magazine
When I could have been learning something
Oh well, you know what I mean, oh
I’ve done this before
And I will do it again
Come on and kill me baby
While you smile like a friend
Oh and I’ll come running
Just to do it again…
Let me tell you now:
it’s lucky for you that we’re friends

Listen through to the end on this one; it’s worth it.

That scene from Before Sunrise