nowhere

I always describe Nowhere to potential viewers like this: it's the biggest party of the year...and it's also the end of the world...and it's 90s L.A. (exaggerated).
I posted a blog about Nowhere earlier this summer but it got deleted in my tirade against my own writing. I feel like since i started posting blogs again I should represent this movie. I think it's under-appreciated. If you like trashy over the top, overly styled movies about shallow people being stupid and shallow[with a decent soundtrack(hendrix necro by Sonic Youth makes an appearance in one scene)];Nowhere is the movie for you(me). There are too many great lines/So much annoyingly fast paced editing/90s colored wigs-all topped off with one of my favorite endings ever. Even if you can't watch the whole movie. Watch the ending. Try not to make yourself look silly by caring about these characters, don't be deterred if you don't care about them. I don't even Know if Gregg Araki likes them...and he created them.

I used to watch it on late night cable throughout high school. When i first saw it in early high school I had no idea what to make of it. I knew i liked it...but normal standards of taste demanded that i shouldn't like it. Worst part was that i couldn't stop watching it whenever it was on tv. Then worse than that after I saw it the upteenth time. I had to admit to myself that I loved it. It took a while...and i didn't want it to...but i knew it was the truth.

It's not available on region 1 dvd which is lame...but i have it on VHS...which is cool too. I'm really psyched to see gregg araki's new movie Kaboom. It's supposed to be a throw back to this[and the other movies in his 'teen apocalypse trilogy'(Totally fucked up, The Doom Generation, Nowhere)]

some of my favorite lines:
"I'm just gonna do a bunch of speed later and not eat for like three days."
"She has gained like ten pounds in one week.-I warned her not to stop doing crystal."
this entire conversation:


plus everyone is in it[shown with a song by The the]:












this is the final/best scene in the entire movie. If you don't like spoilers don't watch. This i feel like would make someone want to watch the movie more than seeing the opening credits[which is the only scene in the movie that i find taxing(james duvall masterbating in the shower to slowdive)]. WATCH THIS SCENE. IT IS AWESOME.