pThe novelization to the 1992 Gen X movie SlouchersppbrppIt is the early 1990s in Seattle ... and the MTV video for Nirvana's 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.ppTwenty-two-year-old Willow Montgomery has freshly arrived in town, having just graduated from an elite liberal arts college back east.ppWillow 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 he's 29 named Skip.ppWillow 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 ppIn the meantime, she's dating Toody, part-time bike messenger, part-time