Puzzle Description:

"Smells like teen spirit." Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of Nirvana. Reference is to a hit song familiar to those of Generation X, and baby boomers like me.

#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jan 18, 2010 [SPOILER]

The close up is from a hulu.com ad for a documentary about the rock star's death.

http://come-over.to/puzzles/KurtCobain.jpg

And of course I have to include a link to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

Here's a bit of trivia from Wikipedia: "Cobain came up with the song's title when his friend Kathleen Hanna, at the time the lead singer of the Riot Grrrl punk band Bikini Kill, spray painted "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" on his wall. Since they had been discussing anarchism, punk rock, and similar topics, Cobain interpreted the slogan as having a revolutionary meaning. What Hanna actually meant, however, was that Cobain smelled like the deodorant Teen Spirit, which his then-girlfriend Tobi Vail wore. Cobain later claimed that he was unaware that it was a brand of deodorant until months after the single was released."

Thanks for the link. It helped me see the image more clearly. The left half was easy. The right half made me work more. Lots of fun to solve.

Thanks, Adam.

ditto #3 on the solving. Nice image and interesting trivia. :)

Thanks, Telly.

I'm not a Gen-Xer or a baby boomer but I still remember that song (I was in grade school).

Oh my gosh, another generation grew up while I wasn't looking! Would that be Generation Y? And look, here comes Generation Z! I am getting so old.

Wiki tells me that Generation Y is also known as Generation Next or the Millennials and that Generation Z are the Digital Natives.

what will the generation after z be called? aa? lol no they'll name them something more obscure like the digital natives. I personally don't like that name and I don't know why.

What is this?

Look at the first link. It's a close up of Kurt Cobain.

good solve. whenever i see the words "that smell", i think of the song "that smell" by lynyrd skynyrd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6q9nBusrq8

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