Swinging bachelors and dimmer switches

Thankyouthankyou, mark s, for the Forbidden Planet reference! It's been so long since I've seen it, I don't remember what Morbius's digs were like. Must rent immediately. (Must also look up the usage history of the term "bachelor pad.")

I don't really know where I'm going with all this--it's in the connected-seeming ideas bumping together phase. The pod/pad thing may be too much of a tangent away from dimmer switches...though something might be made of the inaccessibilty to the young lovelies (aliens aside): the space capsule is the bachelor pad with the entrance sealed--sexuality is located in a determinate elsewhere ("Tell my wife I love her very much" "She knows").

Also: I would very much like to have a bed made of scaffolding, I think.

isn't the full phrase "space age bachelor pad"? when did the phrase "space age" start? (guess: w.jfk and the "new frontier")

i have to hurry off to ptee's b'day FAP this second, but the early harbinger of this idea outside movies = LP covers of a certain kind of seduction-music EZ listening, no? Lookable up in "Re/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Music Vols 1&2"?

i will also rewatch forbidden planet and report on its decor (sight and sound once did a feature on space-movie fashion design, which dwelt on FP extensively...)

I think "space age" and "bachelor pad" are both Kennedy-era terms, but "Space-age Bachelor Pad Music" was just coined about ten years ago to give a genre name to the newly-collectible lounge stuff that people were digging up in thrift stores.

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Jane and Michael Stern's 60s People has a chapter on swinging bachelors.