Swinging bachelors and dimmer switches

This name makes me happy.

i. she was a model and kept a naked picture of herself on the mantelpiece (i saw it when i was shown round the house as a potential buyer: the estate agent — who wz abt 15 — got very overexcited)
ii. he was some kind of bohemian musician AND a real live prince acc.the mail i had to forward (though i think a prince of somewhere small and far which no longer gave a fuck for v.minor royalty) (i got the flat cheap cz they were fleeing the polltax so he was obv not rolling in wealth) (or just v.mean)
iii. they had a giant double bed built of SCAFFOLDING!! (oddly enough however in the bedroom no dimmer switch was installed)
iv. the dimmed lights are the main overhead lights, so the "suave bachelor" effect does not really kick in

they also built a wardrobe out of old doors and put the bath and the sink on a kind of wooden plinth

My first instinct was to say this image came from the Bond novels by Ian Fleming: dimmer lights used in shagadelic flat by superspy, along with the bubbly and velvet handcuffs. (However, I'm just riffing off the top of my head.)

Problem is: the dimmer light concept just begs to be parodied, as tis considered to be 70's (and thus dated).

haha also i always imagined bond's own actual flat to be a nightmare of bleak dusty loneliness: he never dared let anyone into his life (after vesper lynd)

and the movies don't really get "austin powers-ish" before diamonds are forever (1972) — except maybe for casino royale? (where it's clearly a joke) (but the woody allen bond might have dimmer switches)

(hmmm, though actually some of the bond VILLAINS have grebt undersea bachelor/world domination pads: starting w.dr no and his aquariums)

Morbius's "pad" in FORBIDDEN PLANET (1954?) has dimmer switches!! They were built by the Krel (who as you will recall destroyed themselves and their civilisation via Monsters from the Id).

Morbius isn't strictly speaking a bachelor (he has a daughter, Altaira, who is the cause of the various human Monsters from the Id which begin bounding about).

Anyway style of the Krel abode was much copied (for example by those gadabout hipsters the Tracys of Tracy Island!!)

Can see that, but then you would have to add in the fact that the pod is floating in space, miles from nowhere. Mostly, the common idea of the bachelor pad is for it to be accessible to the young lovelies.

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").

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...)

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