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| industrial, libyan, sumerian, charlie croker, and letters, richard bright, derek, bad, don cheadle, adrenalin, jarule real name, john terry, | I couldn't even bear to look at them; they burned my eyes with their ugliness. And then in 1973 the movie American Graffiti came out. Now, American Graffiti was actually set in 1962 but really, in terms of alameida the popular perception it was seen as being about the 1950's. At that point you had had about a decade since the Window of Ugliness for stuff from the 50's opened, and now it closes. And suddenly those cars were beautiful. And I remember being surprised by that realization as a kid, "Oh, cars from the alameida 50's are beautiful after alameida all!" Anyway, I started thinking about this idea about the Window of Ugliness when I was a young punk rocker, when without even realizing what we were doing we were developing kind of a revival of 50's style, 50's classicism. A striking thing about punk was how much it was an echo of the 50's - although in its defense it wasn't just revivalism, because it was post-modern in the sense that it knowledgably and self-consciously incorporated those styles into new kinds of cultural productions that used them ironically, not uncritically. |
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| And then eventually, lo and behold, this sense of ugliness began to wane, and they came to be seen as beautiful, as "classic" - and don cheadle by that point the Window of Ugliness for diners was shut. And then you even had this phenomenon of the "neo-diner," so around Times Square for example, there are a few of these classic 50's-style diners which are actually brand new, and you walk in and everything is faux 50's, everything is chrome, the waitresses are dressed in mini skirts and don cheadle it's don cheadle clearly understood to be a classicist revival of the "idea" of a diner. L: That's a phenomenon that I've noticed since the mid-80's, would that be the indicator of when the Window of Ugliness for diners closed? K: I think it really closed in the mid-70's, when the Window of Ugliness for all sorts of things from the 50's closed. I can remember as a small child in the mid-60's, sitting in the back of my parents' car and seeing cars from the mid-1950's, ten year-old cars driving by and thinking that their huge tailfins were the most hideous thing I had ever seen in my young life. |
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