This type of lounge music takes me to old Julius Shulman photographs of William and Lautner homes in Palm Springs and the San Fernando Valley where maybe after a round at La Quinta or a long cruise up Mullholland Drive you relax in an Eames Chair, put the Tom Collins down on the Saarinen coffee table, grab the misses by the waist and pull her down on top of you to mess up that Bouffant that has just came into fashion followed by a long nude dip in the pool the escape the dry California air. Those amazing early 60's styles of modernism. Think the sets in "2001", the Lever Building on Park Avenue. Think about a time that has now been popularized and obsessed over by the show "Mad Men". When men were still in charge and women didn't mind them having it, when Connery was still Bond, when we where going to the moon and the horizon was truly endless. An amazing time to live and an era that we will probably never see again.
But those days are long gone, if my I grab my secretary's ass I'll go to jail...or actually since he'll probably be a man he might like it. A three martini lunch will have me meeting with the HR director and some courses on alcoholism and sensitivity training. Smoking draws stares and disgusted faces and when I fly my motivation to flirt with stewardess, um flight attendants, is simply not there.
In turn I throw on Martin Denny when I am lounging around my bachelor pad and dream about long afternoons and late nights of martial infidelity that is accepted as common place, of garters being worn for function still as I unstrap each one while cigarette smoke wafts through the air. Present day ideals such as Political Correctness and Diversity disappear from my person canon and I slip back to shag carpeting and cars made of steel.
Was it a better world? Well there was no AIDS but there also wasn't any internet. There was no Islamic Terrorism but then again there was the Soviet Union and while there was no such thing HD TV and a few hundred sports channels there was old Yankee Stadium. I guess I just answered my question.
The house you see pictured was Frank Sinatra's in Palm Springs designed by E Stewart Williams and it can be rented for $2600 a night at the link below. I'll see you by the pool.
http://beaumondevillas.com/california/palm-springs/twin-palms/index.html
