Why a Once-Hated 1980s Design Movement Is Making a Comeback

“Although you know it when you see it, it's hard to accurately describe Memphis design without resorting to specific 1980s pop cultural references. It's Pee-Wee's Playhouse meets Miami Vice. It's Saved By The Bellplus Beetlejuice. And it's all coming back, in a very big way.

There's an American Apparel line featuring those squiggly graphics. New furniture directly inspired by those outrageous postmodern vibes. An entire show during New York's Design Week that seemed to be ripped from a 1986 copy of Vogue. The world is looking a whole lot more like Delia Deetz's living room these days.”

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Go back to the 80s with Tuesday Nights in 1980, available April 2016!

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“The last decade of our pop culture pantheon is teeming with unlikable men that we’re fans of — but unlikable women? That’s a whole other conversation. Pop culture seems totally fine with giving the thumbs up to guys like Don Draper and Walter White, but Betty and Skyler? They get derided and crucified. Men can be unlikable while women are unforgivable. This is interesting discrepancy to keep top of mind when cracking open Jessica Knoll’s Luckiest Girl Alive.”

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Before he made it big in Holloywood, actor, writer and comedian Patton Oswalt was a junkie — addicted to movies, as he explains in a new memoir, Silver Screen Fiend.

The word addiction gets thrown around a lot, but Oswalt tells NPR’s Arun Rath that his relationship to movies was downright pathological.

"If you’re looking at the definition of addiction, it controls your schedule, it controls your life, it affects your relationships, it affects your job, it affects your career," Oswalt says. "My compulsion to go see every single movie that I possibly could operated exactly the way that an addiction does."

One year in the 1990s, he saw over 250 films just in theaters — plus more on videotape and on Turner Classic Movies. “It was really biting hours and days out of my life,” he says.

Our own Linda Holmes has this to say about Silver Screen Fiend:

Perhaps it’s surprising that one of the best things about Silver Screen Fiend is that Oswalt doesn’t always seem very likable in it. The easiest way to enjoy a memoir, at times, is when it makes a famous person seem like an awesome best friend you’d love to have. Patton Oswalt, on the other hand, in his own stories, can seem not just prickly, but full of explanations of things he’s learned to rise above: hack comedy by people who are successful but untalented, inferior art, boring people, uncool venues (“giggle-shack” is his most devastating putdown). The book is not an argument for his personable nature, as books by famous people often are.

You can find Oswalt’s interview with Arun Rath here, and Linda’s essay here.

— Petra

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Silver Screen Fiend is available January 6, 2015.

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The Dylanologists by David Kinney, is a soulful and poignant exploration of the origins and meaning of fandom, the healing power of art, and the importance of embracing what moves you, whatever that may be.

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Who do you relate to? The hero or the villain? Follow this flow-chart and tell us where you land!

In I Wear the Black Hat, Chuck Klosterman questions the modern understanding of villainy. Releases July 9.

#Chuck Klosterman #pop culture #non-fiction #heroes #villains #flowchart #I wear the black hat

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“Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness.”

Coming July 9 . . . I WEAR THE BLACK HAT by Chuck Klosterman

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