I have a fever.
Which is maybe imbuing everything with a slightly ghoulish glow.
When I ordered samples of 3/8″ double cell room darkening shades last week, I didn’t give the color names a second thought…
They came in the mail today. So I’m sorting through them: Stucco, sure. Soapstone, okay. Linen. Parchment. But, Altamont?
They’re going to give that color a name that conjures up not only a notorious instance of savage racially-motivated violence, but also the symbolic end of the 60’s? The moment when it all came crashing down? The limits of idealism and sunshiney dreams… dead-eyed meth heads and Hell’s Angels… the dawn of the 70’s???
Or does Altamont have other connotations?
Anyhow, as much as I like that particular cool white–one might even go so far as to say pale grey–I’m going to have to pass on it. I mean, obviously!
One Response to “I have a fever.”
1 Marconi Plays the Mamba 20 June 2007 @ 5:24 pm
A good friend of mine used to work at a paint store. I once got her to mix a gallon of blue paint up for me, it wasn’t until I got home that I realized she had labeled it “Smurf Fingerfuck.”
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