Re: [bomp] twisted retro -- the future is next?

[jumpinginthenight <jumpinginthenight@xxxxxxxxx>]

 In '89, Jim Marshall told me: "if we time this
just right, we can the '90s revival as the '90s
happen." He was stoned at the time....
--- ItsBoss9@aol.com wrote:
> 
> decade   nostalgia caze decade
> 
> 60          20
> 70          40
> 80          60
> 90          70
> 00          90
> 
> obervation.....no nostalgia for the depression.
>  the nostalgia window closes 
> each decade.  by 2080 the nostalgia craze will
> be the last five minutes.
> 
> THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD CHART and almost
> accurate, considering that in the 
> '70s, it was the '50s that saw that nostalgia
> craze (not the '40s... the "Swing" 
> thing didn't hit until the mid-90s).  Becky did
> a cover story on this whole 
> phenomenon for Brandweek a few years back, and
> I'll have to say that in San 
> Francisco, there was an article in the Bay
> Guardian that explained how the release 
> of the Spice Girls movie was the moment when
> people attended it to laugh in 
> retrospect... the moment it came out... i.e.,
> nostalgia and retro caught up with 
> the present when hipsters flocked to the Spice
> Girls movie in order to creep 
> out on the now.
> 
> Domenic Priore
> 
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