"It’s the first time I’ve thought about what an important American archetype the diner waitress is, almost as ubiquitous as the cowboy, the cheerleader and the policeman. Sometimes she’s beautiful and sometimes she’s motherly - but she’s always street smart and careworn." --Mike Haggerty
There's something startingly familiar in this woman's smile and illusory landscape (look-closer) behind her. They are encounters of this kind that spur funny sensations, perhaps each time, I return to the States.
Graphic Designer Mike Haggery and Art Director Mike Doud took the title "Breakfast in America", Super Tramp's first album after settling in the U.S., and spun it into visual paragrams.
You might consider, it's an accurate way to represent the idea of popular culture by illustrating a chipper face ready to take your order; after all, that is what we choose to think of America, the one we've grown to love since little children, and where all is possible if you don't mind being served up by a pudgy waitress.
At the end of the day, It's America's favorite passtime: to have our coffee cup filled again, refuse desert (because we've had plenty already), and be encouraged to tell nonsense jokes in public.
Read on: http://sleevage.com/supertramp-breakfast-in-america/
Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBYAivyxIDU&feature=related
Album: Breakast in America Artist Supertramp Cover Artists : Mike Doud, Mike Haggerty, Aaron Rapoport
Record Label : A&M Year 1979
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IVE ALWAYS LOVED THE GUNS AND ROSES APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION ALBUM COVER THE FIVE SKELETON FACES ON THE CROSS. IT TRUELY SYMBOLIZED THE TYPE OF MUSICIANS THAT THEY WERE AND THE TYPE OF MUSIC THEY HAD PRODUCED ON THAT PARTICULAR ALBUM. THEY WERE ALL SELF DESTRUCTING (DRUGS, ALCOHOL). THEY WERE THE WALKING DEAD. THE FIVE SKELETON FACES DRESSED ACCORDINGLY TO ALL THE BAND MEMBERS, ON A CROSS. A TRUE REPRESENTATION OF WHAT YOU WOULD FIND INSIDE
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