Post #10461 by hula hula on Tue, Oct 8, 2002 4:48 PM

here's my 2cents:

A close friend of mine is a huge Buffet fan, she is also into tiki bars, Not particularly (sp) tiki's but bars cuz it fit there style. This is our comman thread, she has evan tried to convert me to the buffet thing, but I cant sit thru the entire CD.Yet she has made copys of all my reggae/jawaiian and lounge music. The point is I respect her intrestes and she is activly absorbing mine,before long she may be a full fledge tikiphile,but if Id snub her from the start there would have been one less tiki fan out there.There seem to be a few sub-groups in tikidom:

1)the hipsters-
generally into the retro lounge sceen/vintage styles etc..
2)old school-
there were there in the hayday
3)rootsman-
into everything polynesian-tiki came into the picture eventually
4)kustom kulture-
these are general greasers were tiki art evoled from the art
5)general fan
just like tikis for what they are
6)tiki bar/buffet
the tiki bar just flow into there style

Im sure theere are more and some overlap each other. Anways the Name of this place is TIki central, not exotica only or carvers only,we ned to embrace all.

BTW i belive buffet tiki is a prankster.