Post #201508 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Dec 3, 2005 10:57 PM

Uh..yeah. Very constructive pranksterism again there, midnite-

But what about the Palo Alto Trader Vic's? Is it not too refined? I love museums with authentic primitive art well displayed, but I wish I would have been able to have seen the early Oceanic collections in the first museums, just after the turn of the century, which were:

"...much closer to being a very small and overcrowded depot where some of the most surprising productions ever conceived by the human spirit had been hastily laid out without rhyme or reason..."

It was these assemblages that exuded a mysterious and exotic atmosphere that inspired the moderns, like Picasso, to re-create the notion of what art was:

"...as he entered the Trocadero (earliest Anthropology Museum in Paris) rooms alone, the repulsive atmosphere of the place prompted the wish to flee, and at the same time something irresistibly attracted him- It was disgusting, the Flea Market, the smell..: I wanted to get out of there. I didn't leave. I stayed. I stayed...something was happening...it was very important...I suddenly realized WHY I WAS A PAINTER !"

Now while we cannot expect every Tiki bar to have this climactic effect on everyone of us, it would be desirable that a sense of mystery and fantasy would be brought out by the right balance of decor, drinks and music, which COULD bring us closer to, if even for a moment, appreciate the mysteries of creation.

It's that kind of mumbo jumbo voodoo that made me write my book. So there.