Post #233224 by Tipsy McStagger on Sun, May 21, 2006 5:44 PM

On 2006-05-21 08:36, jpmartdog wrote:
Cheap, cheap, cheap - I'm sooooo sick of that word - the problem with our industrialized, homogenized, capitalized United States , is that everyone is looking to buy something cheap!!!!!!
As an artist, I am sooo disappointed that you would prefer to load your home with Cheap imitation rather than support an ongoing revitalization and reincarnation of a culture of the past - where plastic and mass-production barely existed. Save your money - I understand the mindset that you can't afford the real thing so might as well shlock it up with mass produced crap - but allow the genre to have a little dignity. Save your money and support artists - who create it the old way.
Bamboo ben, crazy al, flounder, etc. etc. etc. could create a meaningful and rewarding environment for you to share and entertain your friends with, that would last for years. I am a mural artist and would love to enliven, invigorate and transform your 'lounge' into an adventure. This is not about promoting me though, this is about promoting a culture, an era - that is continually replaced by plastic, condos and walmarts.... and party cities. Buying this stuff because it is cheap - ultimately cheapens the genre in the eyes of the next generations. Spend less time in party city and support establishments that support the genre - not those that prostitute it. Did you read that Sam's Seafood of Seal beach is closing this month for more condos. Walk inside before it does and bathe in the WWII creation of an original Tiki Bar. Support it! That's all I have to say and I'm not sorry I said it. Please think about it.

..not bad.....i was screaming the same thing in another thread not too long ago......but watch out!! some folks here, for whatever twisted reason, will find some way to justify their wasting of money on this crap....every dollar one spends on this stuff is casting a vote in hopes that more crap of it's kind will be manufactured in the future.....these people are helping to ruin tiki, not help it, by catering to this stuff from big lots and the party store....some will argue that "well, this is the only tiki stuff i can find because, well, i live in the back of beyond and, well, we don't see alot of tiki here"....-folks, we live in the age of internet!! get online and find the real thing!!! for god sake's, tiki central is loaded with artists, as mentioned above, who are keeping the craft aspect of it alive......if you can't afford it...save your money till you can...