Post #290656 by BryanDeanMartin on Thu, Mar 8, 2007 10:05 PM

Probably my roots of this started in the 70s as a kid in San Diego...my mom had one of those 70s houses, with the macrame plants and black velvet paintings and beads in the doorway and all that. Around 7 I went to Disneyland and the Enchanted Tiki Room stuck with me...then I hit the teens and took a detour through being goth and all that. After leaving my worthless exwife I knew I was done crawling through cemeteries all the time and decided to go back to my roots, more or less...starting with rockabilly and swing and branching out from there. Eventually I rediscovered some old Ventures records my Mom had given me and then about 5 years ago stumbled onto a 7" single of Martin Denny's Quiet Village/Llama Serenade that I had in my possession. Around this time I bought Shag's Bottomless Cocktail book...and the rest became slowly growing collection of tiki mugs, exotika and loungy cds & records and beach party movies....

And finally taking a Valentines date to Sams Seafood (3 times) definitely sealed the deal...

[ Edited by: BryanDeanMartin 2007-03-08 22:07 ]