Post #335880 by POCKETIKI on Mon, Oct 1, 2007 5:00 PM

On 2007-09-26 22:12, bigbrotiki wrote:
Keep it coming here, Jim, pics and all....

I just got this e-mail this morning (I am staying at Jochen's), and I must still be feeling a little weak from the 23 year old Ron Zacapa and the Partagas we had last night, because it made me cry a little...

I'm not surprised the email brought tears to your eyes Sven, they must have been tears of pride! I'm still looking forward to sitting down in my lounge with Augie Colon's 'Sophisticated Savage' playing on my record player, a trusty Mai-Tai at my side and slowly wading out into the deep blue waters of TIKI MODERN! Right now, I'm still teasing myself with it, like some horny teenager discovering that he likes the girl across he road, but hasn't found the bottle to make the move! When I do I know the timing will be right and I'll enjoy it all the more, it'll have to be soon though, before I come over all unnecessary!!

We knew Berlin was a bonafide tiki town (city!) when we discovered one of the locals hiding behind a drainpipe!

Here's a few pics of the 'Berlin Bash'.

Here are our friends and travelling companions Chris (far left) & Liz (far right) and our new found German friends Andy & Carola (in the middle).

Great hooking up with 'Our Man in Paris!' Virani again!

My god is that a suede jacket you're wearing mon ami?!! Very 1970s!

HULAPUNK played a great set of old punk favo(u)rites, which I know Sven would have enjoyed, being he is as old as dirt like me and, do you know, we remember punk first time round! It really was GREAT seeing them again!!

They also had them laughing in the isles. Damn!...I wish I knew what they were laughing about? Not Virani's jacket I hope!

Then of course Sven used both Sian and I, jumping on the success of POCKETIKI Magazine, to get a bit of FREE publicity for his new book...Oh, is there no shame left in the world?

The evening was a great success what with seeing Jochen's amazing movie, albeit the 60 minute version. To be honest, if that was all there was it'd get an Oscar from us anyway! The full length version will blow you away for sure! Congratulations on an epic adventure Jochen! I'm already looking forward to 'Part Two'!

I must apologise to the barman of the evening, whose Aloha-Luau bar we retired to after the show, for not remembering his name. Shame on me! I'm sure someone can enlighten me, especially as I enjoyed many of his Mai-Tais!! When in Berlin, check out his bar, it is going to be famous one day!

Also a HUGE MAHALO to Lurker the man behind the tour and all round 'nice guy'! We'll be in touch for sure.

The following day we headed out to the Berlin Ethnologisches Museum in the western part of Berlin.

The reason we missed you Sven, was that we didn't get up til gone mid-day on Sunday! Boy those 'Saturday Night Special' cocktails were good! Hic!

What we saw in the exhibition, and the museums own collection, will fuel my passion for tiki to the day I die! AWESOME is just so inadequate. The SUDSEE Exhibition - 'World of Shadows - Art of the South Pacific' displayed mortuary rituals and ancestor figures from New Ireland. Below are a couple of pics (not too great in quality!). The rest I'll be putting in POCKETIKI (also not too great in quality!).

This is 'Malagan fish with a human figure in its mouth'. A Rockcod carrying the deceased into the after world.

The next is a close up of the head of a Uli figure from the Madak region.

Lastly we have some genuine human skulls! hand painted (definately limited edition!)and 'over modelled' on the right.

Scary or what?!!

Sorry for the delay in putting these pictures up and thanks for hanging in with this, probably too long, post. Hope you enjoyed the pictures at least.

All the Best from Tiki Towers - Trader Jim (Make mine a Mai-Tai at the Aloha-Luau Bar!).