Post #336313 by Psycho Tiki D on Wed, Oct 3, 2007 6:48 PM

On 2007-10-03 12:01, PeleeTiki wrote:
I was mildly surprised to find this thread and read it with interest. As an avid buffet fan, who does attend his shows and a relative newcomer to the T.C. I find it a little strange and frankly a bit snobbish to read through some of these posts. I was at the J.B. Chicago show at Wrigley just after Katrina and witnessed a great show, conducted by a talented showman. Nothing more or less. I am a little apalled by the reaction of some..."I would jump over the bar and strangle him"....
Maybe you have bigger issues than what is "Tiki".
Grow up people. Enjoy your hobby, that's all this is. It isn't any more real than the illusion a parrot head, dead head or Nascar fan conforms to. So you have a couple good books B.O.T. and T.M. to give you cultural identity (I own both). I also own a couple great J.B. books, including a couple great children's stories.
I would like to think that the few of you I single out as "haters" on this thread don't speak for the majority. You have spoiled a bit of the fun I was having with this by rearing your ugly voices and trying to label a Buffet fan as some iconoclast... (look it up and please shut up)

Iconoclast:
One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
One who destroys sacred religious images.

Rock on with your bad self. Believe you me, there are many things I like that other people would find appalling. Why just the other day, our neighbor from across the street came over to bring us some tomatoes from her garden. We asked her to come in and when she saw the living room decked out in tiki and the like, her only expression was "Oh, my". I could see the horror in her eyes.

In my previous posts I never once said I hated Jimmy Buffet. Just don't care for this style of music.

Sometimes when you scan the posts on a thread, you actually have to "read" into what someone is saying.

I actually admire and give him credit for what he has accomplished. I just don't seem understand how you want to compare Jimmy Buffet to cultural identity in a tiki genre. Even Marilyn Manson has fans that could speak volumes of Marilyn Manson's music, lyrics and the effect it has on their outlook on life, but much like Jimmy Buffet, not my cup of tea. For me, it is like comparing a McDonald's hamburger to a Kobe steak.

I have absolutely no doubt that if I ever(god forbid)attended a Jimmy Buffet concert I would be surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands of diehard fans having a hell of a good time. I just don't equate Jimmy Buffet to the tiki lifestyle and don't foresee in the next two decades showing fellow collectors of tiki or Polynesian genre my Jimmy Buffet collection when they come over to see what I have collected and displayed.

moondog426, maybe you will change my when you give me that CD you promised me, but until then, at least in this area, I will remain a "tiki snob" or perhaps a "TIKI SOB". :)

Psycho Tiki D (I know I am and I know I am no Iconoclast and no hater either)!

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2007-10-03 19:09 ]