Post #377274 by Mongoloid on Wed, Apr 30, 2008 1:29 PM

I had a buddy come over last weekend who i had not seen in about 2 years and actually sat in my place and looked around at my Shag prints, tiki mugs, rattan furniture, Bosko masks, Hula lamp, Moai head tiki lights and carved tikis i was playing exotica music with the Martini Kings burlesque dvd playing in the backround on the tv and i explained the Tiki Oasis event. He sounded really jazzed on the niche and good vibed environment and it seemed to click about why it is that i surround my self in my own personal paradise. His girlfriend came over and he tried to explain to her Tiki Oasis as if to get her excited about it, but the translation had already been lost and she just kind of nodded but just shrugged it off and kind of tuned him out. There are only a select few that are actually tuned in, that know the history of events, locations, carvers, artists and characters of this little thing we call tiki. So for that being said i dont really see a mass awareness of our counter culture, for the most part people will just get a glimpse and move on, maybe not sure of what moved them about it until a later time when the spark that was lit by that exposure turns into an inferno.