Post #404194 by Jimzip on Tue, Aug 26, 2008 1:01 PM

I'm 24, living in a place that's quite a ways from anything tropical, so I've had to create my own little oasis!

I've been into tiki for a long time, since my brother and I used to carve tiki-faces into the soap and (much to mum's dislike) the brickwork around the house... but I didn't know there was an actual tiki subculture until two years ago or so when I found my first exotica album... mmmm... exotica...

Anyway! I'm about the only person I know here in Vancouver that's into tiki, my friends think I'm weird, they just don't get it (yet), and the neighbours are scared of all the tiki masks and palm trees in my apartment - but I'm loving it. :) I'm hoping to educate some of them on the magic that is the tiki lifestyle, but it's difficult in a world of Britney and CNN!

On a sidenote, I ran into an old school friend from Australia recently, who stepped into my apartment and exclaimed: "Oh my god... TIKI." Then told me how much he loved it all. I'm sending him some stuff in the mail to kickstart his tiki-journey this evening!

Jimzip :D

[ Edited by: Jimzip 2008-08-26 13:04 ]