Would you prefer Tiki as 'mainstream' or 'underground'? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Jul 26, 2009 10:36 PM On 2009-07-26 22:18, Beach Bum Scott wrote: Well I guess this thread is kind of a moot point now that we have seen Snoop using Tiki and Mugs as advertising for his upcoming tour. http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=33041&forum=1&7 As dad used to say "you can want in in hand and ....." I can't take offence to, "Don't confuse Tiki with Lounge. Two different things. Tiki is fat middle age guys in Hawaiian shirts, Loungers wouldn't be caught dead in that scene." Seeing as I am a "fat middle age guy" at least I knew/listened to the Rat Pack and the like long before all the posers/wannabe's saw that "Swingers" movie. Haha, it's good to see that there are still some hardcore loungers around. I still see punks on Hollywood Boulevard too. Like I said: I think Snoop barely even knows what a Tiki mug is. When you see Tiki popping up in unusual places, it is most often the graphic designer who snuck it in there. The artists are the people who brought Tiki "back into the mainstream", because they were inspired by it creatively -and that's a good thing. And Lounge AND Tiki are both a form of ancestor worship: Realizing that our parents'/grandparents' scene wasn't so uncool after all. And our folks came in all sizes, in both scenes.

On 2009-07-26 22:18, Beach Bum Scott wrote:
Well I guess this thread is kind of a moot point now that we have seen Snoop using Tiki and Mugs as advertising for his upcoming tour.
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=33041&forum=1&7

As dad used to say "you can want in in hand and ....."

I can't take offence to,
"Don't confuse Tiki with Lounge. Two different things. Tiki is fat middle age guys in Hawaiian shirts, Loungers wouldn't be caught dead in that scene."
Seeing as I am a "fat middle age guy" at least I knew/listened to the Rat Pack and the like long before all the posers/wannabe's saw that "Swingers" movie.

Haha, it's good to see that there are still some hardcore loungers around. I still see punks on Hollywood Boulevard too.
Like I said:
I think Snoop barely even knows what a Tiki mug is. When you see Tiki popping up in unusual places, it is most often the graphic designer who snuck it in there. The artists are the people who brought Tiki "back into the mainstream", because they were inspired by it creatively -and that's a good thing.
And Lounge AND Tiki are both a form of ancestor worship: Realizing that our parents'/grandparents' scene wasn't so uncool after all. And our folks came in all sizes, in both scenes.

Post #471978 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jul 26, 2009 10:36 PM