Post #62721 by Geeky Tiki on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 8:47 PM

Oh, cripes.

Enough of the moaning and groaning!

Tiki is in and of itself a modern bastardization of something that never existed.

Tiki is a tongue in cheek rip off of what was regarded as charmingly 'primitive' when the modern age was hitting this country with Formica and rayon.

There is nothing pure to preserve, ya think the frigging natives in Polynesia debated rayon vs. polyester, or the value of a stupid mug?!?

This whole hobby is artificial!

Folks, glass floats were never intended at any time to be your ceiling lamps. The original Trader Vic's was never intended to foster appreciation of Polynesian lifestyles, it was a play on the racist views of Polynesia as a place of rampant libido and drunken misbehavior.

Exotica was a style of music that loser guys thought would get them laid.

Tiki is the equivalent of a loser in a velvet smoking jacket and cherrywood pipe thinking he looks sophisticated.

It's not sophisticated, it's camp.

You can't fuckin' preserve what was meant as cheeky affectation to begin with.

If you think digging Tiki is a somehow philosophically pure or superior pursuit, then you are as pitiful as a Parrot head who thinks playing Buffet CD's at full blast is appealing to the opposite sex.

Just stop it.

It's gotten to the point where we have some Noel Coward wanna-be putting in faux stage directions getting credibility!!!

It is a sad commentary on Tiki to think that some guy who types like Jeremy Irons playing Claus Von Bulow gets play like he actually gets anything.

Sorry for the rant.

No offense, Svend, your posts are very cute.

[ Edited by: Geeky Tiki on 2003-11-30 20:49 ]