Tiki Sadness - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Jun 5, 2004 2:12 AM I am totally into that part of Tiki culture, obviously. I tried to make that clear in the foreword to Tiki Road Trip, that one has to appreciate it's atmosphere of temps perdu, of Paradise Lost. Another one of my favourite pop cultures are 60s Samurai movies (NOT the "Last Samurai"), and here is my favourite quote about the vanished culture of the Samurai, it contains all this kind of sadness about the lost grandeur of a people and the their futile attempts to endure: "In the changing of the times, they were like autumn lightning, an empty promise of rain, falling unheeded on fields already bare." How about that for sadness...sigh...great!

I am totally into that part of Tiki culture, obviously. I tried to make that clear in the foreword to Tiki Road Trip, that one has to appreciate it's atmosphere of temps perdu, of Paradise Lost.

Another one of my favourite pop cultures are 60s Samurai movies (NOT the "Last Samurai"), and here is my favourite quote about the vanished culture of the Samurai, it contains all this kind of sadness about the lost grandeur of a people and the their futile attempts to endure:

"In the changing of the times, they were like autumn lightning, an empty promise of rain, falling unheeded on fields already bare."

How about that for sadness...sigh...great!

Post #94746 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jun 5, 2004 2:12 AM