So who else here loves and collects tiki stuff?

I got a very cool and very large amber glass tiki mug at the flea market today for $2. Ohio is rather lame in many aspects, but our thrift store and flea market possiblities are awfully pleasant at times.

Greetings LissaLush,
I have tried to resist the dreaded curse of the very swanky TIKI much to my surprise, I now find myself quite under their demonic power!
I think why Satanic people may like the TIKI is because the TIKI represents the taboo'd object of magic in the Hawaiian topics, (Can you say Greg Brady and surfing accident? Alice getting stuck in the hula? Bobby and the spider?) , sexy virgins getting naked and being thrown into volcanoes by their hunky priests , and the cursed lava rocks that seem to always find themselves getting mailed back to the island they where clipped from by a now ill fated tourist!

Magic is not their only power. They seem to also be the grinning tempters of an earlier day. A day when the worse consequence one would get from an evening of drinking and driving from your local Chinese cocktail lounge, was a ride home from the nice officer who was kind enough to stop you before you hit something.
This carved faced Spirit of stone, whose ridiculous rictus grin, still beckons us today to sip intoxicating elixirs from his hollow head. Still he teases us who crave the swanky, sultry, fun of the "Polynesian invasion" (The 50's to the 70's when Hawaii was new to us!) to drink up his offerings!
All magic; The TIKI'S primitive taboos yet retro-sophistication radiate from him. Suffering Bastards, Zombies, Love Potions, and many other names and images secret the TIKI into this New Millennium of crystallization! Who can resist these awesome stone critters!?
Infernally Yours,
Krow
"Singapore Slings anyone, my round, I'm buying?"

>>So who else here loves and collects tiki stuff?

I've got a number of mugs and I'm looking to see my collection grow. My favorite is a tall, black tiki mug that I actually got from a local Chinese/Polynesian restaurant.

I'm much more into the "tiki" music, though. You can find a thread in the music section that I started on 1950s Exotica. I have over a dozen albums from the genre that I listen to. I was very sad when I heard the news that Martin Denny, my favorite in this genre and one of my over-all favorites in any music, passed away at the beginning of March.

Oh boy, here's one of my obsessions.

I have Tiki's on my altar, bookshelves, masks on my walls--they're everywhere. I even own a pair of Tiki boxer shorts! (yeah, too much information)

I've been stuck on Tikis ever since I was a kid. Walking home one day with my mother when I was around 6 years old, we passed a scupltor's shop which was just about ready for their grand opening. I met the owner (he greeted me as we passed, noticing how I stared inside). We were invited in to look around and I got stuck on one of his small tiki sculptures. I couldn't take my eyes off it, so he said I could have it. You can imagine my excitement.

That was the beginning of the end for me.

My elementary school's mascot was a very similar tiki. I wore the school T-shirt proudly because of it.

>My elementary school's mascot was a very similar tiki. I wore the school T-shirt proudly because of it.

Now that certainly beats the symbol used by a Catholic grade school here in Hell's Kitchen: the Sacred Heart of Jesus!

As some of you know, having visited my Hell's Kitchen Tiki bar, my obsession with Tiki decor and cocktail culture is limited only by space. Volcano bowls were my last focus; having acquired a good specimen, now I'm looking for my next fixture.

It also helped that the shirt was black on red. I didn't care for the red on yellow version as much.

Believe it or not, tiki items aren't as easy to find in Honolulu as one might expect.

Oh, and to Bill: Higoat just sent me some great exotica tunes--Les Baxter, Yma Sumac and Martin Denny.

I wonder how I could possibly blend the influence into what I currently play.

>>Oh, and to Bill: Higoat just sent me some great exotica
>>tunes--Les Baxter, Yma Sumac and Martin Denny.

Ah yes, the unholy Tiki trio. Hope you're enjoying them.

>>I wonder how I could possibly blend the influence into
>>what I currently play.

Hmm. I suppose that trying to do a few covers is one way to get the influence "rubbing off" on one's playing. Most musicians seem to be primarily influenced with what they've sat down to play. Some of the more minor-key melodies might sound nice translated to guitar. I could definitely hear something like Denny's "Hong Kong Blues" as a sort of up-beat punk song. And aside from the instruments there are a few general elements that make these styles what they are. I've noticed Denny used a lot of staccato in his playing, Baxter seemed to go for a wall-of-sound approach, etc.

Special News Bulletin: TIKIS shanghai Salem Witch at Local Shopping Mall.

The dreaded curse of the TIKI has struck again! While innocently shopping in one of the upscale malls in the Northshore I was suddenly shanghaied by an onslaught of homeless TIKIS!
Needless to say, they now have a new home and Spencer Gifts is 579.83 richer!
This summer my whole back yard will be "TIKIFIED" complete with a TIKI BAR, TIKI TORCHES, and every guest leaves with a wearable ceramic TIKI shot glass.
Anyone want to put on some Ultra Lounge music, and bring out the blender and rum?!
Infernally Yours,
Krow :FIREdevil

Sounds like a party...
Always wanted to visit Salem.

>>Aye; my hubby and I have it on our list of places to go
>>visit to look @ the archetecture/historic areas,

My advice: come here anytime of the year EXCEPT around Halloween. So many people insist that they want to go there for Halloween, but that's what creates the problem. Waaaay to many people there at once. Most of the stuff to see there is open year round anyway.

Well, if you do come to Salem in October let me know in advance and if I can I will take you around Witch City. The art of navigating in October is to know all the "Squirrel paths" to get you from point a to point b quickly and get on the good side of the door people that organize crowd control. The trick is not when you go, but WHO you KNOW.
Ever watch Lemmings run? Well there you have it, a prime example of the herd!
If you want to enjoy the dark carnival known to take place every October in Salem all you have to do is make friends with the door people and follow the "Squirrel Paths" staying away from the infamous red line at all costs!
To those I chat with here, if you travel to Salem this summer let me know, I will torch up TIKI lamps, get the Martin Denny music going, and prepare a Blue Hawaii for you to enjoy by the pool with me.

We will have a wicked good time!
Infernally Yours,
Krow

Hmmm, Singapore Slings, Blue Hawaii? Salem is sounding better all the time Krowklaws! A friend of mine here in NY. loves tikis, and every year has a party with a tiki theme. One of his 'stipulations' though, is for everyone to dance shirtless with a tiki! Luckily I have been excused from the dance! Not much for public showing and sharing!

Hail Satan!

The ceramic TIKI shot glass is secured by a knotted twine to loop over any standing appendage that is firm enough to support it's weight. ..
Infernally Yours,
Krow

I'm slowly becoming enthralled with the omnipresent TIKI in all its various guises:
Animal House: TIKI! TIKI!
The Simpsons: Hmmmmmm.......T I K I.......
World of Refreshment:The Long Island Iced TIKI, or the ever
popular chilled Mar-TIKI
World of Diasters: TIKI Mile Island(tell me a nuke reactor is NOT TIKI shaped, I dare you)
OK, I'm out of them..anyone else?
B

I've been thinking this over. Ever wonder just why so many Satanists are attracted to Tiki culture?

Sure, it's exotic and reminds us of style and taboo. It's something forgotten by the herd, discarded thus salvaged by folks like us. But...

Could it also be that Satanists are naturally attracted by the many trapezoidal suggestions and other strange, sharp angles in Tikis and Tiki art? By the way they resonate somewhat diabolically?

Tikis and Lovecraft. Oh yes!

Now now, Ohio has plenty to offer. Take our endless supply of "Amish" markets...and our...well, anyway, here's an artifact I found a while ago.

Thought it may be of interest to some folks here.

Tiki Ouija

Hmm...Autumn in Salem.

I do believe I may have to take you up on that offer.

I'd like to see how you crazy East Coast Satanists work.

I've had a few associates make a pilgrimage to Salem for their pagan worship of one form or another. 12 hours in the Baphmobile seems worth the trip alone.

The Tiki Ouija?!?!?!

This would be the "love child" if a TIKI demon and a Ouija board ghost ever mated. Only the bravest of souls would dare to mix, TIKIS and OUIJAS... very few have lived to tell about it, just ask Karen Black... + =
brrrrrr, I am outta here! Here are the grisly results...

Clearly,then,we must all unite in a concerted effort to prevent the TIKI and OUIJA from consummating their unholy( )lust for one another,lest this creature be unleashed on the world. Unless,of course,we can harness it for our OWN diabolical purposes......

B

If that's the case I guess that means keeping my glow-in-the-dark Ouija and my Tikis in different rooms from now on...just to be on the safe side.

HAIL SATAN!

Tiberia

Yes, "the big score" to acquire from the Spencer Gifts TIKI line is ... The Life Sized TIKI Bar, complete with spear held tin roof, and voodoo drum bar stools! Needless to say I dropped the 400.00 for it! Hakunna Mahtata!
In my great hunt for the perfect TIKI summer, I stumbled upon this website that has a lot of very different and presently extinct TIKIS. Not to mention the TIKI Movies ... are TOTALLY Swanky! The Great and Mystical TIKI Farm
ALOHA!
I am wondering if this is starting to border on compulsion for some to us...

Krow

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Hell's Kitchen Tiki bar

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Now that's definitely somewhere I need to visit.

Anyone in Southern California ever visit the old Tiki Store in Oceanside? Last time I was there it appeared to be gone - anyone have any clues whether it relocated?

MM

Hey Krowklaws,
Is that the little guy from 'Trilogy of Terror'? Looks like him, but not sure.

Hail Satan!

BINGO! Good eye, that TIKI of Terror is indeed the very one that scared the shit out of most prime time viewers in the 1970's...( although it may have been Karen Black the vote is still out on that one). In the Trilogy of Terror he was called The Zuni Fetish.
Infernally Yours,
Infernally Yours,
krow

>>Anyone in Southern California ever visit the old Tiki Store in Oceanside?

There was a Tiki store in Oceanside and I did not even know about it! Man, I am always missing the good stuff.

Yah, it was like 5-7 years since last spotted, but when I returned to revisit a couple months back, it was nowhere to be found. Oceanside seems to have cutesified a little lately, so maybe they were a little too much on the dumpy/seedy side of the coin to be let alone...

MM

While getting the pool ready for summer fun, burning winter leaves away and cleaning the yard for many elegant and adventurous cocktail pool parties and naughty night swims, a thought occurred to me.
TIKIS give way to jack o lanterns, as they are both the mascots and sentinels of their respective ruling season. TIKIS are the Jack o lanterns of summer time! They, like the Jack o lantern, each represent all the fun filled seasonal shenanigans we partake of,
The TIKI and Jack o lantern both inspire us each in their own way to seasonal indulgence by their tempting grins!
Hail the Grand Marshall of Summer and Autum Seasonal fun!!!

Infernally Yours,
Krow

While at the grocery store yesterday I came across some citronella candles in green, yellow, and blue ceramic Tiki pots.

HS!

Tiberia

Found whilst internet ambling: www.tikiislandrestaurant.com
I've never been there so I can't vouch for it, but they have a drink named the Tiki-Tiki! MMMMMMM! Twice as nice?

5 foot torches on sale at AC moore for $1

Seen in the freezer case in the market: Spongebob waffles. SO tell me again is not taking over again??

Tiki Update!

Today I found some cool corncob holders thingys in the grocery store.

HS! and

update: I will soon be planting my pumpkins which I will,by various means,try to manipulate to grow into a more or less oblong shape in order to make them into tiki o'lanterns (or would it be jack o'tikis) for Halloween. I'll keep my progress updated

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Now that's a sexy Satanic synthesis!

*bows to Bianca* I can't wait to see what your wicked mind comes up with!
Progress report:
My entire back yard is now TIKIFIED.
The pool looks like a crystal clear lagoon. The TIKI bar has been opened. All the serving tables are covered in rattan grass skirts, the grill is being fired up and the Jell-O shots are being chilled as we speak!
It is only nine day left for my big event. I am having a theme birthday bash for my BF and GF! It is called Leanne's Luau and Teis Tiki bar birthday bash! It is a celebration of all thing tiki and cancerian. I will have to post the pics and event update once the 9th comes and goes.

So let's get out our Don Ho drag and favorite Annette Funicelo bathing suits and beach party all summer long. May the tiki gods, grin and make mischief with us all summer long.
I wonder what people's favorite drinks are ?
Krow... Head Kahuna of Salem

...I recommend visiting. It seems that the residents, being mostly working class white folks and Latinos, have a big thing for beach vacationing, and a related strange fascination with all manner of cheap plastic tropical regalia. Hence, an abundance of tacky flamingo lawn ornaments and dive bars that turn into tiki huts during the summertime. All within close distance of titty bars and downtown Cleveland.

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WOOHOO!

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Bay Breeze or Guinness.

Jack o'Tiki update: What were advertised by the pot marker as were in fact some sort of whitish,bumpy squash-like objects ,therefore, Jack o'Tikis from the garden this year are non-starters-at least there's always the new carvable ones in the craft stores

A Halloween Hail to Bianca,
I trust all is well with you. The time of TIKIS in Salem, MA, over at least until next springtime. We in Salem are getting ready to Halloweenify the entire city this week. In my neighborhood alone, many families are getting their bales of hay, cornstalks and pumpkins ready and placed.
I myself, will be putting four very large Tim Burtonesque scarecrows with jack o lantern heads to guard my witchy lair!
Tonight the coven is coming over and packing away the TIKIS and unearthing the spirits of Halloween that seem to be caught in cages of crepe paper, cardboard, and antique die cut print!
Rest in Peace o might TIKI, sentinel of summertime...
I can't wait...
Cooking pumpkin bread as I type.
Infernally yours,
Krow

I noticed a velvet painting in one of the pics, that wouldn't happen to be the work of Warlock Malebranche by any chance?

18 Oct XL A.S.

Looks like Boyd Rice's Tiki Bar now has a MySpace page...
http://www.myspace.com/tikiboyds

Yeah! My barby is fired up, the steaks are sizzlin', the tiki fires are burnin', burnin'. Even if it is only 53F. I am getting mine started today, can't wait another day!



Hail Satan!

This is a tiki from New Zealand maori. tiki or heitiki are the traditional ornaments created by the maori,the first settlers of New Zealand.

Here are some more tiki these are made from pounamu(greenstone). these tiki are in the Auckland museum. I have seen some amazing carvings of heitiki in many of the Maraes(meeting house) i have been welcomed onto.

Is it that time again? Fabulous!

Hail the TIKI!