California Tiki, Polynesian Pop

sus

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And this parallels how (metaphorically) colorful men of the era could be

Tiki drinks are flamboyant, gay. Not muted, repressed
 
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Also I think it's interesting that these Polynesian fantasies are predicated on / romanticizations of the kinds of experiences Americans in the Pacific had, which are specifically in-between periods, periods of waiting

There is a kind of timelessness, and out-of-timeness, to these moments. Like in Gray Flannel Suit, the protagonist (Gregory Peck) has had this out-of-time war romance with Maria, in Italy. They're both somehow half-dead: he expects to die imminently in combat, and she has lost both her parents to the war, and wonders if she'll be next. They have a romance that is out of the usual chronology of their lives; it's bracketed by his service, by his deployment. There are no consequences, no long-term plan—they find a temporary haven in each other

And the exotic places that the music evokes isn't a particular place, it's an impossible amalgam. Rum drinks from the Caribbean, Latin jazz, Incan pan pipes, Hawaiian leis, Maori tiki idols.

When the vet steps into such a space they leave time and space. They escape into a fantasy that is timeless and placeless.
 
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Which goes with the notion of Bali Hai. Which in Michener's invention is this hazy mirage of an island that you can never reach, that you're always trying to approach. A Micronesian Eden.
 
shakahislop

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tiki disco is a big sunday daytime house event that's been going on for ages here and is a pretty big deal and i never have any idea what the tiki bit means
 
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shakahislop said:
every now and then i go into some kind of 'tiki' themed thing and i never have any idea what it is
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Wym? It's tiki. Tiki torches and tiki idols and tropical drinks and flower necklaces

Don't Brits have some equivalent of this? Romanticizations of their Pacific colonial subjects?
 
shakahislop

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sus said:
Wym? It's tiki. Tiki torches and tiki idols and tropical drinks and flower necklaces

Don't Brits have some equivalent of this? Romanticizations of their Pacific colonial subjects?
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no i don't think so at least not in oxfordshire, maybe the London Metropolitan Elite know about it. is it a thing in america coz of hawaii and guam and the pacific military bases?
 
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william_kent

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sus said:
Wym? It's tiki. Tiki torches and tiki idols and tropical drinks and flower necklaces

Don't Brits have some equivalent of this? Romanticizations of their Pacific colonial subjects?
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Sasha failed us here

of course we do


we have "turtle bay'


but before that we had
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i wasn't really alive for this william kent
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I went for a cig and you beat me to some sort of punchline
 
mvuent

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william_kent said:
but there was an incident with a psycho ex and a hammer that I won't get into here
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how do you have so many fucking anecdotes? you've posted here almost 7000 times and i'd say that you average ~2 new anecdotes per post. so that means you've shared ~14,000 anecdotes about pyscho exes, industrial music nonces, drug related debauchery, martial arts, and so on in your three years here. for reference i've probably got about 50 anecdotes, total.
 
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mvuent said:
how do you have so many fucking anecdotes? you've posted here almost 7000 times and i'd say that you average ~2 new anecdotes per post. so that means you've shared ~14,000 anecdotes about pyscho exes, industrial music nonces, drug related debauchery, martial arts, and so on in your three years here. for reference i've probably got about 50 anecdotes, total.
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I'm about 3 times your age, that's why
 
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