Link of the week: New Tiki mugs at Trader Sam's

I saw this on the Disneyland Parks blog.......Now I need to head out their to get one of the those mugs

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/05/check-out-new-souvenir-cocktail-glasses-at-trader-sams-at-the-disneyland-hotel/

Song of the week: Do the Ski with Me... (From Winter A Go-Go)

"If there is a tree--turn your ski"    Cheesy lyrics but a whole lotta fun......."If there is a bump you gotta jump"....You have to love those Santa's helper Go-Go outfits

Retro Movie Review: Winter a Go-Go 1965 6 out of 10

Someone got the idea of taking the Beach movie up to the ski lodge.  Winter a Go-Go as a movie didn't really have much of a plot.  A guy inherits a lodge in Lake Tahoe---hires a bunch of 1960's hotties to help run the place.   Like many of the beach movies it has a bunch of random musical performances--some good some not so much.  It has a loose plot of some bad guy that wants their lodge to fail and sends a couple of toughs to intimidate the 2 main characters.  This lame plot line leads to a couple of fun scenes like a Wild West style bar fight in the Coke bar (apparently they didn't get a liquor license).  There is also a silly fight on the slopes while skiing at each other waving their poles at one another--that was so dumb that it was good.  The movie is full of ski bunnies and impromtu dance numbers and laughing girl crazy Chinese chefs. It is kind of fun for a movie with no real story what so ever.  It could have been a much better movie if someone had bothered to write a script for the movie.

Song of the week: from the movie It's a Bikini World 1967

The Castaways with  (Liar, Liar)....Check out the groovy set from this otherwise unremarkable movie.

Retro Movie Review: It's a Bikini World 1967 4 out of 10

A very unnecessary beach movie from the end of the beach movie era......Starring Tommy Kirk of Disney fame (Monkeys Uncle).   The plot of this movie was downright lame.   A cocky young surfer, athlete and ladies man whose charms doesn't work on the new girl in town for the summer,  poses as his fake brother and dresses up like a dork to win her over  (whatever).   The girl as played by bikini clad Deborah Walley is obsessed with showing up the cocky jock which leads to a series of just plain silly and uninteresting events or challenges where the athlete battles the girl  with hardly any other competition at all.    Other then the fun little musical performances by some bands like The Animals and The Castaways and The Gentrys which are thrown into the movie in the one cool set called The Dungeon (which is run by C movie vet  Sid Haig) the movie is pretty unremarkable.   My advice check out the music from the film and skip the below average plot line.

Tikis in Oceanside: Surfing with Sand Gnomes

On our way back from Carlsbad we drove by and had to stop at  Bamboo Source to take a few pictures of the Tikis out front.   I would have liked to stop in a see what they had in store but it was closed.  So maybe the next time we make it down that way.

 Here is the webpage for Bamboo Source for a look at what they sell.

   http://www.ahomeeclectic.com/ 

Surfing with Sand Gnomes in Carlsbad 

Holding up Burgers in Oceanside

Spy Song of the week #3 in honor of Tiki Oasis 2012 them

The Prisoner Intro...

This fun a twisted sci-fi show has a former secret agent played by Patrick McGoohan held prisioner on a mysterious island from which he can't escape.     Number 6 (for that is his name in The Village)  struggles from week to week trying to uncover the truth behind the whole thing.   It is a great  trippy must see Sci-fi series and it's spy theme song is this week's Spy song of the week