“Dude Where’s my Darb” or “Darb’s Tiki Oasis Hangover” Part 1??

Brad here AKA (The Pineappleman) AKA (The Real Darb)
#DarbsTikiOasisAdventure

I made a Clone in order to see more things at Tiki Oasis this year. 
Like I’ve mentioned before –no matter how much fun you have at Tiki Oasis you end up feeling like you missed out on something. I thought if I had a Clone ---  maybe I wouldn’t miss out on as much this year.  I figured with 2 of me I could go to more parties and have more fun.

 

My Clone’s name is Darb and he went on a wild and crazy adventure all over Tiki Oasis. Here he is hanging out with us at our room party before he went off on this own

After catching the bands on the main stage we went our separate ways leaving Darb in the Elevator.

The Tiki community is amazing---If this was anywhere else I may not have tried this experiment of cloning myself.   

It was a risk to send him out in the world all by himself at his first Tiki Oasis---(him being a newbie and all) .  But I knew that the chill and fun nature of the Tiki Oasis Ohana would probably have fun with it. Every year my friends that we come down with do Hallway bowling and that is always a big hit - so I thought this clone plan might work --especially with the Sci-Fi theme.   Here is Darb hanging out with a Vulcan....(don't tell him Darb is more of a Star Wars fan)

I’m still trying to piece together Darb’s journey.  It is kind of like a puzzle, as pictures of Darb slowly show up online.  It’s like the movie “Dude Where’s my Car” or the “Hangover” where you have to work backwards to figure out where he went and what he did.

Here is what I know so far about his adventure.  I'm hoping to learn more in the coming days if more pics of his adventures show up!! I’ll fill in the blanks in his story at that time in a Part 2-- if not we may never know what happened to him.  

Early Friday night some pictures started appearing online.   Darb was hanging out on the Go-Go stage and meeting new people.

 

We think the first night Darb may have made a Tiki Oasis rookie mistake and had a little too much to drink. At some point he ended up in a dress.  We weren't sure if we would ever see Darb again.

Apparently he wasn't done partying though as you can see from this photo of Darb partying in the elevator. 

We crossed paths with Darb several times....In the hallway outside of our friend's room.  He had met some more Tiki peeps and was on the way to a room party. We posed together for a quick picture.  #TheRealDarb #ThePineappleman

 Darb was off again for more fun. Apparently my Clone is a big party animal. 

 

It looks like they have been hanging out with Darb enough to perfect his pose.  LOL I love it.  I'm glad he had such a great time

Darb having a beer with a new friend. 

At one point he was kidnapped and held at gun point.....We were concerned

At some point Darb either fell or was thrown off a 5th story balcony. One of our friends found him face down on the ground at the bottom below all the room parties.  We told him he should rest --but he wasn't done partying.  He apparently has good taste in music because we bumped into him at another room party with an 80's band.  

How many people do you know that can take a 5 story fall and be out and about partying again 15 minutes later.  At least someone gave him a protective space helmet.

(With my eye closed in the picture --I look like the one that feel off the balcony)

Darb was still in party mode. You can see him here dancing the night away.  ( We were in this room at the time).

After Saturday night I thought we may never hear from or see Darb again.   But as luck would have it he was out and about posing with cars at the car show.  (I still haven't seen any of those pictures online yet). My wife and I popped into the photo booth trailer and apparently Darb had already been there. I was tempted to go and get Darb --but my wife said "Let him go--he is having fun and his adventure hasn't ended"

We heard a rumor while talking to the people at the photo booth that one of the car vendors had found him out in the hallway.  I thought maybe he had slept in the hall ---a sign of a really wild night at Tiki Oasis. The next day however we found out that Darb had actually ended both of his nights in this party room.  The room he was in won best People's Choice room party.   Coincidence??  I think not.

I want to personally thank everyone that joined in on the fun.

If you have a picture of Darb or with him –Please post it here or at #DarbsTikiOasisAdventure

…….I’d love to see what else he did at Tiki Oasis this year. 

UP next I'll post about my adventures.  
 Is it possible that my Clone went to more parties and had more fun than me????

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I’m bringing my Clone to Tiki Oasis and he would like to have an adventure.

I’m bringing my Clone to Tiki Oasis and he would like to have an adventure.

#DarbsTikiOasisAdventure

Last year I wrote a blog about bumping into my Clone at Tiki Oasis….
http://pineapplemantiki.blogspot.com/2014/08/tiki-oasis-2014-episode-1-attack-of.html

It thought it was funny because I have always talked about wanting  to have a Clone at Tiki Oasis because after you go to Tiki Oasis you feel like there is so much that you missed out on . You can’t be at or see all the cool things that are going on .  I actually have a Clone (a cardboard cut out of myself that I got as a joke for my 40^th birthday a couple years ago).  

 I thought it might be funny to bring him this year and basically send him on an wild tiki adventure---see how many people and places he could go and have his picture taken with.

Of course this is really risky – he could end up face first in a dumpster before he had any fun.  Or I could send him on his adventure and no pictures of his adventures might get posted and I will still never know what he experienced.     
My hope is that instead of him getting killed that he could get passed around and taken places on property with photos of his adventures being posted –so I can see what I missed out on through his photos.   I’m still not sure whether to try this –but I think it would be really funny if it was done right.  I would like to do a Blog about his adventures if this plan works.

His name is Darb .  
He will have instructions written on him that will read:

My Clone wants to experience Tiki Oasis.   Take him on an adventure.

Post pictures of him on Facebook as  #DarbsTikiOasisAdventure

I’ll kick things off by with a few photos with The Pineappleman’s crew once we get settled in on Friday afternoon.

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When you tell people you are going to Tiki Oasis and they ask “What is Tiki Oasis?”

When you tell people you are going to Tiki Oasis and they ask  “What is Tiki Oasis?”

How do you answer that question to people outside the Tiki community?

This year will be my 8^th year attending this event – so I guess 8 years ago I was asking that same question at a surf show in San Diego.    How do you describe the event to someone that has never been before?   Trying to describe Tiki Oasis to someone that has never heard of it is like trying to describe Fantasmic at Disneyland to people the first week it opened and no one knew what it was. ( I’ve done since I worked crowd control on Fastasmic opening weekend).   Describing Fantasmic went something like this  “Well it has large screens of water that they project movie images on  them and there are floats and a battle on a Pirate ship with fireworks and a Dragon that sets the river on fire”  ---wait a 15 seconds and repeat to the next guest.    

Trying to describe Tiki Oasis is almost as difficult.

I guess I usually would say something like this.  “It Is an event that happens in San Diego every year where people wear Hawaiian shirts and retro clothing and drink Mai Tais while listening to surf/exotica music.  There is retro shopping in the daytime and bands and rum tastings and things called room crawls with more bands that are sometimes even better than the bands on the main stage.  It is a place where strange things happen like Fire Eating Mermaids swimming in the pools or a burlesque dancer hanging out with a guy in a gorilla suit in an elevator.”    I guess basically it is like Fantasmic -- if Captain Jack Sparrow was putting it on and handing out free rum (tip your bartender). 

Maybe the correct answer when someone asks “What is Tiki Oasis?”  should be not to tell people about Tiki Oasis.  In the eight years I’ve been it has become bigger and bigger every single year.  I remember the first year I came when I was lured by the Haunted Surf music theme of Voodoo Island.  I think I just booked a pool view room logging onto the website casually one day.  Last year was the first year we couldn’t get a pool view room ---as we sat down the night the site went live to try and refresh like a nerd trying to get into Comic Con. This year we were lucky to get a room at the hotel at all.  So maybe we should treat Tiki Oasis like Fight Club and not talk about it.  I came with one friend the first year---now our group could charter a short bus.

How would you describe the Oasis that is Tiki?

I’m running out of words so here are a few pictures from each year I’ve been so far.

2008    Tiki Oasis Newbie

First Mugs  --mine is the Terminator one

First Room Party

This is something you don't see everyday

Zombie Theme

2009  Kim's first year

2010

First time seeing the Hula Girls on the main stage

Thee Swank Bastard on the main Stage

2011 

My Least favorite Theme --and the year I took the most pictures

2012

Spy Theme was the bomb

2013

2014

Attack of the Clones

What will this year bring???

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Tiki Song of the Week: Space Cossacks- Solaris Stomp

We are less than a week away from Tiki Oasis and this year's Sci Fi Retro theme.  So the choice for tonight's  Tiki Song of the Week is:

 Space Cossacks-  Solaris Stomp

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Tiki song of the Week: The Brain from Planet X : Fifty Foot Combo

Tiki song of the Week:  The Brain from Planet X: Fifty Foot Combo.   Play the video and just let Youtube roll for more great tunes.

Bonus footage of this band

Tiki Oasis  2015 is less than 3 weeks away so I'm starting to get in that mood.  Listening to Spyrate Radio and heard this song which is my pick for Tiki song of the week.

You can find Spyrate Radio here...to get you in the Tiki Oasis 2015 mood.
http://spyrateradio.com/2015/07/hello-world/

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