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The Bullet moves to a new location on Sunset in Hollywood! Now with a huge dancefloor, intelligent lighting, live 60s projection video mixing, outside smoking and drinking area plus top mod, soul and garage DJ sounds all night!

DJs:  Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee, Soulshaker, Rick Barzell, Jason Pandora, Jackie Hoodoo and Tony the Tyger. Live performance by The Living Sickness

Saturday, January 23, 2010
Hollywood Studio Bar/Grill
6122 W. Sunset Blvd
Doors at 9pm, Full Bar, 21 and over
Free before 10pm, $10 cover after

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Tiki Kiliki Productions presents
THE HUKILAU 2010
The Most Intimate Tiki Gathering in the World

PURCHASE TICKETS NOW!
www.thehukilau.com

June 10 – 13, 2010
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Event locations include
The Bahia Cabana, Bahia Mar, and the Mai-Kai Restaurant

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Aloha Wahines, Kanes, Beachcombers, Carvers, Mixolgists, Tikiphiles and lovers of everything Polynesian Pop, Tiki Kiliki Productions is pleased to announce the 9th annual Hukilau, in association with Seven Tiki Rum, Trader Vic’s and Tiki Farm, taking place from June 10th to June 13th, 2010, in beautiful Ft. Lauderdale Florida.

Plan now for your June Polynesian Pop vacation weekender which unites Tikiphiles from around the world! The Mai-Kai, now in its 54th year, awaits you with its dimly lit entrance, its cavernous mazes and magical memories! Be dazzled by four days of exotic and intoxicating art, entertainment, music, historic seminars, fashion and of course, drink! Though The Bahia Cabana is sold out, the magnificent Bahia Mar has plenty of rooms (with marina views) available for the incredible rate of $114.00 per night.

The Hukilau 2010 featured events:

The Hukilau has the distinct privilege of presenting the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale’s Oceanic Collection donated by none other than the Mai-Kai itself in the early 1970s. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to view this world-class collection for the first time.

The Hukilau special guest, artist SHAG, will be debuting three new paintings as part of the on-site Harold Golen Gallery art show installation “Poly Blend.”

The master mixologist, Jeff “Beach Bum” Berry, returns with an all-new seminar about The Suffering Bastard!

Florida historian Lu Vickers, author of “Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida’s Oldest Roadside Attractions” will delight and enthrall with her seminar, slide show and vintage film footage.

The Hukilau has not one but two film debuts in store for The Hukilau 2010. Filmmaker Jochen Hirschfeld presents the world premiere of “The DVD Of Tiki,” five years in the making – a film crew traveled the Pacific for 101 days capturing both the true South Seas and its pop culture reinvention – a true labor of love. Duda Leite, back from Sao Paulo, Brazil, brings a full feature-length version of his fabulous “Tikimentary: In Search Of The Lost Paradise,” all about the modern-day Tiki movement!!

Entertainers include:
* The Woggles
* The Neanderthals
* Straight from Japan, The Sweet Hollywaiians
* The Bikini Beachcombers
* Stolen Idols
* The Intoxicators!
* Walk the Plank
* Our most favorite of royals, King Kukulele emcees the entire weekend.

Hukilau Virgins & Those Back by Popular Demand:
* DJ Lee of Dionysus Records
* DJ Dr. Scopitone
* Marina, The Fire Eating Mermaid
* Candy Del Rio
* Elena The Hula Hoop Girl
* DJ Lounge Laura Taylor

Other Hukilau 2010 Special Events:
* The return of the Hukilau Room Crawl – 2010 A Cocktail Odyssey!
* The return of the long-awaited “Sarong-O-Rama Fashion Show”!

Also look for upcoming sculpts and insider info about the 2010 Munktiki / Kevin Kidney Mug. Hukilau glassware, T-shirts and other keepsakes!

Want to get involved in The 9th Annual Hukilau?

The Hukilau offers an array of opportunities that will get your company noticed by thousands of Tikiphiles from all over the world:

Your Products Sold at Vending Space in the Tiki Treasures Bazaar!
Your Company Named as Special Event Sponsor including Thursday’s Kickoff Party, Friday Night Main Event, SHAG Meet and Greet, Cocktail Recipe Contest and Room Crawl!

Your Ad in the Official Hukilau Event Program!

Your Logo Featured on The Hukilau Web site!

Your Logo Featured on Hukilau Promotional Materials!

Your Company Featured in Hukilau Press and Social Networking!

Your Message in Email Blasts to 6,000 Highly Targeted Tiki Names!

Your Web Site Banner on The Hukilau Web site!

Your Product Giveaways at Hukilau Events!

Your Promotional Item in 500 Arrival Aloha Packs!

Your Product Featured in Drink Specials at the Bar!

Your Product Featured at Sampling and Tasting Events!

Your Product Showcased at The Hukilau!

Space is limited. Sign up early for best placement. Custom packages available, combining several benefits that best suit your company’s needs.

For inquiries re: Hukilau sponsorship, vending and/or advertising, say Aloha to Christi Crowe at 415-566-8628 or email at christi@flagmarketing.com

Be sure to join our discussions and keep updated on The Hukilau by joining our Facebook Fan Page

Stay tuned for event updates! Let the countdown begin and Go to www.thehukilau.com to purchase tickets to all the weekends events!

A special thanks to Sour Apple Graphics for the amazing Hukilau website this year!!!

See you in June!!

The Hukilau

Our artist pal and fixture in the Downtown Los Angeles (and beyond) art and social scene, Jerico Woggon, is putting on a Cocktail Party, Cocktail Napkin Art Invitational and “Ode to the Lounge Lizard” at the e3rd Steakhouse and Lounge on February 27 featuring Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee and DJ Dan Moses of The Dynotones, a blacklight art installation by Jerico and a VJ. Come join us for a night of music, visuals, booze and good people. Dress to impress!

Jerico Woggon has assembled large-scale installation art at Burning Man and many other events, and will be doing this year’s art installations in the window of Bert Green Fine Art on the corner of 5th and Main. Check out his website at www.cherrymeltdown.com

Dionysus Records’ Lee Joseph guested on Howie Pyro’s “Intoxica” on LuxuriaMusic.com (heard every Tuesday night at 9 pm) on 12/15/09, with a stack of surf, garage and extremely ridiculous 45 RPM records from the ’50s and ’60s. The chatroom was hoppin’ as was the echo and reverb!

Podcast links:

Intoxica Radio w/Howie Pyro 12-15-09  pt. 1 of 2

Intoxica Radio w/Howie Pyro 12-15-09  pt. 2 of 2

Here are some photos and playlist from the show.

Shadows- Bombay Duck
Eartha Kitt- Hurdy Gurdy Man
George Fischoff Keyboard Komplex- Ping Pong
Corporation- Ya Ta Ta Ya Ta
California Smog- Blow In My Ear & I\’ll Follow You Anywhere
Donna Loren- So, Do The Zonk
Citations- Moon Race
Vulcanes- Moon People
Hal Blaine & The Young Cougars- Hawaii 1963
Wood Chucks- Angry Generation
Noel Oripahs- El Diablo
Coo-Coo Rachas- Chili Beans
Frank Sinatra Jr.\’s Music- Tthe Beach Girls & The Monster (vocal)
Marty Cooper Clan- Raunchy
Mercy- Fireball
Les Baxter- Chain Fight
Les De Merle- Glendale Stomp Off
Darrell Glenn- Hoo Doo The Voo Doo
Barbara Dupont- Weather Report Love
Don Lucas- Where\’s Flo?
Lou Stein- Got A Match?
Phil Cammarata- Pain Set To Music
Fabulous Desires- Ouch
Ross Bagdasarian- Joan-cone-phone
Ralph Smedley & The Bubbles- Drown
Ralph Smedley & The Breathers- Suffocate
Jimy Solley- I Just Gotta Get A Little More Sleep
Sonney Villegas- Help Me Help You
Ron Gray- Hold Back The Sunrise
Era Of Sound- Girl In The Mini Skirt
The Light- Back Up
Nai Bonnet- Jelly Belly
Fatimas- The Hoochy Coo
Prof. Morrison’s Lollipop- You Got The Love
Bobby Kendricks- Psycho
Dr. Feelgood & The Interns- Blang Dong
Boby Please- Your Drivers License Please
Orvin Yoes- The Vampire
Forbidden Five- Enchanted Farm
Tito Mambo & The Men Of Chantz- Jungle Farm

Dionysus Records’ DJ Lee will be spinning a mondo set of  party platters for New Years Eve 2010 at Bigfoot Lodge, Los Angeles.  If you are in the Atwater, Glendale, Los Feliz or East Hollywood area of Los Angeles, this is a safe, inexpensive neighborhood bet.  Manager Mark does a smashing job decking the bar out to the nines. Here is the deal:

Bigfoot Lodge New Years Eve Party
BIGFOOT LODGE, Los Angeles
3172 Los Feliz Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90039-1507
(323) 662-9227
Free before 9pm, $5 at 9pm
$10 at 10pm
$20 from 11 on
Party favors
$3 PBR and $4 bourbon shots
DJ Lee spins from 9pm – 2am
Free Champagne toast at midnight!

The high-priestess of Bubblegum, Becky Ebenkamp, host of Bubblegum & Other Delights (7-9 Tuesdays on www.KillRadio.org) will be doing a guest spot at the closing party for DJ Lee’s Wed night residency closing party at Bigfoot Lodge on December 30.  Otto and Baby Doe from Tiki Oasis and Tease-O-Rama will be visiting from San Fransico and will also be joining the party. Please drop by!

Closing Party for DJ Lee’s eight -plus year Wed Night Residency at Bigfoot Lodge

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
10pm – 2am
Bigfoot Lodge
3172 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
323-662-9227

Closing Party for DJ Lee’s eight plus year Wednesday  night residency at Bigfoot Lodge

Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Time: 10:00 pm – 2:00 am

Bigfoot Lodge, Los Angeles
3172 Los Feliz Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90039-1507
(323) 662-9227
www.bigfootlodge.com

While I spend most of the time singing the praises of others as a visual arts and event publicist, (www.leejosephpublicity.com) and the owner of an independent record label (www.dionysusrecords.com), I am now going to turn the spotlight on….me!

In August of 2001, Davie Allan and The Arrows, the last real band I was a member of, was asked to do a one month weekly residency at Bigfoot Lodge where I had just started, with Alastair Newberry “A/K/A” Bartender Al, a once-a-month night called “Club 66/77.” At the end of the four weeks, bar owner Bobby Green asked if I’d bring bands in on Wednesday nights, thus started “Live at The Lodge” which lasted through July of 2004. Between the weekly Wednesdays and the once-a-month Club 66/77, I had a blast booking numerous acts such as The Dollyrots, Bang Sugar Bang, Graham Rabbit, The Bolides, The Invisible Men, Greg Ginn, Mike Watt (who wore a real pumpkin on his head during his entire Halloween Night set,) Sky Saxon and The Seeds, The Bonebrake Syncopators (featuring X’s DJ Bonebrake on vibes,) Cowboy Nation (featuring ex Dills – both Kinman Brothers,) the re-formed Gears and The Rotters plus many other luminaries and unknowns. I was also responsible for the reunions and bookings of punk rock legends such as The Dogs, The Controllers (who both played to celebrate the release of their original mid to late ’70s material on my Bacchus Archives label) and an authentic Los Angeles ’60s garage band called The Preachers, who hadn’t played in almost 30 years and filled the bar with their family members, many of whom were not even born when the band was together.

In July of 2004, Bigfoot Lodge discontinued the live nights. Green and I formulated a British pub night called “Club London Calling” (after the Clash song of course) which featured $3 Newcastle and Guinness pint specials and I took over as a DJ. Not content to stay in a particular theme such as ’80s, punk or mod as you might expect from a night like this, I pushed the envelope by spinning music that spanned over four decades, mixing up everything UK from as far back as 1962 and as new as last week including mod, psych, glam, hard rock, Britpop, goth, electronica, garage-rock, ’77 punk and post punk, ska, bubblegum and all else in-between (mostly on vinyl.) It was an experience for the patrons, and myself, as my musical tastes and knowledge expanded in the process. The club also inspired me to revisit a lot of music I hadn’t experienced in a long time. In that five and ½ years, with the exception of a few specialty nights (such as the pre-Tiki Oasis parties with Phast Phreddie Patterson and guests,) I kept it all UK, four hours every week!

At the end of this month, my regular weeknights at Bigfoot Lodge will be coming to a close.  I am fortunate as I can’t think of anyone else in Los Angeles who has had a club residency which lasted that long, (though, of course there is Marty and Elayne at The Dresden Room who’ve been there what, 30 years?) I want to thank my co-worker for the entire time and the guy who opened the doors of the Bigfoot Lodge for me, Alastair Newberry, club owner Bobby Green, bar manager Mark DeSalvo and all at The Bigfoot Lodge and 1933 Group for this long and marvelous residency. I will continue to do publicity work with the 1933 Group bars and will be doing fill-in spots at Bigfoot when the weekend DJs need a night off. I will also continue to do various specialty nights around SOCA as always including my regular spot at the Bullet Mod and Soul Club and the Tiki Oasis event in San Diego.

Once I have my weeknights back, I plan on getting to sleep a little earlier and investing the extra time in my two businesses and anything else I may come up with!

I’ve opted to nix the all UK sets on these last nights and play an even more eccentric mix of rock ‘n’ roll and electronica from all over. Please come by and celebrate this milestone with me.

Thank You for your support. Looking forward to the next chapter!

Lee Joseph
“DJ Lee”
LJP for the Visual Arts
Dionysus Records

Tonight at 9PM, DJ Lee will be a guest on Howie Pyro’s “Intoxica” radio show, heard every Tuesday night on LuxuriaMusic.com.  Howie and Lee will be spinning a dazzling array of kooky 45s from the 50s and 60s. If you haven’t, you should check out and support this fabulous internet radio station!

Join DJ Lee of Dionysus Records and special guest DJ Rotary Rachel of LuxuriaMusic.com for a night of groovy tunes at Bigfoot Lodge, Los Angeles. DJ Lee is nearing the end of his eight-year Wednesday Night  residency at the bar, watch for a closing party soon!