Aloha,

Bobble Tiki is pleased to report that he now has email again.  Let's all thank the Eastern European goat herders who handle his tech issues for getting right on this 36-hour-old problem. You'd think Bobble Tiki was trying to rebalance the Murray Morgan Bridge with the amount of fussing this took. Bobble Tiki has cracked open a bottle of Parliament whiskey in celebration at Weekly Volcano World Headquarters, but now he's confused, as he doesn't know what the cool kids are mixing up these days. (Bobble Tiki just heard that Cognac isn't a mixer. Who knew?) In any event: hate mail, rants, and spiteful leaks of bass players gone awry may once again be sent to Bobble Tiki at bobbletiki@weeklyvolcano.com. Mmmm, memos: he missed you most of all.

Believe it or not, Bobble Tiki even shares a few things in common with Tacoma band BODYBOX, who will perform Saturday at the cool Columbia City Theater in South Seattle. What does Bobble Tiki have in common with BODYBOX, you may ask? Let's start with the things BODYBOX and Bobble Tiki DON'T have in common. For starters, and as Bobble Tiki has stated before, BODYBOX is a three-piece rock band from T-town made up of singer and guitarist Kurt Lindsay, drummer Belal Anwar and bassist Nick Kennedy. As you well know, Bobble Tiki is simply an island-themed souvenir with a drinking problem and a job in journalism he doesn't deserve. Secondly, BODYBOX has three new songs it will unleash Saturday. Bobble Tiki probably hasn't written three decent sentences in the last decade, and he sure as hell hasn't been too concerned with sharpening his craft. Hell, not when The Carrie Diaries is on! Catch BODYBOX with True Holland and In Cahoots at 8 p.m. at the Columbia City Theater. Tickets are $8 advance and $10 at the door. ...

Joe Rosati - the one time lead man of the Shoboat in Ruston - turned actor extraordinaire and singer-songwriter on Tacoma, then blew town. He now spends his days snowboarding Park City, working at a fancy hotel in Deer Valley and acting in Salt Lake Area productions. Bobble Tiki considers Rosati a friend, possibly his only friend. Sadly, the only contact Bobble Tiki has with Rosati is the video Rosati posted on his indiegogo page. Indiegogo? It's a fancy crowdfunding platform, boasting such successful launches as the Tesla museum, the Karen Klein campaign and BugASalt, a salt-shooting gun to kill flies. Anyway, Rosati has an indiegogo page to help fund the mastering, replication, promotion and touring for his new CD, The Candelabra Light, which was produced by Ben Fuller, frontman of the local band China Davis. Fuller, his brother and bandmate Ted and poetry/musician Jeremy Silas were Rosati's studio band. ...

The last time Bobble Tiki hung with Rosati was at last year's 9th annual Park City Film Music Festival during Memorial Day Weekend. Rosati starred, produced and helped score the film A Perfect Life, which won a gold medal for original composition at the festival. Anyway, Kevin Cady - of Baby Knockors fame, Smoking Catapillar and now Buckwheat Catapillar - drove straight through the night to perform impromptu acoustic shows during the Park City Film Music Festival. Bobble Tiki brings up this amazing feat because he has Buckwheat Catapillar's new release, Anxiety, in his hold wooden hands. Catapillar is a rough-and-tumble Tacoman, never one to cozy up with the local music establishment. Catapillar's sturdy pop punk rock sound wed to shocking statements, antagonism, establishment bashing shines brightly on Anxiety in songs such as "Kennedy's Head," "I'm a Homo Now" and "Hitler Is A Jerk." There's plenty of rebel fire in the music that pushes and pulls with sneer in the voice. Yet, Bobble Tiki couldn't help but hum the snappy melodies days later, busting out the lyric, "Mussolini bit his weenie and now it doesn't squirt." Anxiety is available at CD Baby and Rocket Records on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue.

As always, Bobble Tiki doesn't really care what you do this week because he doesn't even know you. And unless you can change the exhaustive red carpet coverage, hard-to-understand-and harder-to-justify dresses, the Rivers sisters (fine, mother and daughter) shuffling around frantically like saleswomen at a Botox convention that will fill the Academy Awards broadcast Sunday, then Bobble Tiki is certain he doesn't even want to meet you. Besides, it's time for him to blow this joint and answer your emails because Bobble Tiki is now about fueling deep, mad spiritual swirls and penetrating your psyche every Friday.

LINK: Live music tonight in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area