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Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop

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About Me

SLACKERS CD's & GAMES - 28 july 07 (photos by Marlene)

We like to play outdoors, uninvited.

Past outdoor shows:
Wabash bus station
the arch of ancient lions
Dryers Shoes
Cucina Sorella
The Blue Note
the garden party
The Clip Joint x2
Fourth Street Theater (Moberly, MO)
Uprise Bakery
Kevin's World x2
Slackers CD's and Games x3
the Midwest Music Summit (Indianapolis)
Locals Only (Indianapolis)
People's Park (Bloomington, IN)
rooftop of 10th & Cherry pkg garage
Lupus Chili Fest (Lupus, MO)
True/False Film Festival (parade down 9th St)

Have Sex is our 8th lo-fi album.

It is available at Kevin's World .
Our shit is always FREE.

ALBUMS

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/7/2006
Band Members: Total Amateurs
Spatula Jones
Ryan Thousand
Horatio Hornblower
Jaamal
Chick Patty Lovas Sie

The Gift Shop
Eileen
the Enclave
Phillip J
Pappy Joe
Cristian
Standard Kevin
Adam
Curt / Rank Amateurs
Jay
John G
Ginny
Hat
Rob
Chad
Tom
Jennifer H
Dirty Dan
Chase
Jason Frost
Killa Kyle
Ross
Leroy
Luke K
Aaron L
Ben
Jesse
Leo
Mark H
David
'Cuppa Joe
Marlene
Channing
Susan
Influences: Anchors for Architects
Andy Kaufman/Tony Clifton
Bad Brains
Beat Happening
Butthole Surfers
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Ed Wood
Friends Forever
the Great Rock n Roll Swindle
Guerrilla Theater
Jay Adams
Lee Perry/the Upsetter
Miles Davis
the Minutemen
Pipe(s) of the Doctor of Witchcraft (from UCSB)
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sifl & Olly
Sticky Children
Tape Store vs. Bob Dynamite
Ween
Sounds Like: ball of string [confiscated]
batons
binders
birds at 4am
bolivian flute
bricks
brushes
buckets
bugs
car door
cardboard tubes
CB microphone [dropped]
cherished kitchen timer
children
circus organ
clarinet
classy organ
construction barrel
cornet
cucumber
desk fan
diaper hammock
dog cage
doors
drums
empty beer cans in a bag
engines
feet
floors
forehead
french horn
guitars [sigh]
harmonica
heels [deeply bruised]
helicopters
humming
ice cream machine
ignition
inflatable monkey [misplaced]
innocent bystanders
irish wistle [missing]
ironing board [busted]
keys
lime
lucia's sandals
lucid bum
mailbox [dented]
mallets [burnt]
metal shelf
orange traffic cone
ostrich effigy
pencil sharpener
pickup truck
pineapple
railings
records [broken]
refrigerator door
rusty grill
saxophones
seat belt
sidewalks
silverware
skulls
snow shovel [broken]
sound shapes
stealth jetpack vacuum
sticks
tailgate
tamborine
tapes
the autism shield
the bomb [hollow]
trombone [broken]
turn signal
violin
voices
walls
wrench
Record Label: Not Cannonballs
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ryan Thousand Has Disappeared

right after we played in the True False Film Festival parade yesterday, Ryan went for "a soda" and never came back.  we scoured the town for the rest of the night, calling everyone, checking ever...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:23:00 PST

Now Recruiting Marching Band Members ! ! !

we are marching in the True/False Film Festival parade again this year. we need help! we need a bunch of people to join us so we can be a huge psychotic marching band. any instrument will work, no exp...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:49:00 PST

accept the lord christ jesus christ

036:  cafe berlin international - 17 july 07channing K of the Cat Jams labelwhen he's not MC Cat Genius he's Maybe a Bad DJamong about a dozen other things(he booked all the bands for tonightincl...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:50:00 PST

The Opposite of Stoic

035:  the missouri theatre - 27 april 07We can't pass up a chance to play onstage at The Missouri Theatre.  It's one of the biggest venues in town, old timey and ritzy with a bigass chandeli...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:52:00 PST

The Parade

..>..>..>034: the march march - 2 march 07 The True / False film festival is held every March in Columbia. It is entirely devoted to documentary films. This year they decided to kick off the festival ...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:04:00 PST

win a date with jason cafer

16 april 07first it was a miscommunication.jason cafer called eli out of the blueto cancel our appearance on the radio that night.jason was under the weather and couldn't make it.the thing was we had ...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

sex lyrics revealed!

at last, here are the lyrics to "I Need the Stick"[just in case you can't make them out]written by Chick Patty Lovas Sie herselfwith a little help from Marlene, R Thousand, Spatula Jonesand probably h...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:46:00 PST

Consummation

033: cafe berlin - 17 february 07 Castro Catastrophe Tape Store MC Cat Genius & OBELISK Consummate Professionals probably the best line up we've ever been a part of except for 28 May 06...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:27:00 PST

zenith

032:  cafe berlin - 20 january 07spatula jones on the grillhoratio too, stirring a pot of pintosr thousand is nervous and pacingtasty face and cuppa joe are the first to arrivethen los loco motiv...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:24:00 PST

works, in the

a new albumby usthat will putall of ourother onesto shame.it's calledget off drugs.i don't want tosay too much aboutit right nowonly that it willinclude somethingcalled the trifecta.we might also rele...
Posted by Total Amateurs and the Gift Shop on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:57:00 PST