General 400 blows, absurdist theater, ace, adbusters, albee, amelia earheart, anarchism, andrew s.a., appreciation, azita, balthus, basquiat, beckett, ben hirschkoff, beuys, bieno svengali, billie holiday, black flag, blind blake, blonde redhead, born against, boy scouts of annihilation, butthole surfers, butttoucher, captain beefheart, centimeters, chuckles the clown, circus ridiculous, comedy, crass, dadaism, david bowie, dead and gone, debord, design, dirt, egon schiele, emma goldman, erase errata, ethnomethodology, existentialism, experimental dental school, expressionism, flipper, flux information sciences, found items, found letters, found notes, francis bacon, fruitvale, futurism, germs, get hustle, graffitti, graphic design, grime, hopeless, insecta, jackson pollock, jazz, jenny holzer, jodorowski, jokes, leonard cohen, making people feel weird, manet, marinetti, marshall mcluhan, max beckmann, max ernst, mclelland, metaphysics, mike boner, minutemen, misfits, muhammad ali, musee mecanique, mysticism, new collapse, nick cave, nihilism, nina simone, no wave, oakland, oum kolthoum, outsider art, pcp roadblock, phantom limbs, phenomenology, point line plane, public enemy, punk, pussy chop banana, quintron, roberto matta, rudimentary peni, saccharine trust, satie, screamers, situationism, sixteens, slapstick, sleepytime gorilla museum, slug, social unrest, socialism, stiff little fingers, sun ra, surrealism, the birthday party, the holy kiss, the phantom limbs, the vanishing, throbbing gristle, tragedy, tuxedomoon, valley fever, velvet underground, vss, willem de kooning, zoogz rift
Music no wave, blues, jazz, punk, metal, post-punk, post-blues, post-metal, post raisin bran
Movies The Swimmer (1968) starring Burt Lancaster, A Clockwork Orange, Porcine
Television M.A.S.H., The Saint with Roger Moore
Books Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Camus, Celine, Hesse, Lynda Barry, -- please recommend or mail me books to 1103 N. California Ave., Chicago IL 60622
Heroes joseph beuys
"It's like removing a watermelon-size bowl of lard from
my body, in less than two weeks. I'm going to tell
everyone I know that this has really worked for me..."
- Leslie, NM
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the Loto Ball Show is fronted by Loto Ball, who has performed with other music groups such as:
Loto Ball is best known for his work singing and performing for San Francisco Bay Area death-punk band The Phantom Limbs. During his time with The Phantom Limbs (in which he was sometimes known as “Hopeless”), Loto Ball’s visceral expression of existential distress laced with black comedy, along with the hyper-charged and unusual compositions of keyboardist Stevenson Sedgwick helped earn his band the honor of No. 1 Indie Rock Band in San Francisco (S.F. Bay Guardian – Best of the Bay awards 2003) and the chance to record two albums with Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles record label. After 5 years and 220 performances with The Phantom Limbs, including 3 U.S. tours and 2 European tours, Loto Ball left the band in 2005 to move to Chicago and pursue other ventures.
Loto Ball has spent his time in Chicago working with local artists on various projects, including founding an art gallery/music venue (Reversible Eye), collaborating on a 800 foot public mural (Bloomingdale Trail), personal masseuse for Mayor Richard Daley, performing with puppets (Scary Toesies), working as an activist for disability rights and quality of life issues, as well playing trumpet for a 30-person marching band (Mucca Pazza).
Loto Ball created the Loto Ball Show in 2005. It has taken on many forms, such as incorporating absurdist puppet shows, hosting variety shows, and recording the soundtrack for a horror-comedy underground TV series. The Loto Ball Show has now evolved into an energetic rock band that screams out much of the same ferocity as The Phantom Limbs but brings in more variety in mood, more shifts in volume and pace, and more eclectic sounds. It is a driving key-board driven form of No-Wave post-punk with hints of jazz syncopation and Middle-Eastern scales.
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Thanks so much for the add. I could be mistaken but I think your lead singer used to sleep on my couch. This was in the early nineties. We all lived in the San Fernando Valley. If this is the same guy he ran a club out of a storage space called Unit 5A. I think he might of lived in the storage space too. I remember one time he invited me and some friends to visit him in Berkeley. He said we could stay at his place, which turned out to be a storage space. Bottom line, this guy had a thing for storage spaces.
Anyhow, regardless, I love your music and hope to catch a show sometime soon.
THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE WHAT I PLAYED THIS WEEKEND!! LOTO BALL SHOW='S BEST LIVE SHOW ALL OF 2008!
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Can't wait for our show with you at the Dreamland Theatre in Ypsilanti!! What a very special treat for southeast michigan! It is sure to be extra weird, the elves and the pussies have been on diligent street and college radio patrol...
Love your songs they are super snazzy!!! If you guys are ever in SD and need to pick up a show let us know we would love to play with you. hugs and feedback, Gurtrudestein
