Fucking Love Connections

Scope out these fucking Tam Tam and Tapeworms love connections.

1. We're playing at 407 West Elm in Carbondale. Their area code is 407.
2. Jordan was wearing the Turbo Fruits shirt designed by John McCowen the other day. With pride. We've played with the Turbo Fruits and two of the three members are from the area. They've crashed at Jordan's house.
3. We're from Illinois, and Nina's house is on Illinois Street in Orlando.
4. One of us wears a dress, one of them is a girl.
5. Jordan has a 200 Motels tattoo, we bought a fresh copy of 200 Motels on this tour.
6. Pall Malls.

Some serious fucking love connections, right?

Wanna Party in Atlanta?

Civic Media Center is a groovy place. Dan wanted to peruse the decades worth of zines, but we were late to the show and then had to get to the crash pad after shit wrapped up. Tam Tam played pretty fucking awesome and we didn't do too shabby either - we busted out lots of energy to a seated audience in a bookstore, so that's something. The first band was The Itchy Hearts from Virginia - we're probably going to be hooking them up in Carbondale on Friday the 11th. Very tight VERY soulful kinda countryish, but not the boring kind. Maybe at Alex and Joe's house. We'll see. And :smokesignal: was like a fantastic Swamp show. Ambient but not the boring kind - a real pulse and some shreds and some cool time elements.

We found out that our show tonight was canceled, so we did a phone tree attack and wound up getting on the bill at Wonder Root, the coolest place in Atlanta! Yee haw! It's a reunion show - Wonder Root is where we met Tam Tam... awwwww. So come out and get awesome with us!


Thanks Will and Trevor of Street Violence! Listen to that shit!

Crusties and Condos

We cruised to Cocoa after a lazy afternoon in Orlando. We were really excited about the prospects of hooking up with cougars with xanax scrips and bottles upon bottles of wine. Cocoa is a silly place like that. We immediately hit it off with the bartenders and they called their crust punk friends over. Dan rode with for some car beers, but the point was nullified when the bartenders started giving us free beer after all! Tam Tam was phenomenal and we did alright - Dan hampered the set with his colossally slashed hands that he super-glued shut right before the show. MORAN! We crashed with the crusties and talked about Crass and MDC and Jay Reatard and the Voodoo Glow Skulls. In the morning we had some breakfast beer and tacos that were way too big. Dan finally got the eye drops that his horribly infected eyes need.

We got to Miami just in time to get lost in Little Haiti for a while. The club was pretty slummy, the primo big punk venue in Miami. The locals were nifty - the first one was kinda Dead Milkmen, and the second one was kinda rich. Good musicians as well, but jaws were dropping at the $10,000 worth of gear on the stage. We ruled the set - Alex climbed a whole stack of PA monitors and Nina jumped up on Dan's shoulders during Skidmarks and rode him around. Effin' A, man, Effin' Fuckin' A. We wound up crashing at a condo a block from shore in South Beach. We literally went from crust to condo in a day. Although we did wreck the place some. Definitely pissed on a BMW from the deck and then built a mound in the toilet when we woke up and the water was off.

TONIGHT
CIVIC MEDIA CENTER AND LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE FL
w/ Itchy Hearts from VA
and :smokesignal:

JUICE CHART

DUDE JUICE = WHISKEY
RUDE JUICE = RUM
TUDE JUICE = TEQUILA
GUDE JUICE = GIN
JUST JUICE = VODKA

naturally dude juice is the most crucial of all juices.

note that gude juice is pronounced like the first syllable of 'gouda'.

Grav Pop and Foodcore.

We have concluded that Tam Tam are Grav Pop. Orlando's weapon of choice is the gravity bong, and they wrote a song about it... literally. And we are Foodcore, by way of our food stamps and deep love of cooking. Excelente.

The show at Nina's last night was killer - we tapped the bread at 9:30 and kicked out the jamz at 9:35. The cops showed right at the end of our set, so Tam Tam did a quieter semi-acoustic thang. Poor Man's Mai Tai's left and right. IE, rum and pineapple soda. We super trashed the house. And then a good twenty of us went and climbed a mondo fence to a sweet pool. Dan is scratched up to hell and back - he kept climbing the fence to get on the roof and dive... into the shallow end. MORAN! Ten thousand injuries and twenty thousand beers later, we were back on Nina's couch, sleeping it out. Well, most of us...

Come see us tonight in Cocoa Village, skeezy adult playground of Florida's east coast. We're playing The Dog 'n Bone with Tam Tam.

Double the Illinois

These Magnificent Tapeworms
D and The Sluts
Tam Tam the Sandwich Man
and maybe, just maybe, Lagues

1502 Illinois Street
Orlando Florida.

Tonight.


So we're crashing at Nina's house. Getting our shower on. Listening to Hawkwind and Scientist. These house is really, really nice and I can't imagine actually playing a show here. We're making banana walnut pancakes and bacon. Banana bread a little later today. There's a cool courtyard with bricks and broken glass.

Tomorrow the grown-up playground that is Cocoa Village Florida. Stay tuned.

Old English Kings

Sitting outside Little Kings in Athens GA in the band van drinking a tall boy of Old English. Joe's puffing peace. I hear the first band sound checking. Almost show time!

Go here and pledge us money!

Total Tapeworm Weekend!

We decided it isn't enough to be going on tour for two weeks at the end of the month. We have to play all weekend too!

TONIGHT
Birthday Party at 322 W Pecan
party starts whenever
music around 11pm

TOMORROW
Steps of Shryock, on campus
WIDB 40 Anniversary concert
party starts around 5pm
music starts around 5:30 or 6
Tapeworms at 8

THE DAY AFTER THAT
Hanging out at Sweet Spring Classic
and then
PUNK ROCK PROM
ILLEGAL TONE RECORDINGS
BELLEVILLE IL
7P TO 11P

Buy some shirts so that we have few enough to justify another order before tour!