Dylan Neal, a student of the University of Texas Semester in LA Program, made a short documentary about Amoeba Hollywood as a submission for the 10 Under 10 Film Festival in Texas. The festival was created by Radio-Television-Film professor Ellen Spiro to feature short documentary and experimental films made by UT students. Here's the tricky part: the films must be under 10 minutes long and made for under $10.

The documentary was shot over several days in September and October 2011, and captures Amoeba moments like our in-store with Touareg band Tinariwen and our Halloween festivities, as well as interviews with staff and regular customers. I particularly loved Amoebite Cody in full costume (including face paint) being interviewed on camera with no reference to his appearance or explanation about it being Halloween. But, hey, you never know what you're going to find when you walk into Amoeba!

Amoeba Hollywood - 10 Under 10 Submission from Dylan Neal on Vimeo.

Halloween was a mellow affair at Amoeba Berkeley, but several of the East Bay Amoebites were in the holiday spirit! Get a load of these get-ups!

Bean is spot on as "The Doctor!"


Mondia's "Snookie as Elvira" costume...perfect!


Kaiser, a convincing priest.


Ranon as "Boltman." (It's a Chargers' thing, right?)

Monday afternoon may not be everyone's first choice for party time, but Amoeba San Francisco wasn’t about to let something as insignificant as a day of the week get in the way of a good costume contest!

Amoeba San Francisco’s annual Halloween employee costume contest was kicked off with the spooky sounds of DJ Tay, who came dressed as a Hippie Butcher complete with the head of Jerry Garcia!

Funnyman Sean Murphy served as our Master of Ceremonies and introduced each of our masked miscreants one by one as judges Tony, Donnell, and Suzanne took copious notes.


Julian lead the charge as…a mailman! 


Then we had a special guest appearance by the one and only Tina Turner! Also known as Nick!


Luciano pillaged the stage in Viking gear.

Hurry, hurry, hurry to the Halloween celebration at Amoeba Hollywood today (October 31st) from 2pm to 5pm when there will be a pet costume contest (with prizes) plus special Halloween music spun by in-house DJs throughout the mid afternoon at the Sunset Blvd store. You are invited to bring your kids along too, especially in Halloween costumes, since we will be handing out candy to kids celebrating Halloween. The music entertainment kicks off at 2pm with DJ Frankenfurn who will be spinning for an hour. Then the following hour, up until the pet costume contest kicks off at 4pm, the soundtrack for your Halloween at Amoeba will be supplied by DJ Die Die My Darling & The Annityville Horror.

Winners of the pet costume contest will receive a variety of cool prizes including some items from Catts & Doggs. As you likely already know people really like to dress up their pets for Halloween (see the video below care of UZoo Gallery showing a variety of pets in Halloween costume) so based on this fact coupled with the number of calls of inquiry that Amoeba has been receiving about this pet costume contest, there will probably be a good turnout for this afternoon's event. Word has it that the contest will be a true democratic process with costumes been judged by all in attendance via an applause-O-meter and, regardless of who has the best costume, each pet and their owner will be admired and celebrated by all in the house. So make every effort to attend and have fun at Amoeba and if you are going for the pet costume contest try and get there at least 20 minutes before the 4pm contest start time.