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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Contest Win tickets to see Lyrics Born and the Lifesavas!
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Let's continue our six days, six concerts, six giveaways contest:
Giveaway #2: Win tickets to see Lyrics Born and the Lifesavas!
Day number two of our giveawaypalooza™ features a double bill of party hiphop, courtesy of West Coast icon Lyrics Born and the Mount Rushmore of Portland hiphop, the Lifesavas. They'll be together at the Wonder Ballroom tomorrow night, for an evening entitled "Conscious Overdose 2009." I can not guarantee you will be knocked unconscious (or overdose) from consciousness, but I do promise that both Lyrics Born and the 'Savas always bring it while onstage.
To win your way into this show just comment below on why you think you deserve the tickets. The top three comments—by today at 4pm—will be bumping with Lyrics Born and grinding with the Lifesavas. Or maybe the other way around. Good luck.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's giveaway: Los Campesinos!
3
I should win the tickets because I've got a research project on the dynamics of laminar rhyme flow due next week and Lyrics Born is the smoothest motherfucker there is!
4
What should I do to win your favor
For a concert that I would savor
I'll tell you're sweet
You're cute and you're neat
And the tickets would be a Lifesava
For a concert that I would savor
I'll tell you're sweet
You're cute and you're neat
And the tickets would be a Lifesava
6
I need tickets so that I may become the richest man alive to be around Lifesavas. And sell the tickets. Cheap!
7
I got no job, no girlfriend and a love for any and all underground hip hop. My pockets are full of nothing but moths and ass pennies. My ears are tired of stale non-live recordings of Lyrics Born and the Livesavas. And well my penis feels very good on the possibility of meeting a like minded girl with great looks and lots of flavor.
9
Supporting local music is my jam, but I've yet to find a smooth motherfucker in stumptown to make it impossible for me to dance. Plus, I'm a hot dime and watchin' me shake my ass will bring joy to many, many people. Including myself. No, seriously...I need this. Do it for the shorties?
10
You should give me the tickets because I'm a mutant combinations of six animals. All of those animals are broke.
11
i think i should win because my doctor misdiagnosed the pain in half my face as a blocked saliva duct, but its really something wrong with the major nerve in my head. So now im kinda bummed and need some good news.
13
I should win these tickets because I have every Lyrics Born and Lifesavas album that I could possibly find at the Multnomah County library. Free tickets will finally make me feel guilty about how much I've enjoyed them both free of charge and my conscience will send me to the merch table.
14
The tickets are mine because I borrowed these rhymes from LB himself. Some liberty was taken with the subject of the rhyme, but you get the picture:
"I don’t care where you’re from / The first time that I saw you (Lyrics Born), you had me sprung /
Just the way that (Your Music) rolls off your tongue / Damn near knocked all the wind out my lungs / (Lyrics Born), you the one, you the maximum / You got every(body) beggin’ for scraps and crumbs/ I can’t front, I want it all in one lump sum / but (Lyrics Born) you got me sittin’ on my hands and thumbs"
"I don’t care where you’re from / The first time that I saw you (Lyrics Born), you had me sprung /
Just the way that (Your Music) rolls off your tongue / Damn near knocked all the wind out my lungs / (Lyrics Born), you the one, you the maximum / You got every(body) beggin’ for scraps and crumbs/ I can’t front, I want it all in one lump sum / but (Lyrics Born) you got me sittin’ on my hands and thumbs"
15
I think I'm a good candidate for tickets because I've tried (and failed) to see Lyrics Born three different times. Including the last time when I actually flew to the Bay Area, got food poisoning, and instead spent the evening at my sister's house sobbing the lyrics of "Callin' Out" between dry heaves.
I saw Lifesavas a few years ago in Willamette University's gym, which (acoustically speaking) wasn't much better than several hours of painful vomiting. I'd really love to give them their proper due by seeing them in the Wonder Ballroom.
Oh, and it's my birthday today. B)
I saw Lifesavas a few years ago in Willamette University's gym, which (acoustically speaking) wasn't much better than several hours of painful vomiting. I'd really love to give them their proper due by seeing them in the Wonder Ballroom.
Oh, and it's my birthday today. B)
16
I should win b/c I'm having the Best Music Week+ ever!
Ratatat, Weezy, Blitzen Trapper/Fleet Foxes...need some more hip hop to balance it all out.
Ratatat, Weezy, Blitzen Trapper/Fleet Foxes...need some more hip hop to balance it all out.
19
'cause nothing beats listening to gift of gab do his thing.
and maybe seein LB live will erase from my mind all of those fucking coke commercials.
and maybe seein LB live will erase from my mind all of those fucking coke commercials.
20
I was driving my girlfriend to San Francisco for grad school. We were taking the coast because I5 has no soul. And it was perfect like only the Oregon coast can be: the light breeze, the sunlight, the warm summer air. And just where the grey-blue meets the deep green my girlfriend was inspired to give me the best blowjob of my life. I share this not to titillate or brag. It was simply one of those special memories that is burned into your brain forever. "Hello" by Lyrics Born (remixed by the Lifesavas) was playing. And obviously, every time I hear the song I am reminded of that happy day. If you find this memory worthy of tickets, I will be the guy at the concert sporting a stupid grin the whole time. Out of kindness, I won't stand too close to you.
22
I would love to win these tickets because "I'm a Phreak" for LB! Those of us who can't afford it deserve to shake our asses at this show too. :)
24
Cause that shiz is gonna suck for everyone if I'm not there. I've been working on a dancemove called the "Stage 4 Rhyme-oplasty" that shall rock tha world. Compimentary helmets will be provided to spectators upon request.
25
I should win some tix b/c I've never seen Lyrics Born live, been listening for years, and because I will absolutely Freak the F**k Out if I can't go due to lack of phunds. Seriously, I might just knock down all of my cubicle walls. Oh, did I mention I work in f***ing Hillsboro? Help!
26
PS that last comment from me was totally in before 4:00, I just didn't realize I wasn't logged in, so it didn't actually "post" until I did. Somebody call the Waaaambulance.
27
I am pretty sure that I should win the tickets because I am a starving, underemployed, college student who lives, eats, and sleeps hip-hop and live music in general. If I win, I pledge to bring the funk!
28
I need to get my conscience battery charged! Positive, Powerful, and Energetic Hip Hop bringin' it strong in the Wonder Ballroom is just the ticket i need.
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