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Monday, November 9, 2009
Contest Win Tickets to Built to Spill!
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:13 AM
- Built to Spill = Dorks
Boise is a lovely town, but no one famous has ever called it home. Here is a list of the city's three biggest residents: Bill Buckner, the fat guy from CSI, and Howard Hunter, the 14th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That is all. Well, except for Built to Spill, who absolutely own the Idaho capital. They are like bearded rock gods in that city, and when Doug Martsch passes on to the other side, Boise will surely give him the Stevie Ray Vaughan statue treatment. But don't worry, Martsch is gonna live forever (he hates helicopters).
In honor of full-length album number seven, There Is No Enemy, Built to Spill is playing two shows at the Wonder Ballroom this week—a family-friendly all-age show on Friday, and a totally dirty 21&Over performance on Saturday night—and we are giving away three pairs of tickets to both shows. To win, just post below and explain why you deserve to see Built to Spill for free.
The best six (!) comments will win their way into the show of their choice (please specify what show you want to see: All-ages, 21&Over, or either). Good luck.
LISTEN:
Built to Spill - "Life's A Dream"
2
This is the worst live band ever. No seriously...they're terrible live. You could just stare at a poster of them, listen to the record, and it would be exactly like being at their show.
3
No one deserves anything, but when you win something you feel extra special! Built to Spill also makes you feel extra special.
4
I was short-changed when I saw them briefly at the Flaming Lips show. Since the Lips show broke my bank, I can't afford this show. Either/Or (RIP Elliott) show works for me, ain't picky.
I've been following Doug since Treepeople and contemplated stalking him at one point but realized that it would be too demanding on the both of us. Healthy boundaries!
I've been following Doug since Treepeople and contemplated stalking him at one point but realized that it would be too demanding on the both of us. Healthy boundaries!
5
I'd love to see these guys again at the 21 & over show because I haven't seen them since the "Perfect From Now On" days at the WOW Hall. I was in college then, which was officially a really fucking long time ago. Too long.
6
i had sex with my ex and lost my phone that night. i have no idea if he still wants me. please ticket me for the 21&over.
7
I would like to see Built to Spill to help cure my seasonal affected disorder. Seeing as I have had my concert going life greatly altered over the last few years (kids, budgets, you know, general grown up responsibility kinda stuff), going to see these guys just may help to better get me through the generally dreary winter months. This or a trip to Hawaii. No trip to Hawaii giveaway? Okay, I would like Built to Spill tickets then.
P.S. my cousin lives in Boise.
P.S. my cousin lives in Boise.
8
I deserve to win tickets to the Built to Spill show because I work providing services to the homeless and addicted in Portland. I don't do it for the salary, but I definitely can't afford to pay for shows. Plus my daughter listens to Lady GaGa and if I won tickets to the all ages show I'd show her what real LIVE music is all about. Tickets to either show would be awesome. Thanks
11
Built to Spill is my favorite band. I would really like to see them. I'd prefer the 21/over show. Thanks for considering my request.
12
I just moved here from Seattle, choosing me is choosing to stick it to TheStranger! I've also loved Built to Spill ever since I saw this clip back in high school (10 years ago, audio sadly disabled), and I've never gotten to see 'em live.
13
Html disabled eh? This clip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuu22cJFo4 . If you want the full effect, start playing "Carry the Zero" on itunes when you see the dolphin.
15
Because the ozone-burning whine of a television turning on in the middle of "Lie for a Lie" is one of the most sublime moments in the history of rock and roll. I'll bring an old TV and offer to "play" it, if they'll do the song. 21+, please!
16
Because I will yell for "Freebird" and they will [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8whmIaeftQ]play it[/url]
17
The last time I saw Built to Spill was a few years ago at the Crystal Ballroom. I went to Lola's room for a smoke and a drink. The boy I liked was sitting by himself at a booth. I tried to slide in to the seat across from him, and got halfway in when I realized that the seat was covered in puke. My hand and part of my ass slid in it. So instead of looking all awesome and sexy in front of the dude, I had to run to the ladies room to wash a stranger's barf off of my skin and clothing.
I would like a better Built to Spill memory, plz.
I would like a better Built to Spill memory, plz.
18
Oops, I have plans this weekend, so never mind. Wow, I'm really glad I got to share that story with the internet.
20
Built to spill is one of my all time favorite bands. I've tried to see them five, yes FIVE times, and I've been foiled everytime. The first time I drove all the way to Spokane to see them, only to be kicked out by the Big Easy bouncers for looking "too wasted" before the opener even started. The second time I drove to seattle only to have my exboyfriend vomit all over himself in the middle of the show, leaving me to get molested by the show bouncer. The third time was at the crystal ballroom where I did get too shitfaced and had to take a nap against the wall, while the rest of my party got thrown out. The 4th time was during mfnw and I waited in line for 4 hours only to be told they were "at capacity" by the time I made it to the front. The last time my wallet got stolen the day of the sold out show, and of course my tickets were in it. Please give me another chAnce to see my favorite band!!
21
Not only do I have a framed " Built to Spill " poster in my living room, but I have been listening , watching shows, and supporting the band for a long long time. The last few times I saw them were at festivals, and the shows just were not as good. The last time I saw a great show was at the Wonder during MFNW, and I want to relive that awesome experience again ...VIVA PORTLAND and your wonderful venues. I would love to see the Friday show, and regain my faith in such a great band.
23
My girlfriend and I both absolutely LOVE Built To Spill! She has seen them, I think, three times, and I saw them once when I interned in DC.
However, we have never seen them together, as a couple. Please afford us this opportunity with a couple tickets to either show. We'll get the dance floor moving!
However, we have never seen them together, as a couple. Please afford us this opportunity with a couple tickets to either show. We'll get the dance floor moving!
24
Because "You Were Right" taught me it's not my parent's fault they're douches, and therefore made me the well adjusted young man I am today.
Also because I will take "family-friendly" to the limit and jam a bunch of cotton balls in my 8-month-old's ears and bring him along.
Also because I will take "family-friendly" to the limit and jam a bunch of cotton balls in my 8-month-old's ears and bring him along.
25
Idaho also gave us taters! Where would our stomachs be without those glorious potato noms? I'll tell ya where.. hungry.
I love me some Built to Spill and would love to go Friday with my boyfriend :)
Built to Spill are sweet
Boise gave us them and tots
Would LOVE to see live!
I love me some Built to Spill and would love to go Friday with my boyfriend :)
Built to Spill are sweet
Boise gave us them and tots
Would LOVE to see live!
26
It will always be dawn at the otherworldly Trona Towers deep in the Mojave when I hear the opening to perfect from now on. What a trip...
27
Well, a few years ago, I went to see Built to Spill at the Crystal Ballroom. I went downstairs to Lola's and had a drink or too many. Prolly too many, since I ended up puking on the seat in a booth. Needless to say I left, having never seen a moment of B2S. Now that I know that joneser (see above) has no weekend plans, and as she was the clear winner up until that disclosure, I would very much like to please actually "see" the band. And yeah, the 21+ show please, I promise not to puke on a seat this time. (Everywhere else is fair game though, right?)
28
I would really appreciate a pair of tickets to either show, so I can once again rub elbows with fellow Boise elite. Yours, Fat Guy From CSI.
PS: I need you guys to come through for me, because Buckner ALMOST had tickets for me, but then they fell through somehow. He's always doing that.
PS: I need you guys to come through for me, because Buckner ALMOST had tickets for me, but then they fell through somehow. He's always doing that.
29
Working the graveyard shift one hot summer night in Texas, my friend
Bree put on "There's Nothing Wrong with Love". I stopped washing the dishes and
asked her who was playing. Built to Spill drug me out of a really bad Classic Rock rut and I have been forever grateful.
Please grant me two tickets to the 21 and up show.
I would be forever grateful!
Cameron
Bree put on "There's Nothing Wrong with Love". I stopped washing the dishes and
asked her who was playing. Built to Spill drug me out of a really bad Classic Rock rut and I have been forever grateful.
Please grant me two tickets to the 21 and up show.
I would be forever grateful!
Cameron
30
In 1997, when I was on tour with my band, I was staying at a friend of the band's house in downtown Boise. We were all sitting around getting high when one of the house residents mentions that Doug Martsch lives just down the road and upon discussion it turns out that our tour van is parked right in front of his house.
I decide, in my altered state, that it would be cool if I went to the van and cranked Jesus Christ Superstar as loud as could. I had visions of my hero Doug Martsch coming out of his house at 3 am and being like "dude, you are so cool". And we'd then both smoke some dope and listen to the tunes and become great friends.
I was high as a lab rat.
I'm just lucky Doug didn't come out of his house and kick my ass for waking him up at that hour.
I am still a fan of the band. I've seen them twice live and I've enjoyed their shows very much. The last show I saw was in 2004. I'm due.
I would appreciate tickets to the all-ages show (because I leave town on Saturday)
Thanks,
Hayden
I decide, in my altered state, that it would be cool if I went to the van and cranked Jesus Christ Superstar as loud as could. I had visions of my hero Doug Martsch coming out of his house at 3 am and being like "dude, you are so cool". And we'd then both smoke some dope and listen to the tunes and become great friends.
I was high as a lab rat.
I'm just lucky Doug didn't come out of his house and kick my ass for waking him up at that hour.
I am still a fan of the band. I've seen them twice live and I've enjoyed their shows very much. The last show I saw was in 2004. I'm due.
I would appreciate tickets to the all-ages show (because I leave town on Saturday)
Thanks,
Hayden
31
b/c Doug Marsch is awesome and I've been a fan for almost a decade and have never gotten to see them live. Hook it up, please.
32
Because "No one wants to hear what you dreamt about unless you dreamt about them" is so true, as is everything Doug Martsch sings. And that honesty shook something in my gut the first time I heard them more than a decade ago. It still amazes me. Also because BTS are the most unpretentious dudes I've ever seen rock a stage, and that is utterly charming.
33
Because I spent all day at work trying to figure out a clever anagram of Built to Spill for tickets to either show and only came up with "split out bill o" Sad.
34
Well, not to brag, but I did see Built to Spill in 1994 on its first ever "tour." You know how Doug left the Treepeople because he thought they were getting too big and he was not sure he wanted to be in a band that toured all the time? BTS was only going to tour the Northwest? Well, I saw them in Bozeman, MT on October 4th, 1994 at a VFW hall called the Filling Station. I am not making this up! I still have the ticket and you can see for yourself right here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39431582@N02/… I also got to meet the Doug after the show. I did not get a picture of that, though.
So, if you could hook me up with two tickets to the 21+ show, it would be great. I think the 21+ show would be fitting since I would have been six years old in 1994. I am not that cool....
So, if you could hook me up with two tickets to the 21+ show, it would be great. I think the 21+ show would be fitting since I would have been six years old in 1994. I am not that cool....
35
I once hitchhiked from Ketchum, Idaho to Boise to see BTS play a free show on Earth Day in 1995. Was it the fact that I had to hitchhike scary? No!, it was that after Built to Spill played, a large group of the crowd formed a circle and held hands and sang something to the effect of "the earth is one of us, worship her and care for her", over and over. Drum circles and everything. For the battle of my post show mood, the negating power of their chanting was no match against the awesomeness of seeing my first Built to Spill show.
On a side note, I used to tape a lot of concerts back in the day. In late August 1997 at Champoeg State Park, there was a show with Elliott Smith/Quasi, Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, Sneaker Pimps, and Beck, all for the whopping sum of $19. Right after Built to Spill finished and was starting to leave the stage, I had just about hit the stop button on my deck when this kid comes sprinting up next to me, flailing his arms and screaming, "SHIT SHIT, dammit! I missed them, fuck!, shit, dammit!!" The mics picked up his ranting and it was a funny ending to the tape.
Any show is fine.
On a side note, I used to tape a lot of concerts back in the day. In late August 1997 at Champoeg State Park, there was a show with Elliott Smith/Quasi, Sonic Youth, Built to Spill, Sneaker Pimps, and Beck, all for the whopping sum of $19. Right after Built to Spill finished and was starting to leave the stage, I had just about hit the stop button on my deck when this kid comes sprinting up next to me, flailing his arms and screaming, "SHIT SHIT, dammit! I missed them, fuck!, shit, dammit!!" The mics picked up his ranting and it was a funny ending to the tape.
Any show is fine.
36
I saw BTS open for the Pixies in Seattle at Bumbershoot and saw them play ACL about 4 or 5 years back. I haven't really heard any of their new stuff, but would like to see them live in P-town. I promise to puke or not puke on someone or something. Either show is cool with me.
37
My friends who are impassioned about music have talked about them for years. Personally, I don't know anything about BTS except what I am listening to right now off of Myspace and I've never been to a show at the Wonder. Plus, as an Oregon Duck fan, I feel wronged by the city of Boise and am seeking retribution, but not in the form of a boxing match. Just lookin for something to do for a Guy's Night this Friday...
38
On the eve of my 14th birthday the space doctors selected me as a fit candidate for shallow to middlingly deep space exploration. I can barely remember the seven (or nine?) years of extensive training that were delivered to me by lasers in five or so minutes, but I’ve been told it was incredibly painful (and so should add some weight to my ordeal).
Afterwards I was promptly plopped into a SafeTFly® brand spacecraft and gently nudged away from earth. Six years later I was roused from my SafeTSleep® by a strange phenomena, a rift in the galaxy that oozed strange, never before heard sounds, later identified these as “Cleo,” a song by your galaxy’s Built to Spill. The song wove its way into my mind, and upon my return to earth (47 years later, mostly spent in my nearly always reliable SafeTSleep® deep freezer) OmniGoogled the lyrics. The best match were some lyrics scrawled on a napkin centuries ago by a man named Doug Marsh, shortly before his death in late 1993.
But the song I heard was fully realized, not scribbled lyrics! I deduced that if OmniGoogle didn’t know the song, it must not exist in this universe, and therefore another universe must exist parallel to my own! I dedicated my life to this multiverse theory, and three days ago succeeded not only in finally achieving cross-plane travel, but located the universe where Built to Spill was a fully formed band, one where they even played shows.
Sadly none of my digital SafeTCurrency® works here , and with almost not time left before Built to Spill plays in Portland, I ask you to please help me achieve my goal. The whole of my life’s work has been geared towards getting me to this place, at this time, but only you have the means of taking me this final step.
-Captain Theopolis Munch
PS. I was unable to bring acceptable form of identification across with me, which leaves me gunning for the all ages show.
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Afterwards I was promptly plopped into a SafeTFly® brand spacecraft and gently nudged away from earth. Six years later I was roused from my SafeTSleep® by a strange phenomena, a rift in the galaxy that oozed strange, never before heard sounds, later identified these as “Cleo,” a song by your galaxy’s Built to Spill. The song wove its way into my mind, and upon my return to earth (47 years later, mostly spent in my nearly always reliable SafeTSleep® deep freezer) OmniGoogled the lyrics. The best match were some lyrics scrawled on a napkin centuries ago by a man named Doug Marsh, shortly before his death in late 1993.
But the song I heard was fully realized, not scribbled lyrics! I deduced that if OmniGoogle didn’t know the song, it must not exist in this universe, and therefore another universe must exist parallel to my own! I dedicated my life to this multiverse theory, and three days ago succeeded not only in finally achieving cross-plane travel, but located the universe where Built to Spill was a fully formed band, one where they even played shows.
Sadly none of my digital SafeTCurrency® works here , and with almost not time left before Built to Spill plays in Portland, I ask you to please help me achieve my goal. The whole of my life’s work has been geared towards getting me to this place, at this time, but only you have the means of taking me this final step.
-Captain Theopolis Munch
PS. I was unable to bring acceptable form of identification across with me, which leaves me gunning for the all ages show.
39
A freewrite while listening to "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" from the Live album:
I had a girlfriend, who, upon being called “girlfriend,”
would have sex with strangers on public transit.
Unhappy with this situation,
I began calling her “close friend.” It was at this
juncture that she began borrowing money from me and
clipping her toenails in my
living room
while my room mate placed his testicles into her mouth.
Disconcerted by this behavior, I began referring to her
simply as “Diane,”
but then she cut off my member
and used it as an aphrodisiacal ingredient
in her plum pudding
which she served to my niece
at her preschool graduation ceremony.
I do not call her anymore,
but I think about her often.
_______________
Well well well that was fun well and I think that the all-ages show would be swell and go well.
I had a girlfriend, who, upon being called “girlfriend,”
would have sex with strangers on public transit.
Unhappy with this situation,
I began calling her “close friend.” It was at this
juncture that she began borrowing money from me and
clipping her toenails in my
living room
while my room mate placed his testicles into her mouth.
Disconcerted by this behavior, I began referring to her
simply as “Diane,”
but then she cut off my member
and used it as an aphrodisiacal ingredient
in her plum pudding
which she served to my niece
at her preschool graduation ceremony.
I do not call her anymore,
but I think about her often.
_______________
Well well well that was fun well and I think that the all-ages show would be swell and go well.
40
Milk to Spill is of my of favorite banding. The chords, spinningly, erect my heart to warmth. Once of the times I see them, they strummed, trance-like into my earrings. My head dazed for hours, my pulse grizzled like a bear's. I scrapbook my ticket stubs for not to forget the image of that man with the dreadlocks, shaking. I miss cute girls that like bands and exist singularly at live.
Please, for night not to dismember. I expel egalitarian mud-rhythms in place of clapping for appreciation to their shows. Do not forget my fever you owe me.
Thanks you, dreamingly
Please, for night not to dismember. I expel egalitarian mud-rhythms in place of clapping for appreciation to their shows. Do not forget my fever you owe me.
Thanks you, dreamingly
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