So, here’s the deal, we have 2 tickets to this years Virgin Fest. These are normally $175 plus $93 in ticketmaster charges, but we want to give them to you for free because we love you. Ok, well not completely for free, you have to do a little work. But first, the details...
2nd Annual Virgin Festival by Virgin Mobile
Sat, Aug 4th and Sun, Aug 5th
Pimlico Race Track, Baltimore, MD
Bands Everyone Loves:
The Police
Beastie Boys
Sort of The Smashing Pumpkins
Modest Mouse
Hipster Favorites:
Interpol
TV On The Radio
M.I.A.
LCD Soundsystem
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Scenester Favorites:
Bad Brains
Spoon
Peter Bjorn & John
Girl Talk
CSS
Token Black Group:
Wu-Tang Clan
Token Hippie Group:
Ben Harper
Bands That Are Playing Because Sting Is Their Dad:
Fiction Plane
People You’ve Never Heard Of:
James Zabiela
Paola Nutini
Bands I Personally Want To See The Most:
Shout Out Out Out Out
Booka Shade
Shitty Bands:
Matisyahu
311
Velvet Revolver
Incubus
Other:
Cheap Trick
+ lot's more on the 2 stages and DJ tent, along with side-show acts, art installations, mexican wrestling, roller girls, and funnel cakes.
Check out http://www.virginfestival.com/ for all the details.
Now, technically this event is in Baltimore and not DC, so to make it feel a little bit more like home we’re gonna have a DC Haiku contest. All you have to do is send in your Haiku which can be about any aspect of DC whatsoever. It can be funny or serious, it can be a love note to BYT, it can be political, it can be about Ian MacKaye, it can be about Ben’s Chili Bowl, we don’t care. We’ll just just pick one we like in a week or so, and wham bam thank you ma’am you got two free tickets to Virgin Fest.
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By the way, if you've forgotten, a Haiku has very simple rules:
1st line = 5 syllables Here’s a touching Virgin Fest themed Haiku to get you started: Virgins, none are there |
So, write one about DC and send it in to cale@brightestyoungthings.com along with your name, age, and address. If you’re one of our non-local readers or can’t make it to the party but still want to write one, feel free to throw it in the comments below, but if you want to be eligible you'll have to email it in as well!
Previously in Live DC:
- 2/9: LiveDC: Theophilus London @ 930 Club
- 2/9: Best Weekend Bets
- 2/8: LiveDC: Kathleen Edwards @ 930 Club
- 2/8: LiveDC: Thurston Moore/ Kurt Vile @ Black Cat
- 2/8: LiveDC: Thurston Moore/ Kurt Vile @ Black Cat
- 2/7: LiveDC: Demetri Martin @ Warner Theatre
- 2/7: LiveDC: Augustana/ Graffiti6 @ 930 Club
- 2/6: LiveDC: All Things Go Presents: Reptar/ Casual Curious/ Fort Lean @ Gibson Guitar Showroom
- 2/6: LiveDC: TYCHO/ Beacon @ RNR Hotel
- 2/6: LiveDC: The Kills / Jeff The Brotherhood @ 9:30 Club
God loves a cheerful giver.
Hot sticky summer
Packed with noisy tourist mobs
Please leave us in peace
This isn't Preakness
Still too many douchebags here
Thanks 311
Three hours of traffic
Seven hours of shitty bands
More fucking traffic
I love the Police
Where are the DC bands
No, I don't mean "Dave"
Hot District summers
Melting all the bright young things
Hot dance floor puddles
dear cale, i love you. am i eligible? love, cesar.
Nothing is perfect
By Nate
Cochella is far
Bonnaroo is full of dreads
Fuck Incubus, man
I'm gonna separate the names from the haikus when I give them to the judges, so I don't think it's a problem if BYT contributors enter the contest.
true-life washington:
not twelve stories high nor made
of radiation.
If you can't love us
Love our great marble phallus
Below the Beltway
Haikus are so 2006, dude.
It's all about the Limerick.
There once was a scene in Northwest.
I could walk to the Cat, t'was the best.
Along came Rock Hotel.
$18 cab rides? Go to hell.
Designated driver you say? You must jest.
Vintage eyewear, cool?
When is Pitchfork Fest again?
Much too hot for beer.
D.C. is the best
We have lots of monuments
See also: douchebags
Review, Lord Jayson!
Your words both teach AND molest.
Edusexual.
comment: limericks are totally weak.
addendum: i'm kidding. that limerick was pretty awesome.
question: how many times can people submit?
warm-up haiku:
i missed out last year.
isn't that ample reason???
(and...i love dc.)
as many times as you'd like.
fourteenth and fairmont
walking with joy and gladness
egg hits face, damn kids
Jeff - I love you. F@@@ the cab fare increase. Hipsters don't drive and H Street is far.
Where is the trolley to H Street they have promised us? Where?
John, here at BYT it's ok to type out naughty words in your comments.
virgin festival!
five sylables - convenient!
haiku fun! whatev.
haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
refrigerator
I heart you, DC!
My DC, DC, DC!
DC is for me!
El Chico Cesar:
El hermano, amigo,
virgen hermosa.
Writing haikus is hard
Especially if you can't count
Zambiela smoke hot
D.C I miss you
City of Booze, Babes, Brunch and
The Mall to look Smart
workdays demand suits
but once you're sans blackberry
dance like it's your job
ate chili from ben's
diarrhea for a week
damn you, ben, damn you
Taxi Fares Fuck That
Surcharges Are a Racket
Summer Suffering
Although Jeff can't count,
My vote is for his realist
PostModern Haiku.
NW kids spoiled
Cap hill fucking kicks your ass
Let's walk to H Street
Living in shit town
Yes, DC rhymes with feces
Hipster Babylon
I can count. It's just that I'm too busy posting angry, judgmental rants under my pseudonym, Voya, to pay attention to the number of syllables (sp? I don't care about that either) in my haikus.
So disco drum beats
Mixed with 1980's garb
Is now the new mod?
Hey, this was fun reading, but I want to know what the best entry was. Who won?
the competition is still open.
We've got 930,
The Cat, H St., BYT
DC can rock, too
in the midst of sprawl
rock creek flows, traffic and stream
the hidden dc peace
cale dares dc sun
with pink fur boots and boa
man as rabbit's foot
You know, i don't think my haiku IN FUCKING SPANISH WHICH I DON'T SPEAK got nearly enough attention. I'm just saying.
waiting for results.
who is the goddamn winner?
used for free haikus!
corporate rock scene
makes you yearn for better songs
they all have sold out
staring at the screen
what to write about DC?
nothing good to say