And the winner is...

(e:Ladycroft) !

Of couse. How could this entry NOT win? (Plus, it was pretty much the only one... But that should not detract from how awesome Ladycroft's photo-choppin' is.



This is what it might look like for Ladycroft when she is at the J5 show, totally for free and with a friend, on August 24. In fact, I believe it will look VERY similar, since this is a shot I took last night at the Jurassic 5 show here in DC. Yeah, that's right: We discovered that J5 was playing the 9:30 club last night, so we bought new tickets. It's not like we could trade them or anything. Our friend Kevin came with us, and it was FUCKING AWESOME.

The new album is great, the X-Clan were fun for an opener, and J5 was 100% exactly what you would expect. Which is so, so good. Unfortunately, Cut Chemist is no longer with the band, but DJ Numark held it down nicely and did some really fun DJ tricks.

Sarah and I are very happy to award the tickets to (e:Ladycroft) -- CONGRATULATIONS! You're going to love it. Message me your address so we can get these in the mail ASAP!

(PS -- I have a good video clip from the show -- the others were fuXXored -- but the good one is too big for estrip right now -- I'll post it on my own site later and link to it here.)

Hello estrip!

As you may know from the post below, Sarah and I are moving. While it's really exciting, it's sad that we'll miss both the Violent Femmes and the Jurassic 5 concerts this summer. The Femmes is free at TiTS, but J5 is a pay concert happening at the Towne Ballroom on Main St. on August 24th. It costs like $50 for two tickets.

And that's where we are: We bought two tickets for the show as soon as they were available. But we can't be the only Jurassic 5 fans in the city, can we? Their new album comes out on July 27th and a little birdie (name BitTorrent) told me it's really damn good, much more like Quality Control than Power in Numbers, which any J5 fan can tell you is good. Sarah saw and photographed J5 at a short set at E3 a few years back, and they were awesome. I'm sure this show will be really great. (And for those who don't know Cut Chemist and DJ NuMark are the J5 DJs, so expect some badass turntable antics, too.)

Anyway, we're not interested in scalping tickets, and we love J5 so much that it kills us to not be able to go. Still, we figure they'll hit DC sometime on this tour (Buffalo is the second date and the others have yet to be announced) and we've had some real good luck lately, so we thought we'd spread the love.

So we're NOT selling these tickets. We're GIVING THEM AWAY FOR FREE to somebody on estrip.org . That's the kind of love we have for this place and for J5. Hopefully the community won't let us down and some serious J5 fans will be rewarded.

So here's how we're going to do this. Your referees are Sarah and (e:shawnr) , so we're the ultimate deciding factor. We want to see any kind of show of devotion to or adoration of J5, and/or a display of desire to attend the show. Some ideas: Essays about why you love Jurassic 5, analyses of J5 lyrics/videos, poems about J5, photos showing demonstrations of J5 fandom, paintings about how great the show will be, comics about your love of J5, whatever.

UPDATE: We wanted to make clear: Lip sync and dance routine videos are perfectly acceptable homages to Jurassic 5. So get wacky with the webcams people!

You can post your entry in the comments here, either in its entirety (in the case of an essay, poem, etc.) or link to a website where we can see your entry. You can email us images, audio, video, etc. too. Just use the email link on my profile.

If you have any questions post them in the comments or emai/msg me. Sarah and I really look forward to giving somebody these tickets who will enjoy the show as much as we would have. The only thing we ask is that you post about it on estrip after you go.

So the deadline is August 15. That might seem like a long time, but it's only like 6 weeks. I have no idea how popular this will be, but I hope somebody is stoked.

Just for clarity: The Jurassic 5 Concert is August 24, 2006 in Buffalo, NY at the Towne Ballroom on Main St (theater stop).