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Cutest Band in Seattle Contest 2003: Ambitious Career Woman

Ambitious Career Woman

at YMCA Fusion Cafe

"We're dorks, but we're cute dorks!" announced Ambitious Career Woman, winners of the 2003 Cutest Band in Seattle contest.

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Cutest Band in Seattle Contest 2003: Asahi

Asahi. Photo by Summer.

at YMCA Fusion Cafe

Asahi were first runners-up in the Cutest Band of 2003 contest.

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Cutest Band in Seattle Contest 2003: Blue Sky Mile

Blue Sky Mile. Photo by Blue Sky Mile.

at YMCA Fusion Cafe

The lead singer is a late- 1980s- Berkely- Punk Conor Oberst with an intensity to match such a visual description.

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Cutest Band in Seattle Contest 2003

Ambitious Career Woman

at YMCA Fusion Cafe

The Cutest Band in Seattle contest 2003, with Asahi, Ambitious Career Woman, Blue Sky Mile, In Praise of Folly, Lands Farther East

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Cutest Band in Seattle Contest 2003: Lands Farther East

Lands Farther East. Photo by Summer.

at YMCA Fusion Cafe

The two things that I found most notable were that 1) They played with their backs to us and 2) In their second song, they had a drumbeat that strongly resembled a part from my favorite Sigur Rós song, "hún jörð."

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