Calling all fellow SIFFers! The generous folks at the Seattle International Film Festival have offered us two tickets for this year's Opening Night Gala (which happens this! Thursday! May! 19!). Wanna put on some nice duds and hobknob with Seattle cinephiles at McCaw Hall?

Send an email to tig {at} threeimaginarygirls dot com with the subject line "SIFF Rulez" by Wednesday, 5/18 at noon for a chance to win. We'll choose a winner using our imaginary randomness method, and email them back with a confirmation! Your free tickets get you and a friend in to kick-off the festival in style with a screening of The First Grader, as well as two complementary drink tickets and tables of delish appetizers from local restaurants at the post-film party. If you've never been, I HIGHLY recommend it (bring your camera for photos on the red carpet!).

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Kid Koala is one of the giants in turntablism and is one of the most skilled DJs around.

Next week, he's bringing his ambitious project The Slew to Nectar for a show next Thursday, September 24 that should be one of the best parties of the week. The idea behind The Slew is that Koala is spinning records from six turntables while being backed by the former rhythm section from the rock band Wolfmother. Even if with it being on a work night, I'm intrigued to check it out. I've enjoyed what I've heard from the album The Slew: 100%, which you can download from Kid Koala's website.

Even better, we have a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky reader. To enter, you just need to be over 21 and send an e-mail with "TheSlew" in the subject line to tig@threeimaginarygirls.com before Monday morning (Sept. 21) at 9am. The winner will be notified shortly after that.

Photo by SekondHandProjects from Kid Koala's MySpace page.

Guh. Okay:

Pretend it's the winter of '04-'05. Ready? Go.

I don't know what you were up to, but I was geeking out about shows and posting really, really bad pictures I was taking with my point-and-shoot on my blog (that all of six people were following). My heavy rotation of new music included I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, Emoh, Hopes and Fears, a Barsuk comp, anything involving Colin Meloy or Ray Lamontagne, The Wrens, The Frames, Andrew Bird, Iron and Wine, Damien Rice, Ed Harcourt, and David Garza. Plus some live acoustic Howie Day bootlegs from way before he got awful. At this point, I'd been hip to KEXP for about six months or so, I was drooling over the content on three imaginary girls, and my BFF was trying to get me to move out to the West Coast.

I also had a really, really crappy mp3 player.

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