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Your afternoon palate cleanser today -- "Everything With You" by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -- comes along with a GIVEAWAY!! Yes, these spunky kids with an ear for late 80s jangle pop are coming to play a sold-out show at the Rickshaw tomorrow evening. You can bet they're going to be huge by next year, so this is a haiku contest worth pondering: please compose a haiku (that's 5-7-5 syllable lines, people) using the words "pains" and "pure" and put it in the comments. A panel of SFist judges will decide on the winner of 2 tickets. We are going to limit entries to 2 PER PERSON, since a lot of you poets out there just can't help yourselves, and we will announce the winner and inform them by email by tomorrow morning (7/21) at 9AM.
Also, if you're not sure if you're a fan based on the above video, try out this song, "Teenager In Love," which may be our favorite.
UPDATE: And the winner is... Jlin/Jesslin:
distortion pure like
icicle tips, showered glass
pains my heart gladly
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
It's hard being pure
I take great pains to refrain
But can I shrimp you?
Is this contest fake?
Aches and pains are causing me
To doubt it is pure
the intention pure,
i rode home drunk last friday
and now feel much pain!
hipsters they may be,
pains of being pure at heart
i would like to see!
pains pains pains pains pains
pure pure pure pure pure pure pure
pains pains pains pains pains
Sold Out stamps, old pains
google reader brings new hope
pure luck, I hope
dammit! forgot one.
if i lose for lack of count
pure pains will run deep.
Pure heart broke, tearful.
Sweet, tone-love in my earhole.
Please, ticket my soul.
I'll only be pure
With pop to remind me that
Pain is, missing out.
Ah yes, the Rickshaw
Pains of Being Pure on stage
Coke lines disappear
Shit, sold out again.
Planning is a pain I am
too pure to endure.
It pains me to write
that I am not pure enough
to win tomorrow.
hipsters of pure heart
skinny jeans are causing pain
ironic wedgies
Free show removes pain
Mexican water not pure
Poo Poo comes out red
you better be pure,
or else i will cut you and,
you will feel much pain.
The burden of wealth,
The pain of being gorgeous,
we feel it purely.
celebrities...pure?
personified growing pains?
attention whores? yes.
Have pains, not tickets.
Why did I procrastinate?
Pure stupidity.
distortion pure like
icicle tips, showered glass
pains my heart gladly
the pains of birthdays
trying to score tickets in time
pure failure occurs.
witho ut these, no dancing
the pains of being pure at heart
is pretty much my life.