I write to you all this day to give birth to a prophesy.  A glance, a gaze, a glare into the future.  The extremely near future……A COUPLE DAYS INTO THE FUUUUUUUUTTTTUUUURE.

 

Let it be said unto you thusly: Once upon a time, in the super near future, of this SATURDAY MAY, 21, a party shall be had at The Basics Fund place (1388 Cherryvale..just South of Arapahoe on Cherryvale).  It shall be a party of extreme fun and awesomeness.  It shall be a party of friendship and love.  It shall be a gathering of sweetness and goofiness and hilarity and music and raging and sacred geometry….i mean, cuz seriously, sacred geometry is everywhere, if you think about it.

 

Also, it shall be a WATERFIGHT DANCEPARTY in celebration of The Basics Fund’s 4th birthday; Bus to Show’s 2nd Birthday, and also, all those billboards that say that 5/21 is the end of the world.  As such, it will feature some hyper-talented musicians creating the soundscape for this waterfight to end all waterfights.  Included among them are:


FISK

Cody Wille (Supreme Action League)

Godlazer

LoLo

….and more

 

Tickets are not required, but we set up the ticketing thing to alloy you to donate now if you desire.  For more info join the fb event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226063824076969

 

Things shall kicketh off at 4PM with a few rounds of live music and squirt gun-enhanced capture the flag.  BYOSG.  Followed by possibly a few rounds of water balloon dodgeball.  Families and  friends are welcome, although we assume no responsibility for their physical or mental well-being…nor anyone’s for that matter.  My nephew will be there for the first few hours.  He’s really good at capture the flag so look out.

 

There will be a BBQ grill.  Bring your own food.  There will be a keg or two for those of us of age.    Bring your own cup….this will help save the environment.  Cuz in reality, those billboards are probably wrong, and we should probably do everything we can to make sure that they are off by as many days as possible.

 

This party is going to go all night.  So come by early and often and if you can’t, then come by after that.

 

Historically, TBF birthday parties are conceptual mash-ups just like this, that serve to create a socially interactive sculpture in the medium of people on place and time.  We want this event to pay tribute not only to the art, and the artists, but also the audience as an active component of the art itself.  So come prepared to be a part of this sculpture, this experience, one of many that you consciously choose to add to the ongoing chain of experiences that make up your life.  Come prepared to be your best, sweetest, funniest, kindest, dancingest, and most adept at waterfightingest self.   THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!  Also, we will be raffling off bus rides and other sweet prizes.

 

How to get here: We are at 1388 cherryvale in Boulder.  Please arrive and depart in a safe manner.   It would be really lame if anyone got DUIs on the way home from a party for a non-profit that reduces intoxicated driving.  However, this is our drivers’ one night to party down with everybody, so we’re trying not to have to do a bus.

 

Don’t worry, there are other ways to get here without driving yourself home.  You can drive here and park on 62nd and Arapahoe and then walk it in from there.  If you do this, please cab it home and deal with getting your car back in the morning.  Serioulsy. You can camp in the back yard if you need to .  Take the  RTD-Jump from anywhere on Arapahoe to Cherryvale and then walk south to 1388.  http://RTD-Denver.com.

 

Thanks, y’all.  This prophesy is complete.  See you on Saturday.  Let me know if you have questions.

 

Love with every chamber:

 

DUSTIN

The Semiotic Sessions Vol. II: Live Interview with BoomBox

The Semiotic Sessions: BoomBox

THE SEMIOTIC SESSIONS (Friday, Feb 25)

LIVE INTERVIEW WITH BOOMBOX

Just before the sold out Show at The Fox, The Basics Fund will be welcoming BoomBox to the 2nd installment of The Semiotic Sessions, a live artist interview series held on the CU Boulder campus. It’s a live lecture series that will verbally explore BoomBox’s work in the context of their artistic peers, the movements to which they feel their work contributes, and the philosophical and artistic ideals which their work explores. A grand attempt to use something as abstract as words to describe something as abstract as art…

Time: 5 PM

Location: CU Boulder Visual Arts Center

Reserve Here: http://semioticsessions2.eventbrite.com/

This event is FREE.  Please reserve in advance to stop climate change.

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Conscious Alliance BoomBox Poster

Letters from the Ghost Chief: The New Current Fantasy

Dear BTS and TBF Constituents,

Hello and greetings from Earth…a fantasy world that is every bit as amazing as you have the creative capacity to imagine.  Everyone looks great! Thanks for coming out.  Put your reading pants on, kiddies.  I gots a lot of good things to say to you.

So, here it is, the new current fantasy:  The Basics Fund and BTS Welcome: BoomBox!!!! I don’t know if everyone remembers/knows this, but I am huge fan of BoomBox.   The first time they came through CO (at least it was the first time they came through since I had heard of them), I pitched the idea of writing a story on them to Brian F. Johnson at the Marquee Magazine.  He was able to put me in touch with the band’s management, and shortly thereafter I had one of the best, most insightful interviews of my writing career.  We got down to the dirty murky mucky mud of it.  Art. Context.  The point of music in the first place.  To create a sense of place.   And in this case a place you could dance in.  Or couldn’t stop dancing in, as it were.  A philosophy embodied in sound.  Nothing lost in translation.  Raw.  Elemental.  BoomBox.  Russ Randolf and Zion Rock Godcheaux.  Dead family scion.  Son of Donna Jean and Keith.   But they wanted to downplay that whole legacy side-story.  Understandably.  Let this music earn its own keep.  Inheriting only the unavoidable cross-over.   And one of Jerry’s guitars.  And maybe a slight reincarnation of that effortless presentation.  Anyway.  The interview was great.  We hit it off.  Saw eye to eye.  And during the conversation, I happened to let slip this whole thing that I was working on.  The Basics Fund.  It was a newborn baby then and I talked about it all the time to everyone.  Bus to Show, wasn’t even thought of as a separate organization.  That whole deal was still just a Twinkle in me and Charlie’s eyes.   And anyway, BoomBox offered us the chance to partner up in promoting buses to their shows.  Wholesale tickets to sell as a fund raiser, and a booth inside the venue.  It was the first time a nationally touring act gave us this kind of a hand-up.  Granted, it was the first time we had ever asked.  Flash forward 3 years.  BoomBox’s 2nd album is out.  Downriver Electric.  And, we get an idea.  The Semiotic Sessions, our artist interview concept.  An attempt to get people talking deeply about art they deeply cared for..  We’ve done it once before…with Signal Path on CU campus, interviewed by Ryan Nelli of GSP.   Amazing turnout.  Amazing content.  Would BoomBox be down to investigate the true nature of their art,  in the form of a guided discussion in front of a live audience (consisting of people like you…just exactly like you) at CU on February 25th at 5 PM?  I don’t know.  They surprised us before with their down-ness to Earth.  Their chillness.  Their going with the flow: downriver steadily.  Electrically.  Not unlike their music.  Maybe it’s possible.  Doesn’t hurt to ask.  So we asked.  And guess what…They said yes!

And as a result, this February 25th,  2011 (that’s a Friday), just before their sold out Show at The Fox,  The Basics Fund will be welcoming BOOMBOX to the 2nd installment of The Semiotic Sessions, live artist interview series.  A hopeless attempt to use something as abstract as words to describe something as abstract as art.   Oh yeah, and it’s FREE!  –Thanks to our CU student group and the Cultural Events Board.  Reserve your spot below.  There’s a link somewhere down there.  You’ll see it.  Space is limited.  Seats will go fast.  There’s a link below to reserve.

As if this weren’t enough, the night before (Thurs. Feb. 24th), BoomBox will also be throwing a VIP hangout sesh for BTS Bus Riders ONLY!  upstairs at the Bluebird before their show.

Ask and ye shall motherfunkin receive!

Sorry.  Got excited.  Here’s the table of contents for this month’s letter.

1. BoomBox partners with Bus to Show and The Basics Fund for 3 nights of music, discussion, and parties

2. The Buffalo Exchange Donates to The Basics Fund, through its “Tokens for Bags” program

3.  Welcome to the Tribe, Senor Johnston, The Michael Johnston of the Future.

4. The Elusive Silver Streak bus is back and ready for your VIP busparty endjoyment. **Available to monthly members only (so become one, already, geez).

5. Top Sponsors: Fresh2Death and Grassroots California.

6. Upcoming Bus Calendar

1. The BoomBox Run:

02/24 Thursday at the Bluebird (denver) http://on.fb.me/gOz92e

  • BoomBox is inviting BTS riders to a Riders Only VIP Hangout Sesh. Kick it upstairs at the Bluebird with Russ and Zion and members of the BoomBox camp. The bus for this will leave Boulder a little earlier, at 6:00 PM. The hangout sesh is 7 PM to 8 PM. We will also offer a later bus to make sure that people who can’t make it to the pregame can still make it to the show. Anyone who reserves for any of the BoomBox buses during this run, including (Denver to Boulder at the Fox) are invited to join. Advanced Reservation Required. http://bustoshow.org/calendar

02/25 Friday The Basics Fund Presents: Semiotic Sessions Lecture Series w. BoomBox @ CU campus.

  • Before the sold out show at The Fox, BoomBox is participating in the 2nd installment of The Basics Fund’s lecture series, The Semiotic Sessions. CEO and Ghost Chief of the Basics Fund, and widely published Music Journalist, Dustin Huth (aka me), will be interviewing Russ and Zion of BoomBox live and in person on CU campus in an effort to better understand their art, their perspective on their art, and the context of their art within contemporary movements.

Reserve Here: http://semioticsessions2.eventbrite.com/ This event is free for those who reserve in advance. Cost is $2 at the door.

02/26 Saturday BoomBox @ Bluebird http://on.fb.me/g5yyeq

So, an extra night of BoomBox @ Bluebird was just added in response to demand.  BTS is following suit, and offering another night of buses.  There is also a pre-party in Denver at the bar down the street from the Bluebird called Lost Lake Lounge http://on.fb.me/ewmS0A .  Party starts at 7 PM, so BTS will be offering a 6 PM bus for this one, as well as the later leaving bus that will head directly to the show.  reserve online at bustoshow.org/calendar.

2. The Buffalo Exchange…Exchange

So, you know that rad recycled clothing shop that used to be on 17th and Walnut, but is now on 17th and Pearl? The Buffalo Exchange? There’s also one in Denver on 13th by just east of the Denver Art Museum, by City O City? Do you know it? Yeah? Well check it out…they’re donating 5 cents for every bag you refuse to 3 local causes. One of which is none other than The Basics Fund! That’s right. In other words, go by clothes and stuff at the Buffalo Exchange in Boulder, and when you do, tell them that you don’t want a bag. Instead of a bag, they will then proceed to give you a wooden token. Take the token and put it into the little box at the register that says, The Basics Fund, on it. At the end of the quarter, they will tally all of them up and give us 5 cents for each one. We have NO IDEA how much money this is going to equal out to, but it’s going to be more if more of you go there and buy more of their stuff without getting bags. So go! Stop reading this and go! Wait…no, actually there’s good stuff coming up, so read the rest and then go.

3. Welcome to the Tribe

I’d like to give a special shout out to Michael Johnston, the newest member of the BTS tribological unit. You may know him better as Director of Community Integrations, or the guy who spends his time rounding up 100s of comp tickets to shows each month. Michael has actually been with us since like June or July of last year, but for some reason, I am just now getting around to bragging about him. We found Mike at the Dumb Friends League, and he was so cute with those big cute eyes, that we just couldn’t say no. He ended up there after a several year stint managing the reservations call center at Intrawest (copper mountain), where he quickly climbed the ladder to the top, then built a few new rungs so he could climb even higher. His work at Intrawest served to cultivate his skills with numbers, budgeting, and projections, and also earned him the opportunity to receive a Six Sigma Degree in Project Management. In his time with Bus to Show, he has already set up and mastered the Community Integrations Department, which basically Integrates BTS with the Community it supports. It works to build seamless relationships with all of the venues and bands we support. It is also working to provide a channel through which other members of the community, who benefit indirectly from the reduced intoxicated driving, can donate or contribute to show their support. Each month, the CI department tallies up the contributions it received and adds them to the running score for each of our supporters. The top sponsors, are what you see in our sponsor totem, and rotating through the sidebar of the bustoshow.org website. Oh, yeah, Mike also maintains that website…and organizes our promotions. Aside from all of that, Mike is also one of the nicest, chillest, easiest to talk to, and most enthusiastic lovers of life ever born. We are ridiculously lucky to have Mike with us. So, please, next time you run into him at a show, buy him a drink and give him a nice long back rub, and whisper something soft and breathy against his neck. Do it for me. Do it for the future.

4. The Streak is back with a brand new invention.

So, after becoming stranded in Austin during the Communikey tour, The BTS Silver Streak, under the sturdy captainship of Charlie, is back in action.  This is one of the most righteous buses in existence, 2nd only to the famed Warrior, and employing it’s same strategies, craftsmanship, and at least one of its couches.  This bus is 40 feet of pure mayhem.  A true home within the journey, soaking up a little bit of soulshine from all who ride inside, and in that way becoming its riders as they simultaneously become it.  Here’s the catch…This bus is available to Monthly members only.  TO become a monthly member, reserve here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1306853835

5.  Top Sponsors. You know who’s really been hooking it up for us this last month?  Fresh2Death, by way of  Grassroots California.  Being that GRC are badasses, and have built into their business model a generous contribution to a worthy cause for each sale, and also being that  they did the Fresh2Death hat, which was designed by one of the OG TBF/BTS crew, Eric Spector, and also being that Fisk and Samples were the ones who got to decide, THE CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION IS GOING TO THE BASICS FUND!   Huge thanks to Fresh2Death.  We love you guys!  We have loved watching you kill it on larger and larger levels, and getting individual recognition as well as group recognition…and by recognition, I mean fame, while still managing to stay completely chill awesome genuine friends.  Infinite love, y’all.   Get yer hat here (scroll down,,,look for the one with the Fresh Plaid Christmas Tree Air Freshener)

6. Upcoming Busparty Shows of Note:

Save a cowboy.  Ride a bus: bustoshow.org/calendar – 830.299.7762 (830.2.99.PROB)

[Fri - 02/04]  The malah @ Cerventes (Den]
[fri - 02/04 & sat - 02/05]  moe @ ogden (Den]
[sat - 02/05] michael menert, project aspect @ cerv.
[fri - 02/11]  Umphrey’s @ Fillmore (den]
[Fri - 02/11 - Sun 2/13]]  furthur @ 1stbank [brmfld]
[fri - 02/11]  sub.mission > Stagga,raiden @ Cervantes
[sat - 02/12] devotchka @ Boulder Theater
[fri - 02/18] Drunk Poet Society @ astroland (boulder)
[thu - 02/24] boombox @ bluebird [den]
&  VIP social hour w/ boombox for bts Riders
[Fri - 02/25] boombox @  fox[boulder]
&  semiotic sessions  live interview w/ boombox
@ 5 PM @ room TBA (CU Boulder)
[fri - 02/25] sub.mission > High Rakin, Bare @ oriental
[sat - 02/26] boombox @ bluebird [den]
& pre-party w/ boombx @ lost lake lounge
[Sat - 02/26] woodrose @ astroland (boulder)
[sat - 02/26] ghostland w/ eskmo @ fillmore [den]
[sat - 02/26] larva ink, papadosio, heyoka @ Cerv.

Alright.   Gotta role.  The waiter at Tom’s Diner has refilled my coffee 6 times.  Umphrey’s should be finishing up over at The Fillmore in the next ten minutes.  Time to warm up the bus and crank up the PA.

Love with every chamber of this 4-chambered heart.

Dustin.

Letters from the Ghost Chief: The Beautiful Screech of the Falconer’s Falcon

Like the beautiful screech of the falconer’s falcon, once guessed lost, but now soaring out from in between the clouds and the sun, the voice of the Ghost Chief returns scathed yet undeterred with new words of new wisdom that shall glide forth unto your domepiece as they become read, and subsequently understood!

By the way………….EVERYONE LOOKS GREAT TONIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

Whaddup, y’all?  Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.  It’s One in the morning right now.  I’ve got to drive the little high school and elementary school kids to go get they learn on, in about 4 hours.  But I am feeling sassy as hell about this letter.  Sorry it’s been a minute…  A lot has gone down.  A lot has come up.  A lot has gotten differenter.  One or two things have stayed the same.  For example, Tawny is a badass.  That will never change.

In the interest of conveying a lot of information as efficiently as possible, I am going to be concise..

The main purpose of this letter is not to write breathtaking prose, unfortunately.  Rather, it is to let you know about what the nerdiest party kids in the world, AKA the partiest nerdy kids, AKA  The Basics Fund and Bus to Show, have been working on while sitting in front of glowing screens for ages.

It’s like this and uh:

Bus to Show, and The Basics Fund both have their own separate, BRAND NEW websites and facebook groups now.

It’s like that and uh:

BTS stuff:

  • There is a new Facebook Page for Bus to Show.  This is where we will be giving a way tons of free show tickets, merchandise, and letting you know about upcoming busparties. The Basics Fund Group has it’s own life to lead.  So if you are into the bus, Please  show us some like
  • All bus party calendaring and reservations are taking place at bustoshow.org/calendar.  Definitely check this out.  This calendar is fully sortable and searchable.  You can find buses by date, by venue, by destination artist.  And, best of all, if you’re stocking Fisk and Samples…or anyone else, you can search for them, and it will display any bus they’ve signed up to play on.  And…in case you haven’t noticed, our calendar is pretty stocked.  Think about it.  BTS is a community.  And communities talk.  Undoubtedly someone from our crew is going to hear of every underground show, warehouse party, Whomp Truck junkyard party, whatever it is.  Even if you’re not going to ride, the calendar is a valuable resource for all to endjoy.
  • Bus to Show is still a non-profit.  Its mission is to reduce intoxicated driving to and from high risk events.  It is doing a good job.  DUIs in Boulder are down 30% since the first busparties in ’07.
  • Bus to Show is now able to donate the Philanthropy portion of its proceeds to either The Basics Fund or any other worthy cause.  When you reserve your spot on the bus, you will be asked to vote for one of a few causes.  For each bus, the cause that receives the most votes, will receive the Philanthropy portion of proceeds (25%).  So, if you want to raise money for a specific cause other than The Basics Fund, email philanthropics@bustoshow.org and we’ll see what we can do.  Otherwise, please continue to Vote for The Basics Fund, as it is still the 1st raddest non-profit of all time and space.  Or, if you don’t want to worry about the voting thing, you can buy BTS gift certificates on the basics fund’s site, and 10% of the total sales will automatically go to The Basics Fund.
  • We’re hiring.  We need a couple of hard working, intelligent, drivers who want to help out a good cause by staying sober and making sure everyone gets where they’re headed safely.  Especially on the big nights like New Year’s Eve, and the night your favorite band plays Red Rocks.

TBF Stuff:

  • We’re looking for interns.  Specifically, we need help street teaming for our sponsored artists’ shows.  If you are interested, please email landon@thebasicsfund.org, and let him know what type of art you are most interested in.

And in closing my sweet ones, two shows of note:

  1. Jonny Woodrose is doing us the honor of playing live on the Cheap Local Sexy bus to The Black Angels.  $15/head Tuesday DEC. 7th.  Reserve Here Now
  2. Cody Wille AkA The Wicked Won,  AkA one of the most talented electronic musicians ever to grace us with his sonic presence is playing at BETA on the DEC. 11th. alongside DJ Dan, who is, for lack of a better way of putting it, kind of a big deal..1st 15 to reserve on the bus will get free admission to BETA.  Everyone else $5 (21+).  Reserve Here Now

Also…as always.  huge thanks to our top sponsors.  Please click on their images below to show them some love for showing us some love which makes it possible for us to show you more love for cheaper .

Love with every chamber,

Dustin Huth

CEO/Ghost Chief

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  4. Enter your Discount Code if applicable (i.e. you have prepaid for your membership, received a gift certificate from your mom or friend, won a contest, or obtained a sponsorship by nagging your boss).
  5. A trial membership is a sample roundtrip busparty designed to give you a taste of how we roll. you can take as many samples as you want with no obligation.
  6. Go through the entire reservation process.
  7. If you want to help us try to get all your friends on the same bus, choose a group name and have all your friends enter it when prompted.
  8. Select the charity or cause you like best when prompted.  The cause that receives the most votes for each bus will receive the philanthropy portion of proceeds for your bus.  If you really love the cause, try getting all your friends, enemies, and people you’ve never met to ride…and suggest that they vote accordingly.
  9. For each spot you reserve, print a copy of this waiver and have the rider sign it.  Current members may have this on file and do not need to do it every time.  If you are in doubt as to whether you need it check here, or just do it again blindly if you hate the environment.
  10. Read the t.f.e. document in the link below, and show up at the pick-up location at the check-in time ready to ride with your  i.d., your cell phone, and your craziest/normalest outfit on.

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