GIFT PACK FROM BRAINWASHED
So, in this contest, the first one to sound in and note where the first mention of brainwashed was in the December/January issue of THE WIRE magazine would get a prize pack from brainwashed. Gerald Laughlin-Ireland from Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA) was the lucky winner, who within about 20 minutes of THE BRAIN going live had actually noticed the feedback letter from a reader in Poland thanking the Wire for posting the URL for the Coil website. Gerald won a gift pack which included a copy of each brainwashed 7" single, some hot sauce from Taco Bell/KFC, an expired subway pass from Boston, $4 in Camel Cash, a losing lottery ticket and a Supertramp 8-Track Cassette tape. More contests are on the horizon.

MAKE YOUR OWN GTO TAPE
This contest was a lot simpler than people originally thought - to win you had to come up with a mix tape of GTO related music. The prize was that tape along with the latest full-length release from Michael Wells, "Out is In" by S.O.L.O. 5 winners for this included Ben Adams from Madison WI, Sera Moore from Washington D.C., Mark Robinson from Lancaster PA, Jason Danielson from Columbia SC, and Roger Taylor from Fremont, CA.

EASY SNACKING FOR IRON YOUTH
After two days of random guessing, lucky winner Joe Lentini from Philadelphia, PA successfully guessed correctly three items found in the snack machine at Jon Whitney's workplace. Joe won the brand new NON CD, every correct snack he guessed, as well as a snack-themed sampler cassette from BMG circa 1996. Congrats Joe!

IT'S ELECTRIC
Carefully hidden where few people were thought to find it, this contest's clue was hiding in the book review that week. To win the contest, the people would have to email us the amount of last month's electric bill to win the latest Bowery Electric single. Winners were Freida Abtan from Waterloo ON, Canada, Severin Walker from Chester PA, Mark Jackson from Greensboro NC, George Williams from Northridge CA, David Turner from Hayward CA, Jesse Edwards from Toledo OH, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis from Deventer, Netherlands, and Scott Puhl from somewhere I don't know yet...

CHARLES ATLAS
Brainwashed was excited to give away some of the brand new CD from Charles Atlas, as it's a wonderful crossover record. Winners won by identifying tht band and origin and name of main member of Charles Atlas (who was Charles Wyatt from San Francisco's Dart). Anyhow, winners included Arttu Partinen from Finland and four others whose names and places have been completely lost accidentally!

A SPECIAL PLAN
Things got hot and bothered when we received 5 autographed copies of the new CD EP from Current 93, so we turned up the heat on the contest. Winners had to say who was on stage in 1999 in NYC on Tibet's birthday - and which birthday it was. It was David Tibet's 39th birthday and people didn't win unless they guessed all members performing with C93 and included all the opening acts including Annie, Heemann and the puppetteer, Jonathan Padgett. Winners from this contest were Josh Loughrey from Mckeess Rocks PA, USA; Frieda Abtan from Waterloo ON, Canada; Jim Overholser from Rocky River OH, USA; James Hunter from Amherst MA, USA; and Charles Monaco from Middletown CT, USA.

OPERATION ANAGRAM
Ostara were about to release their debut full lengther, but before they did, they sent out loads of singles of "Operation Valkrie." A few of them showed up at Brainwashed Central and we decided to give away the extras to whoever came up with the 10 best anagrams of the bands name who Ostara used to play in. The band was Strength Through Joy and the winners wereAki Liinalaakso from Finland, Brian Garant from Earth, and Frank from Christina Aguilera.

ELIGIBILITY
Basically anybody can win these things so long as they don't mind living far away and waiting 10 months for a camel to bring their gifts. Given the fleas might devour some of the contents and 8-track tapes are illegal in 4 former Soviet republics, we can't be responsible for the condition things arrive to you. Best of luck anyhow. Thanks for reading!