Pitchfork

You knew this was coming. If anybody was going to auction off her used thong, it was going to be Peaches. The cause? Buying a woman a house. Several Canadian artists have banded together in support of Tyler Clark Burke, Three Gut Records co-founder and visual artist. Proceeds from such items as Peaches' undies, Justin Peroff's (Broken Social Scene) washed boxers, and the currently undecided services of Joel Gibb (Hidden Cameras), Andre Ethier (Deadly Snakes), Michael Belitsky (Sadies), and k-os, among others, are also being offered to help Burke make a down payment.

The real treats, however, come from Feist and Feist/Peaches collaborator Chilly Gonzalez. Feist is auctioning stage time with herself and her band, who "will learn the winner's song (or choice of song) and...perform it on stage at one of her shows" with him/her, according to the website Burke has created for the auction.

Gonzalez's contribution is "a Gonzpirational pro-versation", in which he will eschew all the negativity of a con-versation in a 30-minute phone session with the auction's winner. There is the possibility of meeting Chilly in person, but it would likely involve some travel and the resultant costs.

Plenty of the other items in the auction have yet to be decided, but there is a ton of visual art being offered as well as the potential for a best-of-3 Scrabble tournament with Burke herself.

The auctions begin tomorrow (August 2), and Burke describes the division of the profits thusly: "40% to the artist-friend donor, 20% to Habitat for Humanity...and 40% to (possible) habitat for me."

Learn all about the auction here.

Canadians! You so crazy!