Ray Davies? Tom Waits? Jerry Lee? In a song competition? Yerkiddinright?

If you were to host an International Songwriting Contest, who would you choose as judges? Well, if you were completely mental, you'd have Neil Finn, Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, Chaka Khan, KT Tunstall and "Weird Al" Yankovic. If you were of sound mind, you might gunfer Tom Waits, Robert Smith, Frank Black, Ray Davies, Loretta Lynn and Jerry Lee Lewis. If you were a mixture of the two, you'd have the lot... which is precisely what the International Songwriting Contest has done. Believe.

So what's it all about? Well, like most contests, people can enter and then, someone wins something. In this case, aspiring songwriters from anywhere in the world can enter the competition by submitting their songs before the October 15, 2008 deadline. The prizes? More than $150,000 in prizes. However, we ain't salespeople, we're too sarcastic for that. So, if you wanna make the leap from bedroomcroon to something bigger (maybe you get a certificate?), visit Songwritingcompetition.com.