Rich over at Cable and Tweed posted some awesome early U2 demos today that you should head right over and check out while they’re still up!

Here are the promised Arkitekt tracks I told you I’d post yesterday and didn’t have on me, from their album What Makes Your World Go Round?:

Arkitekt - Greatest Romances
Arkitekt - Impossible

I love this album and I loved their last show but I have to say the few songs I did catch of theirs last night were a little disappointing. Granted, Drunken Unicorn doesn’t have the greatest sound… (And yeah, I punked out of the show early to go catch “Thank You For Smoking”.)

So two days a week during the day, I bartend in a very touristy/ghetto bar that will rename unnnamed. Yesterday I turned up all the tvs to listen to/watch VH1 Classic’s “Tuesay Twosome”. They basically play two videos by the same artist back to back all day long. It’s awesome.

This turned out to be quite the amusement of my day. Around 1pm I already had the entire bar singing along to “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce then a few minutes later to “Black Water” by The Doobie Brothers. Picture the type of people who go to a touristy/ghetto bar at 1pm on a Tuesday in Atlanta, GA then picture them belting out the aforementioned songs. There was something kind of charming about it. Ha.

About an hour later, the bar had cleared out and I was tooling away on my laptop, when the most amazing little African American man with one crutch in a nice (mismatched) suit and jacket came in. He ordered a double well rum and coke and asked for cherries and cherry juice for it. He told me he always liked Morrissey when a Moz video came on the tv then similiarly towards The Replacements when they came on. I told him about Paul Westerburg and The Smiths whom he was unfamiliar with. Debbie Gibson came on and he identified it before it even began. We begin to talk about Tiffany and guess who came on next? Tiffany. He rocked out tapping his old fingers on the bar along with the music. “Boogie Wonderland” came on and his grin just widened and he wiggled back and forth in his stool - dancing to the music. “After The Love Has Gone” (Earth, Wind and Fire) had 2 security guards wander in to stare at the tvs and bob their heads. This little man was such an obvious music fan - it absolutely charmed me to have such an interesting and unpredictable gentlemen stumble into my bar at 3pm on Tuesday afternoon. He promised he’d come back and visit me.