Got to hang out with my friend Dave for a bit this weekend.  The thing about Dave is that even if you just met him, after about 10 minutes with him you will find your self talking about the strangest things.  Dave’s the type of guy who is brutally honest, with himself and others, and will talk about anything.  Case in point, Dave, his girlfriend, and I walk out to smoke a cigarette and Dave just says, “I was walking home past a sleeping homeless guy the other night and thought, hmmm I could just kill this guy and keep walking and no one would ever know”.  So now we are talking about how easy it would be to kill homeless people on the street and never get caught.  This moved into a conversation about ’The Dart Man’, who was a guy in the early 90’s that provoked a miniwave of terror on women in the city by shooting them in the ass with homemade darts.  Not just one or two, this guy hit 53 women.  At the time we had thought that the guy had never been caught, but sadly I found this quote online from a 1990 issue of TIME Magazine, ‘After a massive manhunt, police announced last week that they had finally collared Dart Man’.  Seriously, “massive manhunt”, fucking hilarious.  This is when Andy and Joe join the conversation and someone (prolly Joe) explored the idea of “The Muffin Man”.  It was decided this character would HAVE to have a costume, and would basically sneak up and grab “muffin tops”.  If you don’t know what “muffin tops” are Joe and Andy have an uncanny knowledge of cute nicknames for awkward body features and are always willing to share their knowledge.

If you read music blogs Cold War Kids will not be new to you.  They were pretty much everywhere for a hot minute.  I wanted to send some tracks from their upcoming release on Downtown Recording (this will be thier first full length) but I couldn’t wait for the promo so I’m sending some tracks from their 2 EPs released earlier this year.  And anyway, from what the band says on their site some of these songs will actually be on the full length (hospital beds & hair down), although they’ve been re-recorded “in the way that we would’ve liked to originally record them”.

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/Cold%20War%20Kids-Up%20In%20Rags-05%20-%20Hospital%20Beds.mp3

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/Cold%20War%20Kids-With%20Our%20Wallets%20Full-01%20-%20Hair%20Down.mp3

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/Cold%20War%20Kids-With%20Our%20Wallets%20Full-03%20-%20Expensive%20Tastes.mp3

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