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Scattered Thoughts: Is This Cool? (Or not?)

Bono and Edge were in New York this past week. Broadway shows, languorous lunches, rock star sightings and possible pink apartment shopping all over town. Cool stuff.

But not as cool as Jacknife Lee’s website, which I stumbled upon for the first time today. It’s one of those sites that is (almost) slightly beyond one’s ability to navigate. You know, the type where you have no idea what to click because there are no clear links or headings, just uber-edgy graphics and links that take you heaven knows where.

Basically, it makes no sense. But that does not mean it’s not cool, because it is. Cool.

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If you visit Jacknife Lee’s site, you can listen to his remix of U2’s Window in the Sky. I had never heard this particular remix before. Have you guys heard it?

It’s not even listed as Window in the Skies. It’s listed as Window in the Sky. To find and listen to this remix, go to jacknifelee.com and when the black screen pops up on the home page, click on the red dot. Then, at the next page, click on the fifth dot from the left at the bottom of the page. Wait for the page to load and a list of remixes pops up.

The list includes a few other U2 remixes that have been officially released (Fast Cars, Ave Maria, Vertigo), as well as remixes for other artists. Window in the Sky is at the bottom of the list, and you can listen to an audio stream of it there.

Bono’s voice is very distorted, but I think this remix is really cool.

Do you?

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Bono and Edge on Broadway

Bono and EdgeLook who it is!

Bono and Edge took in a Broadway show Thursday night and hammed it up stayed calm for this portrait. Word is they’re in the Big Apple to work on the Spider Man musical.

More at Stage Notes…..

(Thx to Julie for the tip.)

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Best. Walk On. Evah.

One of the questions in the big U2 Fan Survey that we do each November asks you to choose what is the best version of “Walk On.” The possible answers include the version on the Boston DVD, the one on the Slane DVD, the album version, and a couple others.

And each year, the real best version doesn’t win. So in a blatant attempt to influence this year’s voting, here’s the real best version of “Walk On,” recorded live at the 2002 Grammy Awards. :)

See? I was right, huh?

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Scattered Thoughts: Inter-related

Paul McCartney’s daughter Mary, a photographer, is selling some of her celebrity photographs this week in London to raise funds for the charity Cancerbackup. According to this article, among the “intimate” photographs on sale is a shot she took of Bono.

The photos are of “celebrities whose own success is directly related to the strength of their personal back-up teams.” I am not sure that the below shot is the Bono photo featured, but it’s the only Bono shot that Mary McCartney has taken that I have been able to locate. Plus, he looks sharp, and I dare say that is reason enough to post it. (Below photo of Bono via marymccartney.com)
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A couple of other (unrelated) random tidbits:

Kings of Leon reveal they have U2 nicknames. The Curve, Hairy Mullen Junior, Jaydam Clayton and Wino.

Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell says Bono has phone memory-erasing superpowers.

That’s all for now.

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