Mingering Mike

August 1, 2005 4:29 AM

Mingering Mikeis the soul superstar you've never heard of.
posted by dodgygeezer (10 comments total)

Wonderful!

Related thread here. The original link is dead now, though.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 5:07 AM on August 1, 2005

...unless you've read the previous thread about his works.
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:07 AM on August 1, 2005

ooh. I missed the previous, but this is so cool.

I found this article about him, and here's a cached forum page that has the text of the NYT article, in case you don't feel like dealing with the pdf from the site.
posted by taz at 5:26 AM on August 1, 2005

This Mike - he mingers?
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 5:44 AM on August 1, 2005

I've seen these before (not here), but they never fail to impress me and weird me out a bit. Thanks for the link.
posted by OmieWise at 5:45 AM on August 1, 2005

This is a wonderful story, and that'll soon be a really wonderful website. It's one of those tales where I become supremely jealous of both the original artist, and of the "diggers" who came across his oeuvre. Man. And I want to hear the tunes!
posted by Marquis at 6:02 AM on August 1, 2005

This is just a really great story. I know we all have our fantasies, but I don't think most of us will ever turn them into something tangible that other people can enjoy.
posted by apple scruff at 6:58 AM on August 1, 2005

Mingering Mike is the soul superstar you've never heard of...
...and probably not without reason.
posted by jmccorm at 7:03 AM on August 1, 2005

It must be pretty tragic finding out that all your possessions have been sold out from under you by a storage company, but without this happening it probably would have been a few more years before his work came to light. Serendipity is a strange thing.

Mingering Mike, as seen in waxpoetics.
posted by asok at 8:26 AM on August 1, 2005

Too bad they don't have mp3s, but instead use that shitty RA format.
posted by klangklangston at 8:37 AM on August 1, 2005