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Willie Mitchell, RIP

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:14:50 -0800

The man behind the classic sound of Al Green, Memphis producer and soulmeister supreme Willie Mitchell has passed on. Many of the Al Green sides are legendary, of course, and very well known (as is the fantastic "I Can't Stand the Rain, by Ann Peebles), but be sure and head over to the excellent Funky 16 Corners where you can hear three of his lesser-known but deeply grooving productions. Fat stuff. So long, Willie Mitchell, and thanks for the wonderful music.

Webbed, For Her Pleasure

Christ, what an asshole — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:16:37 -0800

There is no God. More Mitchell and Webb: Homeopathic A&E Annoying Vegetarian Education Reform Mac vs. PC Football, Football, Football Bad Vicar Abraham and Isaac Apprentice UK Spoof Candidates Getting Over Lucy Banana Dance Angry Art Avocdo Bathroom Dying Kid Identity Killer Identity Killer 2 Alien Invasion Cryogenics Who is the Captain? Levitation Holmes and Watson Corner Shop Sir Digby Chicken Caesar Toothbrush Company Party Organizer Realtor Torture Psychologist Friends of Moneypenny Wavy Arms Swimming Pool Sale Myth Child Speedo Cheesoid Boy With an Arse for a Face Hole in the Ring The Fun Historian Chiropractor Wordwang A History of Numberwang Scarecrow German SS Officers Henchmen Good Samaritan Social Misunderstanding Gap Year Backpedaling Idiots Gap Year Backpedaling Idiots 2 Gap Year Backpedaling Idiots 3 Israel/Bible Pitch Science Fiction Cricket Dave Gorman Football Young Love The Insulting Librarian First Television Chip and Pin Heroin Addict Christmas Arguing Couple Big Talk Detectives Global Warming Skeptic Hospital Drama Counterfeit Sell That House to Them Daydream Believers Daydream Believers 2 Daydream Believers 3 Rat Poison Library Psycho Sarcastic Paramedic Bad Poker Player IT Recruiting Sarcastic Egg Farmer Biscuit Levitation The Green Clarinet Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit Garden Center Natives Naming a Dry Cleaner Massive Yacht Table of Reds Dreamy Pastures Insurance Jump Off a Cliff Sometimes Fires Go Out Primetime Welsh TV Yorkshire Airlines Bad Waiter Casino Carnivale My Shag as a Whore Captain Todger Screw Back in Anger Little Guy Emotionally Repressed Action Figures The Greatest Invention Yet Dog Bell Lights Out Ring Cycle Alcoholics Hotel Vectron Community Policeman Community Policeman 2 Guru Meditation Kitchen Nightmares Die Hard Doctor and Ice Cream Tester Remain Indoors Remain Indoors 2 Remain Indoors 3 Prankster Doctors Alcoholic Isotonic Drink Polite Taxi Driver Helivets Helivets 2 Biohazard Biohazard 2 Biohazard 3 Bronze Age Orientation Everything is Now Fine Lecherous Director Hospital Innuendo Pet Hospital Tina Edwards Hercules Poirot Professor Death Queen Victoria Text a Blog Best Man Speech Brain Surgeon Caveman Detectives Now We Know Write This Cheese

"We did some Chuck Berry and took it from there. I suppose it worked."

The Card Cheat — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:43:05 -0800

Mitch Mitchell, best known as the drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, dead at 61. The last member of the trio to pass away, Mitchell was found in his hotel room early Wednesday morning. Give the drummer some!

It's Spock's illusions I recall

bicyclefish — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:20:56 -0800

Leonard Nimoy ruins Joni Mitchell. Johnny Cash redeems Gordon Lightfoot. The Donnas render Men Without Hats ever so slightly less ridiculous. The CBC assembles a list of great (and sub-great) covers of Canadian songs. And a happy Canada Day to you.

The asterisk wing of Cooperstown.

zerobyproxy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:16:36 -0800

So, who doesn't use steroids or HGH? So what do you do when MVP winners, Cy Young award winners and some World Series winners all have cheated? Any ideas? From the Michell Report: Denny Neagle Denny Neagle pitched for six teams in Major League Baseball between 1991 and 2003, the Minnesota Twins (1 season), Pittsburgh Pirates (5 seasons), Atlanta Braves (3 seasons), Cincinnati Reds (2 seasons), New York Yankees (part of 1 season), and Colorado Rockies (3 seasons). He has played on two All-Star teams. Radomski said he met Neagle at a club in New York City in 2000 when Neagle played for the Yankees. After they met, Neagle called Radomski “looking for HGH.” Neagle seemed familiar with human growth hormone. Radomski said that from 2000 to 2004 he engaged in five or six transactions with Neagle involving human growth hormone and anabolic steroids. (6 Meg PDF). This is but one example of many.

Jim Mitchell is dead. Long live Jim Mitchell!

Item — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:15:20 -0800

Jim Mitchell, killer, dead.

If you'll show me yours.

escabeche — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:27:09 -0800

Nude Marathon! Psychotherapy traveled down a lot of strange paths in the 60s and early 70s, but perhaps none stranger than the naked group therapy sessions, some up to 48 hours long, supervised by Paul Bindrim. Bindrim's sessions were the subject of a documentary film and an unflattering, thinly fictionalized novel by Gwen Davis Mitchell. Bindrim sued Mitchell for libel. Can descriptions of a fictional character be libelous of a real person? Yes.

Deere John

stacyhall1 — Tue, 17 May 2005 08:13:40 -0800

Machine as romantic object. The short film “Deere John” explores how narrative archetype can humanize the inanimate (and is funny).

The Spook Who Sat By The Door - 30 years later.

y2karl — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:39:56 -0800

The Spook Who Sat By The Door, a movie pitched and marketed as blaxploitation, was a low budget political science fiction thriller about black revolution in urban black America based upon the novel written by Sam Greenlee. It was withdrawn two weeks after its release in 1973, ostensibly at the behest of the FBI. Some remember it fondly, while others revile it in recollection. Thirty-one years later, it has been released on DVD. Sam Greenlee's an interesting man--another book of his, Baghdad Blues, is evidently an autobiographical novel based upon his first hand experience of the 1958 Baath coup in Iraq. Side notes: Researching this post led me to the intriguing Chicken Bones. And here is Elvis Mitchell's take on The Marginalization of Black Action Films.