Mingering Mike

August 1, 2005 4:29 AM

Mingering Mike is 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