Re: [bomp] Remembering Mike O'Neill

[michael baker <roky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RIP you bastard!!!

someone do a few shots for me please
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From: "Lounge Laura Taylor" <queenjanefondle@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [bomp] Remembering Mike O'Neill


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> The print version can be found in The Tampa Tribune, Friday Extra 7/13/07
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>  http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/entertainment/related/C602/
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>    Remembering Mike
> Posted By Curtis Ross at Jul 16, 2007 at 10:13 AM
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>  I tried downloading a Nailbiters CD at home and it locked up my computer. 
> Mike ONeill would have liked that.
>  Mike had some Luddite tendencies. He was the last person I knew to get a 
> CD player or a cell phone. When I met him he didnt have a credit card or 
> even a bank account.
>  Put Mike in any crowd and he would have stood out. There were the little 
> things  his mix-and-not-quite-match sense of fashion, the way he held his 
> cigarette  and there was his music.
>  The music Mike made with his bands Monday Mornings, Nailbiters and the 
> Unrequited Loves was relentless in its originality, its honesty and its 
> avoidance of clichi. I wonder how many writers could hold themselves to 
> that standard and still consistently write tunes with melody and hooks. 
> Not many, I think.
>  I knew Mike as a fan of his music, as a co-worker  he was Friday Extras 
> events editor from 1993 until he quit last year  and, Id like to think, 
> as a friend, although there were plenty of people closer to him than me.
>  Mike killed himself a year ago this coming Tuesday and like a lot of 
> people, probably, Ive been thinking about him a lot recently.
>  For someone who obviously knew horrible depression, he was one of the 
> only people I knew who could make me laugh to the point of 
> near-helplessness.
>  He introduced me to so much music  Ive got a stack of mix tapes he made 
> me over the years. He was kind and generous although toward the end he 
> could be erratic, alienating and even mean, which now seems to have been 
> results of the despair he felt.
>  Like everyone else he knew, I wish I could have said something to change 
> his mind.
>  Im listening to Nailbiters Unsorted album as I write this. Its the 
> first time Ive listened to Mikes music since he died. It sounds really 
> good. Thanks, Mike.
>  Come salute Mike Tuesday at The Globe in St. Petersburg with Crash 
> Mitchell, Rebekah Pulley, Keith Bartlett and special guests. Globe Coffee 
> Lounge 532 First Avenue North
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