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Reality Sandwich | Evolving consciousness, bite by bite. The Daily Adventures of Mixerman | Welcome. WELCOME TO The Daily Adventures of Mixerman: All Mixerman documentary copy is presented just as it appears in the hardbound book, The Daily Adventures of Mixerman. © 2002, 2004, 2006 Mixerman Multimedia, Inc. - All Rights Reserved. No part of the following web-based document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 The Daily Adventures of Mixerman: Week 1: Los Angeles, California Posted: July 27, 10:33 a.m. On Monday, July 29, I begin a new project. I will be recording an album of a band for a very famous producer. I am an acquaintance of the producer-although "acquaintance" likely exaggerates the depth of our relationship. You see, I know the band. The bands are often fans of my work. Yet. Mixerman Thanks? French Rockets Online. The Quietus. Dangerous Minds: Pop Culture Topics. This is a guest post by Jeanie Finlay, director of ORION: The Man Who Would Be King Ten years ago I was at a garage sale with my husband Steven in our hometown of Nottingham, England. On a stall filled with cheap ornaments and dog-eared paperbacks, standing proudly at the front of a box of faded vinyl records, we found the above album.

Orion: Reborn. Sun Records. Collector’s gold vinyl. Release date on the back said 1979. No songs we’d ever heard of, but that cover… Who was this mysterious masked man, standing hand on hips, with his perfect raven hair and sta-press trousers? We took the record home, put it on and within seconds the mystery deepened. The story I uncovered was one of the strangest I’ve ever encountered. But this story had it all. Even if you’ve never heard of Orion, you probably know about the “Elvis is Alive” myth. “I was born in Sun Records, in the studio.” A copy of the letter announcing the name “ORION” for the first time. Orion was now out in the world. “Look Me Up”