Soul Man

Isaac Hayes, the great songwriter and actor, has died. Here's just a few ways to remember him.

A great recording of "Look of Love" (coupled with a not-so-great slideshow...you might want to just listen to this one)



This one though, you should watch. The man's a picture of music and form in motion. Here's Hayes at a jazz festival in 1997 bringin' the funk to a little something called..."Shaft!"





(Note to self: Watch Carpenter's "Escape From New York" tonight.)

And finally, I'm sorry Hayes left South Park under such a cloud of dispute. Here's a short clip from the episode "Die, Hippie, Die." His role in it is small, but he delivered it perfectly, as he almost always did.

Rest in peace, big guy.

*(I would've embedded the clip, but Comedy Central's embeddable player sucks beyond all previously accepted definitions of sucking)