dopey wrote:
] you guys dont even know half the tragedy of brad's death. part
] of that being it was his first hit of dope in 8 years. and
] part of it was that he had had a death sentence on him once,
] back in the early 90s, when he was a solid user and had come
] so far and done so much with his life since leaving all that
] behind. but i didnt come on here to bring some kind of downer,
] i just wanted to share grief with you guys who seem to have
] actually been his friend. ive known brad since 1984, hung out
] with him every weekend for 8 years in a park where all the
] stoner and punk kids use to hang. i want to share with you a
] poem brad wrote on the back of his algebra homework on the
] 10th of January 1986, which oddly enough, we buried him on the
] 1/10/2004. this poem was passed around a circle of 20 grown up
] park kids while the body was lowered into the grave. this poem
] is so brad(from backthen mind you) that we all began to wail
] and laugh at the same time. im sure the old folks were trippin
] on us, but i wouldnt have changed a thing, other than wishing
] they coulda shared the moment with us...

Thanks for sharing this with us..

] the force of time has no limit. time plays the
] ultimate part in our lives. time affects us at every moment.
] time cannot be stopped except by the end of time. the end of
] time will be when time's force wears thin, in some distant
] generation, and time slows and eventually stops. imagine time
] stopping and all past times converging on the same plane. that
] will be the ultimate end.
] the ultimate end will be like someone turning a
] television set off. it(everything) will all just suck into the
] giant vacuum of the space of nothing. all life & non-life will
] just dissolve, except for one ozzy osbourne record which will
] stand as a memorandum of our race...because...ozzy rules
] eternally...even beyond the ultimate end.

:)

] as we drove out of the cemetery, my best friend(also an
] ex-park kid) put in some black sabbath and we sat back for the
] cold quiet ride back to the city. brad touched alot of folks
] here, but i truly feel like ive lost a brother. im glad you
] got to know him, whoever all you guys are, and whereever you
] are.

I just put on Planet Caravan, and tried to do this in my own way.

I'm glad I got a chance to know him too. I'm glad a piece of him was recorded here, and will never be lost. Even if its only a very small piece.

Ozzy Rules Eternally