PopTodd Wrote:
Twilightkid Wrote:
I knew him and he was one of the sweetest guys out there.
You know, it really makes you feel like shit when, your first reaction to a celebrity death like this is "Who cares? His music sucked anyway!"
And then you find out that he is a really nice person.
So sorry to hear this. (Not that he was nice, but that he passed.)
And I'm sorry that you lost a friend.
It makes me feel like shit whenever my first reaction to ANYONE's death is some cynical attitude kneejerk reaction. I seem to do it a lot. For instance, I hear about military casualties and sometimes, instead of defaulting to true human compassion, my thoughts focus on the ridiculousness of the war, or I question why we value American lives so much more than Iraqis or Somalians or whoever-the-fuck. Then I remind myself that these are real people, with real families and friends. I remind myself how much of a self-centered asshole I can be. I don't know if it's just the jaded internet world we live in, or if the fact that I even question my own self-involved reaction is progress, somehow. I imagine my grandfather never questioned his gut reactions this way.
