Are you up to the test!?

Don't you hate it when you find out that someone you like is dead? I've been a Sublime fan for a while now and only yesterday did I find out that one of the main dudes, Brad Nowell, is dead and that's why the band broke up. Kinda of weird to be listening to a dead person and not even know.

The title of this post is a paraphrase of one of my favourite lines in cinema, from the now (in my mind) classic Mallrats. It's when TS hears that the fat girl has had an aneurysm, 'She's fucking dead?!', I love the anger and annoyance behind it as I've thought/think the same thing myself.

I want to stress that im no way angry toward the people that have died, that would be stupid. Im angry at the world for taking away someone who I wish was still here. Which is possibly the most selfish and self centered way of considering another persons death.

It's like the day I discovered Chris Farley was dead, what a bummer that was.

Brad Nowell, the next time I rock out to 'Wrong Way' I'll be thinking of you.