Happy birthday Copesounds!
Today is copesounds birthday and I wanted to take a few moments to wish him well. So here goes...
You know, "potential" is just a nice way of saying that you aren't worth a damn yet. When I think back to my sordid youth I think of my group of friends as all possessing enormous potential. Copesounds to date has come the closest to fulfilling that potential and I can say without reservation that he is the friend that I am the proudest of (in terms of their accomplishments - not like in a sense that reflects on me).
I mean we were all fucking idiots but he had a special variety of idiotude working inside back then. It has been over fifteen years and I still haven't gotten over the time he set the coffee table on fire :) I guess what I'm saying is that he is someone who could have gone the other way in a big way. Instead he has become something of an inspiration.
Despite being younger than me he strikes me as somehow wiser. It seems that it has been I who have always wound up following his lead rather than the other way around. From music, to ways of seeing the world, to culture - he was always (and probably still is) five years ahead of me. It is hard to explain without divulging too much and getting sappy. Hmmm.
I guess that everyone and everything we experience becomes a part of us in some way. We can point to bits and pieces of our personality and identify the source. Perhaps we learned the way we spend money from our father or the way we think about minorities from our mother. We can point specific parts of ourselves and identify their origin. Copesounds is one of the few people that I can honestly say has had such a profound effect on my life that I cannot locate his specific influence. It is truly that his influence has mingled with my own and to separate it out would be to destroy who I am in total. I am forever in his debt.
So I will now raise a metaphorical glass to Copesounds and invite anyone who reads this to toast with me his unique character. Happy birthday Copesounds - the world is a better place with you in it.
Cheers.
You know, "potential" is just a nice way of saying that you aren't worth a damn yet. When I think back to my sordid youth I think of my group of friends as all possessing enormous potential. Copesounds to date has come the closest to fulfilling that potential and I can say without reservation that he is the friend that I am the proudest of (in terms of their accomplishments - not like in a sense that reflects on me).
I mean we were all fucking idiots but he had a special variety of idiotude working inside back then. It has been over fifteen years and I still haven't gotten over the time he set the coffee table on fire :) I guess what I'm saying is that he is someone who could have gone the other way in a big way. Instead he has become something of an inspiration.
Despite being younger than me he strikes me as somehow wiser. It seems that it has been I who have always wound up following his lead rather than the other way around. From music, to ways of seeing the world, to culture - he was always (and probably still is) five years ahead of me. It is hard to explain without divulging too much and getting sappy. Hmmm.
I guess that everyone and everything we experience becomes a part of us in some way. We can point to bits and pieces of our personality and identify the source. Perhaps we learned the way we spend money from our father or the way we think about minorities from our mother. We can point specific parts of ourselves and identify their origin. Copesounds is one of the few people that I can honestly say has had such a profound effect on my life that I cannot locate his specific influence. It is truly that his influence has mingled with my own and to separate it out would be to destroy who I am in total. I am forever in his debt.
So I will now raise a metaphorical glass to Copesounds and invite anyone who reads this to toast with me his unique character. Happy birthday Copesounds - the world is a better place with you in it.
Cheers.