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Mar. 12th, 2004 10:45 am
Gayl Crum, I'll miss you
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servermonkeyI haven't talked to Gayl in nearly ten years, but had heard from him through some of our mutual friends.
Gayl was the most hysterically funny person I'd ever met on this conservative Christian campus.
Gayl loved punk, dyeing his hair--it's where I get my desire to dye my hair purple, I think, and did his hair straight up eight inches.
Gayl and my friend Brook were in Mega Hanukkah--the only act in one year's talent show. I forget some of the songs they played, but I remember an eventual project of his called Perineum: The Infectious Grooves of Pelvis Resley (I still have this homemade tape in my desk drawer). The cover band I was eventually involved in was also probably as a result of Gayl's influence.
I never saw any anger or hate in Gayl, despite all the things that he seems to have gone through in his short life.
He died yesterday of liver failure, and will miss him more than I can say. He was only thirty three.
Gayl was the most hysterically funny person I'd ever met on this conservative Christian campus.
Gayl loved punk, dyeing his hair--it's where I get my desire to dye my hair purple, I think, and did his hair straight up eight inches.
Gayl and my friend Brook were in Mega Hanukkah--the only act in one year's talent show. I forget some of the songs they played, but I remember an eventual project of his called Perineum: The Infectious Grooves of Pelvis Resley (I still have this homemade tape in my desk drawer). The cover band I was eventually involved in was also probably as a result of Gayl's influence.
I never saw any anger or hate in Gayl, despite all the things that he seems to have gone through in his short life.
He died yesterday of liver failure, and will miss him more than I can say. He was only thirty three.
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Sigh...
::big hugs::
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