Death of a good friend…
July 14th, 2008This is not graphic art related, nor is it about my career… it is about my dear friend Charlie Rodriguez. This blog has been posted on other sites, and since this is my personaly blog I opted to copy and paste it here as well…
I may be completely out of line for the following post, and for it I apologize before hand.
One of my best friends, Charlie Rodriguez aka ‘Charlie Chulo’ aka ‘Paulie’ was killed a few days ago by a stray bullet. I do not know all the details, actually nobody knows yet, but I am very upset and pissed off at the entire situation, especially since he was such a happy person, full of life and lover of music and performing.
We shared in two bands together in Puerto Rico, the Spanish rock band ‘Eclipse’ and the Spanish punk band ‘Coraje de Tres’. I was the bassist and he was the drummer… we, as many musicians know, were the backbone of the music being performed. I have plenty of great memories of this beautiful person, whom I am missing greatly right now.
It sucks that we, as human beings engulfed in our own daily bullshit, forget about those people whom we have shared such great times with, and for brief moments we forget that we are mortal. Well, my friend Charlie was a performer, hell he would play for free, he enjoyed the crowd so much, and seeing everyone enjoy themselves with music. For him to be lost to such a tragedy is complete and total bullshit. He is a man who should have died of old age with a crippling arthritis while trying to hold a goddamn drumstick in his hand instead of stupidly losing his life to some morons unbelievable disregard for life. Bullets were shot, one went stray and that is the end of my good friends life, while he was in his apartment.
I mean, what the fuck man? Why the fuck do there have to be so many assholes with such a low respect for the one fucking life that God has given them, so much that their anger and disregard for others causes them to think they can take lives as they wish, completely forgetting that the bullets they shoot will hit an innocent victim on the side… THAT is how my good friend died.
Guns don’t kill people… people kill people, intentionally and unintentionally, and that is the sad, sick reality of life and I am goddamn pissed off about it.
Charlie, I love you brother. Be sure to bang those drums hard and heavy while on the steps of heaven. Rock the choirs.
And to the individual who held the gun, forgiveness is given with as much pain as I feel. Charlie had two children, a boy and a girl… now fatherless. May you not meet the sad end you caused him, but if it were up to me and if I were to set aside my spirituality and beliefs in a life after death, I would say… fuck you and your weak world you damn sad excuse of a human being. God forgive me for the thoughts…
Take away an innocent life by your ignorance. You know whom you have to answer to and may HE have mercy on your soul.


