TOM RAINONE...now taken from me...
time will try and rip him from my memory like a tsunami rollin' over a quiet seaside cabana... it will have little chance of that...
... I'll just go with the short version..it's always the truest...he might have been a headache...but he was never a bore..
..we trudged many a mile together in search of everything from the silly to the sinister...finding in each other a passionate shared belief that film was a gift and not a job..
..he loved all things strange and wonderful..it was who he was..see that TV camera in his living room..it was the one cranking when Ruby shot Oswald...on the walls..just a smidge of his terrific collection he had taken great comfort in for years, surrounding himself with original marvelous images..of everything from the demure..to the demonic..
..save me a seat at the bar...where I know you're sitting right now w/ our old pal, Johnny Ramone...
...I'll be along..