[floatingslowly]

welp, it looks like this time it might be true.

post pictures of Adam Cooley. bonus points for elf cosplay.

 

miss you, scooter.

[floatingslowly]

 

 

 

Adam taught me that even if your art was total crap, as long as you are prolific in it's creation, it can be the best that ever was.

[floatingslowly]

http://vimeo.com/7922545

[floatingslowly]

god, I hope he sees this thread.

[Derek]

http://www.therepublic.com/view/obit/17268

His obituary. I can't stop crying. He was my best friend.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Derek

http://www.therepublic.com/view/obit/17268

His obituary. I can't stop crying. He was my best friend.

we saw that, first appeared in the "irrelevant" thread of all places (hardly irrelevant, but anyway, maybe he would have found that funny).

what the hell happened though? do you know? i know he had health problems, he talked about them here, but was this a sudden thing? i don't know what use is to ask these questions, but i have them...

terrible news really-- great guy, some of us practically saw him grow up here…. i remember the fullerene board, he was like 17, and had very strong opinions about music, and he really knew what he was talking about.

fuckit man. what a loss. i hope you're okay, considering.

[noisereductions]

RIP Adam.

[Derek]

Ah, I hadn't seen that other link you posted so thank you.

No one knows what happened to him. Last time we spoke he told me he had a morphine problem though I don't know how relevant that is. He also had nowhere to live and was couch surfing for the time being.

We spoke nearly everyday for hours on end. It was only in the past year or so our correspondence got patchy. He'd say things like he was in a coma or got arrested for driving while pilled out and whatnot but I never took any of it seriously because Adam joked about stuff like that a lot and had a pretty dark sense of humour. He was one of the most interesting and funny people ever. He grew to hate this place but I still think deep down he knows how much this place meant to him throughout his later years.

He'd tell me all the time that I was his best friend and it really meant a lot to me cause I never figured myself as someone cool enough to be singled out from all the people on here. I have years of chatlogs I need to have a good look through before I can say goodbye properly. I'm finding it insanely hard to process any of this because he always would come back eventually and now I'm never going to speak to him again and we'll never get to talk about movies or music or comics ever again. Fuck.

[noisereductions]

Derek, thank you for sharing. And I'm sorry for your loss.

[MellySingsDoom]

This is beyond awful - 27 years old. For fuck's sake. RIP Adam, and my thoughts go to his family at this point in time.

And I echo what noisereductions says about Derek too.

[SONIC GAIL]

I have ALWAYS thought you were cool Derek. yr a cutie

I wish I had been that close to Adam....Morphine is BAD SHIT!!!!! I know from experience. This kinda shit really hits home and forces me to take a hard look at myself in the mirror.

I am cleaner now than I have ever been....but I get it!!! It is not fun being an addict!!!! it fucking sucks!!!!! A few of us just get lucky and begin to find our way back, and it is times like this that remind us of what could have been our future.

[Everyneurotic]

I just found out about Adam. Holy shit, this is sad.

Hang in there, Derek. =(

Adam brought me a lot of joy and tons of music, he encouraged me without telling me directly to go forth with my music projects, my writing, my obsessing. He made me laugh a ton.

I had the honor to release a Robe. album on my label before retiring it, one of my favorite releases. We were supposed to do a Monosodic/Scissor Shock split that never panned out for tons of reasons.

This is really really sad, he wrote to me a couple of months on Last.FM.

So yeah...

For what it's worth, here's an interview I did with him long ago: http://oscillatorzine.blogspot.mx/20...sor-shock.html

PS: What a way to come out of SYG retirement, huh?

[SONIC GAIL]

I am willing to bet this night will top the last most users on the board at one time quota. He impacted all of us in some major way.

[Derek]

His obituary lists his grandfather as a survivor and that's so upsetting because his grandfather was terminally ill and Adam was the one who was looking after him. I can't imagine what his grandfather feels like that he's now outlived his young grandson.

One of my favourite anecdotes that he told me was that he used to chase his grandfather around the house with a Master P doll that said "UGHHH" when you pulled the string and his grandfather didn't like black people much so he was always shouting and swearing at him to get the Master P doll the fuck away from him. He had millions of little stories like that but that's the one that still makes me laugh.

[pony]

rip adam

hope you'll feel better soon, Derek.

[Bytor Peltor]

So sad:

 

Believe I will go play the mix CD he made for me years ago.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL

I have ALWAYS thought you were cool Derek. yr a cutie

I wish I had been that close to Adam....Morphine is BAD SHIT!!!!! I know from experience. This kinda shit really hits home and forces me to take a hard look at myself in the mirror.

I am cleaner now than I have ever been....but I get it!!! It is not fun being an addict!!!! it fucking sucks!!!!! A few of us just get lucky and begin to find our way back, and it is times like this that remind us of what could have been our future.

I'm glad you're cleaner than you've ever been. I wish I could have told Adam to get some REAL help for his problems. Not go out and buy morphine and benzos and whatever else from a dealer but actually get real help. He still had so much to offer the world and I'm so saddened he never pushed through in the end.

He told me he was working 60 hour weeks to try and bring himself back up and buy himself a house and everything. He planned to have a house and a wife by the time he was 32. He could have achieved it because he achieved anything he really set his mind to. He was that kind of person.

He had an unfinished film called Exploding Head. I hope one of his friends saves the footage cause I'd hate for his work to just disappear. He was working on a new Scissor Shock album too called Wearing the Horns. He sent me a few songs and it sounded great. He described the album as "Madlib and J Dilla cutting up Scissor Shock shit". I'm going to post the songs he sent me soon on the Scissor Shock facebook when I'm less upset.

I don't really know what to say. I hope everyone here who was friends with him or at least enjoyed his presence is okay.

[MellySingsDoom]

Derek- the main thing is that I hope you're coping as well as you can with this loss. This has really got to me, but I'm going to keep on remembering Adam as the creative, fun and happy person that he always came across as on here.

[terriblecanyons]

This sucks so much and I'm crying and I love you all. Please please take care of yourselves

[Derek]

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

Derek- the main thing is that I hope you're coping as well as you can with this loss. This has really got to me, but I'm going to keep on remembering Adam as the creative, fun and happy person that he always came across as on here.

I totally agree. I'm going to bookmark this thread for whenever I get sad about him:
http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=10801