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Whoa, sad.
One remarkable thing I find about this place is that many posters have been around for years (sometimes with long pauses in between), some even well over a decade. An eternity in the internet world. We've outlasted Friendster and Myspace and we might even outlast Facebook and Twitter. We have already outlasted Sonic Youth.
Some of these people you meet in the real world, but most will only have an online presence in your life. Nevertheless it's a presence and behind the words on screen there are real people that you sometimes think about, people who are touching your life even if it's in the most superficial ways. You read about them switching jobs, moving countries, getting children, overcoming health problems, marriage and divorce.
My lurker days go back to alt.music.sonic-youth and I guess I've been posting here since 2002 or so. Adam must have too, because I remember him as far back as being 16/17 on the old Fullerine boards. Back then, a typical atsonicpark post would be to spill out endless lists in a "recommend me a band/movie" thread, or come up with a "top 250 albums of 2004" topic. Someone with an endless enthusiasm and an almost obsessive consumer of music and films, but without possibly enough time to digest it all. But then the same goes for his own output later on, which became just as abundant. While I was never a big fan of his music or films, I definitely admired his work effort.
In his later years he wrote longer and more personal posts, expressing his doubts, sometimes mentioning that he had bad health and hinting at not getting old, without ever really going into details. But 27... man, when I think about what I've experienced and how I've changed since that age alone... Very sad to hear it ended there for him. Hope to see you all complain about your hip replacements and pension cuts when the time comes.
edit: I hadn't finished reading the thread when I wrote this... so yeah, some of you expressed this better and more to the point on the previous page.
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