You're gonna miss him.
I was working from home when I got the news from a friend and pretty much started playing his music from that point on until into the night. My wife came home from work and I was on the couch, Easter Everywhere cranked up, and she said, “I KNEW this was what I’d see when I got home.”
After a while I started telling her about Roky. She knew a little, but not a lot, enough to know I was a fan but not much else. It was nice going over some of that stuff with her. I got my copy of Openers and showed that to her and told her a few more stories when it started to sink in how many times he’d been counted out but would struggle through and become reborn again. He was always dependent on others and somehow this changing core would shoo away the parasites and get him on a better path. There were many times that it seemed impossible but he was a force, and it was so unbelievable and unexpected and really, truly joyous that he had that last fifteen or so years where he was happy and kinda self-sufficient.
Yeah, I’ll miss him but he was always otherworldly, always like someone between dimensions or whatever. He was here, but he kinda wasn’t, and now he isn’t here but he kinda is. I for sure have never known anyone like him and don’t expect that I will ever see his kind again.
