Two great lives extinguished
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I've wanted to write something about the recent murders of Brett Goldin and Richard Bloom since I read the article, with my jaw on the floor, on Monday. But I didn't quite know what to say. I still don't quite know what to say. I don't even have to think about it to know for a fact that these two guys shared a number of mutual friends with me - such is the terror of the crime being so very close to home.

It's a confusing state we're in. When I say 'we', I'm referring to the people my age who I interact with from day to day. There is a lot of shaking of heads and a lot of frowning going on. It's close to home for all of us. It's bullshit. It's not how it's meant to be. There are a lot of questions to be asked and a lot of answers desperately needed - a lot of which we will never find. The Crazy Monkey humour is right up the street from 2oceansvibe and it really confused me knowing that someone who had made me laugh out loud (a rarity) was no longer around.

Brett Goldin

My favourite Crazy Monkey sketch on MTV was the one where Brett is woken up from his sleep and he complains that it is dangerous to wake someone up from a deep sleep as they could die. I wish to God that that had been the case, instead of the way it went down. I am too scared to try and visualise and feel what the two of them went through, leading up to their death. It is too horrifying. The humiliation they must have endured at the hands of those evil, drugged up, inhumane, pathetic, dirty, revolting, mindless, repulsive, disgusting excuses for human beings, is simply too much to comprehend. It makes me very very sad.

To the friends and families of Brett Goldin and Richard Bloom, 2oceansvibe and it's friends and readers are thinking of you constantly. Our heartfelt condolences.

Seth Rotherham
Editor
2oceansvibe.com
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