My Heros are artists.
I don’t take that statement lightly. They are usually artists I know that influence me. I love them more then you will ever know.
Last Saturday an artist died, that I knew, more then he knew.
Raymond Novak Jr., a fellow Czech, more like a Bohemian, embodied art. A poet, a writer, a musician, an actor and a painter.
Tonight there is a memorial of sorts at the Top Hat in Downtown Sioux Falls honoring this man, please come. Learn.
Towards the end of this video you hear his good friend Martin Dill talk about this great guy, a shooting star.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnJGX85pkdI[/youtube]
So I guess it is story time, Ray used to live next door to me in this apartment building, and I started getting a lot of calls from friends for him, at first I didn’t understand it, but one day I just started getting him when calls came in. So I asked him, “Why are people calling me for you?” And Ray said, “I give people your number for mine.” and I said, “Why?” and Ray, oh Ray, says, “Because I don’t have a phone and you do.”
That was Ray.