Damn I just saw this. Spent a few weeks two dorm rooms down from him at uncw in high school one summer. Real cool dude. Saw him out at the bars a few times back in the day. Terrible to hear these things.



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5/28/2013 10:31:56 PM

Quote :

"...when we were all thought we were a lot more bulletproof. Until we find out we're not."

Well put, zxappeal.

6/3/2013 10:12:09 PM

Man, just found about Ivan's passing. My condolences to his friends and family. Had some good times hanging out and trading stories. Bought the black blue bird from him last time I was in Raleigh. Man...

11/1/2013 9:47:04 PM

Hard to believe it has been over a year now. Crazy how time flies.

4/8/2014 9:00:52 PM

i finally take his advise and build something more than talk about building something.

and now he's gone.

4/8/2014 10:21:57 PM

"King of TWW Garage"

4/9/2014 7:01:05 AM

Still sucks

Miss ya Ivan.

4/9/2014 9:11:29 AM

Shit. The world moves way too fast. Time moves way too fast. People move in and out of my life. Some I've been glad to see go, but they're still in the world...just somewhere else, doing their own thing, and our circles don't coincide any more. It's not a bad thing.

And there are people who've gone, and they're not in the world. And sometimes I miss them terribly. My grandparents, my uncle Bob, and yeah, Ivan. The older I get, the more I get really emotional about it.

Hanging out with Ivan and a lot of our garage rat gang kept me sane when I was living in Bath...I remember driving up for wings night at BWW or Locked and Loaded, and engaging in an impromptu wing eating contest with Ivan. Or how we met up at Betski's for food and beer all the time. Or at Lynnwood Grill. Or the Goat. Or wherever we ended up. Backyards with fire and alcohol.

And now most of us have moved on to different things...career paths to other parts of the world, spouses, kids, all the stuff we're supposed to do in the grand plan of mankind. And still parts of me want to cling to this past because it was a great time in my life with some of the best people I've ever met...and some friends, the likes of whom I'll never meet again.

Sometimes I just want to go back, if only for a little while. Ivan, I love and miss you, man. No homo.

4/10/2014 8:53:02 AM

I think Ivan just made everything a little more fun.. Miss ya man!!!!

4/10/2014 10:12:20 AM

gk2004...I love and miss you man. Mad homo.

4/10/2014 10:28:03 AM

still remember when he bought some unused race gas from me. RIP

4/10/2014 5:15:53 PM

Used race gas is a motherfucker to sell.

4/10/2014 6:58:03 PM

^I know. you never see it for sale, so you'd think people would jump on it

4/10/2014 8:49:58 PM

some people just like the smell, even after it's been oxidized.

4/10/2014 9:09:06 PM

Much like my farty smells

4/10/2014 11:38:26 PM

Is that like selling used beer?

4/11/2014 1:56:12 PM

circle of life....



Miller High Life

4/11/2014 1:59:24 PM

I wish I'd been able to send the letter I wrote him. I wish I could have apologized in person. I'm sorry I fucked up Ivan. I'm sorry I wasn't a good friend. I miss you man.

4/17/2014 3:26:52 AM