Ode to P-Tek
Since last Tuesday, with you on my mind I keep catching glimpses of you in the world, lithe, bald silhouettes passing by, especially if they are wearing sunglasses, and for a moment it feels like you’ve just stepped out for a moment, gone overseas again, been flippant about where you’d be, or want to be, and might wander back any second.
It’s been a while since we last crossed paths, but you never really left the mental furniture.
I always had time for you, Paul. You had a rare kind of discernment.. a refusal to pretend things were better than they were. You could hate something properly, with precision and principle, and in that there was a strange integrity. Standards mattered to you, and you held them without apology. It made the rest of us sharpen up a little. I loved that about you, it was my favourite thing about you. But I must admit, at times, it was incredibly annoying.
And yet, for all that edge, you were a gentleman. You listened when people spoke.. really listened. I noticed how kind you were to my partner, how you gave her space and attention in rooms full of knuckleheads where that’s too often withheld. That stayed with me. It said a lot about who you were beneath the armour. *Continued in comments..
Bitta fun writing different letters with old friends. I don’t paint enough anymore. I wonder if I’m too old to bother anymore. Far better writers my age have long stopped painting.. I know it’s just irrelevant legal stuff today, but I want to keep painting.. I guess I have a fear of becoming one of those geriatric ‘has been, that never was’, that regress in style. I’ll never understand how that occurs tbh.
Also, I don’t really care. Go fuck yourselves. 🤠
Caught up with some good buddies and a new good buddy from overseas. We painted some pieces.. had a few laughs. Was a pretty bloody good time tbh. Probs do it again soon I reckon. 🤠
Did this a while back with some new paint product supplied by @mtnaustralia
I asked them to give me their yellows and oranges, coz if a brand can make a thick yellow, everything else will be reliable. It was good. Would go again.🤠
Spent a few hours with old m8 IKOOL and did this thing. It felt good. Things aren’t good at the moment, so anything you can do to alleviate the complete fuckery going on in the world today, do it. Enjoi yourself. 😵💫
Painted this thing with my man @leverpostej1 for @mtnaustralia a while ago. Pissing down rain, a couple hours, some high quality verbal sledging, and there you go.. #yourewelcome 🤠 There’s a video link on the MTN page, go check it.
Sage and Death getting it done! Rain and shine, classic Melbourne☔☀️
Watch the full video on MTN Australia YT Channel 📺
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