Aw fuuuuck, man. I loved Tink. Thought his name was Tank for the longest time cause that's what it sounded like everyone called him (plus it seemed like a much more fitting name for his military type style).
Just for the sake of some sort of memorial to him I'll relate a funny time I had with him. Me him and Jailbird Jay woke up under the 6th st bridge in ATX and of course they were both dting their asses off (Tink more so...alcohol had been raping his failing organs for years hardcore. Like, everyone who knew this kid has seen him puke blood a shit ton.)
Anyways so he's all like "Waaaterrrr, I need waterrr" so I shake my canteen and it feels full so I toss it to him and he takes a big ass shwill and spits it all over the place like "WHAT THE FUCK, YOU ASSHOLE?!?!"
And I'm all like... "Whaaaaat? You picky about your water taste now??" and he's like "THAT SHIT WAS STRAIGHT VODKA, YOU BITCH" and I'm like "What? Nu uh!" and I took a drink and sure enough... it was.
None of us had any recollection of how my canteen got full of vodka but after a run for chaser we had ourselves a pretty damn good wake up. (after I got him actual water, cause I'm sweet like that)
That kid tried to name me "Bright Eyes" cause of my shiny happy eyes but I was like "ewww I don't want to be associated with that band" but he'd never heard of them... hah
Damn, man. It hurts to hear he's gone but at the same time we all knew it was just a short matter of time.
I've got nothing but love and respect in my heart for him. Hope he's in a better place or reborn as some badass alien on some way better planet than this.