Kimya Dawson Tribute
I adored Sam Jayne. There’s not a single bad word I can say about him. We became friends around 93 in Oly when I lived with Dave from Lync at the house behind the Capitol called The Ski Lodge. Sam was there so much. When I got the email update today I told Kim (my little pink piggy) who also lived at the house. She and I talked about what a mess we all were back then and how it was a beautiful mess and how Sam would walk in the front door and everything became more fun and wild and exciting. He invited me to be in his “gang” The Soda Jerks”. I don’t know if anyone else was in the gang but whenever we partook in “gang activity” it was just the two of us. We were scrappy and reckless and so so silly. We’d hop in his little white pickup, Malibu Stacy, and go from place to place that had self serve soda. We’d ask for a water cup while we were “deciding”, then we’d fill it with soda and run out the door screaming “SODA JERKS!!!” and we’d jump in the truck and drive away fast, usually spilling our tiny Dixie cups of soda all over ourselves while we laughed hysterically. Kim reminded me of the time Sam came down and picked her and I up to go with him to get the “reverse vampire” tattoo of the drawing our roommate Kai made. It was so funny. Whenever I’d see that tattoo after Kai died it would make me wanna cry and laugh at the same time. Seeing it in pictures now really brings it all back. When I got out of rehab and moved back to New York to do Moldy Peaches stuff I was so thrilled when I ran into Sam and found out he had moved there. He absolutely never failed to make me smile and laugh and always gave me a huge hug. The last time we connected was over the summer when Vern died and I couldn’t hold back from telling him how much I have always like him and how important he was to me. I meant it so much when I told him I wanted to hug him. And not because he was sad about Vern and he needed a hug but because I needed a Sam hug. He wasn’t much taller than me. Our hugs lined up really nice. He was little but strong. I am so sad I won’t feel one of those hugs again but feel lucky that I had him in my life during those different wild times. I will miss my friend forever.🥤💔 - Kimya Dawson