Thanks to everyone who has donated! Maxmeister, I had no idea. Look what happens when we let The Couch burn? I'm so sorry to hear of your loss.
Look at the Mexico thread, hopefully we'll see each other then!
For anyone else who is wondering, though not to get all salacious or anything, Piss was on a downward spiral, and he had refused to leave the apartment for which my parents had co-signed AND loaned us the money for the security deposit (forcing me to move to Oakland). Aside from cremation costs, it is unpaid rent and the security deposit which comprise the target amount--which is money that, had he, say, been evicted, he would have owed to my parents. I am still not sure how much of his other debt (there are unpaid utility bills and some weird tax bill, an ambulance bill, etc., etc.) I'm on the hook for, I I hear different things from different non-probate lawyers. There's also a lot of weird people selling t-shirts and his music (and throwing tribute concerts) and shit without my permission.
People crawled out of the woodwork to steal things from the apartment, people claiming "best friend" who I had never met in all the whole ten years, the whole thing was unbelievable. If this is what it's like when someone who had, at best, marginal local success dies, I hate to think of what say, Keith Moon's wife went through, or, worse, Yoko.
Anyways, thanks Voodoo, for bumping this up. And it's true, any little bit helps.
And Happy Thanksgiving to all the US denizens!
Anybody remember the Northern Exposure episode about Thanksgiving? It was awesome!