You asked for it, so here it is. Today marks exactly one year since Ryan Joseph "Sharky" Sharkler died from a car crash, and as his best friend I am taking it upon us to have a blog party as a tribute. Wierd, you say? Well, as most of you will remember Sharky was the life of every party, and I'm pretty sure if there is a heaven he's up there now getting drunk and taking a piss from there to make it rain on us. Alternatively, he could be in hell, and as everyone knows that's where you have the REAL fun.

Anyway, I say we have a short moment to mourn with this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkTIfvc_HI4

and now we get down to the real business of rocking the cyber walls of tv.com with this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewm5l-i-yw&feature=related Yes, I'm on a Velvet Revolver kick.

Unfortunately, given that I'm meant to be studying right now I won't be on here a lot, but I'll come and go. I plan to keep the party up for at least two days, refreshing it maybe tonight.

So get partyin'!

Shadow.

About 24 hours ago, Sharky's dad was speaking lucidly again, even though he's now in a wheelchair. The doctors told him and Sharky's step-mum the situation, which they conveyed to us. 

Even if Sharky were to wake up out of his coma (an event that the doctors said would be almost impossible) they said he would have severe brain damage. The reason for this being that Sharky's dad took the brunt of the cars colliding, but the Stop Sign crushed Sharky's head far worse.

They both asked us to leave, and said they'll call us back when they decided what to do. We left, but everything seemed to have no meaning as we just waited idly for something to happen. In about an hour, we got a call, which was from Shadow. It was exceptionally hard breaking the news to him because he and Sharky have been friends basically since they were in diapers, to the point where they're more like brothers.
We waited for several hours, even through the night. None of us felt like sleeping. Eventually, at about 1:30 am, we got the call from Karen telling us to come to the hospital, and to bring Sharky's brothers (Mike, Joey and CJ).

When we got there, they told us that they knew Sharky wouldn't have wanted to continue living if he was unable to live a full life. They told us that they had decided to cut the life support.

While we obviously weren't happy about it but we knew it was the right decision. You guys knew Sharky; he was all about having as much fun at any one time as he could, about enjoying life to the max. We all knew that he wouldn't have wanted to be a vegetable.

At 12:11 pm (chosen because apparently it was the time of his birth) on the 27th of August, 2007, Ryan Joesph Sharkler was pronunced dead. With him at the time were his father, step-mother, brothers, sister, sister in law (Jay, Kate and Alex all flew up to be with them at the time) and his friends. However, two of the people he would have wished could be there (his mum and his best friend) weren't. Hopefully, wherever he is now, he and his mum are reunited.

We have good and bad news.

The good news is that the drunk driver was arrested. Hopefully he gets all that is coming for him. If we were the judges, we'd throw him in a river with a pit of crocodiles and let nature take it's course. Stupid cruel and unusual punishment.

Also, Sharky's dad woke up out of his coma about an hour ago. He isn't fully lucid yet, but they say that that should come soon enough.

However, the news on Sharky is bad. Really bad. The docs say that he isn't likely to ever come out of his coma. Once his dad is fully consious, he and his step-mum will decide what to do.

There isn't much else to say really. By Tuesday, we'll have an update.

Hey guys, this is Flash and TJ blogging for Sharky. You may remember us from some of the story blogs.

Last night, Sharky was picking his dad up from his work and they were heading home. Along the way, they were smashed into by some drunk retard who was going way too fast. Thankfully it wasn't a full head on collision, but they got a corner of his car and sent them into a lamppost that fell on them.

They were rushed to hospital, with rib and spinal fractures and some others we don't know. 

Earlier this morning we decided to wait until we heard what was wrong, so we just hung around on his computer, posting stuff under his username (he doesn't care, we've been doing it for ages). Then the doctors called and told his stepmum that it was serious and that they could both die, and his Dad's injuries are so severe even if he survives he'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Apparently there's a high chance that Sharky would have to endure the same thing if he survives.

So right now, they're both in a coma in a hospital bed, as they've been since last night, while the (shrunk) Magnificent Seven wait at his house for further details. We're all hoping for the best, and we all believe that even if he's in a wheelchair, we'll still be seeing more of Sharky's laugh and sadistic wit yet, along with his Dad's good humour and homemade potato chips.

Don't bother praying for Sharky; he's a die hard agnostic. What we're all doing is watching Family Guy Volume 3 on one TV, Dazed and Confused (his favourite movie) on another and playing his music on everything possible. 

We will end this sad blog on a happy note, with a few famous Shark-isms.

"There is no problem on the face of the earth that can't be solved by weed."

"If God could vote, he'd vote John Howard out."

"Alcohol and marijuana alone are awesome, but put them together and they are...double-awesome."
We're sorry we haven't told you more, but you guys surely understand how hard this is on us.

As some of you (okay, I'm hoping) have noticed, I haven't blogged for a while. The resaon for this is that I've been really busy with school, work and everything else lately. No deep dark secret.

Since we got back from the Gold Coast, I've had to do a pile extra work lately to catch up. 2nd year HSC sucks.

In a huge coincidence, while we were on the Coast we ran into Alex and her boyfriend Jeff, and went out to dinner. After that, I'm worried that there's an second wedding upcoming in the family as they were acting all romantic and Alex never stopped talking about Jeff to us, which she didn't usually do with her other boyfriends. I approve of Jeff though; he's a metalhead who supports the Cowboys. Good enough for me.

I won't be on the site much from now on, as these holidays I'm going over to the States to visit my grandparents (as I do every year) and I'm busy as with school before and after that. During summer, I'll be busy preparing to move to South America, and when I'm there I don't know how easy Internet access will be. So for the three people who read my blogs; I won't be back often. See ya.

But because I wouldn't want to leave you like that, I'll provide a song lyric and a random personal quiz question.
Run and tell all of the angels

This could take all night

Think I need a devil to help me get things right

Hook me up a new revolution

Cause this one is a lie

We sat around laughing and watched the last one die

I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for a sign of life

Looking for something to help me burn out bright

I'm looking for complication

Looking cause I'm tired of trying

Make my way back home when I learn to fly

I think I'm done nursing the patience

I can wait one night

I'd give it all away if you give me one last try

We'll live happily ever trapped if you just save my life

Run and tell the angels that everything is alright..

I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for a sign of life

Looking for something to help me burn out bright

I'm looking for complication

Looking cause I'm tired of trying

Make my way back home when I learn to fly

Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone

Try and make this life my own 

I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for a sign of life

Looking for something to help me burn out bright

I'm looking for complication

Looking cause I'm tired of trying

Make my way back home when I learn to fly

That's the first song. The second is...

Stay out of the light

Or the photographs that I gave you

You can say a prayer if you need to

Or just get in line and I'll grieve you

Can I meet you, alone

Another night and I'll see you

Another night and I'll be you

Some other way to continue

To hide my face

Another knife in my hands

A stain that never comes off the sheets

Clean me off

I'm so dirty babe

The kind of dirty where the water never cleans off the clothes

I keep a book of the names and those

Only goes so far 'til you bury them

So deep and down we go

Touched by angels, though I fall out of grace

I did it all so maybe I'd live this every day

Another knife in my hands

A stain that never comes off the sheets

Clean me off

I'm so dirty babe

It ain't the money and it sure as hell ain't just for the fame

It's for the bodies I claim and lose

Only goes so far 'til you bury them

So deep and down we go

Down

And down we go

And down we go

And down we go

And we all fall down

I tried

I tried

And we'll all dance alone to the tune of your death

We'll love again, we'll laugh again

And it's better off this way

And never again, and never again

They gave us two shots to the back of the head

And we're all dead now.

Well never again and never again

They gave us two shots to the back of the head

And we're all dead now

Well I tried

One more night

One more night

well I'm laughin', cryin', laughin'

I tried, well I tried, well I tried

'Cause I tried, but I lied

I lied

I tried

I tried

I tried

And we'll love again and we'll laugh again

We'll cry again and we'll dance again

And it's better off this way

So much better off this way

I can't clean the blood off the sheets in my bed

And never again, and never again

They gave us two shots to the back of the head

And we're all dead now

Enjoy them, and I bet no-one can guess what both of the songs are.

The question is:

Which of these bodies of water do I (and my two best friends) consider sacred?

1) The Dead Sea

2) The Ganges River

3) The Wishkah River

See ya when I see ya, rock on.

Sharky.