- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
I know someone who owned a small chain of music equipment stores and he first started looking like Nick after combining a coke and booze habit, then he developed swelling in his lower legs from lymphedema, then got the ascites where otherwise being skeletal, your lower abdomen starts swelling up. You look like one of those African famine children.While I suspected Nick was abusing cocaine for some time I'm pretty sure that nosebleed is a smoking gun. Boozehounds who use blow to "balance out" always crash and burn in spectacular fashion. It's horrible for your brain, your finances, and your social life. This can only end badly for Nick.
Then he died, of course.
If he ever starts swelling up in the middle despite otherwise being skeletal, start the death clock.
This is why you should commit your insane, self-destructive acts when you're young if you're inclined in that direction. That way you can wear them out and get bored with them and then in your later years you can go ha-ha and laugh at how insane you used to be. I mean you're still that insane, but you've grown bored with the worst parts of it and don't do them any more. Pick them up in middle age and you're just going to die young. Like Nickhole.In any case, Nick has fetishized various forms of self-destruction and his values are largely inverted, so him intentionally driving his audience down to 0 in a backward attempt at success is a real possibility.