Yo Brother I can honestly say I spent more time on the phone with you more then any other human on this earth. It wasn’t once a day either it would be 6 to 7 times a day and half of your calls would be serious. Mostly about tattooing or you love life and the other half would be the do you think questions. You couldn’t make a decision without asking me what ever it was that you couldn’t decide on. Serge do you think I should wear my blue slip on vans or my classic red vans? Do you think paints that are rolled up are wak? As many questions you had and asked I don’t think once you listened to my response ever even when i was giving you the best advice about something you would say yeah that makes sense. You got it when we would be on the phone and always right before we hung up I would ask you so what did you get out of what we talked about or you should take my advice dude it will help you and in two hours he would call me in a panick and I would say what happen and he would tell me the exact opposite of what I recommended and that was my man Jesse. He was a special human with a huge passion to tattoo and not just tattoo but was a phinatic on the history of the roots of it and who laid down those roots. He also got the whole put your time in and get into a shop and do the names and all the stuff you don’t want to do but is essential to your progression. He just couldn’t get into a shop that he believed i. He wanted to be in a shop that was an old school street shop where walk-in s were most of the Buisness and you worked around real tattooers that he could talk history and tattoos , draw with, grow from, and learn certain thing that make tattooing easier. I’ve seen Jesse at his very best and I would like to think hi living with me have hima a sense of family for the first time and moma was on a regular schedual. Moma had my kids to mess around with her and a big house to roam she was so happy and so was jesse. I told him to stay as long as you need to get your feet on the ground with a good foundation then get an apartment oh but first a job. And 3 months later he got himself a job and had an apartment lined up. All by himself i was proud. That summer was an amazing summer for him. I really don’t think I saw him that happy for that long without getting depressed or drama in his life. The real challange would come when life would take a turn or get hard and he wasn’t out of his normal life long enough not to be effected when it did. Jesse we are Virgo.brothers ha that whatbwe said when we first found out we were born in the same month. I’m the 20 and you are the 22 and I’ll never forget that date. We shared a lot of the same struggles that came from our childhood. And we both didn’t know how to deal with that besides knumb it intill one day you were really tired of that life and I couldn’t believe it or want it but we made a pact and left each other for a couple months. When I came out we didn’t talk because we had to get right and I remember seeing you when I was working with Tim at the terrain and I was scared to see ya but it was like old times. You looked good and looked to be moving in the right direction at that time you just met Nattily and you liked her but was unsure because she was your sisters friend. I knew the Jesse technique and you would be living with her in no time and that’s what happened. I’ve known you since you were a 11 years old. I hated you! You would come to love park and sit on the benches with this smart but grin and all you did is sit an make fun of whomever you wanted to and I wanted to punch you. I think our friendship really flourished whe I started to become a bike messenger after my skating career. It was a rap after that. Both of our humor was off the charts and we feed off of that. Camp Treena, swaps, freedom tunnels, Bikes, Guerciotti, Zima, quote as kept, tattoos, irak, lost hope crew, wrs, mama, Bristol, Chad ,Robert, Dann Higgs, black flag (Keith Morris) That bull look like a gurl, SF, all tunnels, Spain, cycling, shaved legs, shaved dill, throwing up outside my apartment and Allen cage saving you and bringing you into my apartment and throwing up all over the sofa and wrapping the comforter and everything up and putting it in a trash bag then putting it in my closet which I had no idea was there for a very long time. I was only subletting and the person I was subletting it from found it and it made me look like a kook, there’s so many adventures we went on that there’s just not enough time to go through them all. You were the worst listener lol I would be telling you a serious thing happening in my life and when I would be done you would say do you like supreme? That was Jesse and I love him for all of that. It was him and there will never be another for sure! I told him I loved him al the time. I thought he needed to hear that but I don’t know if he new what that really meant. I think he could love but he didn’t know how to be loved because he didn’t love himself. We had talks about Death many times and we both said we would celebrate the life we lived together and not but all the traveling we got to do we both were very thankful for having the opportunity to do so. I think if your lucky enough to travel you understand how important it is to see how others live and he really got that and was very proud of his travels. He never just wanted to be held up in philly he had bigger plans and they became more them plans they became memories. He met a lot of people all around and everyone loved him. I will not cry anymore Jesse (Gelfin) I will laugh and remember your infectios spirt and rebellious attitude made a lot of people attracted to you. Not me though I hated you and I was forced to hang and we hit it off right away after the judgement walls were broken and we met each other again a tad bit older but not a bit more mature. It took a long time for that to come. Haha I love you buddy, you had a lot of Talent with what ever you did I wish you were still here but maybe that’s being selfish and maybe just maybe you in the peace you deserved from birth. I always miss you and I keep waiting for you to call me with some problem and maybe you still will in your own way. Rest easy brother and I will never let your name be forgotten. Jesse Ruben Geller
Cannonball - Friday October 12, 2018 via Condolence Message