{"id":722497,"date":"2026-04-18T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-loving-memory-of-pill-friends\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:50:13","slug":"in-loving-memory-of-pill-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-loving-memory-of-pill-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"In loving memory of Pill Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a350057b0918\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-loving-memory-of-pill-friends\/#Eight_years_after_frontman_Ryan_Wilsons_untimely_death_the_former_members_of_the_Philly_punk_band_reflect_on_his_impact\" >Eight years after frontman Ryan Wilson\u2019s untimely death, the former members of the Philly punk band reflect on his impact.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Eight_years_after_frontman_Ryan_Wilsons_untimely_death_the_former_members_of_the_Philly_punk_band_reflect_on_his_impact\"><\/span>Eight years after frontman Ryan Wilson\u2019s untimely death, the former members of the Philly punk band reflect on his impact.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279544\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" 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600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2147914A-D225-4419-92DD-4DDEFAEDB51D_kq8jws\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2147914A-D225-4419-92DD-4DDEFAEDB51D_kq8jws\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2147914A-D225-4419-92DD-4DDEFAEDB51D_kq8jws\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2147914A-D225-4419-92DD-4DDEFAEDB51D_kq8jws\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2147914A-D225-4419-92DD-4DDEFAEDB51D_kq8jws\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2147914A-D225-4419-92DD-4DDEFAEDB51D_kq8jws\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Sam Ray<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279535\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            There\u2019s a 2013 interview with the band Pill Friends ahead of their debut album, <i>Blessed Suffering<\/i>, where frontman Ryan Wilson discusses topics like Kierkegaard, drug culture, and whether someone should kill themselves or not. To Wilson, this was the question that the album \u2014 and the band itself \u2014 was aiming to answer. \u201cShould you exist or not exist? I don\u2019t think there\u2019s an answer. I can see both sides,\u201d he told <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/discovery-pill-friends\">Interview Magazine<\/a><\/i>. Years later, in 2017, he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pillspillspills\/photos\/its-with-a-heavy-heart-that-we-have-to-announce-the-loss-of-our-brother-and-best\/1464280086966308\/\">tragically died from a drug overdose<\/a>.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The band wasn\u2019t well known among the local music community in Philly when they were actively playing shows around 2013 to 2015. Meanwhile, a lot of their close friends and peers became known DIY household names: Alex G, Blue Smiley, Teen Suicide, Elvis Depressedly, Coma Cinema, Ricky Eat Acid, Julia Brown, and other Philly legends rose to fame via the Bird Tapes\/Orchid Tapes Bandcamp community, an era when independent record labels were focused on releasing via Bandcamp. Pill Friends was the black sheep of the scene, often seen as too dark with the heaviness of their lyrics and the confrontational nature of their songs. As Johnny Klein, the former guitarist of Pill Friends, would later tell me, \u201cI don&#8217;t think there was anything about the band that fit into any trend.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279551\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6z2v30bxth73gsLhGZWjEl?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279552\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/blessed-suffering\/1153719344\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279536\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            I found Pill Friends in 2020 through a friend who would play their stuff around the house. I was a junior at Temple University, gaining awareness of the local Philly music scene\u2019s history. Wilson had passed by the time I found them, and I listened to their music with that understanding in mind. It brought an awful melancholy to what I was hearing, but the music was enchanting. Songs like \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cfFY_NzRaL4?si=oO5mGksHZPzTNdQP\">Brittany Murphy Is My Dream Girl<\/a>\u201d (\u201cBrittany Murphy is my dream girl \/ I wanna feel what she feels\u201d) and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qXPJ-OM38BQ?si=Ev6QfG1rxbcxmtL2\">Worthless<\/a>\u201d (\u201cTell me that I\u2019m worthless\u201d) perfectly tackled questions I was thinking about all the time: \u201cShould I go on living?\u201d as Wilson put it in Interview. For an obsessive who was figuring out the meaning of life, their songs soothed an urge.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            In June 2025, I reached out to Pill Friends\u2019 Johnny Klein (also a guitarist in Knifeplay, singer in Euphoria Again) and TJ Strohmer (singer in Knifeplay) in hopes of understanding Wilson\u2019s story. Strohmer told me that it was because of Wilson that he had begun to question the dominant culture in Philly\u2019s DIY scene, which was often PC and censorious. \u201cThere were a lot of hyper-privileged PC bands that were very soft,\u201d he said of the Philly scene at the time. \u201cPill Friends wasn\u2019t universally beloved.\u201d Ryan had the tendency to do inflammatory things, like nicknaming a bandmate\u2019s girlfriend \u201cHitler\u201d as a response to how she took him away, I later learned.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279550\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/C581BB5D-EEB6-407E-91E4-85F20762E618_ynk1d2\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Zooey Jolivet<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279537\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            I\u2019d coincidentally reached out to Klein and Strohmer around the anniversary of Wilson\u2019s passing. Later, I was invited by the rest of the ex-Pill Friends band to meet up with them at Bowman\u2019s Hill Wildflower Preserve (where they used to do \u201cbad kid stuff\u201d as teens) in New Hope, Pennsylvania, down the road from where Wilson was buried, to talk more about him. We made plans for a pleasant June day to commemorate the eighth year without him here.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            As I <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roached Bowman\u2019s, the group was easy to spot, now all in their early 30s; most of the members had families. Drummer Kyle Schwander brought along his wife Kara and 2-year-old son Sonny; Keyboardist and vocalist Erin Porter was there with her husband and two children; Bassist Davis Cook and cellist Abby Trunfio showed up alone. We headed for a gazebo next to one of the walking trails but we\u2019d barely made it a few steps out of the parking lot before the stories about Wilson began.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279545\" class=\"content_block diptych triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_right gutter_btm\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/1_baqmoj\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Abi Reimold (top)<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"media_wrapper half_gutter_left\" style=\"\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/2_iygtwn\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 50vw\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Kyle Schwander (top); Sam Ray (middle); David Struewing (bottom)<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279538\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            From 2015 to 2017, the group lived together in a house on Hope Street. Its filth was infamous; it became the reason why Kara, when visiting Schwander, would pee standing up and, according to Schwander, why Alex G still shakes out his towel to get rid of bugs before showering.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Cook and Schwander grew up in New Hope with Wilson, and the three got close during a freshman year <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> studies class. Porter and Trunfio entered the group later in 2010 \u2014 Porter through Alex G shows, and Trunfio through a class with Wilson at East Stroudsburg University. That same year, they formed Pill Friends. Trunfio described Wilson as \u201ca preacher\u201d or the original Philadelphia troll. \u201c<i>If I wanted to, I could be a cult leader,<\/i>\u201d Wilson would often say. A prime example of his absurdist tendencies, Schwander recalled.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Once, in high school, Wilson hopped out of a first-floor window because he\u2019d forgotten his homework. He later returned, homework in hand, without getting caught. Another time, after the band had moved to the house on Hope Street, Wilson buried the house\u2019s television as a joke. He covered the TV stand and the TV itself in soil, adding to the existing chaotic nature of the house.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cEventually there was a hole in the TV with two poles sticking out with some type of flower,\u201d Cook recalled. \u201cI remember the day after he passed, going to that house and seeing that \u2014 the flowers, just, like, coming out of the TV.\u201d I pictured it vividly, the flowers protruding out from the TV and towering over the living room.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279546\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/33F5EFFD-B7DB-47FD-A0E1-D8E2E51341FF_ypaagx\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Sam Ray<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279539\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Wilson had a penchant for getting emotionally attached to celebrities or fictional characters with big personalities \u2014 Brittany Murphy, Adam Sandler, Frosty The Snowman \u2014 and would work them into his humor, Trunfio said. Sometimes, that attachment would even extend to helpless creatures he\u2019d come across in real life. One time, while on his way home from a group shrooms <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, Wilson came across a cat that had gotten hit by a car and took it home. \u201cLike a lightless form of life. I can never put it in a way that would not seem weird or make sense,\u201d Cook remembered of the incident. \u201cWhen he was tripping, he just thought it was so beautiful because he thought, <i>This thing can\u2019t be hurt<\/i> \u2014 to a point where he took it home and he kept it for a few days.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279547\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/2B3C7A27-1128-49C1-AD0A-5D34DB49DE61_tzgg6y\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Sam Ray<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279540\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            When Wilson died on May 31, 2017, the band said there wasn\u2019t a mass-grieving in the Philly indie community. Part of the reason, they believe, was because of Pill Friends\u2019 outsider status \u2014 something that contributed to the circumstances that resulted in Wilson\u2019s death. \u201cHis being misunderstood throughout his music career led him to his fate,\u201d Strohmer said. \u201cHe had so many things he really wanted to share with the world and there were a lot of rejections there.\u201d Did he mean a rejection from the Philly community? \u201cI believe so, yes. I believe that led him to his fate.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Still \u2014 Wilson, his music, and his tortured view on life, represented a truth about the scene, about the way art flowed from its fragile creators. \u201cThere was an aspect of instability for all of these artists that allowed them to make these beautiful things,\u201d Strohmer said. \u201cYou can look at all these guys and see different strange fates and niches that they\u2019ve now found themselves in. Pill Friends is just another one of those stories. Though it\u2019s an extremely tragic story, something about it makes sense, in terms of this whole thing.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Schwander noticed parallels in the fate of another Philly band Blue Smiley, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/blue-smiley-royalties-battle-1235343435\/\">whose frontman Brian Nowell also overdosed from Fentanyl just five months after Wilson<\/a>. \u201cI remember Ryan died and then I said to Kara, \u2018Brian feels like my new Ryan.\u2019\u201d Schwander added. \u201cAnd then he passed away a week later.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279554\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>He had so many things he really wanted to share with the world. \u2014TJ Strohmer of Knifeplay<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279541\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            In the months leading up to his end, Schwander remembered that Wilson was having more manic than depressive days. His overdose was accidental, \u201cbut he was on a crash course from dealing with mental issues, you know? He got on medications from time to time, but he felt like it was suppressing who he was,\u201d he added. It also didn\u2019t help that Wilson believed in determinism, the idea that everything happens exactly as it\u2019s \u201csupposed to.\u201d Perhaps he believed his tragic death was predetermined, too.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            In hindsight, Wilson\u2019s music foreshadowed his fate. Those close to him spoke about his art as something like a self-fulfilling prophecy, magnified by the misunderstanding that polarized him within the Philadelphia community. \u201c[Wilson] would\u2019ve been so aware of [the tragic irony of his death]. If he could hear me saying these things, I believe that he would say \u2018Yes I Felt That.\u2019 We are in a more absurd and gnarlier dystopian situation than we were eight to 10 years ago and I think Ryan saw that and there\u2019s a possibility that he just wasn\u2019t interested in experiencing it,\u201d Strohmer said.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279549\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left embed\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex G - Hope (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQPYS4Bnv30?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279542\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Schwander still feels Wilson\u2019s legacy in his day-to-day life. As he tours, designing and selling merch for Alex G, he gets to hear full-venue crowds of people singing along to Alex\u2019s song \u201cHope,\u201d written in memory of Wilson: \u201c<i>He was a good friend of mine \/ He died \/ Why I write about it now? \/ Gotta honor him somehow \/ Saw some people crying that night \/ Yeah, Fentanyl took a few lives from our lives.<\/i>\u201d He\u2019s often approached at the merch stand by kids wearing Pill Friends shirts.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            We reached the gazebo area, where the band gathered around the perimeter. Porter\u2019s baby perched on her thigh and her eldest daughter picked flowers in the grass. The group seemed elated to have an excuse to reminisce about Wilson, but I could feel the grief in the air from the start. I asked what they missed most about him. Silence followed. Then, Porter began to cry, explaining how she often imagined Wilson talking to her in the car after her daughter was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[My daughter\u2019s] dad left us when she was a baby, and whenever I was driving, I would just imagine [Wilson] sitting in the car with me and talking about&#8230; what changed him when he had a baby,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I would listen to different songs and think about what he would like about those songs or make fun of.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279555\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Untitled_design_11_fpcjbh\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photos by Brittany Deitch<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279543\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Schwander, meanwhile, feared forgetting Wilson\u2019s voice. \u201cIf I had any question about something I read, I would go to Ryan, I\u2019d be like, \u2018What do you think about this?\u2019 If I read philosophy I\u2019m like \u2018What do you think about this?\u2019 I know that I\u2019m not smart. He was smart. And so I\u2019m gonna lose that voice. I\u2019m gonna keep getting older. And 25-year-old Ryan\u2019s not going to exist in my brain anymore.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s true Wilson didn\u2019t leave a traditional legacy; he wasn\u2019t rallied by show-goers and didn\u2019t inspire a new Philadelphia sub-genre. But his individualism and commentary live on in Pill Friends\u2019 songs, which still feel purposeful to this day. Like a breadcrumb trail for people to meet him and his story, the music is a trace of wisdom, a way to skip past alienation. The people who\u2019d need to hear it, who\u2019d really <i>get it<\/i>, would unearth him, like me. Through it, Ryan Wilson has finally come to be understood.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-279548\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7DED9A1-73D5-4400-93E1-7CE802F97C61_wvm47i\/pill-friends-ryan-wilson-in-memoriam-essay.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"In loving memory of Pill Friends\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Photo by Sam Ray<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Brittany Deitch<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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