M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP

very sorry to hear about your friend, herman.

holy shit I never new this... R.I.P. Bimble, god damn...

was just thinking about homebro before I even saw this thread was revived. miss him.

I think we all miss him. ILM sure misses him. No-one loved to talk endlessly about music with such enthusiasm more than bimble.

his OP on the chic thread is one of my favourites.

one of his more understated ones though

i feel bad for poor crut, that is a horrible story in the OP (of this thread). sorry dude, hope you're okay.

and thanks, Daniel. His cousin lived around the corner from me but I hadn't seen her since it happened. Kinda out of the loop. I had heard a few months before I found out thatone of the brothers had died but I had thought it was the younger one, when I saw their cousin and asked,it turned out that that day was the 2nd anniversary of his death and they had just been to a mass for him. Strange coincidence.

appropos of nothing, i guess, but i've been thinking lately about a friend of mine who died a few years ago. she graduated 15th from my law school class in the mid-90s. brilliant woman. we worked together at a white-shoe ny firm (in the boca raton office) for a few years.

i worry that i wasn't a good enough friend in the last few years. i miss her.

It hurts me to see that every revive of this, theres someone who still didnt know :(

Yeah, it's weird seeing people find out who had no idea.

this is the day isn't it. i will never forgot how shitty i felt, for someone i didn't even know in real life, one year ago today.

RIP Bimble you are missed every single day on ILM.

^^^

for realz.

also, just remembered that just1n3 texted me about it. weird to find out that way, i think.

;_;

Lou Reed threads just aren't the same

or Stevie Nicks threads.

or any thread

yeah

I'm glad people are missing him and remembering his good points. I hope he knew he had a lot of friends on ILX.

I was going through a heavy Replacements period late last year, so I pulled up The Replacements: Classic or Dud? to read and was knocked sideways by this post (which was paired with a now broken clip of "I Will Dare"). I didn't even know him that well, but I was almost in tears 'cause the philosophy was so beautiful.

Bimble will still be a teenager in the morning. And next year. And the year after that.

― Sister Reed (Bimble), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:17 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

There's lots like that, it's sad to stumble across them

I miss Bimble, too. He was a real person of substance.

it's really hard to believe that a whole year will have passed - it still feels like...well, not yesterday, but maybe only a few weeks ago that he passed. I still get bummed out pretty often thinking about this. :(

Much missed poster, hard to believe it's a year already.

I'm currently listening to the great spotify playlist that was put together in his memory

http://open.spotify.com/user/onimo/playlist/6ck9dSju1UNi3XGMDRv5UG

i logged into my desktop computer at home last weekend which I never ever do and looked at the bookmarks and the only bookmark I had in firefox was to his blog.

i feel like its been so much longer than a year

so i was listening to durutti column today and i got to thinking about mark. and that i really miss his presence in the world.

i found him really exasperating at times.

but on balance he was a beautiful person. i feel like maybe he got dealt sort of a tough hand, but i always thought of him as being a really courageous person and fearless and uncompromising in some sense. i wish that i could be more like him in my daily life.

i really loved the way his sense of humor was calibrated.

and he was someone who definitely made me feel less lonely in life. how often do i come across people that i can not only talk about some stupid creation records obscurity with, but also who appreciate, i dunno, meher baba, and the film thank god it's friday, and conchiglie or what have you

i found out about his death months after the fact, and i haven't dwelt much on it because it breaks my heart.

anyway, i'm really glad that he existed and as i guess is par for the course as far as this kind of stuff goes, i wish that i had appreciated him more when he was here and that i had made sure to let him know in no uncertain terms how much his being in the world was appreciated!

I think of him sometimes when I hear some postpunk track at a bar and I can almost hear him yelling in my ear THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME, OH MY GOD, HOW AMAZING IS THIS?? JESUS

I wish I still got to see him discover new things he loved. When I discover something new and get excited about it and want to blog about it or call friends and tell them how amazing it is or evangelize it in some way I always think of him.

yeah, absolutely

I wish I still got to see him discover new things he loved. When I discover something new and get excited about it and want to blog about it or call friends and tell them how amazing it is or evangelize it in some way I always think of him.

^^^ this, totally. I feel like there was still so much music he had to hear.

I thought of him the other day because I found that someone had finally uploaded this version of this song to youtube. I had always wanted to talk about it with him but I never got the chance to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYbHRRrACo

Oh man I will never forget this time I sent him this one Bjork video and we both FLIPPED OUT about it. How many people who act as excited as he did are actually earnest and genuine in their excitement? It was so great; it never got old.

i feel like maybe he got dealt sort of a tough hand, but i always thought of him as being a really courageous person and fearless and uncompromising in some sense.

this to me was/is one of the things that was really crushing about his suicide.

she just doesn't give a fuck she's not a boy and yeah ok maybe she wants to spend time with you but be ONE OF YOU ugh god never she doesn't need all that shit and FUCK YOU for even thinking she might

haha thanks, I needed 2 hear that.

:)

i'ma put on some new order and swig a gin for bimbs tonight.

yeah, and i also wish i had the opportunity to introduce mark to some like-minded friends of mine that i think would have dug his erudition, enthusiasm. oh well, next time around

ha.

kind of lol but mostly sad

best

i almost miss Bimble more than any other person i have known in real life. just trying to say that i think he was a very special person, even if i haven't met him.

The Durutti Column - "Believe In Me"

Oh God I miss you. :(

"in a world of no hoping, there's no hope, there's no point in hoping!"

YO MAARK, thanks for coming down and being so genuine for us. you gave me a lot of inspiration which i haven't exercised yet, but i will do some of that in 2011.

you're the greatest, i want you to be really happy.

i clicked on this thread for no particular reason and ended up engrossed - its so hard to be kind to people - but its really the only worthwhile thing

rip bimble and everyone else who didnt make it to 2011

otm.

I feel kind of bad that I never made those mixes..
But it was overwhelming

:)

all the people i like are those that are dead

I was listening to Kristin Hersh's Strings EP just now, and in searching an old thread on here I found this from Bimble, a few weeks before he passed:

I've unexpectedly found myself back into Hips & Makers after all these years. I revisited with it around 2001 but couldn't really bring it into a present context at that time, it was more about memories for me. This time it's resonating with me in the present moment. It's funny that I always tend to think of it as an good album with a few really standout tracks, but in reality it all hangs together very well and feels very complete, like taking a journey through different parts of a forest or something.

I was so disappointed in Strange Angels that I quit paying attention to her work at all after that. The way I remember it, the songs that appear on Hips & Makers are ones she'd been saving up for years.

Haven't heard this Strings EP mentioned upthread...will have to track it down.

Also this line especially gets me - "I've been on the other side of the Blue Ridge, seen the Shenandoah rolling there" because I grew up in Virginia and it makes me remember the mountains there.

The combination of hearing the music and reading the words, especially the ending, perhaps more than anything else all this time, brought home the fact that despite differences -- and my sense of frustration with him, for lack of a better term -- that he wasn't simply an obsessive person about music like myself, but someone who had his own life story to tell and go through. And that it's sad it ended as it did, and I wondered if he ever did track down that EP, which I had recommended on the thread some years earlier.

I don't think I ever wished him this, when I've wished it to so many others I didn't know at all:

Rest well.