M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP

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.

when i come across his posts, it just reminds me that it's important to be decent to each other.

Yeah.

Stumbling on old posts of his reminds me that we're all out here, living unseen parts of our lives between what we choose to write here. I like that reminder.

<3

"pictures of you" itt makes me bawl my eyes out

Lovely post, Ned. Choked up here....

He did, in fact, track down that EP.

all the people i like are in the ground / it's better to be lost than to be found!

<3

miss your enthusiasm and sense of humor !!

never saw ned's last post -- i spent some of my formative years around the blue ridge mountains, didn't know bimble did too!

mark was so fucking funny, man. loved when he would lose it over remembering sheena easton video or some such

:) yeah

i never really knew bimble but when reading through old threads (esp kate bush ones), the best and most enthusiastic posts are usually his. i'm grateful that he was able to leave such a positive mark on ILX

makes me wish i could've been posting right there with him

he had a lot going on. i'm really glad that i got to know him.

it's like, i know what kind of music he liked, which artists he got super excited about, bits and pieces of his humour and personality. i feel like i sortof know him without ever directly interacting with him

i think that's kindof a magical thing about persistent hypertext

There is not a week that goes by that I don't come across some great post of his on the old threads. Really wish I knew him and appreciated him better when he was here.

^^^

i just listened to songs for drella and when i bumped the thread i saw this bimble post, and maybe this was the most "bimble" post of all:

"Images" sets my soul on fire, and the hairs on my arms stand on end. There are people who know what it is to feel passion about music, and there are those who don't. There are people who can write sane, 1000 word essays about music, maybe they are even paid for it, and I respect that because I can't relate to it. I side with those who are speechless.

It reminds me of when the last Kate Bush album came out after 12 long years. Now didn't that separate the men from the boys? Some people said "oh shame on you fuckers for losing your critical faculties" and others said "for god's sake shut the fuck up and listen". You know which side I'm on.

― Lucking Faptop (Bimble), Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:41 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that is a great post

yeah.

hard to believe he's gone

I react to music much like bimble did. I try vainly to couch it in eloquence, but inside me, it's basically that quote M@tt just posted all the way.

Argh. The first anniversary of an old friend's suicide is in a couple of days...

eh i wish i could talk about some things with mark right now . but i guess it's just a bunch of studied bullshit so fuck it all