omg, one more reason to miss him. Figured it was a Joy Division lyrics or something
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
aw for fuck's sake, Bimble. want you and your spirit back. RIP.
a song for you. hope the afterlife is better to you than this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5gFAiPJhvI
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Bimble was so 100% full-on in chat that I regretted anytime I had to block him just so I could get some work done. Of course he'd figure that out and he'd email me something like "christ, Chris you don't understand... lou reed!"
I'll miss talking about old Simple Minds and oddball Mitch Easter productions with him and the ongoing comedy of errors any time I tried to send him a mp3.
I think my favorite chat with him was the one time he logged on, IM'ed me "Fucking Peter Gabriel" and then logged off.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This chat outburst is great too
bimble78: MANIACS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bimble78: MANIACSbimble78: MANIACbimble78: Fuck me up the butt! I have to see early Natalie on You Tubebimble78: holy godbimble78: she was so hottttbimble78: And they were so hotttt
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I got a call from a Seattle investigator last night asking if I was related to M4rk Er1c Cr4ig. I said no and the investigator apologized and hung up.
I got a call too...I had no idea it was Bimble the guy was asking about.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP
― latebloomer, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
mental ilness makes me so angry... it's this evil force that takes people who would probably otherwise be happy and destroys their lives and makes them think and do horrible things. i don't know the specifics of bimble's situation but he was obviously not well. i can't say i'm shocked by this news, but i'm mad about it.
― irritating freepers and morbsists alike (get bent), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
the idea that his name will never be on my AIM buddy list again is really eerie.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
My inbox used to be routinely filled with excitable missives from Mark, invariably composed after several drinks. I took a break from ILX in 2006 to go work for MTV News (yeah, that really worked out well), and he kept me apprised for a while.
Still cannot fathom it all. Again, his last message to me (July 25) spoke of getting excited about some Duran Duran re-issues. Clearly, he was looking toward a future.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
If anyone in the U.S. is feeling freaked out or unable to deal w/this, this is a good hotline to talk to. They're always sharp and helpful and empathic but never condescending:
1-800-784-2433
― sadbigail (Abbott), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
also they won't send cops to your house like some suicide hotlines (!!!)
oh this is awful, awful
― akm, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
R.I.P.
― gr8080, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
This is terrible. RIP Bimble, still more goth than all of us here
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't help but feel horribly guilty and shitty about all of this.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
If you mean because you could see he wasn't well but didn't know what the hell you could do about it then I can understand.
As pointless as it is for me to say - don't feel like that. No-one knew this was going to happen.
― someone who is ranked fairly highly in an army of poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
R.I.P. Bimble. Best wishes to those who knew him.
I'm not a big ILM reader, but I always checked out his threads and revives. That series of THE STEVIE NICKS THREAD revives are some of my favourite posts on ILX.
― caek, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Never knew Bimble and I can't recall seeing his posts here, but just from reading this thread it seems like he was an incredible dude and the world is lesser for his not being here anymore. RIP dude.
― kshighway, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Suicide is such a shit...
RIP Bimble....
My thoughts are with those who knew him better than me...
― Jack Battery-Pack, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't feel like I have anything else to add but this is very sad.
RIP.
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
a youtube post for the master of youtube posts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5P0v0kGauc
― irritating freepers and morbsists alike (get bent), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
It seems as if anything I write here will only add to my already gargantuan self-absorption (even with this sentence...is using "self-regard" chickenshit? is wondering if it's chicken shit just more self-absorption?). But what can I say? Bimble hurt me and I responded in kind. After the SB, I opened up communication with him again and it seemed as if things were going well. And by "going well" I mean that it seemed as if he was making an effort to relate on a less manic level. But deep, deep down, I suspected that Bimble might not have wanted that, that banal, even-keeled communication was a sort of end for him. Or maybe he couldn't find a midpoint. I don't know.
Maybe saying nothing at all would've been the best tribute to him.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit, this is awful.
Bimble was an ilxor to whom I felt a tiny connection because of some silly decided minority shared opinion (we both liked a Police song that everyone else hates) and his quirky posting style became comforting in its familiarity and frequency. So much enthusiasm - it'll be hard for me to read his old posts as threads get revived and not wonder how much of that was desperation.
My condolences to Mark's friends and family members, including the ones who already posted here. This is really sad.
RIP Bimble (more goth than anyone)
― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
(yeesh, prolly should've changed that display name before posting)
― New display name coming soon (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Incrediby sad news. Poor fella. RIP.
― bidfurd, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
it might be a compliment to surmounter that i always regarded him and bimble as a kind of enthusiasm tag team and on the days when both were simultaneously *on* it was fun to watch.
― omar little, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
very sad, take care
one of us
― cozwn (webinar), Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion. No more may gulls cry at their ears Or waves break loud on the seashores; Where blew a flower may a flower no more Lift its head to the blows of the rain; Though they be mad and dead as nails, Heads of the characters hammer through daisies; Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i definitely was a dick to him once or twice, but backed off. it seemed like he mostly posted on ILX while drunk, and internetting while drinking is something I was definitely guilty of in the early/mid-90's when I still drank. I think what I probably reacted to in him was seeing some parts of myself that I didn't really care for; he was mostly enthusiastic, but it seemed a bit like a train wreck. I backed off when I realized that, because random stranger being a dick isn't really helping. I hope he found whatever peace he was searching.
― akm, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe he loved music too much. he was so incredibly serious about it. in the last couple of years i have been fighting with my fading interest in music. somehow i adored his enthusiasm but on the other hand i found it rather immature, it reminded of the joni mitchell song from "hejira" where she shouts "grow up". maybe that is a good tribute to bimble. which must mean straying around, looking for something and not finding it. and going on.
A Strange BoyA strange boy is weavingA course of grace and havocOn a yellow skateboardThru midday sidewalk trafficJust when I think he's foolish and childishAnd I want him to be manlyI catch my fool and my childNeeding love and understandingWhat a strange, strange boyHe still lives with his familyEven the war and the navycouldn't bring him to maturityHe keeps referring back to school daysAnd clinging to his childFidgeting and bulliedHis crazy wisdom holding onto something wildHe asked me to be patientWell I failed"Grow up!" I criedAnd as, the smoke was clearing he said"Give me one good reason why!"What a strange, strange boyHe sees the cars as sets of wavesSequences of mass and spaceHe sees the damage in my faceWe got high on travelAnd we got drunk on alcoholAnd on love the strongest poison and medicine of allSee how that feeling comes and goesLike the pull of moon on tidesNow I am surf risingNow parched ribs of sand at his sideWhat a strange, strange boyI gave him clothes and jewelryI gave him my warm bodyI gave him power over meA thousand glass eyes were staringIn a cellar full of antique dollsI found an old pianoAnd sweet chords rose up in waxed New England hallsWhile the boarders were snoringUnder crisp white sheets of curfewWe were newly lovers thenWe were fire in the stiff-blue-haired-house-rules
A strange boy is weavingA course of grace and havocOn a yellow skateboardThru midday sidewalk trafficJust when I think he's foolish and childishAnd I want him to be manlyI catch my fool and my childNeeding love and understanding
What a strange, strange boyHe still lives with his familyEven the war and the navycouldn't bring him to maturity
He keeps referring back to school daysAnd clinging to his childFidgeting and bulliedHis crazy wisdom holding onto something wildHe asked me to be patientWell I failed"Grow up!" I criedAnd as, the smoke was clearing he said"Give me one good reason why!"
What a strange, strange boyHe sees the cars as sets of wavesSequences of mass and spaceHe sees the damage in my face
We got high on travelAnd we got drunk on alcoholAnd on love the strongest poison and medicine of allSee how that feeling comes and goesLike the pull of moon on tidesNow I am surf risingNow parched ribs of sand at his side
What a strange, strange boyI gave him clothes and jewelryI gave him my warm bodyI gave him power over me
A thousand glass eyes were staringIn a cellar full of antique dollsI found an old pianoAnd sweet chords rose up in waxed New England hallsWhile the boarders were snoringUnder crisp white sheets of curfewWe were newly lovers thenWe were fire in the stiff-blue-haired-house-rules
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP. I hope it was quick and painless and you're at peace now.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 6 August 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i forgot: whenever i hear from something who has killed himself i find that extremely courageous. it is the decision i respect most, the one which is most human. as nobody has asked us if we wanted to live on this planet before we where born.
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I won't get behind that.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
o_0
― 3 mods 1 banhammer (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I had been stupidly holding off posting here because I didn't feel I had anything remotely useful to say. Dumb. Who does? RIP. And good wishes to all of you who knew him better than I did.
― nabisco, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiP8H_B3dOk
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder how he would have felt about his RIP thread next to that of John Hughes?
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
He'd have loved it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
one of us. RIP.
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
aw fuck bimble why
didn't know him but our shared love of swans n foetus n the fall n such ensured we crossed paths frequently on ILM
RIP you crazy enthusiastic goth maniac
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh jeez, this is fucked up. Feel so sad for Bimble and all his friends on here. You got such a sense of how intensely this guy loved music, it's sort of scary thinking about how that intensity of feeling might have translated into other parts of his life. Sweet dreams Bimble.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I can't help thinking about what a shit year this has been for Seattle folks here :(
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Sad News, R.I.P
― Oppenheimer's Deadly Toy (Boxing Kangaroo), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, that fucking sucks. He sent me a strange love note on an older account that I forgot to respond to a few months ago... hopefully it didn't contribute to any composite effect. One of the few posters on here who I truly liked. :{{{
― Spectrum, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't know the guy, but i hope he is r-ing in p, more p than he had yesterday or the day before.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. what a terrible tragedy.
― max, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
condolences to his friends and family - I loved his posts and will definitely miss them/him ... I have some people close to me dealing with depression/mental illness and this has pushed me to check in with them a bit more and be there for 'em
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I am totally shocked by this news, his post-punk music blog i read via bloglines and bimble was always a friendly positive contributor on ilm
― djmartian, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
My condolences to all. RIP.
― barry totoro (suzy), Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ah shit, he was an awesome guy. RIP.
― wilter, Thursday, 6 August 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link