M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP

Well, roxy, you managed to bring a tear (oh hell, a dozen) to my eyes.

Yes it's the same here. Very beautiful.

I still feel bad that I never responded to any of his emails. Of course it seemed a bit odd at the time to receive them, considering how discreet I've always been here. Now I realise that because of my stupid shyness, I missed the occasion to know someone like him better.

No reason to feel guilty, Jamie.

i never got an e-mail by him though we were often participating in the same threads and often i had the impression he was my alter ego. he liked more or less the same bands. sometimes i felt caught when he eulogized a song or album i had wanted to praise before but had forgotten about. lots of weird coincidences with bimble.

You can spot a few tears on this recording, because this was our last day together in school.

A few tears here too (I am a big soppy). Thanks for posting rozy.

I think Bimble would have fucking loved that.

I think he would have loved to see them getting hugs with Stevie Nicks too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZgRfpkzN48
(very low audio - but that's beside the point)
(maybe he did see this - I see it was posted up at the beginning of July - I hope so)

awful news :(

rip Bimble, one of the most genuine and likeable posters on the entire board if this thread isn't proof enough of that already.

for me, much kate bush, but especially "the ninth wave," belongs to bimble now & always

john hughes + bimble passed away within days of each other. subsequently I was listening to a bunch of hughes soundtracks and I will likely never hear this again without thinking of bimble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1fqgg42vo

</3 ;_; </3

oh god, even before i knew bimble that track turned me into a sobbing mess whenever i heard it.

yup, still turns me into a sobbing mess. one of my best friends has sort of disappeared (as in no one knows where he is, if he's stil alive, etc) , and i remember sitting in his house, listening to that song, being high as fuck on lots of bad c0ke and just losing our shit together, just collapsing. argh.

okay, i'm all right. just had to get that out.

one of my best friends has sort of disappeared

Oh table I'm so sorry to hear that :(

<3 that 'Pictures of You' vid

;_;

Delurk ... discovering Kate Bush was a pretty big deal for me. When I mentioned it here Bimble responded in the tone of the music freak mentor I'd have loved to have. It was nice to have someone give a shit.

still hurts.

:(

Kate Bush just made me have to blow my nose for like three straight minutes. Stop doing that to me.

something about smalltown boy makes me think of bimble every time i hear it. i don't even know if he liked it, but i figure he must've.

Oooh that song always made me tear up anyway, even as a teen.

Kate Bush was also I huge discovery for me. I can only listen to This Woman's Work when I feel like letting it out.

wtf? this is really upsetting to me.

fuck.

I only just found out about this, and am saddened by the news.

just broke down out of nowhere over this and I don't know why. pictures of you vid is killing me

'only' 8 months ago!

Curtis I know what you mean, it hits me every now and then still when I see his posts on revived threads.

I still miss him too.

yeah, it's still pretty much </3 when I see this thread, bittersweet when I run across one of his wildly exuberant posts

sometimes i just think of that 'pictures of you" video and it makes me sad.

I wz reading the old Doors thread which I had saved to my laptop, and at the end the little exchange between Hoos and Bimble almost made me cry...

heard Cale's Caribbean Sunset this morning and thought of bimble

u no i was just thinking abt bimble this morning before i got up, weird how i obv was not the only one.

<3 and hugs Crut, I still think about him often as well and get very sad.

i think about this fellow all the time when I think about ILX. I still feel awful about being rude to him once or twice, serves me right, I won't do that again. His love for music was really contagious, and I listen to a lot of the same music myself, and I really do think about him every time I hear something he used to rave about. A genuine music fan, and I think he was a fine man.

Was just talking to a couple of ilxors about him the other day. ILM isnt the same without him.

When I die, please bury some talisman of Lou Reed with me. Just some symbol of him, anything. A tiny shred of his album cover, anything. When I die, he's going to be there, man. He's gonna wave to me and smile, and I'll know my life wasn't in vain.

― you could call it a "fan" club but a man I can only be a "fan" of a hot (Bimble), Saturday, February 7, 2009 8:05 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

from the Coney Island Baby thread

i missed this because it happened during a time when i wasn't often checking in. since returning, i've noticed his absence of course, but based on a passing comment, i assumed that he'd simply quit posting here, had been banned or something. though i didn't really know him, we corresponded a bit, and at the time, i looked forward to getting to know him better. you've all dealt, i suppose, but i'm so sad and sorry to finally hear this. don't know what to say or do. some belated goodbye.

:-( Hugs.

Woke up this morning with Felt's "Ballad of the Band" in my head. Googled it, first result was Bimble's blog.

http://windyweather-bimble.blogspot.com/2009/01/felt-ballad-of-band-12-ep-1986.html

Although this was the song he really liked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axULDVGYI98

"And all those songs...
You know I love them all,
But oh, I still feel like giving in."

Nearly a year. aim chatz has always felt empty without him. I really hope bimble is at peace now.
I found out a couple of months ago that an old friend of mine committed suicide 2 years ago (ironically his name was Mark too), didn't get a chance to go to his funeral. Even if you don't see someone for a few years, they don't stop being a friend. Not even in death.

right on.

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.