cymric
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Post by cymric on Sept 1, 2010 23:39:29 GMT -5
To any and all this may still concern,
Shortly it will have been five years. If you are still checking this forum, even if ever-so periodically, let that sink in for a moment. Five years.
As of this posting it seems I may well be alone in commemorating the sad and appalling fifth anniversary of Malcolm’s suicide at J J Plaus Park in Mississauga this coming September 13th. To take place, as it has since 2006, at 16:10 (4:10 PM) – the very moment, and on the very spot - approximately 50 meters south along the pier at the water's edge. Drinks to follow at The Snug Harbour Seafood Bar and Grill, which is near by and within sight.
If you wish to join me please, please feel more than free to do so.
Again I say that he would have found this hilarious and would have laughed until he cried.
CymRic
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Post by Colin H on Sept 4, 2010 11:00:34 GMT -5
I really wish I didn't have to work that day, as it was really good to be able to come at the appointed date and time for a change last year, but I will see Cymric this weekend to toast Malcolm, at least, and stop by the cemetery on the way into town.
I've taken on the project of trying to get the blizzard of discs and drives full of digital media in my studio organized of late as a way of physically and mentally making space to do new stuff, and as a result, I have oft been in the company of visual or auditory Malcolm this past week. One benefit of those 5 long years is that it's now nicer than not to hear him joking between takes on the master reels from an Another 1000 Miles bed track session, or see him mug for the camera in some after show photo. It used to be harder to see past the end for me than I find it now. I know I will never stop missing my friend or wishing he was here, we were talking just this morning about how well he and my new daughter would have gotten on... but I feel his life begiining to emerge from the eclipse of his passing more, for me. I wish as much as ever that he was still here, but not so much to forget to be very glad he ever was.
Strength and well wishes to all thinking of Malcolm in this season, wherever we all are.
Colin
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Post by cymric on Sept 5, 2010 3:58:21 GMT -5
Should have guessed you’d be first in.
All Hail, and well met here. A place both far from home and within the thick of it.
The latest Imperial Mix still gives me joy in an altogether selfish fashion from which no apologies will extend. Cable’s free.
How did you put it a few years ago? “I come to celebrate Malcolm, not to re-bury him” ? I will concede that yours might be a better approach than continuingly working on statuary for his tomb. Not that I plan any course adjustments.
See you 911 for a pre-MX V toast on the X of “the day the world changed (derisive snort)”. Cable’s free. Laughter to follow.
Anyone else?
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Post by biotonk on Sept 7, 2010 11:12:27 GMT -5
Hi All I am out of town working on a friends film on september 10-14th. I wanted so badly to be there on the 13th for the fifth year. However I am coming back on Tuesday the 14th. I will be visiting Malcolm's grave on that day. I will have my gibson handy. If anyone is interested in meeting up please let me know. Thanks Davin
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Post by cymric on Sept 7, 2010 22:28:19 GMT -5
Sorry you can’t make it on the 13th Davin, but fully understandable. As I may have said elsewhere in this forum, Malcolm certainly groked the notion that work comes first. Especially film work. I’d meet you at the cemetery on Tuesday, but will have already made that trip the day before. Once or twice per annum is about all I’m prepared for. Shame, it would have been good to swap stories.
OK, swing and a miss. Any other takers?
CymRic
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Post by spike on Sept 10, 2010 19:28:37 GMT -5
I've been thinking about Malcolm over the last couple of days when I realized it's been five years.
I think I'm going to come down. May just be you and me, CymRic.
Adam
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Post by cymric on Sept 10, 2010 23:38:12 GMT -5
Hey, Adam. Damn fine to hear from you. Seriously hope to see you there on Monday afternoon. At least we'll recognize each other, out there on the Port Credit pier and probably in the rain. Although, again, it’s been just less than five years since we last saw each other at the one and only MXiCon.
Sounds inviting, doesn’t it folks? The chance to meet up with total strangers in a shady-sounding locale to remember and raise a toast to a man we all dearly loved but who, it must be said, took his own life after doing an admittedly terrible thing? Might well be why it’s only ever been Colin, Gaz and yours truly placing our boots on the ground for, as some of us have come to call it: the final night of The Six Weeks of Malcontent.
But please, dear reader, forgive me my bitter sarcasm and chalk it up to a symptom of the season. Any and all who remember Malcolm and wish to be there, on the very spot, for the fifth anniversary of his passing will be more than welcome. I give you my pledge that it won’t be the least bit weird. Well, no more so than this sort of thing is inherently destined to be. It is a five-year anniversary wake, after all. How many of those does a person go to on average?
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Post by christian on Sept 12, 2010 10:31:22 GMT -5
I will light a candle and play Crimson today.
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Post by cymric on Sept 13, 2010 2:30:21 GMT -5
Quite right, Chris. There should be Crimson. Wouldn't be the same without it. This forum was Malcolm's Court of the Crimson King. And it bloody well still is.
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Post by spike on Sept 15, 2010 0:21:18 GMT -5
Good seeing you fellows and sharing a drink.
cheers, Adam
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Post by cymric on Sept 16, 2010 23:27:42 GMT -5
Great to see you as well Adam. Fine company to be in on so sad a day.
And so, dear reader, if you count Gaz (and I most definitely do) then there were three of us there at the time and on the spot. Not a new record by the numbers, but thanks to Adam the cast has grown.
I could write more and quite possibly will do before too long. But for now I’m simply going to close out with this:
Hope to see you next year.
RTW
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Post by sladefan on Mar 9, 2011 18:57:07 GMT -5
Hello All, Sad to say I haven't been here as often as I would have liked, but happy to return and see the continued kind words and thoughts about Malcolm and his life. Since my last posts about 5 years ago I have moved out to Halifax and started life anew here, all because I realized that life is too short and that I wanted to do all those things I put off for too long. When Ian and I went to high school we were both interested in acting and humour, but while ian decided to actually put his talents to work, I hid mine away and gave up on living. I've since changed that, because of Malcolm. I never contacted him because I always felt that he would think I just wanted something from him, or was trying to be some sort of hanger on. I've learned that Malcolm would never have thought so and regret not reaching out to him to say hi, maybe if I had been available, things would have been different in the end, maybe not. Because of this, I have made a point to reach out to everyone I've known and just say hi, even if they don't reply, I know I feel better because I want to take the time. On my Facebook account I started a page to let people know about who has passed away from our High School days, and Malcolms was the first person I listed, and his passing came as a huge shock to everyone. I refused to talk about why, because I feel that isn't why I put the information up there, it was more important to say that he was gone, and to reach out and say hello to people you want to, while you still can.
I am sorry I haven't been to visit on the Septembers past, but hope to join in on a September in future, and will post a message to everyone who knew him to come down as well. He is missed by all, and thank you guys for continuing to remember him.
Carey aka Sladefan
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Post by manuman on Mar 11, 2011 12:40:38 GMT -5
I knew Ian in school, grades 6,7,8,9 lost touch after that, different group of friends, but I will try to find the pictures I have of our class trip to Quebec city, the 3 of us Ian, Chris and myself running around that city with very realistic looking and sounding guns, if we did it now we would be arrested or worse, one of the few people that I wonder what their opinion would be, What would/does Ian think of Daniel Craig? The Dark Knight or Spiderman (he wasn't into Marvel when we hung out) Every time I saw him in a commercial or film I would tell my kids "I know that guy"
Third friend of mine that has committed suicide in the last 10 years, must be something in the water at Central Peel.
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Post by ladytass on Jul 9, 2011 22:41:10 GMT -5
I so wish that one of these years .. I could make it to that spot on that day and meet any and all who still come to pay homage and tribute to a man we all knew and loved ... if the powers that be ever give me the chance i shall be waiting on that pier looking out and smiling softly knowing that Malcolm is looking out and watching us all.
Blessed Be ~Tass~
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