I just thought you'd all like to know that Steve read aloud a small collection of your posts in this thread at the funeral. I'm sure Amark appreciated it.

you know, it was just like 5 days ago that i reformatted and lost the photo of you and him with avril.  god, i wish i'd kept that now.

Steve is the one who was in that photo and he was there right before Amark went into a coma. He was kind enough to call me to come as soon as he saw it was near the end. I'm Jon, the guy who held the camera for the Cooking with Doop videos.

As far as Amark stories go...

Amark had a way of pulling pranks that were both hilarious and confused the crap out of you. Senior year he was living in an apartment with his friend Alex. Alex happened to be on Spring break at his college while school was still in session for Amark. When I asked Amark where Alex was, he told me "Oh... he decided to just go to Atlanta."

Me: "Atlanta, just for no reason?"
Amark: "Yeah."
Me: "Is he missing classes?"
Amark: "Probably. Don't worry about it. Why you asking so many questions, white man?"

Alex was actually just visiting his parents about 20 minutes away and would be gone for the week. However Amark decided to pull this prank for 2 months. He had his roommate pretend drunk dial me from different locations around the country. I got calls from Florida where he was partying on the beach, calls from New Orleans where he was on Bourbon Street, etc. They made a plan that whenever I called to show up, Alex would not be at the apartment. Eventually one time I was hanging out with Amark, Alex "came back" from his trip. This entailed him walking through the front door with a trash bag full of dirty clothes. They didn't tell me until a few months later that they pranked me. It was so masterfully pulled off.

I'm a friend of Amark's. I lived in the same dorm with the guy and have known him since sophmore year of college. The first time I met Amark was in the lounge of my dorm, an RA was putting on a program down there and in the middle of the program Amark started spouting out some Mitch Hedburg lines. Everyone there thought he was crazy. But I soon started spouting off some Hedburg lines back at him. That's when I knew that I've met a great friend. A friend that didn't really care about normality and niceties.

Throughout my time with him he pulled me through doubts about life, job losses, breakups, and a slew of other problems. The man had a way of telling you the honest truth in both a comforting and visceral way. He cared about each and everyone in such a deep way that I can't even fathom. And Amark was just so god damn intelligent. I'm in here stumbling upon my words, while Amark could pull out poetry without even having to press the backspace key. I always admired how he could talk to you about anything, no subject was off limits. There was no fear of crossing a boundary with Amark.

I was there last night along with a couple of his other friends and his family when he passed. He was in a coma for his last few hours and we were told he could hear everything we were saying. So we told countless stories about how much Amark has changed our lives. The man is an inspiration. I know I would be a much more passive guy, letting the world pull me down, if it wasn't for him. He has taught me, no matter what to be yourself, fight, and really take no shit from anyone. When he did finally pass away you could tell that he was calm and at peace.

Amark always would talk about gamingworld and how much he loved you guys and I'm glad to see how much you all care about him.