matthew.gruman.org

11 Aug

blownspeakers:

The Streets - Fit But You Know It

Bronwen and I are just reminiscing about 2005 and talking about using the phrase “fit but he/she knows it” in every day conversation.

I fully support this initiative.

10 Aug
[Sherlock Holmes’] career has been a long one - though it is possible to exaggerate it; decrepit gentlemen who approach me and declare that his adventures formed the reading of their boyhood do not meet the response from me which they seem to expect. One is not anxious to have one’s personal dates handled so unkindly.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

07 Aug
Also, if we got a divorce, she would get half of my money; making me ostensibly poor, yet still paying her to just get *pounded* by other dudes. Which will happen because she is still smoking hot, whereas I look like a Nazi propaganda cartoon of a Jew.

Also, if we got a divorce, she would get half of my money; making me ostensibly poor, yet still paying her to just get *pounded* by other dudes. Which will happen because she is still smoking hot, whereas I look like a Nazi propaganda cartoon of a Jew.

#The League

05 Aug

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

#we all feel this way right?

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“If You Got the Money” (Jamie T. cover)

Closest you’ll get to hearing me rap.

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Hugh Acheson farmer’s market cooking demo.

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He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

04 Aug

How did this actually happen?

01 Aug
Google’s 404 page is surprisingly adorable. Also, “analytics” is one of those words that stops looking like a word when you examine how it’s spelled.

Google’s 404 page is surprisingly adorable.

Also, “analytics” is one of those words that stops looking like a word when you examine how it’s spelled.

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When I was younger, I used to tape pictures of guitars I really liked on my wall. The first time was for a BC Rich Mockingbird, which is a gorgeous/ridiculous guitar from a company that makes gorgeous/ridiculous-looking instruments for heavy metal music. I was all about metal at the time and had my heart set on one day owning it. In the late 90s my walls were essentially bare, and I didn’t play or listen to metal anymore, but I still wanted that Mockingbird. One night I was walking past a pawn shop and saw this enormous red thing hanging from their guitar rack. The shop was closed so I got up close to the glass and squinted until I made out what looked like a red BC Rich guitar—I could barely contain my excitement! The next morning I skipped class to go check it out. It was a BC Rich, but it was a bass from their Wave line. It was that used-to-be-red in the 80s colour that was now slightly pink, weighed about 8 pounds, and had a really dubious-looking nut. But it was also absurdly cheap, so I left with it and completely squashed my desire to own a Mockingbird in the process. The important thing to know about my bass is that it’s shit. Maybe if I took better care of it, played appropriate music on it, or even changed the strings (10+ years now, but I’ve boiled them a half dozen times) things would be different; but right now, it’s garbage. The action is erratic, the low end is beyond murky, and the neck length/tension means playing near the top is nigh impossible, regardless of its 24 frets. The sticker near the pick-up is from CBC Radio 3. When they were transitioning from New Music Canada, they asked all their artists to mention it on their website and they’d send you free swag. I’m not even sure if I’m still up there (I don’t want to look), but if I am you can be sure that my bass is mixed in. It might sound like quirky playing, but it’s just me doing my best to avoid those horrible rumbles that emerge from that E string. I have two places in my home for instruments. One is my living room where I keep things I play a lot (acoustic guitar, ukelele, piano), and the other is my bedroom closet where things go to die (electric guitar, banjo, metallophone). Doubling as a weapon the bass lives in the former since, even though (or maybe because) it’s shit, I love it.

When I was younger, I used to tape pictures of guitars I really liked on my wall. The first time was for a BC Rich Mockingbird, which is a gorgeous/ridiculous guitar from a company that makes gorgeous/ridiculous-looking instruments for heavy metal music. I was all about metal at the time and had my heart set on one day owning it.

In the late 90s my walls were essentially bare, and I didn’t play or listen to metal anymore, but I still wanted that Mockingbird. One night I was walking past a pawn shop and saw this enormous red thing hanging from their guitar rack. The shop was closed so I got up close to the glass and squinted until I made out what looked like a red BC Rich guitar—I could barely contain my excitement!

The next morning I skipped class to go check it out. It was a BC Rich, but it was a bass from their Wave line. It was that used-to-be-red in the 80s colour that was now slightly pink, weighed about 8 pounds, and had a really dubious-looking nut. But it was also absurdly cheap, so I left with it and completely squashed my desire to own a Mockingbird in the process.

The important thing to know about my bass is that it’s shit. Maybe if I took better care of it, played appropriate music on it, or even changed the strings (10+ years now, but I’ve boiled them a half dozen times) things would be different; but right now, it’s garbage. The action is erratic, the low end is beyond murky, and the neck length/tension means playing near the top is nigh impossible, regardless of its 24 frets.

The sticker near the pick-up is from CBC Radio 3. When they were transitioning from New Music Canada, they asked all their artists to mention it on their website and they’d send you free swag. I’m not even sure if I’m still up there (I don’t want to look), but if I am you can be sure that my bass is mixed in. It might sound like quirky playing, but it’s just me doing my best to avoid those horrible rumbles that emerge from that E string.

I have two places in my home for instruments. One is my living room where I keep things I play a lot (acoustic guitar, ukelele, piano), and the other is my bedroom closet where things go to die (electric guitar, banjo, metallophone). Doubling as a weapon the bass lives in the former since, even though (or maybe because) it’s shit, I love it.

#my favourite things

29 Jul
In my search for Dr. Codaton, I came across this charming image. It’s called “To have a pineapple” and is described as “Woman giving birth to a pineapple.” Amazing.

In my search for Dr. Codaton, I came across this charming image. It’s called “To have a pineapple” and is described as “Woman giving birth to a pineapple.” Amazing.

26 Jul

∞ Scroll Reverser for Snow Leopard

For anyone else upgraded at home but not at work (or vice versa), and want the new Lion-style scrolling. It’s only been a couple days, and the “old way” of scrolling already feels unnatural.

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You remind me of my therapist!

You remind me of my therapist!

#back alley #graffiti

25 Jul
Meet Dr. Tor Codaton, your online source for all your online diagnostic needs.™

Meet Dr. Tor Codaton, your online source for all your online diagnostic needs.™

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#secret project 2

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