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About Me

About Gromit:A self employed Web Designer in Canterbury, UK. Just plodding through life enjoying the breeze.Photography, Art, Design and Film are parts of my life that I could not survive without. As is my trusty but dusty guitar, Erik. I'm not particularly good at any of these pastimes, but I'm content with aspiring towards being a "jack of all trades, master of none".I've had the nickname "Gromit" for about 8 or 9 years now. Two of my ever-lovely friends nicknamed me after the Nick Park character amidst a post-student smoky haze. The name stuck and I soon found it creeping into my working life as my design colleagues found out about it. If you're confused as to what I'm talking about, have a look at the video to the left...I'm the dog apparently.Gromit Photos: (occasionally this gets stuck on 2 or 3 photos, I think its yet another myspace bug - if this is the case, click here for the photos )

My Interests

Design, film, music, art, photography...any pass-times with a pulse, any sport I can play without getting my head kicked in, any person I can relate to.

I'd like to meet:

Who Gromit Wants To Meet: YOU! No no, not you! You at the back!

Music:

blues, jazz, 60s soul, indie, grunge, rock, funk

Movies:

All films in all genres...although I do have a few favourite directors (Tarantino, Michael Mann, Sergio Leone & Kevin Smith being a few) Movies are an obsession to me, collecting DVDs is more addictive than crack. I'm fast becoming a film uber-nerd and I no longer care ;)

Television:

24, Lost, Deadwood, 30 days, My name is Earl, Frasier

Books:

Anything engaging. I don't get a great deal of time to read nowadays so if a book hasn't engaged me in the first 50 pages it will be put down and forgotten for a few months.

The last book to really get me excited about reading was "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger...if you haven't read it yet, you must!

Heroes:

Polly Harvey, Dave Gilmour, Bill Bailey, BB King, Joe Cocker, John Coltrane, Quentin Tarantino, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Michael Mann, Neil Young, Van Morrisson, Dave Grohl, Will Ferrell, Eddie Izzard, Hank Azaria, Morgan Spurlock, Bill Paxton, John Mayall, Ry Cooder, Peter Kay, Douglas Adams, Michael Palin and of course Nick Park.

Nick Park's incredible creations, Wallace and Gromit:

The genius that is Bill Bailey talking us through the music of Starsky and Hutch:

My Blog

Back again!

You may, or may not, have noticed that I've not tapped out any meaningless babble for almost a month now. You may, or may not, care. You may or may not be interested as to where the hell I...
Posted by Gromit on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:53:00 PST

The Music Explanation Thread (updated 11/05/07)

This blog thread will be (hopefully!) bumped to the top of my blog every time I change the music on my page. Its merely here to give you an idea as to why I have chosen a particular track...and ...
Posted by Gromit on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST

Grommy's been a naughty boy pt.III

THE DESKTOP REPLACEMENT - TOSHIBA QOSIMO G30-102 Cwwwooorrr. Ok, I must admit at this point that I didn't even consider this model until about 4 hours before I bought it. I was originally lookin...
Posted by Gromit on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:50:00 PST

Grommy's been a naughty boy pt.II

THE MONITOR - BENQ FP241W Z I have craved this monitor for a long time now - but I've been waiting to purchase it because I knew that there was a more advanced version due for release. The more advanc...
Posted by Gromit on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:44:00 PST

Grommy's been a naughty boy pt.I

Its been bugging me for a while now that my computer is beginning to slow down with the latest software releases and my monitor has been on the blink for as long as I can remember. So I've been ...
Posted by Gromit on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:38:00 PST

The Art of Delay

Those that know me will know that I'm a fan of KT Tunstall. Apart from being extremely lurrrvely, she can work a delay pedal like nobody's business. I've seen her perform "Black Horse and the Cherry T...
Posted by Gromit on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:32:00 PST

il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo pt.III

Thoughts for today:Il BuonoHungarian RabbitsIl BruttoBollywood BurnersIl CattivoSleep Deprivation (Its deadline time again)...
Posted by Gromit on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:36:00 PST

The Room 101 Thread (updated 05/04/07)

"You asked me once," said O'Brien, "what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world."Excerpt from Ni...
Posted by Gromit on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:11:00 PST

Snort ya dad part II

Question: How long does it take for a rock star to retract a statement that he's made because he's worried that it might damage his career?Answer: Oooh about 6 and a half hours...Richards: 'Snorting ...
Posted by Gromit on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:03:00 PST

Snort ya dad

If Keith Richards' exploits weren't already legendary, today he will be immortalised as the man who snorted his father's ashes.Yep, you heard me right. Here's the article from Reuters:Keith Rich...
Posted by Gromit on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:41:00 PST