About Me

Living Behind the Curve is the largely uncensored collection of observations, project notes, reviews, doodles, noisy bits and other assorted examples of faffing about by Meredith Matthews, a web geek and sound-maker of varying degrees of professionalism.

Living Behind the Curve has indeed been rebooted in the past, will certainly be again in the future, and is nevertheless a blog of relentless wordiness and originality, except when it isn’t — like right now, this About page has been blatantly ripped off from the fantastic http://putthingsoff.com/, to which it is utterly identical except for changing all the words.

About Meredith Matthews

I really, honestly have been paid to be a virtual, remote overnight traffic news reporter, a prison librarian, a digital archivist, a radio producer, a performing musician, a published poet, a caterer, a land title insurance conveyancer, and a sorter of used surgical tools, but almost never at the same time. Now, I create websites and sound and words in  Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Most of the time, I run hot glue media with my partner Danielle. We make websites to order, do graphic design, a little tech support, and pretty much anything else you might want to pay us for. We especially like working with small little businesses who need low-cost solutions and are therefore willing to listen when we start talking about using Open Source products.  Go ahead, ask us. We’re game.

I also make a few dinars designing jewelry with Danielle under the banner of Sweet Tarragon. Shiny. Pretty. Reasonably priced. Go buy some.

I also spend some time producing a podcast, Braindouche!, which is why you keep seeing me called Braindouche all over the place. It’s an avante garde podcast, and in enormously questionable taste. I call it a “free-form audio arts podcast”, and if that sounds at all interesting, I encourage you to go take a listen. I try to get an episode out once a month or so there.

Like all good things, my podcast has a sequel. I also run a slightly different podcast called The Sweet Couch Experience. SCE is real simple: every day, some weird and wacky bit of audio flies into your podcatcher. It’s a found sound project of the tackiest proportions. If you like weirdo sound art and cheesy midcentury production music and terrible homemade records, and you want just a little bit every day with no distractions, this is the show for you.

I have a bunch of other things happening too, and that’s why I have this blog, so I can tell you all about it.

You can follow me on Twitter or contact me through this site.

If you’re looking for any of the old SRSLY posts or recipes, they’ll be slowly migrating over to Dani’s foodblog, CatchTheSpoon.com. Feel free to search the archives here, but if you can’t find what you’re looking for, head on over there.

p.s. Oh, and about that reboot? In a previous life, LBtC was a simplicity and frugality blog. Aside from the sheer irony of working like a madwoman to publish a blog about downshifting and simplifying, the economocalypse has done far more than I ever could dream to to encourage frugal living, so I’m keeping my mouth shut on that.

p.p.s. It’s still worth mentioning that it only took the worst financial meltdown since pretty much ever for the latte factor to finally stick. Just sayin’.