Saved by the Thrift Nickel

Grant used to wear pumas. Now it's been 3 plus years since I last saw him I don't know what he wears. After what I heard today he may be using leather tied around his feet. Or he may be barefoot, and being the outdoorsman that he is, may have such caliced feet that shoes wouldn't matter, only in times to protect himself from disease.

I don't know how to describe Grant to you. What I remember about him is that he wrote music that made me think of an acid trip. For example, let's say I took an iPod with me out to the yard to mow. I start to play one of grant's songs as I start my mowing path. All of a sudden the mower turns into a fire breathing cow... But the fire it breathes comes out in shades of yellow, blue, green, and red. These flames flow forward with tracers that make me feel like I'm watching an earthquake on an animaniacs cartoon. That's what Grant was like, minus any form of stimulant. It was his natural personality.

I'll relate a story as I heard it from a friend...

"So Grant is up in washington still. No school. No work. And he is rarely at the place that he is paying rent. So he thinks to himself "Man, if only i had a place where i didn't have to pay rent then i wouldn't be out so much money." So he looks in the the thrifty nickel ads and sees that there are two old toyota vans that probably won't run... for free. So he goes to check it out. He opens up the first one, and it is filled with "biblical proportions" of hornets. So that one was a no go. Then he checks out the other one. It doesn't run, but he adds water in for coolant, puts a screwdriver in the ignition to start it, and it runs! So he drove his van down by the river where he now resides with all of his secular possesions."

Geoff said he heard about this from another friend who heard from Grant himself 2 days ago.