GrouchyMedia.com is the place to find those pump-you-up-to-kill-the-bad-guys videos everyone has been talking about. This entire site is focused on providing a morale boost to our U.S. and allied troops around the world. The videos you'll find here are about them, for them, and couldn't have been made without them!

This website officially began in December 2001, after the Taliban Bodies video became a hit a few months earlier. I made Taliban Bodies in October that year after retuning from a vacation in Europe where I had to watch the September 11th attacks on CNN International to get the news. When I came back to the US at the end of September I would drive in my car to work and crank up the heavy tunes that go along with my more 'grouchy' side. Every time "Bodies" by Drowning Pool, came on the radio, I always pictured military equipment blowing things up to the beat of the song. So I opened up Adobe Premiere, found some pictures and videos using Google, and Taliban Bodies was born.

I originally posted the video to friends website and sent the link out to some newsgroups, chat rooms, and Fark.com. The video quickly became such a huge hit that my friends website was overwhelmed and I needed my own place to post the large files. So I registered GrouchyMedia.com to reflect the 'Grouchy' nickname my friends know me for and within a few months over 1 million people found the site and downloaded the video from all over the world.

The huge number of people who regularly visit GrouchyMedia for new videos required some hefty servers to handle the traffic. I've had lots of people over the years volunteer their websites and equipment to help share the load and now rely entirely on the fine folks at WebRax. Every day the videos on this site are downloaded thousands of times and that number grows with each new video.