The Incredibles: Really good. 6.1 Audio. 9/10

Cube Zero: Awesome prequal to Cube. 8/10

Rugrats Go Wild!: Rugrats meet the Wild Thornberrys. 6/10

National Lampoons Dorm Daze: Simple but awesome and very funny. 9/10

Garfield: Could be better, still had some good laughs. 6/10

The Wild Thornberrys Movie: Come on, you’ve gotta love this. 6/10

Club Dread: Similar cast to Super Troopers, but no way near as funny. Good horror/slasher flick though. 8/10

The Terminal: Tom Hanks puts on a Russian accent the whole movie. 6/10

Lord of the Flies (1990): 1963 version is better. This is the American version. Swearing is out of place. 7/10

Head of State: Funny, good to watch when drunk. 6/10

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: No longer funny, not even worth watching when drunk. 3/10

Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed: First one was better, but funny.

Animal House: More National Lampoon, but this one is way earlier, and no way near as good as the new ones. 5/10

Bad Taste: Peter Jacksons first feature film. Far better than George Lucas’s one. 5/10

What A Girl Wants: Lame concept, chick flick. 6/10

Human Traffic: Don’t we all live for the weekend. 7/10

Riverworld: Should have stayed a pilot of a tv show. 4/10

The Rage In Placid Lake: Creative Aussie film with Ben Lee playing the staring role. 7/10

Stargate: The original film, spawned 8 years of TV shows (so far). 8/10

Beverly Hills Ninja: Funny in a slapstick way. 7/10

A Clockwork Orange: Very good, raises several questions about so called civilisation and society. 9/10

When Harry Met Sally: Progressed very slowly, but it is a drama. 6/10

Waking Ned Devine: Just one of those out there funny films. 6/10

The Day After Tomorrow: Global warming gone wrong ? No it’s another disaster movie, this time it gets cold. Pretty good though. 7/10

Tommy Boy: If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards. Very funny. 7/10

Big Daddy: Another Adam Sandler film. 6/10

You Got Served: Get Over It, except break dancing rather than cheer leading, but still funny. 7/10

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster: Documentary about making of their latest album, St. Anger. Everyone should get something out of it. 7/10

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: 80’s teen comedy that’s still sorta ok. 7/10

Sixteen Candles: 80’s teen comedy, heaps of laughs. 6/10

The Breakfast Club: 80’s teen flick. Taken off in Not Another Teen Movie and so many others. Simple but shows deep character development. 8/10

Cast Away: Tom Hanks gets stranded on an island (which lacks a resort and maccas). 6/10

Buying The Cow: Romantic comedy apparently. I didn’t get heaps of laughs out, but there were the odd one or 2. 5/10

PS Your Cat Is Dead: Very funny. Burgler gets straped to the kitchen sink, classic. 7/10

Out Cold: Snowboarding resort employees need to save town, lots of laughs and some quotable lines. 7/10

Grind: Like Road Trip but with skaters going to their Wood Stock. Cameos by Bam Magera and Tom Green. 7/10

Hocus Pocus: Early teen flick about witches and old curses. Some mild laughs. 6/10

Another Day In Paradise: Larry Clarks rendition of Pulp Fiction. Hard to get in english… 8/10

AVP: Alien Vs. Predator: umm, of course this fits in completely with the storyline to date. Action is good though. 7/10

Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th: Basically it’s Scary Movie, which beat it out in the cinema so this went straight to video, still good though. 6/10

Darkness: Haunted house film. 5/10

Taking Sides: Certainly makes you think. Has germans and nazi’s in it. 7/10

Crossroads: Britney Spears trying to act in a Road Trip knock off. 5/10

Hollywood Homicide: Even people in Hollywood have to moonlight to pay the bills. 6/10

Jeepers Creepers 2: Not as good as the original. 7/10

Jeepers Creepers: Excellent, must see 9/10

The Girl Next Door: Guy falls in love with former porn star. 6/10

The Bourne Supremacy: Apparently quite good. I must have missed something. 6/10

Once Upon A Time in Mexico: Robert Rodriguez’s story continues. 8/10

Desperado: Robert Rodriguez’s story (sorta remake of El Mariarchi/sorta sequal). 8/10

Dodgeball: Even the uncoordinated geeks can win. A real feel good film for 2004. 7/10

El Mariarchi: Robert Rodriguez’s story. Subtitled. 6/10

13 going on 30: Don’t expect it to make sense, it won’t. It’s a chick flick. 6/10

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane: Aussie film with a twist or 2. Rather funny. 7/10

The Ninth Gate: Guy trys to open the nine gates of hell (or something). Edge of your seat stuff. 8/10

Atlantis: Milo’s Return: Somehow they needed to make a sequal. 5/10

Darkness Falls: The tooth fairy isn’t always safe to roam around looking for used teeth. 7/10

I, Robot: Will Smith. Film worked for me. Good enough. 7/10

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!: Chick flick. 7/10

xChange: Who needs to fly long distances anyway. 6/10

Sniper 2: Who needed a sequal ? 5/10

Sniper: This one was ok, just. 5/10

The Cat in the Hat: This was funny, even though it’s a kids film. 7/10

The Rundown (Welcome to the Jungle): The Rock goes looking for mob bosses son. 7/10

Walking Tall: The Rock again. Dodgy casino, some good fist fights. 6/10

Yet another new year rolls on around and I’m still writing infrequent ramblings for the world (or no one) to read.

I’ve been holidaying it up again in Esperance, except this year I was in no hurry what so ever to get back. In fact I was going to be going back in time for volleyball but I just hung around a few more days.

More deep thinking occurred while on holiday and I’ve come to realise some things. Living the holiday lifestyle isn’t meant to be cheap, after all we work 48 weeks of the year to live it up in the 4 we get as annual leave. In the same way we work 5 days to get 2 off each and every week. I think it should be at least work 4 get 3 off, if not work 2 get 5 off. Besides there’s so much to do in this world, why waste time working. Actually, why waste time writing about how crap my life is.

I’m starting to get pretty pissed off with my boring city life. I’m not the outgoing type and I’m just not happy with life so I think I need a change. A major change. Though I’m going to try some small changes first. Monday night is now floorball night. Tuesday is kept open because it’s tight ass tuesday. Wednesday is still volleyball night. Thursday is late night shopping but since I shouldn’t have money to spend I should find something to fill it with. Friday is a tough one, frequently I get asked to go out (or more tag along uncomfortably) with work mates, but if I had something regular on, I’d feel honest in ditching them. I also need weekend activities. But these time fillers will come at a cost. I’ll have to ditch many of my dreams and goals. Most of my goals have been on hold since working in Perth anyway, this because of a combination of long hours and probably not looking after myself. Even work is boring me again and once the debts are paid off I’ll make changes there too.

Another thing I’ve realised is I am different to everyone else, not in the usual normal variation fashion, there’s something bigger going on, maybe even something wrong. Allow me to elaborate; everyone I know is deeply involved in music, yet I listen to bugger all and what I do listen to is very limited in scope. I don’t even buy music except as gifts for friends and family and that’s only when I get told what to get. I watch a lot of TV shows but no TV, this isn’t normal. I have huge difficulty remembering names, many people seem to remember actor/actress names from films yet I couldn’t remember someone’s name to save my life, even of people I meet in real life. Though I have no problem with maps, even with poorly given directions I manage to get by. I am unable to have as much fun in the sun as most people due to my skin being moronically hypersensitive to burning. This means I’m crap at most outdoor activities as well, which is not normal for an Aussie. Hey there’s another, am I even an Aussie? I don’t watch let along follow Aussie Rules Football but I do have an Australian Passport. I couldn’t drink half a carton without making myself sick yet at least 90% of the community seems to be able to. I don’t enjoy going out to pubs/clubs and so on because I have difficulty hearing anything when someone talks to me (or me trying to talk to someone hint), yet everyone else seems to be able to block out the background noise (music) to focus on the immediate conversation. I think I should get my hearing checked. This isn’t even to mention the crap played at these kind of places. When I do go out my complete lack of coordination ensures I get no where on a dance floor, and I usually find if I join a circle of dancing intoxicated fools the circles will morph around me and I’ll be standing by myself in the centre of the dance floor yet not in anyone’s circle, demonstrating how uncoordinated a geek can be. I guess that’s one thing I don’t regret, my geekdom, at least it puts money in the bank (I wouldn’t say food on the table because I so rarely cook decent meals). Another area that concerns me is my lack of creativity. Generally I have to clone or emulate something I see to have anything fresh, think clothing and hair styles mainly, but I even have stabs at simulating mannerisms and vocal inflections. You could go as far as saying I suffer from social leprosy or at least I’m detached from reality to some degree. Can you call this normal ?

Whinge mode engaged:

New years was meant to be quiet, but I got forced into going to the only nightclub in Esperance. I say forced because I was practically pushed out the door, after being mugged for the money for the entry pass that should get you in no worries. There was meant to be a local live band (which oddly enough I’ve seen before) and they never turned up, and the beach party didn’t involve beach which is funny for a coastal town to have moron club owners that pimp their place as hip and trendy yet lack any sense of loyalty to hold up their end of the bargain. Not to mention they played the same music as last new years (yes I had the fortune of being at the same club this time last year). Combining all this together made for a fairly disappointing new years, though I did end up getting home at 4.30am only to be woken up and made to cook breakfast at 7.30. Needless to say new years day was a very slow day.

Whinge mode off.

Now back on a better track. 2004 was yet another year of changes. I changed jobs, my car, not by residence, hair style and probably heaps more. Music that made a difference to me in 2004, Linkin Park: In the End and a close second Eminem: Lose Yourself. No doubt there were others, including number 1 from the hottest 100, Jet: Are You Gonna Be My Girl.

I’m thinking of moving into a share house again.

If you can’t trust a nerd, who can you trust?