The escalator, once a brilliant invention used to help get from point A to point B faster than stairs, has become a tool for evil. That evil is people standing on escalators. That is a testament to human laziness. My understanding of the escalator is to help you walk up faster by moving along with it. It wasn't designed just to stand around picking at your fingernails. People who do so are not only incredibally lazy, but are also a detriment to those who wish to use the mechanism for its true purpose. It's like making the speed limit on a road 100 k's an hour, but only driving at 30 k's an hour because you feel like it. You slow down the flow of traffic and hereby become a plague on the road, and standing on an escalator is no different.

Comrades, it is time to take up arms. I propose that you write to your local, state or federal government to have something done about this atrocity. If not, take it upon yourself to make signs and place it at key positions. And when you are on an escalator and theres someone in your way, just standing there, feel free to knock them down and teach the true use of the escalator. No longer will we have to suffer from others laziness. Together we can make the world a less lazy place.

Even though he is currently in Europe until October 11th, Exit Light has a drummer! All that is needed is another guitarist and a vocalist (I know everyone is saying to do an instrumental band, but no!). Also me and my guitarist friend will most likely be jamming on sunday or maybe friday, so it will be good to get a feel of how we do things and so forth. Also I wrote some lyrics for a song, but its very rough. So far I have gotten some praise for them off friends, but really they are just friends, so lets see. In case you're wondering, the song is about a mans transformation into a werewolf and its codename is "Timed Nightmare". In related news I have asked another friend to make me a t-shirt bearing the bands name in the centre of rays of light coming towards. It wont look very professional, but it will do for now just as prototypes.

***EDIT***
My friend did the prototype tee and sent an image of it. Here it is.

I'm really impressed that she got the text right, but its a bit low. So I told her that with the next one to make the light rays larger and longer and for it to be higher up towards the chest. I'm still impressed by it.

In other news... not much. Went to the Melbourne Show yesterday. Pardon my language, but it was overpriced as ****! Only thing that was cheap was a Metallica "Ride The Lightning" tee for $30, $15 less than what I usually pay. Also today I went to the local Hub (net cafe and games thingo) to play some games against friends who dont play online. Played some CS: Source, CS 1.6 and COD4, which I hated. I mean, its a good game but half the time I didnt even know who the **** was shooting me and where they were.

On a final note, the top 15 album's will be started tomorrow before or after I go to the dentists to see about what I believe is a wisdom tooth growing, and it hurts.

Anyway thats all, see you space cowboys.

So I was thinking about doing blogs on my favourite albums. Should I do 10 or 15? I already got 10 down but I think I might do more. I dunno, tell me what you think :D

And heres a little video I'm going to leave for you of George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher of Cannibal Corpse talking about World of Warcraft. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_Lv0r-l4c

Anyway thats all. See you space cowboys.

My band Exit Light is slowly becoming a reality. I asked an old friend of mine if he was interested in taking up guitar duties, and he said that he has been wanting to get back into it. There is one more person I need to ask to see if he wants to take drum duties, and the guitar player mentioned before said he will look for people as well to play guitar or drums.

One issue that arises now is the job of vocals. I would prefer it to keep this a 4 piece band, but if we need a seperate vocalist im cool with it. If now, then I have offered to take up the duty of Death Growling/regular singing. I just need to practice at singing while playing, but apparently my guitar playing friend knows a guitar player who can do the vocals well, but apparently he is in a band. I might have to take a page out of Metallica's book and go guitar poaching :P

Apart from that its coming together nicely, and now I am on school holidays so maybe it can come together and we can get some practice in, which would be nice.

Anyway thats all, see you space head bangers.

I haven't blogged in a while, so I figured that I will just post a random blog. I haven't been up to much, been a bit of a lazy bum in many aspects of life. Also I feel like watching Neon Genesis Evangelion again. It's been years since I saw it on VHS, so I dunno, might get it for christmas.

I finally decided to try and put a band together. The genre is a bit unsure as of now since I dont just want to do straight metal. I was thinking something along the lines of a progressive thrash/black/death group. Hopefully the people who I ask to join are interesting and embrace the prog idea. I've also asked a friend of mine to design a logo for the band, which will be named Exit Light. Hopefully that will go well.

We got a new camera, so I might do video blogs more often now and the videos won't lag anymore (wooo). I recently saw Tropic Thunder with friends. I'd give it a 2.5 stars out of 5. It was worth it considering I am still eligible for a childrens ticket :P

I've been listening to Porcupine Tree a lot recently. They are a really good band. If you are into prog then check them out. So far my favourite album is In Absentia.

Well thats all I can be bothered to write about. See you space cowboys.

Well I thought I would upload a video of the song I am currently learning on bass guitar. It is a classical piece entitled Partita #1 in B Minor. Check it out.

http://au.gamespot.com/users/freek666/video_player?id=JiczlmH55b0FuDHc

Some mistakes, but not bad if I say so myself.

Well I was feeling sick yesterday so I left school at around 11 AM and went home to relax. Today I decided to sleep in and say I was still sick (I was a bit) and today I bought myself a new t shirt.

Awesome, yes?

Please read the previous blog first.

Now onto American Psycho starring Christian Bale again. Before I continue, if you had not seen this movie and are disturbed by intense scenes involving extreme violence, torture and somewhat violent sex, then do not watch this. With that out of the way, lets get into it.

I dunno why, but I have a soft spot in my heart for all films involving some kind of psycho commiting horrible acts or horrible things just happen and the ending is always somewhat ambiguous, or basically any kind of psychological thriller type movie. Such movies include A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Fight Club and The Butterfly Effect (ironically my top 4 movies of all time). American Psycho is not for the squeamish or the weak at heart. Christian Bale plays as Patrick Bateman, a rich, young man who appears to be a normal 'yuppie' living in Manhattan. He is narcissistic, greedy and completely psychotic. The film opens with him talking to some friends in a fancy restaurant. However it doesnt take long for you to see what kind of man he really is. As the film progresses you see more and more of his true side appear.

The first acts of extreme violence he commits are stabbing a homeless man and stomping a dog to death (dont worry, it happens off screen). Later on the agenda becomes rape, cannibalism, torture, mutilation and necrophilia. He must always be better than those around him, and can not stand it if he is not. One such example is when they are comparing business cards and when he looks at Paul Allen, his arch nemesis', business card, which is superior to his, and he even remarks "Oh my god... it even has a watermark". Although the movie is known for its graphic depictions of violence, it should also be noted for its dark humor as Patrick is rather funny, such as explaining the song Hip To Be Sqaure and dancing before killing a man (he shall not be noted for fears of spoiler). Several lines can deliver laughs.

As the film goes on, his mask of sanity begins to dissolve as he alludes to his actions in conversations and references serial killers in sentences. He often hints to others that he is killing people, but they disregard it. In the end [spoiler] He confesses to his lawyer that he killed Paul Allen (the dude he attacked while listening to Hip To Be Sqaure) and 40 other people along with other acts but the lawyer just takes it as a joke, saying he had lunch with Paul recently. The ending is brilliant because it appears that he had never commited any of the crimes in the first place and it was figments of his imagination. This can be seen at the start when he tells the bartendress that he wants to kill her and play with her blood, but doesnt hear it, along with various other similar incidents. Keep in mind this is my interpretation of the ending and it might not be true, but its the most likely. [/spoiler]

I absolutely loved American Psycho. The ending is great and totally unexpected. If you can, get your hand on the book because I have heard that it is much better, but if not the film is perfect as it is. Christian Bale plays his role magnificently and I couldnt have seen anyone else except Edward Norton (who was offered the role) take it on with the same charisma and calibre. If you're a fan of Dexter I recommend this becuase I see them as similar, with AP being somewhat more 'hardcore'. The presentation of the 'perfect' Patrick Bateman is well done, especially when he starts taking a more sinister turn and his immaculate face starts to become not as perfect bit by bit, a reference to his mask of sanity dissolving. It is just a great film, but as said before not for the faint of heart.

I rate American Psycho **** and 1/2 stars. Yes, I rated this higher than TDK. For anyone who wants to complain, get over it for this is me, not you, we obviously have different tastes. Both are great but I enjoyed AP more.

Anyway thats all, see you space american dark psycho knights (:P)

This is a dual movie review blog concerning The Dark Knight and American Psycho, which I both saw today (AP was a rewatch). Lets start with the 'ZOMG MOTY SECOND COMING OF JEEEEZUS!', The Dark Knight.

I was not as hyped for this movie as most people were, to me it was just another movie that looked great and I wanted to see. And it was. BUT it was not the aforementioned second coming of Jesus that everyone makes it out to be. It was a good movie. Thats all. I enjoyed it, I thought it was worth my money, but it ends there. It will never make it into my top 10, 20 or even 30 movies of all time (maybe 40's).

Now, Heath Ledger (RIP) was great as The Joker, but really I didnt expect anything else from Heath seeing as he was just a great actor, so no real surprise there. As much as I love Christian Bale in any role (such as American Psycho), his gravelly Batman voice irritated the absolute **** out of me. I literally could not make out 1/4 of the stuff he said. For me, the best performance should go to Aaron Eckhart for his performance as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. His change from the calm DA Harvey Dent to the twisted vigilante Two-Face was great, and frankly I was sad that it ended abruptley [spoiler] Heres hoping he lives [/spoiler] The start was great, it really just went right in and in a movie like this you need to. The ending was okay, felt a bit... I dunno... repetitious I guess (might not be the right word though) but there was just something about it, and the ending was just meh. The final battle with The Joker and the situation with the boats was full of suspense, but was anti climactic and I felt it was trying to push forward a moral message about the common man or something. I dunno, might just be me. However I did enjoy the last scene that Joker is shown explaining how he and Batman need each other and will be battling for ages to come (one of the underlying themes being Bruce's continuance as Batman or something like that). I did notice some continuity errors, but no one is perfect, not even the great Stanley Kubrick (RIP).

Overral, it was a good movie to watch although I had to watch the first half hour twice because some tosspot as my friend put it had to go and complain because he came in late. We had to rewatch 20 minutes of previews and then the first 30 minutes.

Anyway, using a 5 star (*****) system, I will rate this **** (4 stars for those of you too lazy to count)

My dad and I went fishing again from Friday to Today and once again we went to Lake Dartmouth. We only went out on Saturday as we were only there for a night. From 8 am to 3 pm we were out fishing and as usual we only got one fish like usual. Heres the 2lb brown trout my father got (I got nothing this time :()

We were out for a long time so I got bored at time.

Also it was really cold up there as the weather was below 10 degrees nearly all the time. That morning the lowest was about -1 and the highest before 11:30 was about 2 degrees.

Overal it was a good trip, and when I came back I found an Offspring t shirt that my brother had bought for me when he was vacationing in New Zealand. I'm wearing it as I type this. Also I am still waiting for my Misfits t shirt.

On another note, I will be making another video blog and it should be up maybe Thursday. In this edition I will mainly talk about the movies I saw over the holidays (nearly 20) with also some discussion about Golden Sun: The Lost Ages on GBA, Deus Ex on PC, Opeth' s Blackwater Park and some other bands.

Anyway thats all. See you space fisherman.