The beach

Happy 2005 everyone! I had a great new year's eve. It's traditional for me to disregard the fact that everybody else I see seems to be going out with their friends and getting drunk and having fun! Not for me! And this year was no exception. Mum, Dad, Alice and I were trapped (literally) in an apartment above Luna Park for the whole evening, with nothing but 2 bottles of sparkling red wine, some VB, a pack of salted nuts and my laptop (oh... so so nerdy). So, in the course of the evening, Alice and I watched the boats sailing on the harbour (amongst all the other generic boats, one... 'socially challenged' boat had a giant E=mc2 illuminated on it... maybe I should have been on it with my laptop), plotted how to break into the fairy floss storage room at the back of luna park and watched the Simpsons on my laptop. During this, mum and dad just fell asleep. The fireworks were, you know, generic. The hyped giant disco ball, on the other hand, was just bullshit. It alternated between flashing pale yellow and paler yellow. Wow. Who would have thought that possible in 2004? Here are some photos from the night:

Alice, stop spitting on the depressed, chain smoking employees at the back of Luna Park... you might hit the fairy floss!


2 hours into the evening. Fight the boredom.


The Harbour Bridge explodes and melts. Bullshit ball not shown.

I'm down at Hyams Beach now. Yesterday, a fun packed day of packing and moving was had. This included me having to take a detour into Kings Cross to return a 79c cake tin to Victor (half brother) because he desperatley needed to make a cake. It also included a traditional stop in Kiama to have bad fish and chips. Something was different at the fish shop this year, however. They had this sign up:

Small children eh? Well, wouldn't that be HORRIBLE?

So naturally, I set off on a mission to feed all of my fish to the listed bird offenders:


I couldn't stick around to see the results, unfortunatley.

Allmusic has a long best albums of 2004 up, and Jeph from Questionable Content has a pretty good one too. I, being obsessed with rating albums as I am, have been working on one for ages, but I got about 10 2004 albums in the last week which will need a few listens before I can tell if they should knock any of my current top 10 out. But it's been a great year in music... even if some of the shittest albums ever were released (ie: Good Charlotte... right Vladimir?).

Anyway, a great 2005 to you all!