Its this time of year that really makes me miss Busselton, mainly because it just seems to get so stupidly busy with people everywhere with no escape.
Even though it was always really busy in Busso too with all the tourist, I could still escape. There were places that the tourists really didn’t visit, so you could go there and not feel like you were about to be trampled by a horde of crazy shoppers, like the local small corner store.
And if there were a few more people than normal, I think they still acted like normal people. They were courteous and wouldn’t just try to barge through you.

Maybe I just have an idealized picture of my home of 17 years because Its been almost 4 years since I lived there, but just trying to get to the train station after work is almost like a battle ground. Sometimes I think I should take my ninja swords and run screaming through the crowd. I am sure they would make way for me then, or at the very least, make way for the police escorting me away.

But the end is in site. Only another week and it will all be back to normal.
Until then, I will continue planning my Christmas escape bunker. If I am lucky, it might be ready for next year.

Well its that time of the year again, when the American TV networks bring out their new shows with much fan fair, until they get the chop.
This year Seven is advertising ‘direct streaming from the US’ meaning they are getting the popular shows straight away rather than the 6 months to a year it used to be, but seeing as we only have a population of 18 million or so, they obviously cant get them all at once.
So, seeing as I am so community service minded, I am going to let you in on some of the shows that are worth looking out for when they come over here.

Reaper: About a 20 odd something guy who is working at Bunnings type shop and finds out when he turns 21 that when he was a child, his parents sold him to the devil, so he now has to deal with collecting escaped souls from hell as well as every day life.
To be honest, I think this show is a guilty pleasure for me. Its not that great really. It has a good idea, and it works ok, but the writing just isnt there for me. It currently has a 13 show run, so there is deffinately time for it to improve, and I think it will have to, to go on for longer than that, but I just cant stop watching it. I think its because of the devil, played by Sam Wise. He does such a great job, I just wish he was in the show more.
I rate this one 4/10 change of getting axed.

Chuck: Chuck is just a normal 20 odd guy doing his thing fixing computers and the Nerd Herd when he gets an email from a rogue CIA operative. The email contains a database of government secrets and intelligence and is ‘downloaded’ into his brain. The information is then triggered by certain stimuli and subliminal triggers. So now he has a CIA and NSA agent watching over him until they can get the information out of his head.
The first episode of this show really sucked me in, but since then, as enjoyable as the show is, it has yet to capture me as much as the first ep did. I think Chuck is still finding its feet and will turn out to be a great show. Plus the CIA agent played by Yvonne Strahovski is pretty hot :)
I give this one 8/10 chance of getting renewed.

Bionic Woman: I really don’t think I need to get into to much detail. As far as I am aware, the premise is very similar to the original, but of course it has been modernised and there are now two bionic women, one just a little crazy, but both pretty hot :)
Not really sure what to think about this one. It has its good moments, but at other times can feel a little disjointed at times.
Chance of staying afloat: 3/10

Journeyman: This is my current favourite out of the new series. It revolves around a man (Dan) who is happily married and suddenly finds himself travelling in time. The trips are usually quick, and he ‘travels’ back to the present after he has done what he was meant to do. He works out that each trip is following a specific person and that he is there to help them. To add more strain on his marriage that the random disappearances are having, he finds out that his fiancé who was thought to have died on a plane crash about 8 years earlier, is also travelling through time and seems to be following him when he makes the trips.
Each ep is based around a specific person in the past, as well as Dan trying to find out what is happening to him. There is also little twists that happen just irregularly enough to keep you wanting to know more.
My rating of how awesome: 8.5/10

Life: What happens to a cop when in a prison is not nice, to say the least. Life picks up after Charlie is back on the force after finally been proven innocent of murder, but only after being in jail for 12 years. You might think that it is just another of those cop shows that seem to be the thing for networks to make at the moment, and in many respects, I think you would right. I like this show as Charlie is ‘different’. In some way, the character Charlie is similar to Monk, in that fact that he does not look at things the same way everyone else does.
Its a hard show to explain, but one I definitely recommend checking out.
Interesting factor: 8/10

Moonlight: Making a show about vampires is pretty hard to do wrong. You have Buffy that rocked, Angel which I loved and now Moonlight. The vampires in the Moonlight universe are a little different to what is normally portrayed. They are not innately evil like they are in the Buffyverse, and they are not killed by sunlight, just made a bit uncomfortable. They are not killed by stakes to the heart, only paralysed and they would like garlic, if they could only taste it. Pretty much the only thing that can kill a vamp is fire or decapitation.
So Moonlight revolves around a private investigator who is a vampire and a young woman who he once saved when she was a child, only she doesn’t know what he is or where she remembers his face from.
I nice different take on the supernatural, it has a coolness factor of 7/10.

Held at the illustrious Duxton hotel, you would not have known that all the well dressed people milling in the foyer were some of Perth’s best web developers, bloggers and new media up and comers, except for maybe the occasional person wearing sneakers (as only a geek can).\
The food served was as good as you would expect with copious amounts of alcohol consumed, also as you would expect. The night seemed to go quickly with the winners being announced after each course, all being MC-ed by Gerry Gannon (who was very funny and fantastic).

Congratulations have to be said to all the winners and finalist of the night. They all did a great job, and deserved the recognition.
But so do Myles, Kay and Helen for organising it all.
For a full list of finalist (and winners no doubt will be up soon too), head over here.

Well I guess its on with the show! Well after I work out what I am doing of course :)

Thinking I am going to have to do something about those smilies tho. They are scary.