The Grax Domain

29 Mar 2005 Grax Domain Special Offer, Sale Must End Soon!!!

Disclaimer: The actual price for Grax Domain is stated at the end of this ramble, not whatever you saw beforehand.

I was messing around on google searching the word 'Grax' and I made an interesting discovery. According to Froogle I'm worth £0.79. I feel so cheap!



After showing the boys this phenomenon we managed to work out why the Grax Domain is got listed like that. Turns out in one of my entries there is a price tag of £0.79 in the entry, and the Google Spiders found this and decided to stick it on the page to be searched by all. I'm still not 100% sure why it decided to choose the Dream's image, showing all my hairy-chested glory. Oh well.

And it's simple to put your site up 'for sale'. All you need is a page with a price somewhere on the page. Put your site up for sale, see how much you can get for it.

By the way, if you do want to buy Grax Domain off me, it'll cost and low low price of £1000,000,000, and not a penny less. You know how to contact me.

27 Mar 2005 Picture Time

I did me another SimpleImg for you to look at here. Also I've did a quick update on my Bio page. See if you can spot any difference.

20 Mar 2005 Picture Time

A new misc picture and a new SimpleImg picture is available to view here.

"What's that??" I hear you sputter, "A new SimpleImg? But it's been 8 months since you last did one". How observant of you. I've decided to try and get back into the swing of drawing once a week again.

I warn you now it ain't pretty. It's even more crappy than this one I did.

On another note I've fixed the problem that made everything really thin when you used an IE browser. Which is good because it was really starting to piss me off.

That is all.

12 Mar 2005 Resident Evil: Apocalypse Review

Two movie reviews in one day? Fun Times!

Picking up where the last film left off Alice (Milla Jovovich) wakes up in Raccoon City, which happens to be overrun by zombies that are infected with the darn T-Virus™ created by Umbrella™. Meanwhile we find Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera getting quarantined in this stinking city thank to Umbrella™. That's right, unlike the last film the producers decided to try and follow the basic storyline of the computer game and use characters from it (in this case it's Resident Evil 3, they've even got Nemesis in the film). Later on Alice, Jill and Carlos bump into each other and are told by some Scientist in a wheelchair to go get her daughter who's trapped in the city. The gang also bump into Nemesis once or twice. Well it's more like Alice takes on Nemesis. More on that later.

I actually quite like this film. It's much better than the first film, mainly because they've included characters from the games rather than make something up. The film gets a bit action-film cheesy at times but it's forgivable. For example in the beginning Carlos jumps out of an airborne helicopter to rescue a woman from zombies but she commits suicide anyway because she got bitten by a zombie (that ungrateful harlot :P ). As great as it was seeing Jill Valentine in her blue boob tube top, there were still bits that annoyed me, namely the storyline with Alice and Nemesis.

Turns out that Alice remembers that she use to work for Umbrella™ and they experimented on her and turned her into some sort of super-soldier. Y'know enhanced strength, endurance, speed, senses, the usual stuff. They did the same to Nemesis, though he ended up looking ugly in a cool way. Anyway Umbrella™ wanted to see which of these two weapons were better so they pitched them against each other. In fact later on the film the big boss of Umbrella captures the gang and forces Alice to fight Nemesis Mortal Kombat style. The scene went something like this:

[Big Boss and Alice are facing each other with Jill, Carlos, the daughter, the scientist, and some random civilian being held captive]
Big Boss: Now I have you in my grasp Alice. I want you to find Nemesis over there Mortal Kombat Style.
Alice: What?
Big Boss: You heard me. Fight Nemesis to the death. He's standing right over there.
Nemesis: S.T.A.R.S
Alice: Why should I?
Big Boss: Because that's why you were made. We here at Umbrella™ need to find out which out of you two is the best.
Nemesis: S.T.A.R.S
Alice: Yeah right. You're just making us fight because you couldn't think of anything better to do with this crappy storyline. Plus you're hoping that I'll get my clothes torn off and you'll get to see nipples!
Big Boss: That's not true
Alice: Yes it is you perv!
Nemesis: S.T.A.R.S.
Alice and Big Boss: SHUT UP!!
Nemesis: [cowers] ..... S.T.A.R.S?
Big Boss: Look just fight him. Overwise I'll kill one of your friends over there.
Alice: You think I care about them?
[Big Boss smiles and shoots the scientist. Daughter cries]
Alice: ... You know you could've shot that civilian over there. He's kinda annoying.
Civilian: Hey!
Alice: *sigh* Fine, I'll fight Nemesis to the death.
Big Boss: [hunches over like Mr Burns] Excellent.
[Alice and Nemesis move into fighting position. The battle theme music from the Kirk/Lizard guy fight scene from Star Trek kicks in]

And that's exactly how the scene played out. In my mind. Anyway I feel that they should have dropped the whole Alice storyline completely and concentrated on Jill and Carlos. Y'know make the story more like the game. That would have made this not bad film better.

Hell you might as well go see this film. It's not the best film ever made, but it's a good alternative if there's nothing else to rent from the video store.

GRAX RATING: 3/5

12 Mar 2005 Shark Tale review

When a film studio produces a great film that pleases everyone, it can be seen as a curse as well as a blessing. More often than not it means that whatever the studio makes just won't be the same. With this in mind here's my review of Shark Tale, from the creators of the great Shrek™ series.

The basic story is that Oscar (Will Smith) teams up with a closet-vegetarian Shark (Jack Black) and create the lie that Oscar is a Shark Slayer, even though he's quite the nobody. It's your generic "A little white lie that goes wildly out of control with 'funny' results" storyline, you've heard this story loads of time. Throw in a few other stars like Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie and make up some crappy remix song for the film (FYI, Missy Elliott and Christina Aguilera make a cameo appearance, albeit in cheesy characterised fishy form) and that about wraps it up. I've probably ruined the film for you now by telling you that it's a generic storyline. After all you know what happens in those stories, including all those cheesy puns that go along with it. I probably should say that I'm sorry but that would be lying.

That's the major problem with this film; it's all been done before. They could have condensed this into a 30-45mins television show and it wouldn't have lost anything in its transaction. Don't get me wrong, it's not a crap film. I'm sure that this'll make some kid or someone who has never been exposed to a little thing called television really happy. But this film is not for me. I'm a twenty-something man that has been scarred through years of TV exposure, a man who has man-desires (I wish I could say that without it making me sounds gay). I ain't got time for kid's shows.... Unless it's cool, like old school Transformers or even Centurions. Now that kicked ass and I defy anyone who disagrees!

I definitely wouldn't recommend seeing this at the cinema, though it's a bit late now seeing as it's gone to DVD now. Bottom line is I wouldn't recommend paying to watch this. Get your sucker friend to get this. Or you can wait until it comes out on TV.

GRAX RATING: 2/5

5 Mar 2005 Grax Domain is One year (and 15 days) old

Good God it's been a year already!? And you lot completely forgot... OK I forgot too but that's not the point.

A whole year. Where has the time gone? Now's a good time to reflect on the site and see if it's achieved anything within that time.

... There was that 8 Ball thing that seems to amuse people.....

... There's always that mess I like to call an art gallery....

...

Not much else really.... Wonderful.

Anyhoo I thought I'd draw a picture to commemorate this occasion, a sort of belate present if you will. If any of you have an uncontrolable desire to give a gift for its birthday, then I won't stop you.