OR Why 1995's semi blockbuster The Net starring Sandra Bullock validated me as a human being Star of triple j, JTV and ABC TV'S The Urban Monkey with Murray Foote in 1995 I was 17 years old. Paul Keating was the Prime Minister,
90210 was still on the telly and some gangsta clown named Coolio was #1 on the music charts.

Life was simple, I spent my summer days in a shopping centre food court sculling Passiona from the can in my Sonic Youth Daydream Nation t-shirt. I had a stupidly hot girlfriend and I was about to head to university with my full mane of luscious thick mahogany hair. I knew what I wanted and how to get it. Everything was perfect. And I was invincible.

Until I saw THE NET starring Sandra Bullock and my whole world came undone.