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Sixth Offspring album "Conspiracy of One" (2000). Well, finally, Dexter's voice in this matured noticeably. I'd say, almost perfect album, if not for that one song.

Fifth Offspring album "Americana" (1998). Yeah, this one's pretty decent.

Towards the end of the Return of the King. Anyways, what I wanted to write was:a) Did not remember that there were any wildlings in this series,

I see that Robbie is back to his "Let Me Entertain You" days. New album upcoming?

Fourth Offspring album "Ixnay on the Hombre" (1997). Average, though has a handful of songs that are quite good.

Well, continuing on with random movie generator picks, Robert Zemeckis' Pinocchio (2022). A modern retelling of Carlo Collidi's children's tale. You know, it's a choice alright to make an entire movie almost completely CGI. I don't know whether it is a good choice, but... it's a choice alright. The movie was too long for me. Don't remember anything from the original story, so I don't know whether the director added his own thing Anyway, don't know, 6 out of 10?

Third Offspring album "Smash" (1994). I'll be unpopular here and say I personally did not like the album. First half of the album to me was just noise, and the other half was more or less decent.

Second The Offspring album "Ignition" (1992). Now, this in comparison to their first one fucking slaps! 🤘

Started the Offspring discography. Was surprised that their debut album was in 1989. Always thought that they were mid 90s band. Anyways, their first self-titled album "The Offspring" (1989) is one of those ambiguous albums: on the one hand, as a whole, I don't really find much faults with, but on the other hand - I really do not like it on a personal level, and many of its songs, if heard on the radio, would be an indication to switch frequencies.

Since I do not know what to watch these days, and that's a part of why I seldom watch movies, I decided to use the random movie generator, and watch that, which the algorithm picks out for me. And it picked out Letters to Juliet (2010) starring Amanda Seyfried. It's a romantic drama about a an engaged couple: one owns a restaurant, and while the chef loves his fiance, he seems to prioritise his restaurant more than her, and the other one is a fact-checker/freelance writer that seems to have a free spirit. They both go on vacation together to Italy, and while the Amanda's character wants to spend their time in romantic places, her fiance rather wants to do stuff that would enhance his restaurant business. So, they mostly do stuff apart. Long story short, Amanda's character finds a place, wherein girls are writing letters to Juliette, and notices that they are being taken away by some woman after a while. She follows that woman, and finds out that there's such a thing in Verona as Juliette’s Secretaries - they answer the posted letters. One day, Amanda's character finds an old letter stuck within a loosened brickwork, and decides to write back... I actually enjoyed it. Don't usually watch romantic dramas, so probably it's filled to the brim with usual cliches and tropes, but, eh, it was a nice diversion from my usual watches. I would give the movie an 8 out of 10, solely, because the titular characters aren't blameless in all of this drama, and the fact that I barely remember the names of characters haha.

Idiocracy (2006). A absurd-comedy movie about an average military officer, who together with a civilian (prostitute), was elected for a hibernation experiment, however, the experiment along the way encountered obstacles (the chief behind it got arrested) and was left forgotten, until they are accidentally woken-up in the year 2500, in which America (and I guess the world) are pretty much dumbed down stereotypical red-neck hillbilies... It was alright for what it was, made me smile, so that's something. Seen only memes about it. Would not watch it a second time, though. 7/10

Twelfth and final so far White Skull album "Metal Never Rusts" (2022). The female vocalist is back. Pretty good. As always, subjective assessments of each album: 1. Embittered (1996) - 10/10 [Best songs: Revenge is Sweet; Old Friends; Love Is; Flesh, Blood and Faith; She Won’t Wait All the Night; I Don’t Know About Sex; B.T.B.W. North Italy] 2. Tales From the North (1999) - 7.5/10 [Best songs: Tales from the North; Gods of the Sea; Kriemhild Story; The Killing Queen; The Terrible Slaughter] 3. Public Glory, Secret Agony (2000) - 8.2/10 [Best songs: The Roman Empire; Greedy Rome; Cleopathra; Time for Glory] 4. La Era Oscura (2002) - 6.4/10 [Best songs: La Virgen de Orleans; La Nueva Cruzada; Una Voz del Cielo; Sentencia de Muerte; Voice from the Heaven – Bonus Track] 5. The Dark Age (2002) - 6.7/10 [Best songs: New Crusade; The Edict; Voice from the Heaven; Devil’s Woman; A New Handbook] 6. The Ring of the Ancient (2006) - 10/10 [Best songs: Guardians; Head Hunters; The Ring of the Ancients; Half Moon Path; Ogam; After the Battle; King With the Silver Hand; Marching to Alesia] 7. Forever Fight (2009) - 8.3/10 [Best songs: Escape; Feel My Rage; Spy; Boudicca’s Speech; A Mother’s Revenge; Visions; Beer, Cheers] 8. Under This Flag (2012) - 10/10 [Best songs: Bottled Mind; Red Devil; Lost Alone; Prisoners of War; War After War; Nightmares; Redemption] 9. Will of the Strong (2017) - 7.5/10 [Best songs: Holy Warrior; Grace O’Malley; Will of the Strong; Lady of Hope; Metal Indian] 10. I Won't Burn Alone (2020) - 7.5/10 [Best songs: In the Age of Unreason; Someone Call It Love; I Won’t Burn Alone; White Lady; Save the Planet] 11. The XIII Skull (2020) - 7.5/10 [Best songs: Last Navigator; The Skulls; Power of Blood; The Observers; Mothman Prophecies; I Wanna Fly Away] 12. Metal Never Rusts (2022) - 9/10 [Best songs: Black Ship; Scary Quiet; Ad Maiora Semper; Jingle Hell; Pay to Play; Weathering the Storm] Average album score: 8.2/10

Eleventh White Skull album "The XIII Skull" (2020). Again, a switch in vocalists. A man is singing this time. More usual sound of theirs in comparison to the previous album. It was quite alright.

Tenth White Skull album "I Won't Burn Alone" (2020). Not a whole lot of their usual heaviness, but a whole lot of melancholy and music that I'd say would belong in Heart's discography. Kinda strange. As a metal album, I'd say pretty much meh and too poppy. But, on the other hand, it wasn't that bad. But... strange...

Ninth White Skull album "Will of the Strong" (2017). Not as good as their last three albums, but still pretty decent. I guess, the album kinda sounds like modern Iron Maiden'ish (especially, post Dance of Death).