My Favorite Video Games of 2014 (video)

#videogames #ps4 #rockfile

This was my first year of of nearly zero PC Gaming time since I first played Doom. I played almost exclusively on my PS4 and loved every minute. Consoles have nearly caught up to PC's in graphical quality and for the money you cannot beat them.

I tend to play single player games much more than multiplayer but Destiny is a different animal. Much like an MMO without the monthly fee (and less story, dammit Bungie!) but it excels in co-op fun. I love finishing hard missions together with a couple of other guys to advance the story and not just finish the map. I was a beta tester for Destiny and The Elder Scrolls Online and both are fun games. Destiny is going to have to ramp up the story if it is going to keep my interest with what's coming in 2015!

Middle-earth: Shadow Of Mordor - Assassin's Creed/Arkham Games-style in Middle-earth, what's not to like? Smooth controls, lots to see and do and an engaging story. It may not advance the genre but what it does, it does very well. 

Little Big Planet 3 - The most creative game out there, I love them all but 3 is awesome. More actual game and more tools to create, I will spend tons of time in this world.

Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls - The definitive version of the game I started playing two years ago on PC. The PS4 version is the best version of the game, so far.

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition - A game I loved on my PS3 only got better on PS4.

Infamous: Second Son - Expanding on everything I loved about the PS3 games, I enjoyed Second Son even more.

Destiny - A beautiful game that is a blast to play, just needs more content.

The Elder Scrolls Online - I don't do MMOs but this was a ton of fun.

Will play these ASAP:

Civilization: Beyond Earth

Dragon Age Inquisition

Far Cry 4

Dark Souls II

Wolfenstein: The New Order

The Evil Within

Watch Dogs

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My Favorite Movies of 2014 (video)

#movies #rockfile

This is the first year that I have more on my "still to be seen" list than I actually saw. But, I am catching up fast! Oscar bait bores me but I never thought I would have a year-end list this fantastical. Look at the talent involved in these movies, I mean, Robert Redford was in a Marvel movie this year! The best movies are built on great stories and Hollywood seems to be "getting it" where popular entertainment is concerned. This was the year that proved comic based movies can be engaging and well done, instead of mindless eye candy. 

Guardians Of The Galaxy

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

Snowpiercer

Captain America The Winter Soldier

X-Men Days Of Future Past

Edge Of Tomorrow

The Lego Movie

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Muppets Most Wanted

Godzilla

Begin Again

Transcendence

The Babadook

22 Jump Street

Deliver Us From Evil

Movies I plan to see ASAP:

Under The Skin

Interstellar

Big Hero 6

Horns

The Equalizer

John Wick

Nightcrawler

Locke

Lone Survivor

The Signal

The Hobbit: The Battle Of Five Armies

The Raid 2

Lucy

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Maleficent

How To Train Your Dragon 2

The Book Of Life

Beyond Outrage

Boyhood

Birdman

The Congress

Tusk

Fury

The Imitation Game

Gone Girl

Big Bad Wolves

Jodorowsky's Dune

Journey To The West

The Rover

I Origins

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Happy Birthday MARK LANEGAN (video)

#marklanegan #screamingtrees #rockfile

Mark William Lanegan (born November 25, 1964) is an American alternative rock musician and singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Ellensburg, Washington, Lanegan began his musical career in 1984, forming the grunge band Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel. During his time in the band, Lanegan also started a low-key solo career and released his first solo studio album, The Winding Sheet, in 1990. Since 1990, he has released a further six studio albums and has received critical recognition and moderate commercial success.

Lanegan has also collaborated with various artists and bands throughout his career, including with Kurt Cobain of Nirvana prior to the group's breakout success with their album, Nevermind, recording an unreleased album of songs by the blues singer, Lead Belly. Lanegan also performed with Layne Staley in the side band, Mad Season. It was intended that Lanegan was to take over vocals in Mad Season full-time after Staley declined to make a second album. Following the dissolution of The Screaming Trees in 2000, he became a member of Queens of the Stone Age and is featured on five of the band's albums—Rated R (2000), Songs for the Deaf (2002), Lullabies to Paralyze (2005), Era Vulgaris (2007) and ...Like Clockwork (2013). Lanegan also formed The Gutter Twins with Greg Dulli in 2003, released three collaboration albums with former Belle and Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell, and contributed to releases by Melissa Auf der Maur, Martina Topley Bird, Creature with the Atom Brain, Moby, Bomb the Bass, Soulsavers and Mad Season.

Lanegan has a distinctive baritone voice that has been described "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather" and compared to Tom Waits.

source: wikipedia

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Happy Birthday MITCH EASTER (video)

#mitcheaster #letsactive #rem

Mitch Easter (Born November 15, 1954) is a songwriter, musician, and producer. As a producer, he is probably best known for his work with R.E.M. from 1981 through 1984, though he has also worked with many other acts including Ben Folds Five, Pylon, Helium, Pavement, Suzanne Vega, Game Theory, Marshall Crenshaw, The Connells, Velvet Crush, Ken Stringfellow (of The Posies), and Birds of Avalon.

As a musician, Easter played with the Sneakers during the late 1970s; was the frontman for the band Let's Active during the 1980s and released his first solo album in 2007.

Although commercial success eluded the group, Let's Active's offbeat pop style of jangle pop/power pop was a major influence on later groups such as the aforementioned R.E.M.

source: wikipedia

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Happy Birthday MICHAEL CERVERIS (video)

#michaelcerveris #fringe #rockfile

Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960) is an American singer, guitarist and actor. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Road Show, and Passion. He won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Assassins.

He was called, by Playbill.com, "arguably the most versatile leading man on Broadway",playing roles from "Shakespeare's Romeo to The Who's Tommy, from the German transsexual rock diva Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch to the homicidal title character of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd."

Cerveris' most visible television role to date has been as the Observer code-named September in the FOX science fiction television series Fringe. His character, a mysterious man seen attending many unusual events, has appeared regularly during the series and became one of the main characters to bring the story to its end.

source: wikipedia

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