It's Christmas 2015!
Well
a merry Christmas to everyone! Welcome to my final blogpost of the
year!
It's
really just a very, very quick mash-up of topics I put together in a
couple of minutes. I've been pretty busy all-round actually.
I
don't know how many more posts I'll do for this blog. It may only be
a few on special occasions from now on. I'm probably going to put out
more about sport (cricket and maybe a bit of football) and the photo
blogs again (see here http://jpiesports.blogspot.co.uk/) come the
spring and summer. It's certainly been fun and rewarding though, and
I've put out a lot of what I've wanted to say over the past couple of
years. They're not really meant for anyone especially to read but
if anyone has any comments, please let me know.
Dr
Who
Well
what a season of exciting sci-fi TV we've had! It's probably been my
favourite season of Who since the reboot in 2005. And Capaldi is the
best Doctor for a while too, up there with Tom Baker and David
Tennant. And we have had some of the best companions too. Clara and
Isildur/Me were vastly entertaining and my favourites since Martha...
In
particular I loved the episode “Heaven Sent” (Season 9, Episode
11). It was dark, scary, unimaginably epic, and actually pretty
horrific. And it was brilliantly carried by Capaldi, who was pretty
much the only character in the episode.
Favourite
music / albums from 2015
A
quick collections of stuff from my favourite genre, in no particular
order.
Ones
and Zeros (Young Guns)
The
band from High Wycombe have done it again, produced a brilliant rock
album that will keep you on your toes from start to finish. This one
is full of soaring choruses and has no filler songs. With many great
tracks it is an instant classic and probably my favourite this year!
Ghosts
Again (Foreveratlast)
A
female-fronted punk band along the lines of Paramore, but heavier.
The album is well put together and rocks along at a merry old pace.
Baby
Eater (Monster On Sunday)
This
band are overtly atheist and also have a female singer. A bit lo-fi,
but the song “Just Like You” is really worth listening to.
Other
recommendations:
Into
the Wild Life (Halestorm)
Black
Clouds EP (Grant Nicholas)
Adrenaline
Rush (eponymous)
Favourite
video games from 2015
Well
I've enjoyed playing a lot of games this year. Highlights have to be
Pillars of Eternity, Just Cause 3, Divinity Original Sin : Enhanced
Edition, the expansion packs for Dragon Age Inquisition, Resident
Evil Revelations 2, Halo 5 and Rise of the Tomb Raider. All
excellent.
Most
of these games are available for PC on Steam or Origin, or PS4. The
latter 2 games are only on Xbox One (Tomb Raider temporarily, in a
puzzling move by the developers).
At
Christmas I hopefully going to get Fallout 4 and the latest
incarnation of the Call of Duty series!
Favourite
films of 2015
Well
there was Spectre, the latest James Bond offering; The Martian;
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation and Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens
among a few others. Avengers: Age of Ultron was fun too. I do enjoy
these sci-fi movies and I might review the latest Star Wars at some
point. I wasn't quite as keen on it as most people, not being one
overly fond of nostalgia, so I'm currently listening to the audiobook
of the accompanying novel ,which fleshes out a few of the areas the
film was a bit light in, in my opinion.
Skeptoid
- anti-science websites
Just
a quick final shout-out to the cool guys at Skeptoid! Here is a great
summery of online sources that simply cannot be trusted and contain a
lot of very unreliable, dubious information.
Beware
these dodgy websites!
Christmas
Here are
all my family's presents before we opened them! Another lovely
Christmas was had by all!
Cricket
On Boxing
day the South Africa vs. England test series starts. We also have the
Big Bash League competitions in full swing so it's going to be an
exciting time in the next couple of months (well in the southern
hemisphere at least!)
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