So I can already sense that this recommendation isn't going to go well because, if it goes like the last wrestling themed recommendation, not many people are going to read it. Well it's fair enough, wrestling is not everyone's cup of tea,but it is my cup of tea, coffee, soup in a cup, soft drink, hard drink, hot chocolate and mountain dew (bro). Basically, I love wrestling. "So why do a wrestling theme if you already did that one?" You ask. Well, first of all, thank you for saying that in quotation marks, it makes it easier to see that you are asking the question rather than me, and secondly because IT'S WRESTLEMANIA NIGHT! That's right, the annual wrestling event that blows every other wrestling event (or any sporting event in fact) clean out of the water is TONIGHT! Which I won't be watching until Friday. Because it starts at like midnight and it's like four hours plus and Friday is the closest day I have off so yeah. So to celebrate Wrestlemania 31 (which is just being labelled as Wrestlemania for some reason), I'm going to recommend a bunch of wrestling stuff! Seriously though, if you don't like wrestling but opened the link to support the site anyway, I really appreciate that, but I'm not really going to make this non-fan friendly, so you may not understand half the shit I say (or you might, I haven't started writing the main body yet so I may just not say anything that uncommon,) so sorry about that dear viewer. The view was a wonderful thought though and I thank you a million times. WRESTLING TIME!
NXT TakeOver: R Evolution - NXT (PPV)
So to start the ball rolling, I'm going to recommend my favourite pay per view of recent, and that is NXT TakeOver: R Evolution. Now it could be argued that this is not a pay per view, as you can't pay anywhere to view it, it could (and still can) be seen on the WWE Network (for the low low price of $9.99, or in English money, £9.99. Wait that isn't right, who at WWE corporate converted that?), but I still consider it to be a PPV, because it was formatted as one (despite the actual payment thing.) So I love NXT, I personally prefer NXT overall (but don't get me wrong, I do like the main stuff), due to their superior wrestling ability, writing, crowd energy, and female wrestling opportunities (seriously WWE, what's up with your gender game?), so when I was informed that NXT did pay per views better too, I instantly believed this. I was not prepared for just how much better it would be. Everything about it was perfect, the energy, the booking, the matches, and the end. I mean holy shit this has one of the greatest endings to a pay per view, and I'm not just referring to the final match (which was Adrian Neville against Sami Zayn for the title), which was insanely good, but the aftermath. God this pay per view is what got me re-hooked on wrestling. If you love wrestling in general, you will love NXT, and you will absolutely love R Evolution. I mean the name is a bit dodgy but you know, nothing is truly perfect.
Rise - David Guetta feat. Skylar Grey (Music)
So I don't know much about David Guetta (or Skylar Grey), so they may be shit heads for all I know. I've never head anything by them either, apart from this one song. Why have I heard this song? Well let me tell you billy boy, it's the Wrestlemania 31 theme! It's a nice little tune, the beat is good, it's a tad groovy, and Skylar Grey has a beautiful voice. However, the main reason I love this song is literally due to the hype factor. Whenever I watch NXT, the advert break features an advert for how many days until Wrestlemania 31 (obviously not all year round, it started when there was a month to go), and the song really works well with the advert. In fact, when it ends with the logo appearing, Grey singing, and the number of days appearing, it just works so perfectly. That's why I like this song, because it reminds me of what's coming, and I am extremely pumped. Like worryingly so. Don't send help though, send Doritos. Bro. (One more bro for the hat trick.)
WWE 2K15 - 2K Games (Game)
"Jesus Christ you recommended this already!" You may be screaming at your monitors. Well if you are referring to the Top Five Games of 2014 (According to Chris), then first of all, thank you for remembering something I wrote (I put so much effort into that seriously), and secondly, THAT WASN'T A WEEKLY RECOMMENDATION NOW WAS IT? Anyway, if you go back to that piece, you can get my general opinion of the game, I basically covered everything in it, but since then, they have added a bunch of new content, and I think it's relevant to mention because on Tuesday, they are adding The Path of the Warrior DLC, which adds a story mode based on the Ultimate Warrior, and features a huge amount of retro WWE content, including the utterly amazing Randy Savage. Seriously, he's the cream of the crop, and I'm super happy he just got added to the Hall of Fame. This game was good in my opinion, and with the addition of all this content (and all the content they've added since I last mentioned this game), this game is really good. Especially if you love wrestling. OH YEAHHHHHHHH! BROTHER! (Does that count as the hat trick?)
So there you have it, a bunch of wrestling stuff that is kind of related to Wrestlemania 31 (actually, the song is completely relevant). I hope all of you find a way to watch it, because it's going to be super hype, and also I want someone to talk to about it. See you next week for our return to non-wrestling related content. Unless wrestling related stuff somehow is able to fit into next weeks theme. Which it could for all we know. WRESTLING!
Sunday 29 March 2015
Sunday 15 March 2015
Weekly Recommendation - Week #033 - Mother of All Days
So last week, we talked about women. Well I recommended a bunch of stuff that related to women, because, you know, it was the Woman Day. However, it is no longer about all women, it is about a specific group of women, and that would be mothers. Where would we be without mothers ey? Well, not in existence. So today, I recommend shit based around them mothers, which was actually a lot harder than it sounds, I mean, I literally drew a blank on music, so instead of coping out, I got Dasha to write the music bit instead, you know, that person who wrote that one time we were ill. And did that one thing that will forever be in TGOI history. You know, this thing. Anyway, on with the mother loving show! Ha, you thought I was going to swear didn't you? Bet I made you freak out. I love links that aren't relevant to Mother's day.
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (Film)
So I could have discovered some sappy film about mothers and what not but no, why not go with the ultimate motherly film: Psycho. If you haven't heard about this film, I will enlighten you you poor rock dweller you. So Norman Bates is a fine gent who runs a motel, and looks after his mother (there's the link), until he encounters a female who come to his motel under suspicious circumstances. Hilarity ensues. I mean there is that one shower scene that will damn knock your socks off. All jokes aside, that is probably a really poor description of the film, and it is actually one of the greatest horror thrillers out there, created by one of, if not the greatest director of all time. Bit awkward considering how he was around women. Oh well, I guess no one is perfect. Oh and how could I forget, the music is insanely good. It does seem I always recommend the soundtracks of the games and movies I recommend. Probably because audio is key to everything. Just saying. (That was a sound joke.)
Headlights - Eminem (Music) - Guest Written by Dasha
I was very eager to write about this song for Mother’s Day because I've been listening to it non-stop lately. Seriously, I adore this song, and I want more people to know about it. (Sorry Chris, hopefully you can recommend Bohemian Rhapsody soon.) If you’re an Eminem fan, you are probably well aware of the song “Cleanin’ out my closet” that featured on the 2002 album The Eminem Show which is a song that describes Eminem’s bitter hatred towards his mother and how she was a “selfish bitch,” unable to look after him and his brother properly. The lyrics are bitter and harsh, really expressing the broken relationship between him and his mother, and how much he despises her. Some pretty sick burns in there if you ask me. Headlights from the 2013 album Marshall Mather LP 2 is an incredibly moving and personal song dedicated to Eminem’s mother. In the song, he expresses his extreme apologies for his past behaviour, and all of the hatred he expressed towards her in “Cleanin’ out my closet”. He realises that he is too late to fix the relationship he has with her, but he wishes for her forgiveness. This isn't the first song where Eminem has really expressed his deep feelings before, but it most certainly is the most moving for me personally because of how remorseful the lyrics sound. The video is excellent too. Made me shed a few tears, I'm not going to lie.
The Binding of Isaac - Head Up Games (Game)
So before I write this, I must confess something. I have played like 5 minutes of this game. Now before you kill me with fire, I want you to know that I kind of have a general gist of why this game is fantastic. Settled? Okay. So Binding of Isaac is a rogue-like dungeon crawler based around that one bible passage about killing the sun or whatever. You play as a small meat like creature called Isaac, and you run through randomly generated levels killing random monsters and bosses with your tears, all while you pick up mutations and make yourself super gross and powerful. The reason it is connected to mothers? Well, due to the fact that the reason Isaac is running through all the basement killing fucked up monsters and mutating or whatever is because God told his Mum to kill him. Isn't that delightful? (No, it fucking isn't.) So if this doesn't get you in the (what's left of) Mother's day spirit, most other things probably will. INDIE GAMES!
Mother of mercy, it's over. So did you love this super special Mother's day recommendation? Well if you did, let me know why! If you didn't, also let me know why. I NEED FEEDBACK IT KEEPS ME ALIVE EVEN IF IT'S THE WORST FEEDBACK I JUST WANT TO READ WHAT YOU GUYS WRITE PLEASE. Ahem, well, see you next week children, where we return to our regular formatting of coming up with shit themes last second. Unless it's Single Ladies day next Sunday or something.
Well, it has to be done now doesn't it? ALL THE SINGLE LADIES!
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (Film)
So I could have discovered some sappy film about mothers and what not but no, why not go with the ultimate motherly film: Psycho. If you haven't heard about this film, I will enlighten you you poor rock dweller you. So Norman Bates is a fine gent who runs a motel, and looks after his mother (there's the link), until he encounters a female who come to his motel under suspicious circumstances. Hilarity ensues. I mean there is that one shower scene that will damn knock your socks off. All jokes aside, that is probably a really poor description of the film, and it is actually one of the greatest horror thrillers out there, created by one of, if not the greatest director of all time. Bit awkward considering how he was around women. Oh well, I guess no one is perfect. Oh and how could I forget, the music is insanely good. It does seem I always recommend the soundtracks of the games and movies I recommend. Probably because audio is key to everything. Just saying. (That was a sound joke.)
Headlights - Eminem (Music) - Guest Written by Dasha
I was very eager to write about this song for Mother’s Day because I've been listening to it non-stop lately. Seriously, I adore this song, and I want more people to know about it. (Sorry Chris, hopefully you can recommend Bohemian Rhapsody soon.) If you’re an Eminem fan, you are probably well aware of the song “Cleanin’ out my closet” that featured on the 2002 album The Eminem Show which is a song that describes Eminem’s bitter hatred towards his mother and how she was a “selfish bitch,” unable to look after him and his brother properly. The lyrics are bitter and harsh, really expressing the broken relationship between him and his mother, and how much he despises her. Some pretty sick burns in there if you ask me. Headlights from the 2013 album Marshall Mather LP 2 is an incredibly moving and personal song dedicated to Eminem’s mother. In the song, he expresses his extreme apologies for his past behaviour, and all of the hatred he expressed towards her in “Cleanin’ out my closet”. He realises that he is too late to fix the relationship he has with her, but he wishes for her forgiveness. This isn't the first song where Eminem has really expressed his deep feelings before, but it most certainly is the most moving for me personally because of how remorseful the lyrics sound. The video is excellent too. Made me shed a few tears, I'm not going to lie.
The Binding of Isaac - Head Up Games (Game)
So before I write this, I must confess something. I have played like 5 minutes of this game. Now before you kill me with fire, I want you to know that I kind of have a general gist of why this game is fantastic. Settled? Okay. So Binding of Isaac is a rogue-like dungeon crawler based around that one bible passage about killing the sun or whatever. You play as a small meat like creature called Isaac, and you run through randomly generated levels killing random monsters and bosses with your tears, all while you pick up mutations and make yourself super gross and powerful. The reason it is connected to mothers? Well, due to the fact that the reason Isaac is running through all the basement killing fucked up monsters and mutating or whatever is because God told his Mum to kill him. Isn't that delightful? (No, it fucking isn't.) So if this doesn't get you in the (what's left of) Mother's day spirit, most other things probably will. INDIE GAMES!
Mother of mercy, it's over. So did you love this super special Mother's day recommendation? Well if you did, let me know why! If you didn't, also let me know why. I NEED FEEDBACK IT KEEPS ME ALIVE EVEN IF IT'S THE WORST FEEDBACK I JUST WANT TO READ WHAT YOU GUYS WRITE PLEASE. Ahem, well, see you next week children, where we return to our regular formatting of coming up with shit themes last second. Unless it's Single Ladies day next Sunday or something.
Well, it has to be done now doesn't it? ALL THE SINGLE LADIES!
Sunday 8 March 2015
Weekly Recommendation - Week #032 - Day of The (Insert Height Here) Foot Women
So as you may of guessed by the title (which is a half arsed reference to a film that I've never seen, but has an iconic poster), today is all about those members of the human species who are women. That's right, it's International Women's Day! Statistically speaking, women are more likely to be women than men, isn't that a fantastic statistic! I could blabber all day about these great facts about women (because they are pretty great), but that's not what you are here for is it? So instead of top women knowledge, you are going to get some great recommendations for things that are either made by or feature women. Okay feature women is quite a broad category, so I think I'll keep it to things that contain great female protagonists (or, as I just said, are made by women, because I'm pretty sure music doesn't have protagonists.) So without an further delays, lets celebrate women the TGOI way, by watching, listening to and playing women! Actually, lets not do that, that's more O.J. than TGOI.
Aliens - James Cameron (Film)
I could have been super indie kid here and picked a relatively unknown film with some really deep female lead in it, but lets be honest here, when you think "strong female protagonist in cinema," Sigourney Weaver's portrayal of Ripley will most likely appear straight away in your cranium. Now, the real test here was deciding which Alien film showed her at her best. Was it her lone survivor role in Alien, or her super kick arse, kill every alien by herself role in Aliens- actually never mind I already decided. Aliens is a superb follow up to the horror classic, featuring a team of super duper marines who take on the entire alien horde because they think they are the shit (but turn out to just be shit), but need to take the survivor of the first alien encounter, Ripley, with them, because she beat one before, so clearly she can beat the rest, right? Well luckily, they are so fucking right. Seriously, she is the coolest female, nay, the coolest human being ever to grace the screen. If you love strong female characters fighting a bunch of aliens, then you have found the film for you! Oh, and the film itself is actually a superb film, in fact, it's one of the greatest action films of all time, so that helps too.
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (Music)
Quite honestly, music is absolutely chock full of amazing female talent, so choosing something for music was insanely hard. I wanted to go with a song that really filled me with emotion, and an artist who wasn't Kate Bush (because I show love for her on a regular basis). Whilst I had many choices, such as Think by Aretha Franklin, Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra, and Because The Night by Patti Smith (which are all phenomenal for different reasons, seriously check them all out), I decided to go with White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. This is a Vietnam era psychedelic rock song all about those hallucinogenics and those Alice in Wonderland references. It's a superb song written and performed by Grace Slick (that name is fantastic by the way) that really gets me good. I've always been a fan of this type of rock, and this is probably my second favourite song of that era (first being Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth). It's quite the short song, but I guarantee you will listen to it over and over.
The Walking Dead Season Two - Telltale Games (Game)
If you haven't heard of the Walking Dead video games (not that shitty first person shooter based on the show, the story driven one) then either you have been living under a rock, or you are not really interested in the story driven game genre or games in general, which is fair enough. They are excellently made games that feature you making various story changing decisions in a world full of the dead. The story is written superbly, but it's the characters that really shine through, especially the lead protagonist in the game's second season (and main, but unplayable character in the first season) Clementine. She is a youthful child in this cruel world, yet despite being a bunch of pixels on a screen, you care for her more than you would care for most real humans on the planet. She is a fantastic standard for amazing female characters, just like Ellie in The Last Of Us (which would have gone here if Max hadn't recommended it already.) These games are amazing at showing how characters don't have to be 2D, as Clementine goes from the one you want to protect at all costs in the first game, to the superb and caring (or super cruel if that's how you play these games) survivor in the second. Oh and for the record, yes I did cry at the end of season one of this game.
I think we can all agree that women are great, and today has been the day to recognise that greatness, which I have done through a blogpost (grandmaster women supporter right here), but in all honesty, why is it that today is women's day? Why can't every day be women's day? In fact, why can't every day be human day, in which we all celebrate every gender and race's equally? Because at the end of the day, on the inside, we all have skeletons that are basically the same. But that might be because they are resting inside us until the day they can burst out and claim the world in the name of skeleton kind. If that's the case, start loving everyone equally, before the Skeleton Rapture claims us all!
Seriously though, Happy International Women's Day!
Aliens - James Cameron (Film)
I could have been super indie kid here and picked a relatively unknown film with some really deep female lead in it, but lets be honest here, when you think "strong female protagonist in cinema," Sigourney Weaver's portrayal of Ripley will most likely appear straight away in your cranium. Now, the real test here was deciding which Alien film showed her at her best. Was it her lone survivor role in Alien, or her super kick arse, kill every alien by herself role in Aliens- actually never mind I already decided. Aliens is a superb follow up to the horror classic, featuring a team of super duper marines who take on the entire alien horde because they think they are the shit (but turn out to just be shit), but need to take the survivor of the first alien encounter, Ripley, with them, because she beat one before, so clearly she can beat the rest, right? Well luckily, they are so fucking right. Seriously, she is the coolest female, nay, the coolest human being ever to grace the screen. If you love strong female characters fighting a bunch of aliens, then you have found the film for you! Oh, and the film itself is actually a superb film, in fact, it's one of the greatest action films of all time, so that helps too.
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (Music)
Quite honestly, music is absolutely chock full of amazing female talent, so choosing something for music was insanely hard. I wanted to go with a song that really filled me with emotion, and an artist who wasn't Kate Bush (because I show love for her on a regular basis). Whilst I had many choices, such as Think by Aretha Franklin, Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra, and Because The Night by Patti Smith (which are all phenomenal for different reasons, seriously check them all out), I decided to go with White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. This is a Vietnam era psychedelic rock song all about those hallucinogenics and those Alice in Wonderland references. It's a superb song written and performed by Grace Slick (that name is fantastic by the way) that really gets me good. I've always been a fan of this type of rock, and this is probably my second favourite song of that era (first being Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth). It's quite the short song, but I guarantee you will listen to it over and over.
The Walking Dead Season Two - Telltale Games (Game)
If you haven't heard of the Walking Dead video games (not that shitty first person shooter based on the show, the story driven one) then either you have been living under a rock, or you are not really interested in the story driven game genre or games in general, which is fair enough. They are excellently made games that feature you making various story changing decisions in a world full of the dead. The story is written superbly, but it's the characters that really shine through, especially the lead protagonist in the game's second season (and main, but unplayable character in the first season) Clementine. She is a youthful child in this cruel world, yet despite being a bunch of pixels on a screen, you care for her more than you would care for most real humans on the planet. She is a fantastic standard for amazing female characters, just like Ellie in The Last Of Us (which would have gone here if Max hadn't recommended it already.) These games are amazing at showing how characters don't have to be 2D, as Clementine goes from the one you want to protect at all costs in the first game, to the superb and caring (or super cruel if that's how you play these games) survivor in the second. Oh and for the record, yes I did cry at the end of season one of this game.
I think we can all agree that women are great, and today has been the day to recognise that greatness, which I have done through a blogpost (grandmaster women supporter right here), but in all honesty, why is it that today is women's day? Why can't every day be women's day? In fact, why can't every day be human day, in which we all celebrate every gender and race's equally? Because at the end of the day, on the inside, we all have skeletons that are basically the same. But that might be because they are resting inside us until the day they can burst out and claim the world in the name of skeleton kind. If that's the case, start loving everyone equally, before the Skeleton Rapture claims us all!
Seriously though, Happy International Women's Day!
Sunday 1 March 2015
Weekly Recommendation - Week #031 - Chris Take Over
So as you may have heard, I, Chris, am soloing this thing. So because of that, I feel like some changes are needed. What changes you may ask? I haven't got a damn clue, so I'm going to wing it. THE REVOLUTION IS HERE! THE NEW IDIOT ORDER WILL RISE! Well I mean I'm not a new member of this site, so I guess it's not a new order. Hmm. Also the NIO sounds shit so lets maybe hold off on that.
Considering the revolution is more often than not televised, here is the recommendation, but in video format!
LINK LINK LINK TO VIDEO!
Well isn't that neat ey?
Hope you enjoyed that! If not, let me know why. I really want to know how you would like me to do these recommendations. Anyway, later gators.
-Chris
Considering the revolution is more often than not televised, here is the recommendation, but in video format!
LINK LINK LINK TO VIDEO!
Well isn't that neat ey?
Hope you enjoyed that! If not, let me know why. I really want to know how you would like me to do these recommendations. Anyway, later gators.
-Chris
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