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Daredevil is one of the most baller tv shows ever made. Warning: it is insanely violent. And bloody. I mos def had to look away and skip around a bit. There's also a fair amount of language. And some of the episodes made me depressed. Nevertheless, this show is absolute amaze-balls. It's got it all Daredevil is not just one show- it's eight  shows. The vast majority of TV deals with one shtick per show. E.g., The Office is a mockumentary, Grey's Anatomy is a drama, 24 is action, The Flash is a superhero show... etc. They hone in on the same things over and over again. Let me break down Daredevil for you. Matt Murdock is blind. Already, an overcoming-challenges story is underway. His dad was murdered by organized crime. Now maybe it's a revenge story. He's a defense attorney. Crime series. Law and order. Let's go.  He's a devout Catholic. Bring on the religious ethical and moral dilemmas. He's a superhero with crazy cool powers. Superhe

"The Bastards" is an album of b-sides by one of my favorite bands, Radical Face. Freak, man. This album gives me the feels. I cried once while listening to this. Its themes of family, loss, and finality pull at your heart strings like a bell-boy on Sunday morning. In this case, I'm referring to a bell-boy as one of those catholic deacons that pull ropes that make church bells ding. Not like, a boy that takes your luggage at a hotel. That wouldn't make sense. For you to understand the gravity of my recommendation of this song, you must understand my tastes in music. I like: very loud rock music, fast/complicated math-rock , and super in-your-face drums and guitars that rip riffs. For days. Generally speaking, I tend to dislike: piano driven ballady... ballads, songs with no drums, and chill, un-engaging vocals. SO. When I say that one my favorite records is the b-sides  from 3 folk  albums  that feature very minimal drums,  laid-back, unassuming vocal

This is my favorite heckin' video game of all time. 5/5. Masterpiece. Would recommend. Is the game I envision myself playing when I am old and decrepit in a nursing home and unable to do anything else except watch Brain-Netflix on my Amazon neural implants and play video games in my wheelchair/exo-skeleton. I've beaten it twice and I'm working on number 3 right now (thank you roommates Ben and Devin!!). The game took the entire planet by storm so I am aware that I don't need to convince anyone that the game is good. That's fact. But here's why I like it. Exploration I have never felt a truer sense of exploration in a game before. Yeah there are plenty of open-world games out there, but not like this. Not like freaking this.  It forces you to actually play a fun video game while you explore the world. You don't do side-quests or exploration because you need the armor upgrade or some arbitrary XP requirements. You do them because it's fun.  You se

Book recommendation: "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus," by Orson Scott Card. Sci-fi and historical fiction. This is my favorite book. Period. Oh man, where do I even begin. For starters, I think about this book all the time. I read it the first time about a year ago and it pops in to my head more than a lot of other things. The book is so richly thought-provoking because it me made me ask loads of questions about myself and about the human race. What makes a person truly unique? How much of my character that I think is truly mine is actually just a product of my culture and neighborhood? Why did most of history have to be so terrible? What would the end of the earth really look like? What do I do that really matters, and what do I do that is just filler, or fluff? What's cool about the book is that it doesn't ask you these questions at all; they just slowly mull over in your mind when you wade through the book's subject matter. Which is

Album recommendation: "Best buds," by the band Mom Jeans. Alt-rock. Warning: It's not that good. The singer has a really whiney voice, it swears a lot, the drumming is pretty excessive for my tastes, and the guitar work sounds pretty homogeneous across songs. BUT. I'm obsessed with it!!! I've listened to this album everyday at work or while homeworking for the last several weeks! Oh man. There is so much emotion packed into this album it's addicting. I'm a pretty lucky guy and don't have a lot of problems I deal with on a day to day basis, but this music makes me want to have problems just so I can whine about them at the top of my lungs. Most of the songs are breakup songs (I think?) and talk about smoking and beards. I have nothing to do with any of those things but I'm here listening to the songs just like "FREAK YEAH MAN!!" The album features some cool stuff like cool time signature changes interspersed throughout, a

Book recommendation: The Stormlight Archive (series), by Brandon Sanderson. Sci-fi/fantasy. Warning: these books are extremely long (each book is well over 1000 pages), and deals with loooads of characters and complicated plots. BUT. These are my favorite books I've ever read.  I just finished the 3rd book, Oathbringer. What I loved about it is that each main character deals with huge mental health problems, which makes the story super real. A king suffers from horrifying PTSD, a soldier deals with depression, another person deals with schizophrenia, a another with drug addiction, someone else has extreme self-loathing... you get the idea. The author doesn't come right out and say "okay and now it's time for the chapter about depression," but very subtly exposes details about their issues little by little until you figure it out. If you like the show Lost, you're the kinda person who would dig these stories because seemingly unrelated detai

Artist: The Airborne Toxic Event Genre: Alternative/Indie 2015 This album is pure guava. It bursts with emotion and makes you cry about breakups you never had. You want to dance a little jig and eat comida mexicana when you hear a mariachi-esque band accompany them on track 2. I don't know what it is about this band, but they make me nostalgic about stuff that I've never flippin experienced. How the snack is that even possible Every other line makes you stop and think "k now hold up- what the what did he just say and why do I feel it seep into my very bones??" TATE's (The Airborne Toxic Event) biggest forte is their song writing. Singer/songwriter Mikel Jollett has a magical sabbatical way with words and prose.  I've rarely heard such good literary combination of hyperbole, metaphor, yelling, and the occasional swear word. Here's an excerpt from the first song, "Poor Isaac," in reference to Abraham being asked to sacrifice his song Isaa