Best of 2015 So Far

It's been 2015 for a whole week and two days now, which means 2016 is only fifty-oneish weeks away, which means best of the year lists are only forty-eightish weeks away and best of the first half of the year lists are twenty-fivish weeks away and I'm getting the jump on all of them.  Me.  Brian Brown.  I am making a list of the best things to happen this year long before anyone else.  My forward thinking is going to launch this blog into the stratosphere.  Of course with my new fame there will come hatred from anonymous jerks, investigation into my past and maybe even some hackings but I've got nothing to hide.  Bring it on.  My browser history is as clean as my wholesome vacation photo with a statue of Captain America wherein I am wearing a Captain America t-shirt.  I was born for fame and nothing is going to stand in my way.

Fuck you too MarketWatch.

Agent Carter

It took Agent Carter's sister show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. the better part of its first season to get good so it's nice to see the adventures of Peggy Carter start off so strong.  Peggy as played by Hayley Atwell was one of the best parts of Captain America: The First Avenger, my favorite solo Marvel movie that isn't the far superior Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  The first two episodes of Agent Carter which aired this week made for a fantastic action packed Tuesday.  It was certainly better than Empire, which was good but not as good as the all black reproduction of The Spoils of Babylon that the advertisements led me to expect, and slightly better than Galavant  which was exactly as just fine as I expected.

The Balcony by Catfish and the Bottlemen

What better way to start off a new year than with the debut album of an up and coming musical group.  Catfish and the Bottlemen are a promising new band from Wales.  Admittedly they sound a little familiar, like another band that I can't put my finger on, but that's not so bad.  Maybe they're not reinventing the wheel but so what?  The Rolling Stones started out by straight up copying blues musicians.  I'm sure sooner or later they'll change the script.  The Script!  They sound like a more rock oriented version of The Script!  That's not bad.  I like the Script but I always thought they would be better if the guitars were a little louder.  Either way, The Balcony is a pretty good album to start things off.  Besides, what else is there this early in the year?  There's still a whole week before the new Sleater Kinney release.

My Copy of Saga Vol. 4 was delivered

I preordered the fourth Saga trade on Amazon about a month ago, since then it was released then delivered to my home last Friday and I finally got around to reading it on Sunday.  For those unfamiliar with comic book lingo (Hi Mom!)  a trade is about six issues of a comic book series collected into one book.  Saga is the story of a Romeo and Juliet type situation where the Montagues have horns and magic stuff and the Capulets have wings and science fiction stuff and Romeo and Juliet didn't die and they had a baby and they're in their early twenties I guess.  Saga has consistently been one of the most critically acclaimed comic book series since it started in 2012.  It's the only comic I read in trades, partially because my local comic book store (or lcs [are you still here Mom?]) doesn't keep it in stock but mostly because once I start reading it it's almost impossible to stop.

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