LRRcast - Best of 2014 Part 1

[Graham]

Join James, Paul and Cam as they discuss their favourite Movies, Albums, Video Games, TV Shows and other forms of consumable media from 2014.

[James]

Music
Real Estate - Atlas
Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield
Big Giant Circles - The Glory Days
St Vincent - St Vincent
Stars - No One is Lost
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Taylor Swift - 1989
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Best of Bootie 2014
Podcasts
Serial
Limited Resources
All Songs Considered
The Daily Show Podcast without Jon Stewart
TV Shows
Agents of SHIELD
True Detective
The Leftovers
Silicon Valley
Rick and Morty
The Newsroom
Movies
The LEGO Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy & Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Edge of Tomorrow
Books
Neil Patrick Harris - Choose Your own Autobiograhpy
Eric Schlosser - Command and Control
Jay Onrait - Anchorboy
Bears & Balls: The Colbert Report A-Z (An Unofficial Fan Guide)
Video Games
Destiny
Titanfall
Mario Kart 8
Geometry Wars 3
South Park: Stick of Truth
Shadow of Mordor
Monument Valley + Expansion
Transistor
Divinity: Original Sin

Internet Video/YouTube Channels
Ice Bucket Challenge
Too Many Cooks
VSauce 1/2/3
clickhole.com
vox.com

LoadingReadyRun Joints
Best cHustle - The File
Best Crapshot - The Shackle Series & The Groceries
Best LRR Sketch - EVERYTHING IS FINE & Doctors Hate Her
Best Friday Nights - Timewalking

[Clypheous]

That's quite the list there. When people ask me questions like this at the end of the year I always have trouble even remembering five video games that came out that year that I've actually played, and books I've read, etc.

I will have to check some of these things out! (of the ones I don't already check out of course)

Can't wait to see the lists from everyone else at LRR as well.

[Lord Chrusher]

I second Eric Schlosser's Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety as being an excellent read.

[Zaz]

Topics mentioned:

@2:10, Paul, LRR, The Wire, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1z00-FdX4
@5:00, Cam, LRR, Everything is Fine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7sE0agEVNg
@7:40, James, LRR, Doctors Hate Her
@10:30, James, cHustle, The File
@11:20, Paul, cHustle, Fixing the Stream
@14:30, Paul, crapshot, The Arsenal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyw0UiinSmU
@15:00, James, crapshot, The Groceries, The Shackle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG0GM3LnuOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5BHRcr77Yg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3vn9Qn_tbY
@15:30, Cam, crapshot, The Groceries, The DUI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVqHQ8WVxZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPc7oXdZ8kU
@16:30, Cam James Paul, Friday Nights, Time walking, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrVOgTDUxQ

@19:20, Cam, music, Run the Jewels 2, Ben Frost Aurora, Owen Pallets In Conflict, Rat King So It Goes, Rural Alberta Advantage Mended with Gold
@27:40, James, music, Real Estate Atlus, Tokyo Police Club Force Field, Big Giant Circles Glory Days, St. Vincent, Stars No One Is Lost, Taylor Swift 1989, The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream, Best of Bootie 2014, Reel Big Fish Holiday Album

@34:40, James, podcasts, Serial
@36:00, Paul, podcasts, Drive to work - specifically the set rundowns, How did this get made, Penn's Sunday School - interview with James Randi
@38:00, James, podcasts, Limited Resources
@38:30, Paul, podcasts, One for one
@39:40, James, podcasts, All songs considered, The Daily Show podcast without Jon Stewart
@43:20, Cam, tv, Legend of Korra, Cosmos
@51:20, Paul, tv, Last Week Tonight, Agents of Shield, Knights of Sidonia
@56:00, James, tv, Agents of Shield, True Detective, The leftovers, Silicon Valley, Rick and Morty, The Newsroom, Colbert Report
@1:00:30, James, movies, Lego Movie, Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America Winter Soldier, Edge of Tomorrow
@1:02:50, Cam, movies, Tim's Vermeer, Jodorowsky's Dune

@1:06:00, Cam, games, Dark Souls
@1:06:00, James, games, Minecraft, Destiny, Titanfall, Mario Kart 8, Geometry wars, Stick of Truth, Shadow of Mordor, Monument Valley, Transistor, Divinity Original Sin
@1:07:40, Paul, games, Assassins Creed IV, Creeperworld 3
@1:09:20, Cam, games, Valiant Hearts, XCOM?

@1:10:40, Cam, books, Willam Gibsons The Peripheral
@1:10:50, James, books, Eric Schlosser Command and Control
@1:11:40, James, internet, Ice bucket challenge, Too many cooks, VSauce,
@1:15:50, Paul, internet, Barely Political youtube channel
@1:17:00, Cam, internet, Neuromancer photo blog
@1:17:50, Paul, internet, r/asksciencefiction
@1:19:20, James, internet, clickhole

[korvys]

Funny James should mention how awesome the Blank Space music video is. It was directed by Joseph Kahn, who is the guy who has directed amazing music videos for 20+ years.