I am just floating Infinitely placid Infinitely calm And infinitely spacious with you I love you in the movies With sunglasses And your favorite Leonard Cohen songs When we fall into your kitchen drawers And play spooning I’ll be here in the morning Singing into your fingertips Candy covered lips I could have chosen not to be hurt But there is no life in that I wouldn’t change this for eternity This is lovely
As you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. ― Douglas Coupland
I want your absolute attention, your underwear rolled down in a hurry still hanging on one foot, and nothing on my mind but to be inside the only place that has no inside, and no outside.
Abums I care about are turning 20 years old this year: This is hardcore: Released March 30th, 1998 From the Choirgirl Hotel: Released May 5, 1998 Version 2.0: Released May 11, 1998
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.
- Antonin Artaud, General Security: The Liquidation of Opium
Additionally I can't say enough good things about how great PREY is, one of the few games that actually propelled me to beat it.
Another stellar game from the same studio that came out this year: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider This year seemed to be quite the year for archery in games....
Nioh Horizon Shadow of War Breath of the Wild Assassin's Creed: Origins art sources, prey, botw
“Stateless” (2000) Before they "returned to form" that fall with All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2 offered one last glimmer of hope for a headier, more nonlinear direction with the music they contributed to longtime friend Wim Wenders' 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel. And while the song they co-wrote with Salman Rushdie was a collaboration that surely piqued our curiosity, "Stateless" unveiled an all too promising glimpse into what U2 in the 21st century could have sounded like if they continued down the path of their oft overlooked 1995 side project Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1.
In Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov, the scholar Gennady Barabtarlo considers Nabokov’s ideas on dreams in detail. The basis of the book is a previously unpublished dream journal that Nabokov kept in 1964, after reading aeronautical engineer John Dunne’s early 20th-century treatise An Experiment with Time. In that book, Dunne sketched a theory that human consciousness was capable of tracking events both forward and backward in time, so that dreams might reflect future events in a perfectly logical sequence. He claimed that dreams contain “images of past experience and images of future experience blended together in approximately equal proportions.” This idea, Dunne argued somewhat ambitiously, “contains the first scientific argument for human immortality.
For a period of 80 days, the author of Lolita wrote down everything he could remember of his dreams as soon as he woke up, amassing 118 index cards recording 64 dreams. The text is reproduced in the book Insomniac Dreams, alongside material placing the experiment in the context of his life and writing.
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.” – Haruki Murakami
The last Lolita film recently had it's 20th anniversary and I've been waiting for an American blu-ray release of "Lolita" forever and a day. I had given up but then I ran into a great release from Germany that was was the upgrade I was looking for. Here's the image difference between the DVD and this blu-ray.
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Persona 5 (Atlus) PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.) Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild(Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Best Game Direction
Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard(Capcom) Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD) Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda)
Best Narrative
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Tameem Antoniades, Elizabeth Ashman-Rowe / Ninja Theory) Horizon Zero Dawn(John Gonzalez / Ninja Theory) NieR: Automata (Yoko Taro, Hana Kikuchi, Yoshiho Akabane / Platinum Games) What Remains of Edith Finch(Ian Dallas / Giant Sparrow) Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jen Matthies, Tommy Tordsson Bjork / MachineGames)
Best Art Direction
Cuphead(Studio MDHR Entertainment) Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision) Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Persona 5 (Atlus) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Best Score / Music
Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan) Destiny 2(Mike Salvatori, Skye Lewin, C Paul Johnson) NieR: Automata (Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi) Persona 5(Shoji Meguro) Super Mario Odyssey (Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, Koji Kondo) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata)
Even tho I'm going with Zelda, special mention to this track that I love from Destiny 2:
Best Audio Design
Destiny 2(Bungie) Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom) Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild(Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Best Performance
Ashly Burch, Horizon: Zero Dawn (As Aloy) Brian Bloom, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (as BJ Blazkowicz) Claudia Black, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Chloe Frazer) Laura Bailey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (as Nadine Ross) Melina Juergens, Hellblade (as Senua)
Cuphead (Studio MDHR Entertainment) Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory) Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall) Pyre(Supergiant Games) What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive)
Best Handheld Game
Ever Oasis (Grezzo / Nintendo) Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia(Intelligent Systems / Nintendo) Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam / Nintendo) Monster Hunter Stories(Marvelous / Capcom / Nintendo) Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World(Good-Feel / Nintendo)
Best Action Game
Cuphead(Studio MDHR Entertainment) Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision) Nioh (Team Ninja / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Prey (Arkane Studios / Bethesda) Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda)
Best Action/Adventure Game
Assassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft) Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Role-Playing Game
Divinity: Original Sin II (Larian Studios) Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix Business Division 2 / Square Enix) NieR: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix) Persona 5(Atlus) South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Ubisoft San Francisco / Ubisoft)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo) Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft) Sonic Mania (PagodaWest Games, Headcannon / Sega) Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
Best Strategy Game
Halo Wars 2 (Creative Assembly, 343 Industries / Microsoft Studios) Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft) Total War: Warhammer II (Creative Assembly / Sega) Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games) XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Firaxis Games / 2K)
Best Multiplayer
Call of Duty: WWII(Sledgehammer Games / Activision) Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision) Fortnite (Epic Games) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo) PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.) Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Most Anticipated Game
God of War (Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Monster Hunter World (Capcom) Red Dead Redemption II (Rockstar Games) The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Debut Indie Game
Cuphead(Studio MDHR Entertainment) Golf Story (Sidebar Games) Hollow Knight (Team Cherry) Mr. Shifty (Team Shifty) Slime Rancher(Monomi Park)
I read somewhere that as you get older, the brain cells associated with anxiety begin to die. [Pauses] A lot of other brain cells die, too, so you’ve got to watch out Leonard Cohen
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