Best of 2014

Here it is, my annual Best and Worst of list. And here are the thing I thought were cool and what weren't cool:

Best New Albums:
Slipknot - 5: The Gray Chapter
In This Moment - Black Widow
The Pretty Reckless - Going to Hell

Worst New Albums:
Iggy Azalea's album

Best Songs:
The Negative One by Slipknot
Words as Weapons by Seether
This Means War by Avenged Sevenfold
Heaven Knows by The Pretty Reckless
Do I Wanna Know by the Arctic Monkeys

Worst Songs:
Happy by Pharrell
Fancy by Iggy Azalea

Best New to me band I got into:
The Pretty Reckless
Adelita's Way

Potential One Hit Wonder:
Iggy Azalea

Best New TV Shows of 2014:
American Horror Story: Freak Show
Constantine

Worst New TV Show of 2014:
Extant
Selfie

Best Movies of 2014:
Transformers Age of Extinction
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America The Winter Soldier
Divergent

Worst Movies of 2014 (or the kind I wouldn't even see in a dollar theater):
Grown Ups 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Controversial Movie of 2014:
The Interview

Actor and Actress of the Year:
Scarlett Johansson
Mark Wahlburg

Best Book of 2014:
The World of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

Best Book I read in 2014:
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Best memes:
parodies of Kim Kardashians' "Break the Internet" paper magazine cover
Sochi problems

Best Viral Movement:
Ice Bucket Challenge

Worst Viral Movement:
Fire Challenge

Worst move by any media (replacing Worst Quote category):
Self Magazine placing cancer survivor's tutu's on a meter as "Lame"
Sony pictures pulling the movie "The Interview" because of the hacking by North Korea. (update: they released it in arthouse theaters and on xbox)

Worst Current Event:
Mike Brown shooting and police brutality of protestors in Ferguson
Bill Cosby alleged rape accusations

Best Comics:
Transformers Windblade series
Transformers Dawn of the Autobots series
Transformers Primacy series