Best and Worst of 2016

What a year it was! Too many celebrity deaths and a horrible election year! Can't wait for this year to be over. But there are still some highlights, so here is my annual list of the best and worst things of the year.

Best New Albums:
Ghost - Popestar. it's actually an EP, but it is the best one! Plus I got to go the the release party for it in LA and made some new friends.
Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage. All about Artificial intelligence, which could be the future.
Metallica - Hardwired. Don't have it yet as I type this, but I did hear a majority of it on Sirius XM's Liquid Metal channel during Metallica week.
Beyonce' - Lemonade. All about her anger at Jay-Z's infidelity, but ends up forgiving the bastard at the end.

Worst Albums:
I'm not gonna waste my time hating on any groups or musicians whom I don't like. So this category will be discontinued.

Best Songs:
Square Hammer by Ghost. "Are you on the Square? Are you on the Level? Are you ready to swear right here right now, before the Devil?
The Stage by Avenged Sevenfold. "Who is the crowd? that peers through the cage? As we perform here, upon the stage"
Moth into Flame by Metallica
Take Me Down by The Pretty Reckless
Royals covered by Otep, originally by Lorde.

Person of the Year:
Simone Biles: Won four gold medals in the summer olympics for gymnastics.

Most Hated people of the Year:
Donald Trump: Second year in a row, and unfortunately my worst fears came true, he is going to be our President next year, which I didn't think would really happen!
Brock Turner: the rapists who only served 3 months in jail.
Judge Aaron Persky: for giving Brock Turner a light sentence of 6 months in jail because he thought six years in prison was too harsh of a punishment for raping a girl for 20 minutes behind a dumpster.

In Memorium:
 David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Glenn Fray, Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman, Alexis Arquette, Kenny Baker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, John Glenn, George Michael and now Carrie Fisher. I hope I don't have to add another name here after typing this!

Good Riddance!
Fidel Castro I don't condone deaths, but this one is an exception. I only hope that Cuba can move forward and catch up with the rest of the world. Not the consumerism, but having a voice and the freedom to listen to whatever music they want, watch whatever they want, the freedom to express their arts, and the end of rationing so they don't have to go to the black market to get more of what they need. and maybe some new cars so they don't have to be stuck with the 1950's cars.

Best TV Shows:
Rick and Morty
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Stranger Things
The Walking Dead The first episode of the new season was so intense that I had to take a break and I still have the rest of the episodes unwatched on my DVR.

Best Movies:
Doctor Strange
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Totally bridges episodes 3 and 4, and the CGI brought Peter Cushing back to life and Leia just as she looked in A New Hope
Captain America: Civil War
Deadpool: Loved it! and how it made fun of his last adaptation and of Green lantern.
Jason Bourne: Finally finds out who he was!
The Conjuring 2: never got to see it, but Valak the nun looked awesome and would make a great sister of sin!

Worst Movies:
Sausage Party: It's a dark comedic animated movie, and it may be funny. But they overworked the 80 animators and underpaid them to keep the movie cheap, but make it look like it costs a lot. 30 of those animators quit by the end of the making of the movie. I refuse to see it based on those facts, and it doesn't look very appealing to me anyways.
Warcraft: Based off a role playing game. Never played the game
God's Not Dead 2: Never saw the first one, but I heard it was awful, and even my pastor thought it was terrible! Both these movies are just Christian propaganda designed to demonize atheists and other non-believers.
Alice Through the Looking Glass: An unnecessary sequel. It's not just the bad split of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard that left a sour taste in my mouth about Depp, but also that Tim Burton didn't do this movie and they just copied things from the first movie and into this one.
Dirty Grandpa: Why Deniro why? At least he redeemed himself in the movie Joy.
God's of Egypt: So CGI heavy that it cheapened the look of it. Plus the whitewashing of the Egyptians made it worse.
Batman vs Superman: Andy Samburg as Lex Luthor? At least Wonder Woman looked awesome, but I found out from a friend that you see her in the last five minutes of the movie, which sucks because she's the only thing that redeems this clusterfuck.