All posts by Kev Brock

I'm a musician, singer/songwriter, blogger, writer, poet, bodybuilder, movie lover, music lover, video gamer, history/political buff, conservative/republican, etc. I like to do a lot of things.

Report: Patrick Stewart is not doing “Mad Max: Fury Road” and he’s also NOT doing “X-Men: First Class”…

Is Patrick Stewart done with Hollywood for good??? I hope not. If you’re hoping for him to make a return to Hollywood, look like it’s not going to be anytime soon. Patrick Stewart shot down rumours that he’ll be starring in “Mad Max: Fury Road”. He also confirms he’s done with Professor Xavier for “X-Men” ’cause he don’t expect to be involved.

Check out the two articles below:

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/02/01/rumors-of-patrick-stewart-joining-mad-max-fury-road-are-untrue/

and here:

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/02/02/patrick-stewart-doesnt-expect-to-return-for-x-men-first-class/

Now let the retirement from Hollywood rumours begin for Patrick! I really hope he isn’t done with Hollywood for good and I hope he’ll do a new movie soon.

See? Even Ain’t It Cool get their facts wrong. They do it all the time. They’re another website known for sparking rumours that aren’t true such as this. AICN is bad movie journalism anyways.

Kev

Cool Video: Them Crooked Vultures performs on SNL last night, I’m really diggin’ em a lot!

John Paul Jones proves he can do other things besides Led Zeppelin and I remember people claimed he couldn’t!!! Them Crooked Vultures performed on SNL last night and it was a pretty tight performance. I’m gonna have to get their album from Itunes at some point ’cause I’m really liking this new band. One of the better new rock bands to come around. If TCV’s come to Albany to play a show, I’m so there. They are unique and different.

Kev

BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama for Presidential Race 2012, it’s ON!!!!

 

Ever since she resigned from governor of Alaska, she hasn’t yet answered if she will run for President in 2012 until now. The day after the Nashville Tea Party, Sarah decides to break the news exclusively to FOXNews.com that she is definitely running for President. Something tells me that she will have no one other than John McCain as her vice-president running mate? It’s possible and I can see that happening too. This is very exciting. Sarah Palin had my vote in the last election, she will get my vote again in the next. Obama better be praying and counting the time on the clock, ’cause his days are just about over as President. We will get our first female president no matter what happens!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/07/palin-willing-obama/

Kev

Report: Joe Johnston speaks on “Captain America” live action movie…

“Wolfman” director, Joe Johnston speaks about his upcoming “Captain America” movie with Marvel films. Johnston says he wants to cast a completely unknown actor to play Captain America, the hero. However, Johnston wants more well known actors to play the other characters. Johnston confirms that Red Skull could be the main villain of the film. Red Skull, is the Nazi villain that has the red face. Johnston says this movie will be totally different than the other Marvel superhero films.

http://www.collider.com/2010/02/06/the-first-avenger-captain-america-movie-update-from-director-joe-johnston-casting-an-american-wants-an-unknown-shooting-in-hd-has-to-cast-by-march-1/

Wonder what Johnston means when he says this film will be different than other Marvel films? Will it not be a CGI fest full of popcorn action effects like all the others? Since Captain America will be played by an actor we’ve never heard of before, he’ll probably get a well known star for Red Skull.

Who should be Red Skull? My pick would be either Christian Bale or Jackie Earl Haley.

Kev

Sarah Palin tea party thoughts…

There’s a lot of reasons why I love Sarah Palin so much. She’s honest and she’s not afraid to tell things like it is, no matter the consequences. Her thoughts and opinions may create some negative heat but the things she says, she means well. I also respect her because she takes the constitutional rights with a lot of heart and respect. She’s very strict about the constitution as you see of her on tonight’s Tea Party. She knows what is constitutional and what is not.

At tonight’s Tea Party speech, she basically bashed democrats and President Obama throughout most of it. She’s been bashing Obama for quite a long while. She’s not doing it because she’s jealous of Obama’s presidency, she’s doing it because she’s trying to expose him that he’s not the right guy for the job. She’s doing a good job telling it like it is ’cause more and more people are losing respect for Obama like they once had during the election. I never respected Obama, never liked him.

Sarah is always about the American people and being country first, while the Obama camp focuses on money and health care. There’s something special and very powerful about Sarah Palin. Which is why she is going to make a great president. At the end of the Tea Party during the Q&A session, the guy asked her, “President Palin?”…and she just said nothing, speechless, her face was blushing and smiling while the audience cheered her on. Sarah didn’t say if she was going to run for President but you know that is exactly what she wants and it’s the reason she resigned as governor.

Sarah’s an amazing politician and an incredible woman. I’m a loyal supporter of Sarah. I don’t care what the haters say. She’s an inspiration to everyone.

Kev

Brock will focus on electric guitar from this point on…

I’m very happy with my guitar and amp purchase. They are definitely a keeper. If I didn’t like any one of them, I would have definitely sent them back to trade something different. I won’t, because I’m proud of my Ibanez Hollow Body and Fender amp. Both sound amazing.

I will focus on writing some guitar rock songs and will focus  on improving my lead guitar soloing. Learning more scales and sounding more musical. The only scale I know how to play is the minor pentatonic scale that almost every guitarist out there should know, but am going to look into studying more scales, arpeggios, modes, and focus a lot on ear training so I can get better at improvising. Building my guitar chops to a greater level.

I also learn a lot from Guitar World magazine which is my favorite mag that I subscribe to. Guitar World is more aimed at electric guitar players.

I’ll start playing and jamming with other musicians at some point ’cause that also helps you improve and get better. I’ll even want to form my own rock band at some point down the road when I’m ready. If I were to form a band, I would do a three piece, just guitar, bass, and drums. I want to do all guitar work in the band. I won’t form a band now, but somewhere down the road whenever I get used to the electric guitar.

Kev

Thought: Dr. Conrad Murray visit’s MJ’s tomb…

TMZ posted Dr. Conrad Murray (Michael Jackson’s killer) visiting MJ’s grave…

http://www.tmz.com/2010/02/06/conrad-murray-michael-jackson-tomb-forest-lawn-photos/1#comments

So Dr. Conrad Murray is admitting to killing Michael Jackson and is about ready to surrender himself for it. He’s turning himself in for murdering a legendary pop star. Most would find Murray visiting MJ’s grave hateful and disrespectful to family, but, I think the main reason why he’s visiting MJ’s grave was to get one last look and some final thoughts about MJ before Murray is headed to prison. You can tell by the look on Murray’s face. He’s probably feeling really guilty for what he did. So he probably did went to MJ’s grave for forgiveness, I believe. He’s feeling horrible to what he did to Michael Jackson, so he went there for some time alone.

Most people commenting in TMZ are not very smart as they are making speculations and assuming things on why Dr. Murray went there. Dr. Murray had his own reasons. You can definitely tell he looks guilty as hell and very sad. Looking at his face, he’s thinking to himself that he wished he never killed MJ.

It’s clear Dr. Murray was jealous of MJ’s fame and fortune, he did it in a jealous rage. It was MJ’s responsibility and his decision to take the drugs from Dr. Murray, yes, but knowing that Dr. Murray is a psychiatrist, he probably manipulated MJ to take more drugs, talked him into it.

It’s a shame that MJ is gone. The music industry isn’t the same without him.

Kev

BREAKING NEWS: Christopher Meloni announces he’s leaving “Law & Order: SVU” for movie career…

After 12 years of starring in the NBC legendary show, “Law & Order: SVU”, one of the shows leading stars, Christopher Meloni announced he is quitting. Why? He wants to move on to bigger opportunities. He revealed he wants to do Hollywood films full time after he leaves the show.

While most would find it sad that Chris is leaving for a movie career, I don’t find it sad at all as I’m actually happy for him. I always find him very talented and he is a great actor, I think he’s going to make a great movie star.

Stars that leave TV shows do go on to become big movie stars like what happened to Tom Hanks and Robin Williams. Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and Jim Carrey (In Living Color) also left their shows for movies.

If you think Chris Meloni is going to have a failed movie career in the future, I don’t think he will. He will do good, trust me. I’ve seen Chris’s both TV shows with HBO’s “Oz” and “L&O: SVU”. I’m cetainly looking forward to seeing what his first movie role is going to be and it wouldn’t surprise me if he’ll star in some crime action drama film.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/chris-meloni-to-leave-svu-201052

Kev

5 Best Raw Guest Hosts…

A lot of wrestling fans vote William Shatner as the best RAW guest host so far. Um, no. In my opinion, I thought William Shatner hosting RAW was actually kind of lame and dissapointing. WWE didn’t use Shatner that much. He only did a few segments here and there. I was expecting WWE to do more with him.

My favorite RAW guest hosts so far were:

1. Bret Hart

2. Jesse the Body Ventura

3. Bob Barker

4. Iron “Mike” Tyson

5. Dennis Miller

Bret the Hitman Hart was indeed the best host for a lot of reasons. Very emotional having the Hitman back for the first time in years! Now he’s back full time for a while until Wrestlemania!

Jesse the Body Ventura hosting RAW was really amazing as well. That episode ended well and it was great to see Vince McMahon and Ventura at the announcers table again like the good old days.

Bob Barker was great ’cause I admired how much fun he was having out there. Plus, he was very entertaining.

Mike Tyson did a great job hosting RAW. While Iron Mike was backstage during wrestler interviews, Iron Mike was just being quiet as he listened to wrestlers talking trash back and forth at each other, making you wonder what match Iron Mike would make. Then he gets into action with DX at the end of the show. Awesome episode.

Dennis Miller, TV host and comedian hosted the Slammy Awards RAW episode. I thought Dennis did great on the mic.

That’s it, enjoy.

Kev