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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.
music, TV

Thought: About the Adam Lambert AMA performance…

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Perez Hilton said:

“Wonder how much backlash MTV received when Britney Spears and Madonna had their infamous kiss?

Oh wait, people were loving it!”

http://perezhilton.com/2009-11-23-abc-receives-1500-complaints-about-glambert

 


He is correct. Most people loved the Britney and Madonna kiss. Why is that?

It’s because people love lesbians. Especially most straight men love lesbian women kissing each other or even better having hardcore sex. I love lesbian women, it’s my favorite kind of porn.

The reason so many people are offended at the man on man kiss with Lambert and the dancer is because there are not a lot of straight people out there that enjoy seeing two men kiss. Most people do find two men kissing disgusting. It shouldn’t be on network TV, on a regular TV channel, that is not cable. It is something called, the “ick factor”.

It was more accepting for MTV with Madonna and Britney because it’s on MTV and it was a PG-14 thing. Remember, before the MTV Awards air on TV, there is a “mature viewing matters” warning before they start the show on TV. Letting people know beforehand that there will be plenty of adult material on MTV Awards.

The American Music Awards which is on ABC, a network non-cable station, didn’t do that. This is the reason for the backlash against ABC. ABC are stupid idiots that allowed this. ABC needs to suffer some harsh consequences for this. ABC is a family friendly station and they screwed this up.

It was an embarrassing performance, and I’m sure Lady Gaga would have handled the homosexual themed performance much better as she usually does.

What ABC did was ridiculous and all they are doing is trying to follow the footsteps of MTV. Do a shock factor for ratings and controversy.

I have no problem with gay people as I respect them, but Adam Lambert is a joke and a prick who deserve no career in the music industry. His album will fail and won’t even reach high in the Billboard charts. End of story.

Kev

music, TV

Not a Cool Video: Is Adam Lambert trying to be Prince? This performance is a nightmare…

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This performance is really bad. Everything about it. The lip synching, dancing, and very offensive overall.

Adam Douchebert is clearly trying to rip off Prince. It’s very similar, Prince styled…but Prince is the king of these performances. Adam tries too hard and very amatuerish.

Boycott Adam Douchebert. I never liked this idiot and don’t understand the popularity of him. It’s typical for fans who obsess with the mainstream too much.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Cool Video: Forget treadmills, and other cardio machines, doing cardio outside is the best…

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Man this chick rules, and she’s definitely a better instructor than Scooby.

Doing outside cardio is the way to go. Jogging up of hills is very cool, I tried it.

Edit to add: Also, another idea for an intense cardio workout is that since Winter is coming do some jogging outside in the snow. It may be tough and challenging but it’ll feel good, and I’m gonna go for it this coming Winter.

Kev

movies

Film Review: “Twilight Saga: New Moon”

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Starring: Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Kellan Lutz, Michael Sheen

Directed by: Chris Weitz

Today I just saw the new Twilight movie, “New Moon” this afternoon, here is my review:

Plot/Synopsis: Leaving right off from the first film, Bella celebrates her 18th birthday after recovering from a vampire attack from the last movie. Edward Cullen, announces to Bella that he and his family are leaving Forks, Washington forever to avoid the dangers of getting killed by the evil Victoria and to keep Bella safe.

After Edward leaves Forks, Washington, Bella is alone and spends most of her time with Jacob Black. Jacob reveals that he is in a tribe of werewolves as he is a werewolf himself. He helps Bella repair a busted motorcycle so she can go and find Edward herself. Later, Bella, finds out that Edward is in Italy who is about ready to join an evil vampire clan called the Volturi which is led by Aro (played by Michael Sheen). Victoria and Carlyle who are evil vampires are also in the Volturi. Bella goes to Italy to try and stop him from joining.

My thoughts? This was definitely much better than the first. There is a major improvement. The movie pretty much followed the book, but as usual left out a lot of very important plot points that could have been added in the film.

The last “Twilight” film was too much of a tween romance film since it was made by a female director. With this one being made by a male director this time, Chris Weitz, this movie was definitely more aimed toward the adult male audience than female, in my opinion.

“Twilight: New Moon” was more darker, it stayed away from the romance stories, it only had a little bit. This one was more about survival. With this being a male director, there is an improvement in the writing, acting, directing style, better special effects and more action scenes and more violence.

The soundtrack was even better than the last too. This film didn’t over do the music of bands playing over the movie like the last one did.

I was very impressed with the acting of Michael Sheen as Aro. I know Twilight is never going to be Oscar worthy but if something was to be Oscar worthy, I think Michael Sheen is an Oscar worthy performance for a, Best Supporting Actor award. His acting was really fantastic and he played the best vampire role out of the entire Twilight cast. Knowing that Michael Sheen played a vampire from the “Underworld” series. The Volturi scenes was the best parts of the movie, in my opinion.

Only thing I’m disappointed in, from the book “New Moon”, there was a long part in the novel where Jacob Black’s father, Billy, explains everything in detail to Bella about how he and his tribe turned into werewolves, but that part wasn’t included in the film for whatever reason. The character of Billy Black wasn’t in the film all that much.

Also, in the novel, Bella discovers that Jacob Black is a werewolf on her own, but the movie didn’t have that. Instead, Jacob told her.

In this film, we get less Edward Cullen and more Jacob Black. Taylor Lautner is the leading star in this one, this time. I think Taylor Lautner is going to be a bigger star more than Robert Pattison. People would forget about Robert Pattison very quick ’cause I think Taylor just overshadowed his popularity.

“New Moon” did have a shocking ending and it did get the audience talking, mysteriously as the film got over with. The Twilight movies are improving as each one comes along and I hope they make the next one, “Eclipse”, a great one also where people won’t give the films negative reviews.

Other than that, I absolutely loved, “Twilight Saga: New Moon”. Brilliant flick. Great job, Chris.

Score for “Twilight Saga: New Moon” = **** (4 stars as in “Excellent”)

Kev

music

Thought: What would Kurt Cobain think of the Foo Fighters?

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I’ve been listening to a lot of Nirvana’s “Reading Festival” and “Bleach’s 20th edition”, both albums are amazing as Nirvana always is. After listening to these albums, I’m sure everyone wonders what it will be like if Kurt Cobain is still alive.

If Kurt was still around today, Nirvana will still not be together ’cause before Kurt’s death, Nirvana was about to break up anyways.

You just wonder what Kurt would think of the Foo Fighters music. Do you think he would love it or would he hate it?

Me? Knowing Kurt Cobain’s musical style, of the type of music he likes. He mostly liked dark punk music, stuff like the Meat Puppets to the Pixies. Mostly stuff that we never heard of back in those days.

I would think Kurt would hate the Foo Fighters. He might think they are too pop and silly for Kurt to listen to. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Foo Fighters, I think they are great. The Foo’s are different from Nirvana. Kurt would feel uncomfortable with Dave’s songwriting. Sorry Dave, but I think Kurt is rolling in his grave about the Foo Fighter’s music.

It’s just something I can’t see Kurt getting into and can’t see him enjoying it.

I think Kurt would like Courtney’s music with Hole and her solo stuff, ’cause I believe Kurt helped launched Courtney’s career. Hole was already formed way before Kurt’s death. I also read that Kurt collaborated with Courtney in Hole on a few songs for the single, “Ask For It”. Knowing Kurt Cobain’s sense of humor, I’m sure he would make fun of  the Foo Fighters.

Kurt was an amazing singer and songwriter. Even though all of his songs in Nirvana had a few easy chords for each song, they were still amazing to listen to ’cause Kurt had his own style writing these simple songs.

Nirvana deserves to be Hall of Famers, definitely, but their first single “Love Buzz” still has four more years to go to be eligible. They are getting close to 25 years, don’t worry, they’ll be inducted soon.

Kev

 

Crazy stuff, Videogame news

Report: Man to marry female video game character from, “Love Plus”…

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Do people have too much time on their hands? It appears they do. There is this guy that is a hardcore video gamer. He is a huge fan of the video game, “Love Plus”. He is so obsessed with the character, Nene Anegasaki, that he is going to marry this character. The character is only fictional, not real and in a video game. Is this guy serious? Yes, he’s really doing it.

More on it here:

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/dpgo-Man-to-Marry-2D-Virtual-Girlfriend-mb-200911211258828337252

Hey, if you can’t hook up with a real woman in real life, more power to him. Does this mean I get to marry, Lara Croft of the Tomb Raider games?

Kev

Books, Politics/war

Cool Video: Sarah Palin did the right thing leaving the Noblesville, Indiana book signing…

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I know she’s getting plenty of hate for this, but I honestly love her even more, not being sarcastic either. Sarah didn’t quit on her fans that the haters claim. These fans don’t deserve an autograph and a “meet and greet” by her. She has her own reasons for this and it’s her business.

This is life folks, everything is not perfect the way you want it. Celebrities and politicians can’t please everybody, so don’t hate her for this. If you were true fans of Sarah Palin, then you would respect her decisions.

If I travelled to one of her book signings, to wait in the freezing cold and rain for hours and if she ditched us, I would understand, and not whine about it like they would. Things like this happens all the time at autograph signings. Celebs refused to pose for photos and refused to sign autographs with me in the past before, it happens.

The people that heckled Sarah Palin after she left were all being very childish, anyways. Boo hoo.

Kev

UFC

UFC 106 was the best ppv I’ve seen all year…

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So last night, I watched UFC 106 ppv, and it turned out to be the best PPV of UFC I’ve seen all year-long. I was impressed with pretty much every fight, except for the first one, “Amir Sadollah vs. Phil Baroni” was kind of boring fight. The rest of ’em were amazing.

The fight I was impressed with the most was Josh Koscheck vs. Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. That fight made WWE’s Wrestlemania looked really bad. It felt like a Wrestlemania fight, but it was ten times better. Koscheck and Johnson are both very technical fighters, with speed and strength. Yes, both were very quick. There was a point where Johnson, busted Koscheck’s eye to a bloody mess with his knee and couldn’t see through that eye. It was an illegal move. The fight was about to end because the officials felt that Koscheck couldn’t move on, but Kosheck himself talked the officials out of cancelling the rest of the fight, which they didn’t. They kept the fight going and Koscheck was still able to fight even with a busted eye.

Koscheck with a busted eye, pissed him off. So that fired the guy up and fighting even more aggressively. Koscheck decided to bust Anthony Johnson’s eye in return, by doing what it looks like a punch at first, but Koscheck pokes Johnson in the eye with his index finger. So that got Johnson’s eye injured badly. Josh Koscheck got his revenge. The fight still kept going, beating the hell out of each other in a very quick motion and Koscheck won in the second round by a tapout from Johnson. Amazing fight, I had goosebumps watching this one.

“Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin 2” was also actually a very good one. I never saw the first fight before, when they did a re-run of the first match for UFC “Unleashed” on SPIKE before the PPV, the fight was kind of embarrassing, they were fighting like pussies in the first fight.

The second one which is considered to be the comeback of Tito Ortiz, coming out of a hiatus, it was actually a much better fight than the first. Tito sucked…still… all he did was stand there, didn’t punch or kick that much. All Tito did was do a bunch of take downs. Everytime Tito tried to do a takedown, Forrest Griffin would avoid ’em. Forrest was making it look too easy to escape the takedowns from Tito. Even though Forrest had a bloody face, yes, blood was all over his face, Tito was bleeding too a little bit…Forrest was able to get the win by split decision.

Gotta hand it to Forrest Griffin, he gets my respect. He did really great and much improvement. Forrest must of worked really hard to get his revenge on Tito and he was successful. I would much prefer Forrest knockin’ out Tito really hard, but I have a feeling that Tito will challenge him a third rematch with him. So maybe next time if another fight happens between these two.

The ppv was really really good, and I’ll probably watch these two fights again this afternoon.

Kev

music

Thought: Metallica meet and greet videos in youtube…an observation…

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Ever since the Metallica Albany show, I’ve been watching all the backstage Metallica, “Meet and Greets” at their shows during the World Magnetic Tour so far in 2009. While I’m very impressed that the band loves their fans and they enjoy meeting them, I gotta be honest about a few things.

I’m noticing that Rob Trujillo is very soft-spoken, he seems kind of shy and nervous going around meeting people he doesn’t know. He seems like a nice guy though I’m sure the fans wish he would be more upbeat.

Kirk Hammett, the same with Rob. Except Kirk is always smiling all the time, I’ve never seen him angry. Kirk always seems very happy and upbeat, but he doesn’t talk to the fans long enough. Just a handshake, a few autographs, posing a few pictures with fans, and that’s it.

James Hetfield, he is a very talkative person and outgoing. It seems he loves talking to people and meeting complete strangers. It seems he enjoys talking to people no matter what they look like. He’s very respectful. Only thing, that James does have a huge ego problem when talking to fans, but I do respect him on wanting to get to know his fans.

Lars Ulrich, he seems like a nice dude but he’s another one of those people who won’t shut his mouth, always talking all the time and acting like a class clown in high school. He’s the most talkative person out of all the band members. He’s willing to sign anything that people shove in his face and willing to pose for pics with people as well. He seems to enjoy the “Meet and Greet” action the most out of all the band members.

Wish I got a backstage pass to the Albany, N.Y. TUC show. How do these fans get backstage passes to Metallica concerts? They probably win ’em off of radio station contests. Also, the fans probably know the people who work for the venue. Not really sure how else they get ’em. They’re probably not really that hard to get that people think.

Kev