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.
music

Brock buys three albums from Itunes…

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Well, I think it’s official that I will no longer buy CD’s from record stores anymore. I definitely think it’s time that I buy albums from Itunes from this point on. I’m starting to hate having CD’s and it’s definitely much better owning music digitally, in my opinion.

I bought three full albums for my Ipod from Itunes. I bought…

  • Pearl Jam’s “Backspacer”
  • Phoenix – “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”
  • Lunic “Love Thief”

I haven’t heard those albums yet, but I will listen to those tomorrow.

I like to buy those Itunes gift cards to collect music with ’cause I don’t have a credit card. I’m sure I’ll like those three albums I got.

Itunes is fucking cool, I like it a lot.

I’ll try to sell my demo CD I made back in 2006 on it if I ever figure out how to sell my own music on there, I’m doing research about it and learning. It’s complicated stuff, but I’ll try to get my own music on Itunes soon, hopefully.

Kev

Celebrity news, movies

Report: France and Poland outraged over Polanski arrest, they defend a pedophile…

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After Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland on his way to the Zurich Film Festival, France and Poland are outraged by his arrest. They vow to defend the man and to help get the legendary director freed.

Robert Harris, who is Polanski’s screenwriter, claimed his arrest was politically motivated. The Poland Foreign Minister plans to set an appeal to the U.S. to President Obama, hoping to get Polanski freed.

Poland’s film makers association claims they don’t understand why the Zurich festival would want to give him a lifetime achievement award and then have him arrested when he got there.

More on it here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSLR8949520090927?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11604

I guess these guys think it’s okay for people to molest 13 year old girls and get away with it. Then run away from the law.

Personally, I think the Zurich Festival officials had something to do with this. They gave Polanski the award purposely, knowing that he would come to the Fest and get it. The Zurich Festival are the ones that called the Swiss police to do this job. The Zurich Festival and the Swiss police wanted to help us, the United States, to catch Polanski.

I just wanted to say to the Zurich Festival and the Swiss law enforcement, thank you.

Lets hope Obama does the right thing by keeping Polanski captive and not getting him freed. If Obama orders them to “free Polanski”, this would make me despise Obama even more. Lets hope Obama does the smart thing.

Kev

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Cool Video: Fast shredding and string skipping on 7 string guitar…

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Here’s a guitar player who auditioned for Guitar World’s “Shred the Web II” contest. This guy’s playing impressed me so I had to post it.

Check out that 7 string guitar and the way he moves his hands up and down, and across the fretboard pretty quickly. That 7 string guitar has a very fat fretboard. You think this is easy to do? It takes years and long hard work to get there. You don’t play like this over night that’s for sure.

I’ve been playing for 14 years and still can’t play like this yet.

Enjoy.

Kev

Celebrity news, movies

BREAKING NEWS: Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland…

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You can run, but you can not hide. Yes, that’s right. Legendary film director, Roman Polanski, has finally been arrested. He was arrested in Switzerland, by the Swiss police as the director was on his way to the Zurich film festival to pick up his award that he was being honored for…but Roman got quite a surprise when he arrived there. Police were waiting for him and took him away to the slammer.

In 1977, Roman Polanski molested a 13 year old girl while at Jack Nicholson’s home and the actor was away at the time. Polanski fled to France, and if he ever enters the U.S. he would be arrested.

Swiss police will give the U.S. a possible extradition for the arrest of Roman Polanski. Polanski was not extradited in France, because the crime reportedly was not covered under the U.S. treaties with the country. Polanski will not be transferred and be flown to the U.S. by authorities until all proceedings are completed.

From The Associated Press:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRnW_PP9RtYpGgoc5KZiwY84hjrQD9AVMBBG0

No matter how long ago you committed a crime, it will never be forgotten. You will be caught no matter where you are and Polanski thought he could get away with everything. Finally justice has been served for Samantha Gemeir, the woman he molested years ago. Good job to Swiss law enforcement, they tricked the asshole big time.

I’m sick of everyone thinking it’s okay that Polanski can live his everyday life in another country, still making Hollywood movies. One thing that amazes me is why actors and other film crew would still want to work with this pedophile, and never do anything to get him arrested? Polanski probably pay these actors and film crew to work with him on movies some very good money.

Hopefully Polanski will be put away in prison in the US for a very long time and he can stop making movies for good.

Kev

World Wide Web

Becoming a famous celebrity for my online presence will never happen for me, I’ll explain why…

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I know some folks out there would like to see me get some national recognition for my online web presence, like ya know, become famous for it or something but you have to be realistic about these things that fame isn’t an easy thing to get. I am flattered that some people would like to see me get big and famous for my internet personality. I just don’t think it’ll ever happen, at all.

National recognition would be nice, I would like it too but looking at the reality side of things, fame is a tough world out there. I don’t think I can handle it.

First off, I would need an agent/lawyer. An agent/lawyer would get my name out there in the national world of media and agents are pretty pricey. Plus, an agent is useful because if you become famous for blogging, you’ll have to worry about other celebrities threatening to sue you for the things you write about them (ask Perez Hilton, he knows). Agents can also help you get good opportunities like appear on talk shows, etc. Things like that.

Secondly, I would need a publicist. They are also very expensive to hire. Publicist are the type of people that helps promotes you in the media, they help the news media write things about you and that’s how you would get in the news.

Thirdly, I would also have to move to a huge city. A huge celebrity city like New York City or Los Angeles, so I can be near hollywood media. Guess what, those cities are very expensive to move to.

I can’t afford to get fame and I don’t think I can handle “celebrity”.

I prefer being a minimum waged loser in a small town enjoying life. On top of that, I let my internet presence become public as a way to express myself. I enjoy talking about movies, celebrities, music, etc. This is my way of discussing my views and opinions going on in Hollywood publicily.

To those other bloggers out there that have popular internet presences, don’t ever expect to get fame for it. You’re not a celebrity, never was, you’re just a regular person expressing yourself online.

Perez Hilton and Harvey Levin are famous for what they do online because of the area that they live in, Los Angeles.

Advice to other bloggers, don’t worry about the fame, just be proud of what you do now and keep at it. I don’t think I’ll ever be a Perez and TMZ. I’m not even in their league.

My blog is just my very own little space, my own little message  board where I can have my own place to speak on entertainment. This is my way of keeping away from other blog comments, message boards, etc. I have my own place here. In other websites they call them, “talkbacks”, well this is my own talkback.

I don’t care about fame, just a regular guy enjoying what I do, blogging about entertainment news.

Kev

Videogame news

“WET” might be my next game purchase…

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I’ve been looking at this game called “WET” online, it’s a third person action adventure game where you play a female character as seen on the cover boxart of this game above.

The game has Eliza Dushku doing the voice overs for, Rubi, the main character. She has three weapons, two pistols and a sword. Malcolm McDowell also does voice overs for a character in this game. This game is supposed to be sexy, gory, and action packed.

I’m reading some great reviews of this game, and so far haven’t really seen anyone said anything negative about it.

See a couple of gameplay footage of the game below. Looks like a blast. I’m thinking of picking this game up next time I go to Best Buy.

Kev

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Report: Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck to perform a huge show at the O2 Arena in London, Feb. 13th 2010…

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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, two guitar legends will once again share the stage at the O2 Arena in London, England on Feb. 13th, 2010.

The two guitarists have been best friends for many years as they go waaaayyyyy back in the Yardbird days.

At the O2 show in Feb. Clapton/Beck will both play a set together jamming on stage, and they will both play a separate solo set alone.

More on it here:

http://www.guitarworld.com/article/eric_clapton_and_jeff_beck_plan_historic_concert

Sounds good. Hopefully this gig will be a live recording for a DVD/CD kind of thing.

Kev

movies

Report: Neve Campbell and Wes Craven sign on to “Scream 4″…the gang is back!!!

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The original cast and crew who made the first three “Scream” movies are back. Courtney Cox and David Arquette first signed on pretty early. Reports from the past weren’t sure if Neve Campbell, the leading star was going to sign on or not, now she makes the deal to star the lead once again. Best of all, Wes Craven the man who directed the first three films, is back for the fourth as well to be on the director’s chair once again.

See this report at Variety with a bunch of other movie news from the Weinstein Co.:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009176.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

While I’m glad the original cast and crew is back for the fourth “Scream”, I’ll go see it as long as the plot is good enough for me to go out and see it.

Neve Campbell was in her teens when she did the first three “Scream” movies. Since they haven’t done  a new one in a long time, Neve is now older, she’s into her thirties now.

The plot to “Scream 4” hasn’t been revealed yet, but my guess is that Sidney Prescott (Neve’s character) is now married and has a family, and they’re being attacked by the Scream killer with David Arquette’s character, Deputy Riley as a cop helping the family out. The Scream killer was already revealed at the end of Scream 3, it was a woman I think. It’ll be interesting to see what the plot is going to be for Scream 4, but this is my guess, it’s not official.

Kev