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: Kanye vs. Taylor Swift segment helps VMA’s get 11 million viewers…

Just a little more evidence that the Kanye vs. Taylor segment could be scripted. That one part helped sky rocket the ratings to 11 million viewers. Pretty good ratings, I must say. The highest ratings of any MTV VMA award show in a while.

More on it here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/09/15/2009-09-15_kanye_wests_onair_tirade_watched_by_11_million_viewers_on_mtv_ratings_are_up_fro.html

MTV hasn’t yet said publicily whether that segment was staged or scripted or whatever. They knew something like this would create controversy and to help get more viewers, so they went with this Kanye vs. Taylor thing.

It’s almost like a WWE kind of thing. Speaking of WWE, Kanye should be a RAW guest host for an episode. WWE would probably end up asking him after this. I’m sure of it.

Kev

Report: Coldplay vs. Joe Satriani lawsuit dismissed???

It seems that the Coldplay vs. Joe Satriani feud is over…but not officially. It’s just rumour right now. Reports are saying that Joe Satriani’s plagiarism lawsuit against Coldplay has been dismissed. An out of court agreement was made to settle things with both parties. Which probably means that Joe Satriani and Chris Martin has been discussing things privately behind the scenes.

More on it here:

http://www.in2town.co.uk/Entertainment-News/Music-News-Coldplay-Joe-Satriani-lawsuit-dismissed-from-court/menu-id-4588

If this news is true, that’s good news for the both of them. Hopefully Joe and Chris Martin are both on good terms ’cause life is too short to hold negative grudges.

Kev

Edit to add: Billboard confirmed the news is true…

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/coldplay-satriani-copyright-lawsuit-dismissed-1004012280.story

Coldplay is not required to admit any wrongdoings, so that means they don’t have to admit that they borrowed ideas from Joe’s song.

I always knew Coldplay was innocent from day 1, ever since this started.

Patrick Swayze…

While I’m sure TV will be showing all of his movies as a Patrick Swayze marathon all week, but his death makes me want to collect his movies on DVD, which I will do next time I go to Best Buy. I will especially buy “Ghost”, “Road House”, “Point Break” and “Black Dog”. Maybe even “Dirty Dancing” too, don’t know.

His death should be a wake up call to all heavy smokers out there. If you’re a heavy smoker like he was, I would suggest you learn to quit, so you don’t end up like him. The truth hurts yes, but smoking kills. This could happen to anybody.

It is why I don’t smoke. I fuckin’ hate cigarettes, cigars, or any cancer stick that blows smoke out of them. I sure don’t want a girlfriend that smokes. I want a nice girl that is perfectly clean and healthy.

I’m sure Patrick’s death got all smokers thinking to themselves, “Gee, I hope that don’t happen to me, I better quit smoking soon”. Patrick even still smoked heavily even when he was still battling the pancreatic cancer.

You have to feel sorry and feel so bad for his wife, Lisa, his lifelong companion and best friend since he was 18 years old. She’s got to be so torn and heartbroken.

This year’s Oscar awards will indeed do some kind of tribute and dedication to him, hopefully. May Patrick rest in peace, he is a real life ghost now.

Kev

Cool Video: “EXPENDABLES” TEASER BOOTLEGGED TRAILER ONLINE NOW!!!!

Oh fuck yeah! “The Expendables” teaser trailer has been exclusively shown at Venice Festival by Sly Stallone himself and the bootleg version of the trailer hits youtube.

I’m sure the HD version of the trailer will be hitting the nets soon.

This film looks fuckin’ great, and I so can’t wait to see this. I’m psyched. Dolph vs. Jet Li, wow! The film looks amazing. Sly will bring true action movies back.

Check it out.

Kev

RIP: Patrick Swayze 1952 – 2009

Just coming home from work and finding out that one of my favorite actors that I’ve admired for years couldn’t survive the pancreatic cancer. Yes, I was a longtime fan of this guy’s acting for years. Some of my favorite movies he has starred in were “Roadhouse”, “Point Break” and “Ghost”. He also had a great role in the movie, “The Outsiders”. “Dirty Dancing” was good, but it was never really my favorite film, I liked his other films the most.

This is an extremely HUGE loss in the movie industry since the death of Heath Ledger. Patrick Swayze was an important actor in Hollywood. It was too soon to lose him and we weren’t ready to lose him yet.

Patrick was such a great guy. There was never anything bad said about him over the years, a talented actor and he seemed very down to earth.

RIP Patrick, another legend gone this year.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008612.html?categoryid=2492&cs=1

Kev

Cool Video: Fan tries to run up to Stallone at Venice Film Festival…

A die hard Stallone fan jumped over the barricade and tried to run toward Sylvester Stallone at the Venice Film Festival but it didn’t take long for the kid to get dragged away by security. From what it looks like, the kid didn’t try to attack Stallone, I just think he simply wanted a closer look at the legend. It seems as the kid loved doing it, ’cause as he was being taken away by Stallone’s bodygaurds, the kid still had a smile on his face.

Kev

RIP: Jim Carroll 1949 – 2009

Jim Carroll, a famous poet and writer, has died of a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, New York City. He was mostly known for writing his autobiography novel, “The Basketball Diaries” which was later made into a Hollywood motion picture that starred Leonardo Dicaprio as Jim himself.

He was also a rock musician and singer. He sang for his own band, the Jim Carroll Band.

The Associated Press reports:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gbYQ1IwSM7Dt_B_gQ_0Wwww0ccngD9AMSQP81

Kev