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.
Stallone news

BREAKING NEWS: Sylvester Stallone to be honoured at the Venice Film Festival…

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Sylvester Stallone, will be honoured a huge award at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. Sly will not only be receiving his special award, but he will also be showing footage from, “The Expendables” movie and maybe a teaser trailer exclusively at the festival. The Venice Film Festival runs from Sept. 2-12th. Sly will be there at the festival Sept. 12th to receive the award and to show footage of his new film.

More on it here:

http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/news/stallone.html

When Sept. 12th comes, I’m sure Sly at Venice festival pics will start surfacing the web. When the Venice pics comes, I’ll post ’em here.

I will also post the Expendables teaser footage, ’cause you’ll know that will hit the internet as well.

Congrats Sly!

It is no Oscar award, but the Venice award is much better than that!

Kev

Celebrity news

Thought: Heidi Montag is the biggest bitch in Hollywood, she doesn’t even deserve a career…

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I never blog about this idiot woman from “The  Hills”, Heidi Montag, but I gotta blog this one. Here is one celebrity I don’t even like at all. She is over exposed and a media whore.

This time, she goes overboard with her new Playboy cover issue that is out in stores now. Will I buy it? No definitely not. She’s not naked, she don’t show her tits or anything. Is Playboy turning into Maxim or FHM? Seems like it. Playboy is not good anymore when the magainze used to be good in the past.

She knows that showing herself naked to the world is not that big of a deal and not that hard to do, she’s doing this to piss everyone off. It’s also a stupid publicity stunt to help promote Playboy. Heidi thinks she’s too famous than us to not let us see her naked.

In this interview with her and Spencer Pratt, she said she is willing to show herself naked in her next Playboy cover….

http://www.playboy.com/girls/celebrities/features/heidi-montag-playboy-pics.html

…but still, don’t get your hopes up. When celebrities do Playboy to pose nude, they don’t really show much. There maybe like one or two photos of their bare breasts or naked ass, that’s about it.

If there were to be a female celebrity to ban from the media completely, it would not be Megan Fox. It would be Heidi Montag. I’d rather see Megan Fox do a nude Playboy pictorial and not Heidi.

Kev

movies

Report: Bryan Singer signs on to direct “Battlestar Galactica”…

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Universal Studios has found their director for the new, “Battlestar Galactica” for the big screen. The director is no one other than, Bryan Singer. He’s the director of the first two “X-Men” films, “Superman: Returns”, “The Usual Suspects”, and “Valkyrie”.

Variety Reports:

http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/singer-back-to-scifi.html

How much do you want to bet, he’ll get Kevin Spacey to have a role in this? Possibly Brandon Routh and Hugh Jackman. He may even get Tom Cruise a role in this as well. Bryan is always working with actors he’s already worked with in the past.

Kev

music

Report: Brooks & Dunn speaks on retiring from the country music industry…they blame it on writer’s block…

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Earlier in the week, country music group, Brooks & Dunn, announced their retirment from the country music industry for good…this sparked a lot of controversy all over the web. After the huge internet response, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn speak out on why they are leaving music.

They made it clear that “writer’s block” is reponsible. The duo claims they ran out of material and ideas to write new original songs. They claim they made music in every possible way they could think of that they can’t think of what else to do.

The Associated Press reports:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h4mxWhr-sQKJEedTIaeRYdEr4iCAD9A1NEC03

Very true. Sometime’s writers block is responsible for singer/songwriters and bands for quitting music. They write all the songs that they think of in their head and when no inspiration hits, nothing comes out. You wrote all the music you wanted in the past, sometimes it gets boring playing the same chords/riffs and similar lyrics in songs all of the time.

Don’t worry, Brooks & Dunn maybe back in the future. I’m pretty sure they’ll one day come out of retirement in the next several years or so when they want to get together to write new songs again.

Kev

Celebrity news

Report: “Iron” Mike Tyson finally speaks on daughter’s death…

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Some people may think that “Iron” Mike mostly cares about himself, his money, and his fame more than his family…but “Iron” Mike wants to let people know that is not true. He is here to tell people that his family is his first priority than anything else.

Tyson blames himself for the death of his daughter, since he wasn’t home to watch her at the time. He admits to feeling depressed about it. He continues to work on film and other things in his career because work keeps him functioning and helps make him move forward in life as a healthy human being.

More on it here:

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20297720,00.html

It’s nice to finally see Tyson all serious and stuff in an interview. Most of his interviews, he’s all egostitical and high and mighty. It’s nice to finally see Tyson saying that he cares for his family for once.

Kev

Celebrity/musician deaths

RIP: Les Paul 1915 – 2009

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Legendary guitarist and legendary guitar maker, Les Paul, has died at a New York hospital of complications of pneumonia, he was 94.

Les Paul has invented a guitar brand named, Gibson Les Paul, named after him. This guitar brand has brought the fame of other guitar legends like Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Al Dimeola, Slash and many more. The guitar has attracted to many other guitarists in this world whether famous guitarists or non-famous.

Les Paul has been a huge influence in the world of guitar playing, today is a very sad day in the music industry. RIP, the King of Rock guitars.

More on it here:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007241.html?categoryid=16&cs=1

music, Videogame news

Report: Johnny Cash to become a character in “Guitar Hero 5″…

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Shirley Manson of the iconic band, Garbage, will not be the only one appearing as a character in “Guitar Hero 5”. Activision is also adding the legendary, Johnny Cash as a character as well for him to perform during his song “Ring of Fire”.

More on it here:

http://www.nme.com/news/johnny-cash/46656

Yep, I think I’m completely sold to “Guitar Hero 5”. I think I will get it definitely now they added Johnny Cash as a character, badass.

They next need to add Dave Mustaine as a character for the game when he does “Sweating Bullets” in it, and they’re all set.

Kev

music

Brock gives a shout out to two area Capital District bands: Railbird and Lunic…

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I have always said that most Capital District local music today is mostly shit and music that don’t grab me at all…but there are two new bands that came around the Capital District, New York area that really impressed me.

One band that comes to mind is Railbird, a Saratoga Springs based band…

Check out Railbird here:

http://www.myspace.com/railbirdmusic

This is another female fronted band called, Lunic, they recently opened for Creed at Spac. I didn’t see the Creed show, but since Lunic is an Albany based band, I decided to check them out. Lunic is unique and great rock n’ roll like you’ve never heard of.

Lunic here:

http://www.myspace.com/lunic

I wanna try to go out and see these two bands more often. Really good stuff and finally, bands that write really great original music!!!

You don’t see much of that here. Consider me a fan of both of these bands. No offense to other Capital District musicians but Railbird and Lunic is some of the best music I’ve ever heard around here.

Kev

music

Report: George Strait actually writes more on new album, “Twang”…

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Brooks & Dunn maybe quitting the music industry for good, but not George Strait. Strait, another country music legend, is obviously still going. George Strait released another new studio album this week, a new album titled, “Twang”. This is his 38th album. Yes, he’s been around for that long.

The thing with George Strait is that out of his 37 albums in the past, he hardily ever wrote his own songs. Other songwriters wrote for him mostly, George only wrote his own songs once in a while. This album, “Twang”, he pretty much wrote the entire record himself. In this article, he vows to write his own stuff from this point on.

More on it here:

http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1618527/cmt-insider-george-strait-explains-his-new-twang.jhtml

Kev

music

Report: Phish reveals tracklisting of new album, “Joy”, disc to hit stores Sept 8th…

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Trey Anastasio and Phish has revealed the tracklisting of their new album, “Joy” which will hit record stores everywhere Sept. 8th this fall. Phish will also end their summer tour this coming Sunday, Aug. 16th at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

I will be attending their SPAC gig this Sunday and it will be thrilling to be part of their last gig of the tour this year. I’m pretty sure, Phish will give Saratoga Springs their best gig.

I’m also looking forward to their new album which I will definitely pick up. I don’t have any Phish albums in my collection but I’m going to start collecting their entire discography. I’m going to have to order Phish albums online though since at Best Buy and F.Y.E. has mostly Phish live albums, I want their studio albums.

I love Phish so much, they are one of the best bands going in the music industry today.

See their tracklisting here:

http://www.guitarworld.com/article/phish_set_to_release_new_studio_album_sept_8

Kev