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: John Stamos is planning, “Full House – The Movie” for the big screen but won’t star original cast from sitcom…

After the hit drama series, “ER”, left national TV…the show’s star, John Stamos, is left with no work for TV or film. What is Stamos planning next? He is planning to bring “Full House”, the hit family sitcom that originally starred: Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, John Stamos, The Olsen Twins, Jodie Sweetin, and Candace Cameron Bure…to the big screen. Yes, a “Full House” motion picture.

However, it won’t star the original cast. He plans to have a different cast play the Tanner family. Stamos says he is very close friends with the original cast of “Full House” and stays in touch with all of them…even Dave Coulier and both of the Olsen Twins.

More on it here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/05/2009-06-05_full_house_.html

Terrible idea, John. I think the show, “Full House” had a pretty good run. I would prefer the original “Full House” cast to play the Tanner family. I would think, the “Full House” fans would want the same. I think a film like this would fail.

Kev

RANT: Brock thinks myspace has officially destroyed the music industry, get a reality check bands…

Many bands/artists, famous or not, think myspace is good networking for your music. If you get a reality check and get out of your delusional minds for once, myspace has actually destroyed the music industry. Not make it better. Why haven’t I came back to myspace music with a Kev Brock music account yet? ’cause myspace is not the direction I want to go with my songs. I refuse to do anything to help promote myspace with my music.

All you bands out there, that have music accounts, you are not only promoting your music and helping yourself out, you are helping helping and spreading the word on myspace too.

I don’t go to myspace music. I don’t listen to bands in myspace music anymore. I hate going through those ten songs and then getting a pop up ad linking us to some other artist/band in myspace. Myspace gets worse everytime.

Why are albums of famous bands get leaked before release date, and then the artist uploads the entire album to myspace ’cause of the leak? It’s all because of myspace. Myspace doesn’t make your music career better, it doesn’t get you recognized.

Why would you want myspace music shoving this female artist named Katie Voegele in our faces (which she is not a great artist anyways)? Why do you think Katie Voegele is myspace music’s prominent music artist? It’s because YOU let it happen. Just by simply registering to a myspace music account to promote your own music, you helped Katie Voegele become a signed musician.

Myspace is crap for the musc industry and it isn’t a good promotional tool, if you get a reality check. That’s why myspace keeps adding all these cool new features just to get people to stay on the site and get more people to register. I hate myspace ’cause it’s nothing but advertisements there in the music section and it was giving me a headache. I don’t see how people can waste all that time doing all that work: adding friends, promoting your music, gigs, etc. It’s just all a big fucking waste of time, myspace is.

I’ve been using facebook a lot more often these days. I don’t use my facebook account for my music though, I use it for my own personal use to keep in touch with online friends. I use facebook a lot more often ’cause I am planning on deleting my myspace personal account too.

People stopped buying records in the music scores ’cause I blame myspace for that also. Myspace isn’t great marketing for your music.

Will bands ever stop going to myspace and stop making myspace pages ’cause they think it will help get them recognized? NO. They’ll continue to stay in their delusional minds. All those bands in myspace, famous or not, you are not helping your music. You are all kissing Rupert Murdoch’s ass by supporting him, just by simply having an account when you are not even realizing it. Yes, it is true. You all support News Corp. Not yourself and your music fans. All the News Corp sleazy big shots care about is marketing “myspace”. Myspace doesn’t help your music, it did nothing but help “myspace” take over the world.

That’s the point I’m trying to get at here. Yep, I blame myspace for turning today’s music industry so mainstream and pop. I miss the days when myspace wasn’t around and good music was around back then too.

Kev

Report: Steven Seagal turns down role in, “The Expendables”…

First Kurt Russell turned down a role in Stallone’s film “The Expendables”, then Jean Claude Van Damme turned it down too, who’s next to join the club? That would be the pony tailed karate master, Steven Seagal.

Sly tried asking Steven Seagal to appear in the film, but he turned it down as well. The reason? It has nothing to do with scheduling conflicts or the direction that the script was in, but it has something to do with not getting along with one of, “The Expendables” film crew members. That is Avi Lerner, the founder/owner of Nu Image/Millenium Films.

Avi Lerner and Steven Seagal don’t get along too well. Steven refuses to work on any films that is done by Nu Image/Millenium which is owned by Avi Lerner. Seagal would have loved to be part of the film if Avi Lerner didn’t have anything to do with it.

Although this article confirms that Bruce Willis is Church (no surprise), I will wait for the announcement from Sly himself so I can believe it.

More on it here:

http://www.moviehole.net/200919409-exclusive-expendables-under-siege

Kev

Finally, beat “Bioshock” today…

After working out at the gym for a while this morning, I was playing “Bioshock” this afternoon, trying to beat the game. I just beat it today. Played the game on the difficulty level. Even though the game was played in the difficulty level, the final boss wasn’t that hard to beat. Only took me several tries to beat the last boss. The rest of the game is wicked hard though. This game took me a long time to get through.

I had to buy a new PS3 game controller today, picked it up from Kmart on the way home from the gym. The game controller I was using before was having problems with it and hasn’t been working right, so I had to get a new one.

I’ll probably start “Resident Evil 5” tonight.

Kev

Thought: “Clash of the Titans” remake is looking like a remake of “300” so far…

Here is Sam Worthington as Persues in the “Clash of the Titans” remake…

Notice the similarities of the other Greek film, “300”, that starred Gerard Butler.

I know “300” is a popular movie, and a lot of people like it, sorry to say, but I didn’t like it too much. “300” felt like too much of a video game to me, and it looks like “Clash of the Titans” remake is heading to that same root.

I’ve been saying from day 1 that “Clash of the Titans” remake is a bad idea, and I still stand by it. The only reason I would go see it, is to just see Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes playing in the same movie together again, that would be the only good reason to see it.

Kev

Report: Ivan Reitman says he is down with doing “Ghostbusters 3” if the final script is worth doing…

MTV News spoke with “Ghostbusters” director, Ivan Reitman about possibly directing the third film. He says he is interested in returning as director for “G3” but only if he feels that the story is worth doing it. He is a very important director for the series since he did the first two, so he says he wouldn’t walk away from the third one at all.

Bill Murray came up with the idea of making females as Ghostbusters, Dan Aykroyd liked the idea and threw a couple of actresses in that he would like to see in it. Ivan Reitman replied to Bill and Dan’s idea, saying that he doesn’t know if the “Office” writers will go for the female Ghostbuster idea in the final script or not.

MTV Movies Blog reports:

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/06/05/ivan-reitman-could-return-to-direct-ghostbusters-3/

I’m sure “The Office” writers will make a final script to make Ivan happy enough to go back on board directing. I hope they do go for the female Ghostbuster idea as well. Being a Ghostbuster doesn’t always have to be a man’s job, right? Women can be quicker and smarter when hunting down the ghosts, so I can see why they want a female Ghostbuster.

Lets hope they make the 3rd one, similar to the first one. If they make it more like “Ghostbusters 2”, then I won’t be interested in it.

Kev

Being an athletic person is awesome…

Doing this Fitness and bodybuilding thing, it makes you feel at peace, and makes you much happier. You also get more respect from the people around you. Your family and friends will feel happy for you, that you’ll get off your lazy ass and do something more physical and be more active. You also meet new people this way.

The reason I want to get into this is not really to impress other people. I’m basically doing this for myself. I want to feel stronger, look more fit, and be more confident when I’m wearing nothing but shorts in front of people in public during the summer time.

Plus, I want to get into some kind of sport than I can physically do. I don’t do other sports like: Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, etc. I don’t even do hunting games and fishing. I just wanted to find a sport that I’m good at. I figure “fitness” and “bodybuilding” is perfect for me.

I’m learning so much different exercises and researching it so much, it’s crazy. I’ll be into this for the rest of my life, probably. Will I ever one day, show off my physique? When I start to get improvements later this year or perhaps longer, I probably will. For right now, I only have a small built but I hope to improve later this year.

I haven’t been going to the gym the last couple of days, ’cause I learned you don’t want to go all the time. Most people go only 3 times a week, I think that’s a good idea. Your body needs rests and a few days off. I plan to go back to the gym tomorrow morning on Saturday.

I plan to start buying gym equipment of my own and I’ll start that with buying a bench press this summer. I used to have a bench press, but got rid of it a long time ago.

Kev

Report: Activision files lawsuit against video game company to stop the release of a game voiced by Jack Black…

Activision has sued, Double Fine Productions, a video game developer in Santa Montica, California, claiming they transferred the rights that were owned by Activision.

An action adventure video game titled, “Brutal Legend” which the main character is voiced by hollywood actor and comedian, Jack Black, was planning to get released this year. Black plays a character in the game as a heavy metal roadie in a mythical world to fight against evil.

The Associated Press reports:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRyiac51TaKFwRT3opmPTyIwtjfwD98JVNC00

Kev

Brock still trying to beat “Bioshock”…

Now that I’m finally starting to play the PS3 a lot more often again, I’m still trying to beat this “Bioshock” game. There are 13 chapters in the game, and I’m currently on Chapter 11, “Appollo Square”. After I beat this Chapter, I have to beat two more and then I complete the game.

This game is great. “Bioshock”, I think is the best first person shooter game ever made in the video game world. Forget “Duke Nukem”, forget “Doom”, forget “Wolfenstein”, forget “F.E.A.R.”. “Bioshock” tops all first person shooters ever.

I think Gore Verbinski is going to make “Bioshock” an incredible movie. Most movies adapted from video games aren’t that great, but I think Verbinski will make “Bioshock” a very promising film. When this game gets made to a movie, I’m willing to bet you that the catchprase, “Would You Kindly” would also become a very popular movie catchphrase.

“Bioshock” has the best graphics, the best sound, the best action, best storyline/writing, etc. I sure can’t wait for, “Bioshock 2”.

I’m trying to finish “Bioshock” so I can move on to “Resident Evil 5” that I never started playing yet. I know a lot of people like to play a variety of different games in one day since they get sick of playing the same game for hours, but not with me.

I’m a one game at a time, kind of guy. Once I start playing a game, I never stop until it’s done. Then I choose a different game to move on to next.

Another game I’m interested in picking up soon, is a game titled, “Infamous”, it’s an original superhero adventure game that I’ve been reading reviews of lately. I’m thinking of picking it up soon.

Kev

RIP: David Carradine 1936 – 2009

I just got home from work this afternoon. Just learned the shocking death of “Kung Fu” TV star and Hollywood actor, David Carradine, found dead in Bangkok. It is alledged as a suicide, he was found hanging in the hotel room.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004516.html?categoryid=25&cs=1

Wow!!!!!!!!!! Shocking! Sad also, as David Carradine is one of the best actors in Hollywood ever. Nobody ever thought David was depressed and suicidal.

More on this soon.

Kev

Edit to add: TmZ confirms his death wasn’t suicide, it was accidental. He was found nude in the closet of his hotel room with a rope tied around his body. His reps confirmed that he would never kill himself.

My question is, what the hell was he doing naked in a closet?

I don’t mean to sound sick or anything but was he doing some kind of sexual bondage by himself? He definitely had to be doing something sexual privately for himself, doing some of kind of sexual masturbation thing or something. Whatever he was doing.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/04/david-carradines-rep-death-was-accidental/2#comments