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.

Boring Sunday…

I haven’t blogged much today because I was playing “Metal Gear Solid 4” on my Ps3 most of the day. I’m halfway through the game right now and I’m trying to defeat the first boss called the Laughing Octopus. It’s a pretty tough boss to beat, it’s kind of a bitch to get through. “Metal Gear Solid 4” is an amazing game though, only thing I don’t like about it is that the game has too much storyline. I want action, to play the actual game, they’re making it feel like a movie or a TV show or somethin’. It’s a great game with amazing graphics, I wish the Snake character would be more playable, then watchable, know what I mean? I’ll review the game when I beat it.

In other news, my next GED class is Oct 20th, I’ll be going to those classes Mondays and Wednesdays nights starting that day. It’s exciting getting an education again. I feel more motivated on learning the same subjects you learned in high school then I did back then.

As far as what’s going on in the world of music, as you see, I put up a cover song of Oasis “Shock of the Lightning”, I like how it came out, it came out okay. I plan to put up more series of cover songs in my youtube channel. I’ve gotten to like playing cover songs again. I plan to put up more Clash covers, more Johnny Cash songs, and I want to learn some Eddie Vedder’s solo stuff from his “Into the Wild” soundtrack, plenty more covers planned in the works.

One of my favorite things to do in youtube, is watching unsigned and amatuer musicians putting up home videos of them playing either acoustic or electric guitar by themselves, just singing and playing songs whether it’s an original song or a cover. There’s a lot of talented people in youtube. I enjoy listening to unsigned talent in youtube a lot more than myspace. I don’t listen to music of other bands in myspace anymore, youtube is my place for that now. There are talented musicians all over the world that are in youtube, it’s amazing. You’d be surprised of what you find in there.

Soon I’ll be posting my favorite videos of other unsigned/amatuer musicians from youtube here in the blog. You see I’ve been promoting other musicians from youtube here in the blog once in a while, I plan on doing that more often soon. If I like the music of that unsigned artist, one of my favorite things to do is to help spread the word of their music.

As far as what’s up with my original music, I’ve been writing some tunes on my guitar, I just haven’t came up with lyrics or vocal melodies for them yet, but hopefully soon. I’ve been writing down lyric ideas and just messin’ around with them until I come up with something good.

Hopefully I’ll start writing some actual songs soon. I want to get a new demo CD in the works for the year 2009, it’s been a while since I did one. My last demo CD was made back in 2006 which I named it “Dedication”, I’m dying to get another new demo album done soon. It will happen in 2009 I hope. Just waiting for the right songs to come around for it. It’ll probably get recorded in a profesional local studio just like the last one.

Kev

Cool Video: Stallone hints he’s working on a new film…it might be Rambo…

In this video, Sylvester Stallone was spotted in public in Beverly Hills, California.

This is one thing I love about Sly Stallone. Everywhere he goes, he doesn’t mind being bothered by fans. He’s always nice and so polite, he’s willing to talk to his fans or sign autographs. Sly is always so good with his fans. It shows that he really cares for people that cares for him.

As you see this, Sly is driving his black car which looks expensive, and he’s parking it behind an apartment building. As Sly got out of the car, the cameraman yells, “Hey Mr. Stallone”, Sly turns around and says in a Rocky like tone, “Hey, how are you guys doin’?” Then they ask if he’s working on any new movies. And Stallone says, “Oh yeah, you’ll be surprised”. Then the cameraman asks Sly if he could give any hints or clues on what film he’s working on next. Then Sly jokes, “It’ll be Rambo vs. The Muppets”, lol.

Notice how Sly brings his Rocky character to real life? He gets into this Rocky personality when he gets recognized by a fan in public. I think that’s what Rocky is, shows how Stallone is in real life, the way he talks.

Whether Sly is working on a Rambo film or not at least he’s working on something. You can see he’s being pretty secretive about his next movie, he’s not ready to reveal what he’s working on yet. When he’s ready to announce his next film, he will announce it when the time is right. It’s cool that Sly doesn’t mind the paparrazi.

Enjoy this video.

Kev

Report: Barack Osama, LOL!!!!

This is hilarious. The Capital District knows the truth about Barack Nobama.

More on it here:

http://capitalnews9.com/content/politics/125792/-osama–on-absentee-ballots-in-rensselaer-county/Default.aspx

It’s definitely no typo and no error, the person who printed the ballot knew exactly what they were doing.

McCain/Palin are doing a great job turning off Obama supporters.

Kev

Report: Barack Osama, LOL!!!!

This is hilarious. The Capital District knows the truth about Barack Nobama.

More on it here:

http://capitalnews9.com/content/politics/125792/-osama–on-absentee-ballots-in-rensselaer-county/Default.aspx

It’s definitely no typo and no error, the person who printed the ballot knew exactly what they were doing.

McCain/Palin are doing a great job turning off Obama supporters.

Kev

Thought: Guns N’ Roses, why are they so big in the news?

So the legendary Guns N’ Roses haven’t done much in their career. They’ve been around since the 80’s and they only made 5 albums. “Apetite For Destruction” and “Use Your Illusion I and II” were the band’s three biggest albums in their career while their last album “The Spaghetti Incident” was a major flop.

The band continues to go on world tours over the years and they were still making “Chinese Democracy” while at it, so I wouldn’t really call this a hiatus. Gn’R maybe on a hiatus of releasing new studio albums  but they’ve been still playing music after all these years.

Since the band haven’t done much, why does Axl and Guns N’Roses constantly makes the news all the time? You may think you’re getting sick of Gn’R news and think that “no one cares” about Guns N’ Roses anymore but I disagree.

Why do they continue to make the news in the media and everyone is hating on the band? I’ll tell you why. It’s because the public is afraid to admit that they do “still care” about Guns N’ Roses. Everyone knows they are dying to hear what Axl has in store for the “Chinese Democracy” album. Everyone think the album is going to suck and some people think the album is going to be great. Talking negative on a band is what spreads controversy and it’s something that the media loves.

Metallica and Guns N’ Roses both have one thing in common, both bands gets a lot haters with music fans, lol. The same goes with Metallica. Before “Death Magnetic” was released, while the band was making that album, even though a lot of people hated Metallica, they were afraid to admit that they still cared about the band and they were afraid to listen to “Death Magnetic” because of “St. Anger”. When “Death Magnetic” finally came out, everybody was blown away by the album, and fans gave Metallica a positive direction this time around.

Will the same happen to Guns N’ Roses when “Chinese Democracy” actually comes out this year in Nov? Who knows. That’s how you let the music speak on it’s own. Put the music out there and let the fans do the judging whether they hate your music or love your music. “Chinese Democracy” could be a major flop or a big success.

And just because the original members of Gn’R is no longer with the band like Slash, Duff McKagan, etc. does not mean “Chinese Democracy” will suck, it still has a possibility of being an incredible album. Many people online already heard the songs before it’s released and they say the new album sucks, but you can’t judge this early, maybe those Gn’R songs you heard was just “demos”, not the actual album recording. You have to wait for the album to come out and then do the judging.

I like Guns N’ Roses. I personally think their best albums were “Use Your Illusion I and II”. I do enjoy “Destruction” but it’s kind of overrated. “Gn’R Lies” is also a great record too.

So, Guns N’ Roses have all new members. So what? Big deal. Bands changes members all the time. Even the biggest bands in rock n’ roll history change band members also including the Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Aerosmith, The Smashing Pumpkins and many more to name. People are not going to stay in the same band forever, it’s just the way life and the music world is.

I’m looking forward to hearing “Chinese Democracy” if it’ll actually arrive on the shelves Nov. 23rd. I’m sure it’ll be a good album. Axl Rose is a talented songwriter and unique.

Kev

Official “Survivor Series” 2008 poster with John Cena on it…

That’s the official poster for this year’s “Survivor Series” that’s been leaked all over wrestling websites early. Well John Cena haters, look like Cena is coming back very soon probably sometime this fall before “Survivor Series”. And look like he’s going to be the main event again. *yawn*

I just hope Chris Jericho will still be champion at Survivor Series so we can get a Jericho vs. Cena match instead of another Cena vs. Orton that we’ve seen so many times.

I’m sick of Cena being gone and then he comes back again this soon. Everybody hates Cena whether he plays a good guy or bad guy. Everyone knows he’s such a shitty performer. Horrible mic worker and he only knows one or two wrestling moves.

If Cena becomes champ at Survivor Series, then I’m done watching Raw for a while.

Kev

Report: Youtube soon to run full length TV shows in it’s entirety…

Youtube my favorite website, will soon be showing full length TV shows in every single episode and every season in profesional quality. You missed some episodes in your favorite TV show and you don’t want to spend all that money for a DVD boxset of your favorite show? Not too worries. Youtube will give fans an opportunity to watch your classic TV and todays TV shows for free.

The youtube giant inked a deal with CBS to start airing shows such as the classic “Beverly Hills 90210”, the original “Star Trek” series, the daytime soap opera “The Young and the Restless”, and “MacGyver”. The Showtime shows “Dexter” and “Californication” will also get the deal.

This is only the beggining, they will start off small but youtube plans on airing as much TV shows as possible in the future.

More on it here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ib51a5e93dda16ab761d18c19ebeb15af

This sounds pretty cool. I’m all for this.

“Macgyver” is one of my favorite shows so I’ll be watching some of that in youtube when they start doing it.

Expect youtube to get all other popular shows as well such as “The Simpsons”, “The Family Guy”, “South Park”, the earlier “American Idol” seasons, “Friends”, etc.

Kev

What films will get Oscar nominated for 2009 Academy Awards?

The Oscar Academy Awards takes place Feb. 22nd in 2009 and that just a few months away, just around the corner. What films do you predict that will get Oscar nominated for Best Picture?

My predictions:

-The Dark Knight

-Changeling

-Australia

-Oliver Stone’s “W.”

-Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler”

I never seen most of those movies I’ve listed but from the sound of things those 5 films have Oscar written all over them. I only seen one of those films on the list, which is “The Dark Knight”. I am predicting “The Dark Knight” will probably win the big sweep and win everything.

Kev

My Top 50 films of all time!

Here it is. I said I was going to do one soon and so I thought I would do it now. I will do this list without an explanation and no pictures, just the list alone 1-50. These are films that I absolutely love. I love everything about these films: the acting, the story, the direction, cinematography, etc.

I can watch these films anytime and never get tired of ’em. There are films in there of all time from classics to today’s, there are even newer films that just came out in theater thrown in there as well. I know I do these lists once in a while but sometimes the top films list changes over the years when the new movies start coming out. There are so many films I like that I can’t fit ’em all in this list, so don’t be dissapointed if you don’t see your favorite listed here. These are just my favorites.

Enjoy the list:

  1. Walk the Line (Johnny Cash biopic, stars Joaquin Phoenix)
  2. Rocky (1976)
  3. The Dark Knight
  4. Citizen Kane
  5. Schindler’s List
  6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  7. The Last of the Mohicans
  8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  10. The Godfather
  11. The Godfather part II
  12. The West Side Story
  13. The Terminator
  14. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  15. Rambo (2008)
  16. The Bourne Ultimatum
  17. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  18. The Road to Perdition
  19. Cast Away
  20. Forrest Gump
  21. Traffic
  22. Training Day
  23. Scarface (Pacino version)
  24. Rocky Balboa
  25. Rambo: First Blood
  26. Rambo: First Blood part II
  27. Into the Wild
  28. V For Vendetta
  29. Glengarry Glenross
  30. 8 Mile
  31. The Passion
  32. Almost Famous
  33. Girl, Interupted
  34. Pulp Fiction
  35. Jackie Brown
  36. Reservoir Dogs
  37. Casino Royale – 007 (Daniel Craig)
  38. Memento
  39. Superman II
  40. Superman: Returns
  41. Gangs of New York (Daniel Day Lewis stars, Martin Scorsese directed)
  42. O Brother, Where Art Thou
  43. One Hour Photo
  44. The Shawshank Redemption
  45. Sling Blade
  46. The Green Mile
  47. Monster (Charlize Theron serial killer movie)
  48. Mulholland Dr.
  49. The Dark Crystal
  50. American Gangster (film stars Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, Ridley Scott directed)

Kev