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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

Report: Ac/Dc wants fans to cover “Rock N’ Roll Train” for youtube contest…

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Ac/Dc is having an interesting contest where the band is letting fans cover their song “Rock N’ Roll Train” in a youtube video. They allow anything goes with people covering “Rock N’ Roll Train”: group sing alongs, karaoke, electric guitar, air guitar, etc. Whatever you want. The band will be watching the videos and they will pick the best one that impresses them, the ones that they think deserve to win.

If you win, you get signature electric guitars like Angus Young’s SG Gibson, and Malcom Young’s Gretsch signature guitar, and other prizes.

See more info here:

http://www.acdc.com/giveitallyougot/

Kev

Stallone news

Report: Sylvester Stallone to be honored at the Zurich Film Festival for a Golden Icon award…

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Sylvester Stallone will be honored at the Zurich Film Festival to receive his huge Golden Icon Award for the lifetime achievement. The Zurich Festival is a film festival that is over in Switzerland. Sly will be travelling there this week to receive his award and to debut “Rambo – The Director’s Cut” at the festival as well. The festival runs Sept 25th through Oct 5th.

More here at his official website:

http://www.sylvesterstallone.com/

When photos of Sly attending the festival this week start going up online, I’ll post them in the blog.

Congrats to Sly!

Kev

movies

BREAKING NEWS: BILL MURRAY SAID HE’S GAME FOR “GHOSTBUSTERS 3”!!!!!!!!!

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This is great news!

Bill Murray who attended Fantastic Fest to promote his latest movie the “City of Ember”, he did a Q&A session on stage to answer fan questions from the audience.

Of course, someone just had to ask him if he’s willing to star in “Ghostbusters 3” to reprise his role as Peter Venkmen. Murray says he already knew that “The Office” writers were on board to writing the script. Murray went on explaining that enough time has passed and all the wounds were healed from “Ghostbusters 2”, he went on explaining how the first Ghostbusters film was the best experience in his life.

As we all know, in the past Bill Murray used to be harsh on returning to Ghostbusters 3 saying that he wouldn’t come back in the live action unless it was animated or a video game. In this video, Bill admitted his excitement for a “Ghostbusters 3” live action film grew in him after doing voice overs in the video game, he finds himself singing the Ghostbusters theme song as he’s walking down the street. Then he revealed the big news that he would definitely love to star in “Ghostbusters 3”!!!!!!

See the report at Aint It Cool:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38496

Well Bill Murray is down, three more to go. We now need to hear from Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Harold Ramis if they are still willing to star in it.

We already heard from Ramis, he was the one who revealed that the Office writers were writing the film, but that doesn’t mean Ramis is starring in it, he was pretty quiet on whether he’s starring in it or not.

I’m sure the rest of the cast would be in. Hopefully Sigourney and Rick would be in too.

Kev

movies

Film Review: Burn After Reading…

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Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton

Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen

Just saw the movie “Burn After Reading” this afternoon, the new Coen Bros. movie. I saw this movie ’cause I like the Coen Bros. work and I saw this because Clooney, Pitt and Malkovich are all starring in a movie together which is great casting.

The plot centers on a CIA analyst named Osbourne Cox (who is played by John Malkovich) quits his job after being accused of being an alcoholic when he wasn’t. Then he begins to work on a book based on his life in the CIA. Osbourne’s wife wants to divorce him, she then makes a copy of a computer disc full of his personal and financial files that were in his own privacy.

The disc ends up up at a business called Hardbodies which is a work out gym, Brad Pitt’s character, Chad, first gets a hold of it, he teams up with his fellow co-worker Linda to use the disk to blackmail Osbourne so she can get the money to pay for her cosmetic surgery.

Linda (played by Frances McDormand) is a single woman who dates men off dating services, where she meets George Clooney’s character, Harry. Linda is only using Harry because he is a Treasury (someone who works for the US Government).

Does Osbourne Cox get his personal disc back and does he save himself from getting blackmailed by Linda and Chad? You’ll have to watch the film yourself to find out.

As far as my thoughts on the film, while I do love the Coen Bros. While I do love George Clooney, PItt and Malkovich. I thought this was a bad film. Bad acting. Bad writing. Boring story. Slow pacing. It was a real snooze fest. This is probably the worst film of 2008. I didn’t like it. It’s a shame because the Coen Bros. are great film makers and I loved every film they did until now.

I prefer their earlier work. Their last film “No Country For Old Men” was absolutely amazing. What a dissapointment that they went from Oscar award winning film to a horrible film. Thumbs down to “Burn After Reading”. What was Pitt, Clooney and Malkovich smoking when they signed to this? They probably didn’t like the story either, they probably starred in it ’cause the Coen Bros. directed it.

Score for “Burn After Reading” = * (1 star as in poor)

Kev

music, World Wide Web

Report: Indie labels dissapointed at the new Myspace music…more evidence that myspace will be dead and gone in the future, sorry Murdoch, you failed myspace…

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Whoop de fucking do, even the indie label market is hating the new “myspace music”.

Check out this interesting article in Variety:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992914.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1

Attention to all indie labels out there! THE HELL WITH MYSPACE! They wouldn’t go for it. Myspace is all about “marketing” myspace, that’s all they care about so they can add more dollars to Rupert Murdoch’s fucking empire. That Murdoch douchebag is such a cash cow ’cause money is all he cares about and that’s all he wants from myspace is more cash.

Boycott MYSPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kev

music, World Wide Web

Report: Indie labels dissapointed at the new Myspace music…more evidence that myspace will be dead and gone in the future, sorry Murdoch, you failed myspace…

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Whoop de fucking do, even the indie label market is hating the new “myspace music”.

Check out this interesting article in Variety:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992914.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1

Attention to all indie labels out there! THE HELL WITH MYSPACE! They wouldn’t go for it. Myspace is all about “marketing” myspace, that’s all they care about so they can add more dollars to Rupert Murdoch’s fucking empire. That Murdoch douchebag is such a cash cow ’cause money is all he cares about and that’s all he wants from myspace is more cash.

Boycott MYSPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kev

music, World Wide Web

RANT: Seriously, the new “myspace music” blows!!!!

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*sigh*

Can myspace music get any fucking worse? What the hell!!!!!!!!!!

The new player they just launched today is awful!!! I liked the old player better. And now myspace has got fucking advertisements popping up to direct you to listen to a random band when you want to listen to music in myspace? BULLSHIT!!!!

Unsigned bands and indie artists, here’s some words of advice and my 2cents. Cancel your account and leave that damn site like I did. There are other great sites on the internet to promote your music on. Myspace is going down the drain. Of course, unsigned and indie artists/bands won’t take that advice, they’ll be obsessed with myspace ’til the day they die. They all think myspace is such a great “promoting” and “marketing” site, when they fail to realize the real truth that it don’t do shit with your music. Time to get a reality check and get why myspace is making all these new changes. BLAH!!!!!!!

Kev

music

A day of Metallica shopping…

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So I went to the mall and Best Buy today on my day off. Did a little Metallica shopping.

I picked up 3 Metallica albums: The Black Album, Kill Em All and Ride the Lightning. I don’t have those albums yet. I’ve heard the Black Album too many times but I bought it anyways just so I can own the entire Metallica discography. So I now officially own every Metallica album: “Kill ‘Em All”, “Ride the Lightning”, “And Justice For All”, “Master of Puppets”, “The Black Album”, “Load”, “Reload”, “St. Anger”, and “Death Magnetic”. I even own “S&M” and “Garage Inc”, I also own the Mission Impossible III soundtrack with their “I Dissapear” song on there.

Other than the 3 Metallica albums, I also finally picked up the “Some Kind of Monster” movie on DVD. Then I picked up the Guitar World magazine with Metallica on the cover, lol. So now you see how much I admire the band. They are one of my top 5 important bands in my life. I will watch “Some Kind of Monster” tonight because I’ve never seen the film before.

I did see a movie in theater today, I saw the new Coen Bros. movie “Burn After Reading”, review coming up shortly.

Kev

business, Crazy stuff

Report: PETA at war with Ben & Jerry’s, wants famous ice cream giant to use human breast milk instead of cows…

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PETA is on the attack again. The website that protests abuse against animals named PETA sent a letter to the Ben & Jerry’s company begging them to use baby breast milk from a human mother instead of using milk from cows. They feel that using milk from cows is abuse to them as well.

More on it here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1060925/breast_milk_ice_cream_idea_proposed.html?cat=3

Can PETA become more insane? I wonder what breast milk would taste like at an adult age. The people at PETA must enjoy drinking breast milk if they want Ben & Jerry’s to use it that bad.

Maybe milk from cow farms should be banned in the USA and all milk bought from grocery stores should be breast milk instead.

Kev

Politics/war

Thought: McCain wanting Friday’s debate postponed, just proves that he is the right man for president…

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Why did McCain pull out of the David Letterman appearance? Because the man has better and important things to do than appear on TV talk shows. Why does McCain want to postpone Friday’s debate? Because the man continues to show that he is “country first” by wanting to help out Bush’s bail out plan while Obama is concentrating on trying to win the upcoming election. There are more important things to worry about than the election and that is what McCain is concentrating on, trying to make the country better. Nobama continues to prove how much of an ego he is.

Bush’s bail out is pretty huge and in my opinion, I find it insane that the debate plans to go on this Friday. McCain is once again, the right here and being a true realist. Bow down before McCain, he is the next president of the US.

Kev