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: William Shatner responds to JJ Abrams in videoblog…

William Shatner himself responds back to JJ Abrams on why Captain Kirk isn’t in the new Star Trek movie in a videoblog made by Bill and his daughter Liz. 

Bill says he didn’t know Kirk was written a cameo and Bill said JJ never asked him to be in it. Bill also explains how he already brought Captain Kirk to life in one of his novels (“The Return” pictured above, that’s the book Bill is referring to, the book is a sequel to “Star Trek: Generations” movie). Bill explains that it was easy to bring Captain Kirk back to life while JJ said it was difficult to do. Bill has nothing against JJ Abrams as he likes JJ as a director and respects him as a person. Bill just feels dissapointed that he isn’t in the new film.

So there you have it. See the video below. Bill’s daughter Liz is very cute looking, she definitely looks like she’s in a legal age, I would say Liz is around her late 20’s, early 30’s, definitely a little around my age I would say. I could date someone like her.

Kev

Report: Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau to reteam in “Couples Retreat”…

Actors Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (he is also the director of “Iron Man”) are set to reteam by starring in the leading roles in a comedy titled, “Couples Retreat”. Vaughn first teamed up with Favreau for the film “Swingers” released in 1996, they later reteamed for the second time for the film “Made” released in 2001.

In “Couples Retreat”, Favreau wrote the script. The film will be directed by Peter Billingsly. Jason Bateman and Faizon Love will co-star.

The film will be about four couples who go on a vacation to a tropical island resort. While one couple is working on their marriage, the others are there to play, but they soon discover that participation in the resort’s couple therapy is not optional.

The film is set to start filming sometime in late October and will be filmed in Bora Bora and Los Angeles.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992477.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

I enjoyed the films “Swingers” and “Made”, I’ll be looking forward to this one too. I like both Vaughn and Favreau.

Kev

Report: Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi to star in “Middle Men”, a film about the rise of internet porn…

Luke Wilson (who is the real life brother of actor Owen Wilson) and Giovanni Ribisi is signed on to star in a film titled “Middle Men”, which is about a business man who builds the first online billing company which deals with the online internet porn industry which will lead himself into a world of dangerous people from Russian mobsters, federal agents, and international terrorists, he’s going through all that while trying to save his marriage and family.

No director has been found yet for the film but the film is being finanaced through Christopher Mallick’s Oxymoron. It will be produced by Blue Star Entertainment.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992442.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Film sounds interesting. Hope it’s good.

Kev

Thought: Metallica shouldn’t be thanking the fans, we should be thanking them…

Saw the band posted this today:

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601312

To be honest, I don’t think that “Thank you” post was necessary. I’ll tell you why.

Us fans should be thanking the band for giving us what we wanted. We wanted the true Metallica giving us our metal back and they gave us exactly that. Everyone can now love Metallica again like we all did back in the “Master of Puppets” and “Black Album” days.

So James, Kirk, Lars, and Rob, you shouldn’t be thanking us. We should be thanking you. So if there is anyway we can all thank you for the kick ass album you gave us, I’d say, I do it right here whether you boys in Metallica are reading this or not.

Thanks Metallica! You guys deserve the positive side in your career and once again, congratulations to Metallica! Yeah! Is “Death Magnetic” Grammy worthy for “Album of the Year”? I say, “hell yeah”.

Kev

BREAKING NEWS: Jack White and Alicia Keys 007 “Quantum of Solace” theme song online…

Jack White and Alicia Keys 007 theme song for the “Quantum Of Solace” film is now online, the song in it’s entirety for a free listen.

Jack wrote the song and produced it. Jack is singing the lead and Alicia is just playing the piano parts and she’s singing the backup vocals to the choruses.

Listen to the song here:

http://www.thirdmanrecords.com/

My thoughts? It’s okay. Nothing mind blowing. I do love Alicia Keys and I want to hear more of her in the song, come on Jack, let her sing more than just the choruses.

Alicia Keys is a pop R&B singer, but she’s actually one of the talented ones, I quite like her music. Like I always say, I’m not a pop music guy, I’m more into progressive rock, that is my main genre but everybody listens to something else that is not their usual genre sometimes. It’s just that sometimes it does get tiring listening to loud and angry rock music all the time, that it’s good to listen to other stuff once in a while like maybe a little pop, a little country, a little blues, classical, jazz, even techno/electonica, etc. I do listen to other genres once in a while, it’s good to listen to a variety.

Kev

Report: Slash hints Jimi Hendrix may get his own Guitar Hero game…

Slash had an interview with Rollingstone and he talked about how he was the one who talked Aerosmith into getting their own Guitar Hero game. He also said that Activision is currently working on Jimi Hendrix getting his own video game.

Activision has kept their mouth shut on whether Hendrix will get a game or not, but I’ll keep an eye on this news.

More on it here:

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

I hope it’s true that Hendrix is getting a Guitar Hero, I’d buy it if it comes out.

We all now know that Led Zeppelin will never do a Guitar Hero because they don’t want their music used for video games.

I would like Ac/Dc or Nirvana to get their own game too.

Kev

Report: Robert Plant continues to shoot down being in Led Zeppelin full time, says the band was about the music, not the fans…

Robert Plant is still shooting down rumours of joining Led Zeppelin again full time for a tour or an album. He also admits that the band wasn’t about the fans at all. He said it was all about four guys getting together to make some powerful rock n’ roll music.

More on it here:

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/bureaucracy%20putting%20plant%20off%20led%20zeppelin%20reunion_1080846

It’s actually good that Led Zeppelin isn’t going on. I’m proud of the O2 performance from last year, that’s all we need really.

Let the band members move on to other projects.

Kev

Report: Robert Plant continues to shoot down being in Led Zeppelin full time, says the band was about the music, not the fans…

Robert Plant is still shooting down rumours of joining Led Zeppelin again full time for a tour or an album. He also admits that the band wasn’t about the fans at all. He said it was all about four guys getting together to make some powerful rock n’ roll music.

More on it here:

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/bureaucracy%20putting%20plant%20off%20led%20zeppelin%20reunion_1080846

It’s actually good that Led Zeppelin isn’t going on. I’m proud of the O2 performance from last year, that’s all we need really.

Let the band members move on to other projects.

Kev