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.

Book Review: Twilight…

So I just got done reading the novel “Twilight” written by Stephenie Meyer. Stephenie Meyer is an author who currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Other than her writing career, she is also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, which this makes her Mormon. Since this a vampire novel written by someone with religious beliefs you will not see any profanity or nasty blood and gore in this novel. Although the novel “Twilight” was strictly written for young adults in their teens, the book has attracted to readers in all ages.

The story is about a girl named Bella Swan who moved to Forks, Washington to live with her father Charlie. Bella’s parents are divorced while her mother lives with her new husband back in Phoenix, Arizona. Bella goes to Forks high school and makes new friends while there. There is a teenage boy named Edward Cullen who she finds very strange, she didn’t like him at first but became friends later in the novel. She didn’t know what he was until she researched herself and found out that Edward was a vampire on her own. Edward wanted to be a good vampire, not an evil vampire like most are. Edward refuses to drink blood from humans, he only drinks and feeds on animals so Edward just hunts for wild animals out in the woods.

Later in the novel, Bella runs into some vampire evil, by running into something called a vampire tracker. A vampire tracker where he follows her every move just for sport. Bella then expresses her feelings of wanting to become a vampire herself so she can be out of her troubled life and be with Edward forever. Edward would not allow this to happen. Does it happen? You’ll have to read the book for yourself to find out.

As far as my thoughts on the novel goes. I’ve read it while I was on vacation in San Diego on the plane to there and back home. The book was hard to put down. Stephenie Meyer is a good writer. I enjoyed the pacing and the storyline is actually really good too. It’s actually more than just a love story, it has storylines in there that makes you wonder what is going to happen next. It has action and a little bit of horror in it as well. The movie is going to be great and now I’m glad I read the book before seeing the movie. I’ll start reading the next book “New Moon” (which is part 2 of the Twilight series) soon. This book is reccomended.

Score for Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” novel = *** 3 stars as in good

Kev

BREAKING NEWS: The Grateful Dead to reunite for a one off gig with special surprise frontman replacing Jerry Garcia…

The surviving members of the legendary jam band the Grateful Dead will reunite for a special one off reunion show on October 13th to help raise money for and awareness of presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann will reunite but will have a special guest surprise frontman to replace Jerry Garcia.

Take a wild guess on who the new Grateful Dead frontman is going to be. Yes, that’s right, it is going to be Warren Haynes, the current guitarist/singer who is now singing for the Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule.

Jerry Garcia died in the year 1995 of a heart attack while living in a drug rehab clinic, it was due to his heavy illegal drug use. The band the Grateful Dead continued to tour after he passed on.

The reason the band accepted this opportunity was that they wanted to use this performance as a test for a possible future full world tour with Warren Haynes fronting the band full time.

FOXNews reports:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,413281,00.html

I would prefer Trey Anastasio being the new frontman of the Grateful Dead but Warren Haynes is real cool, I guess. Warren Haynes is an underrated musician and he could use some more mainstream recognition, this will help him get known a little more.

Kev

Thought: Will Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” silence the nay sayers?

Ever since the band Metallica’s new direction in their sound since Load/Reload/St. Anger, people have been hating on the band ever since. Although Metallica gets a lot of haters and people bashing the band, I think the never ending negativity toward the band is getting extremely old.

I am predicting that once “Death Magnetic” is released September 12th, I think that album will finally give Metallica the respect they deserve.

I’ve heard the two new Metallica songs from the album “The Day That Never Comes” and “My Apocalypse”, and both songs are very well done. It sounds like Metallica again.

But I wouldn’t badily judge their new stuff until the whole album comes out. I think this could possibly be the band’s best album since the Black album. I just wish the haters would catch the band a break and just wait for the album to come out and then they can bash the band all they want. That’s the thing, you know, I don’t think people will bash the band anymore after the album is released because this will be the Metallica album that people have been dreaming of for a long time.

The band is releasing songs off the album early on their website because they want feedback from the public and so far the feedback of their new stuff have been really positive feedback. Definitely a big step from “St. Anger”.

Metallica will be big again like they were in the 80’s and early 90’s. “Master of Puppets” will always be the band’s best album ever made but if lucky enough “Death Magnetic” can be right behind it. The album “Death Magnetic” comes out in two weeks and I’ll be buying it for sure. I will review the album of course.

Kev

San Diego photos #2

A random plane at the Air and Space Musuem
A random plane at the Air and Space Musuem
Another random plane at the Air and Space Musuem
Another random plane at the Air and Space Musuem
A third random plane at the Air and Space Musuem
A third random plane at the Air and Space Musuem
I look ridiculous in this pic
I look ridiculous in this pic
A model aircraft carrier at the Air and Space Musuem
A model aircraft carrier at the Air and Space Musuem
Random ocean picture
Random ocean picture
This is the beach where the seals are supposed to be...
This is the beach where the seals are supposed to be...
A pic of a huge hotel building
A pic of a huge hotel building
Seal pic #1
Seal pic #1
Seal pic #2
Seal pic #2
Seal pic #3
Seal pic #3

Pics of Torrey Pines hiking coming tomorrow, and then pics of San Diego Zoo the day after, I’m only doing one set of photos a day. I have much more than this than I am posting, I am only posting the best ones.

Kev

BREAKING NEWS: John McCain confirms Sarah Palin is his running mate…

John McCain shocks the world in this years election by announcing that Sarah Palin is his running mate for vice president.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jQD-Ub1QQZgszKZ4ddpQBmVCevOQD92S1Q4OA

You’ll have to admit that Sarah Palin is a sexy and gorgeous looking woman. That could be one reason why McCain picked her so he can attract voters.

It’s hard to believe that the election is just a few months away. My money is still on McCain on the next prez.

Sorry but I don’t like Barack Obama and don’t understand why so many famous musicians and celebrities thinks he’s so great.

Kev

Report: Brett Ratner wants to make a film based on Guitar Hero video games…

The X-Men and Rush Hour director Brett Ratner spoke with MTV News announcing that he is dying to make a film adapted from the Guitar Hero video games. He says he is a huge fan of the Guitar Hero games and he loves playing the games himself.

He already has a plot idea for the film and he says the film will be about a kid who lives in a small town, he dreams of being a real life rock star, his dream comes true by winning a Guitar Hero game competition.

Brett Ratner not only wants to direct “Guitar Hero” film, he also maybe be on board to direct another popular video game into a movie which is the “God Of War” video game to be made into a film.

More on it here:

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/28/guitar-hero-movie/

Activision should not let Hollywood do a movie on Guitar Hero. The videogames market the Guitar Hero franchise on their own fine, they don’t need Hollywood movies.

And on top of that, a Guitar Hero movie would suck anyways, no matter who is directing it.

Kev

Report: Brett Ratner wants to make a film based on Guitar Hero video games…

The X-Men and Rush Hour director Brett Ratner spoke with MTV News announcing that he is dying to make a film adapted from the Guitar Hero video games. He says he is a huge fan of the Guitar Hero games and he loves playing the games himself.

He already has a plot idea for the film and he says the film will be about a kid who lives in a small town, he dreams of being a real life rock star, his dream comes true by winning a Guitar Hero game competition.

Brett Ratner not only wants to direct “Guitar Hero” film, he also maybe be on board to direct another popular video game into a movie which is the “God Of War” video game to be made into a film.

More on it here:

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/28/guitar-hero-movie/

Activision should not let Hollywood do a movie on Guitar Hero. The videogames market the Guitar Hero franchise on their own fine, they don’t need Hollywood movies.

And on top of that, a Guitar Hero movie would suck anyways, no matter who is directing it.

Kev

Report: Slash on Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” leaker, “I hope he rots in jail”…

Although Slash is no longer in the band Guns N’ Roses and never played guitar on the album “Chinese Democracy”, it seems as though Slash still has respect for Axl Rose and the new GN’R album too. The former GN’R man commented on the Chinese Democracy leaker Kevin Cogill saying that Slash hopes he rots in jail and goes on saying what Kevin did is going to hurt the music industry and the new album’s sales.

Kevin Cogill was arrested for leaking 9 tracks from “Chinese Democracy” to his blog and quickly spreaded across the internet. He was arrested by the FBI.

More on it here:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music29-2008aug29,0,729953.story?page=1

If you all look on the back of major label albums, there is an FBI Anti-Piracy warning on the back of each one. Piracy is illegal. The FBI has the right to arrest those for piracy or fine them which ever one is necessary.

So you may ask, why does the kid have to be arrested and not get sued by the RIAA, getting sued is better than being arrested? The truth is, it is not the RIAA’s responsibility to sue those who leak new albums early. All the RIAA does is sue those who illegally download music from online software, that’s all they do.

Leaking music early before an album is released without the band/artists permission is a federal law. Axl Rose owns the copyrights to those songs. If you own your own music and if someone steals it, you have the right to force legal action.

Axl Rose is doing the right thing here. I’m on his side on this. I hope the leaker rots in jail too and I hope the FBI punishes him pretty fucking hard. Stealing music from a band/artist is never a cool thing to do.

I copyright all of my own songs and if someone steals my music, I would pretty much do the same thing. Force legal action on the pirate.

Kev

Report: Slash on Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” leaker, “I hope he rots in jail”…

Although Slash is no longer in the band Guns N’ Roses and never played guitar on the album “Chinese Democracy”, it seems as though Slash still has respect for Axl Rose and the new GN’R album too. The former GN’R man commented on the Chinese Democracy leaker Kevin Cogill saying that Slash hopes he rots in jail and goes on saying what Kevin did is going to hurt the music industry and the new album’s sales.

Kevin Cogill was arrested for leaking 9 tracks from “Chinese Democracy” to his blog and quickly spreaded across the internet. He was arrested by the FBI.

More on it here:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-music29-2008aug29,0,729953.story?page=1

If you all look on the back of major label albums, there is an FBI Anti-Piracy warning on the back of each one. Piracy is illegal. The FBI has the right to arrest those for piracy or fine them which ever one is necessary.

So you may ask, why does the kid have to be arrested and not get sued by the RIAA, getting sued is better than being arrested? The truth is, it is not the RIAA’s responsibility to sue those who leak new albums early. All the RIAA does is sue those who illegally download music from online software, that’s all they do.

Leaking music early before an album is released without the band/artists permission is a federal law. Axl Rose owns the copyrights to those songs. If you own your own music and if someone steals it, you have the right to force legal action.

Axl Rose is doing the right thing here. I’m on his side on this. I hope the leaker rots in jail too and I hope the FBI punishes him pretty fucking hard. Stealing music from a band/artist is never a cool thing to do.

I copyright all of my own songs and if someone steals my music, I would pretty much do the same thing. Force legal action on the pirate.

Kev

Report: Lionsgate confirmed “Rambo V” will be in the works, and will be written/directed by Stallone…

While this article at the Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Alli Shearmur has left Paramount and she has landed a job to take Lionsgate in the lead as the companies president and boss…the article also says that Lionsgate has Rambo V confirmed with Sylvester Stallone on board to write, direct and star in again.

Quote from the article:

“On the development horizon are “Warrior,” which Gavin O’Connor co-wrote and will direct; “Conan,” a fast-tracked project with multiple scripts in the works; “Severance Package,” with Brett Simon writing and directing; “Rambo V,” to be written and directed by Sylvester Stallone; “Korean Wedding” from writer Jason Filardi; and “Kane & Lynch,” a video game adaptation that will star Bruce Willis.”

From the Hollywood Reporter:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3id8dfe313e4e793c7dead55faa50de6ce

Lionsgate has been confirming Rambo V for a long while now, but Sly Stallone himself has been pretty quiet about it lately. If Lionsgate keeps confirming it, then I guess it’s true.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Sly starts working on Rambo V next because he needs to before he gets too old. I’m glad he’s doing another Rambo.

Rambo IV did leave open for another movie as I would like some answers to the strange ending at the end of Rambo IV.

I hope Sly writes a good plot for Rambo V, he did an amazing job with Rambo IV, I’m sure he won’t dissapoint in V also. Maybe this is why Sly is taking another break from movies ’cause he’s writing a script for the next Rambo, who knows.

Kev