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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.
WWE news

Report: WWE Diva opens automobile customization business…

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WWE Diva, Victoria (real name: Lisa Marie Varon)  just opened a customization automobile business in Louisville today. She named the business, Black Widow Customs. The business sells custom made wheels, window tinting, car audio and video, alarms, etc. A business that can make the vehicle of your dreams.

Lisa Marie Varon or Victoria will be at her new business grand opening in person to celebrate it’s opening and sign autographs for fans.

More on it here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2008/05/19/daily34.html

Imagine working at that place! A hot WWE diva opening a car business! Who knew women would be into fixing and repairing cars?

Wouldn’t it be funny as hell if a worker there is working on a car, then she comes in, he gets distracted from his work because he stares at her in admiration all day!

She is a hot woman and it would be hard to work on those cars when she’s in the place. Since she’s a performer in WWE, she’ll be performing and  traveling with WWE a lot so I know she won’t be at her business too much but I’m sure she’ll visit her business once in a while.

Kev

 

TV

Report: Axed TV shows…

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A whole list of TV shows is being axed and will NOT be coming back next season, and will never be coming back on our TV screens ever at all. “Las Vegas” (pictured of above) is one of them. “Las Vegas” is a show that starred James Caan and Tom Selleck, the show ran at least 5 years. This list confirmed the rumours that “Bionic Woman” is cancelled. Bob Saget’s game show “1 vs. 100” didn’t last long, and Kelsey Grammer’s new TV show “Back To You” was short lived as well.

I’m dissapointed in “Las Vegas” and “Bionic Woman” cancelling because they were both good shows. I could care less about the rest of them in this list.

Click here and check it out:

http://tv.yahoo.com/slideshow/261/photos/1

Thank god “Friday Night Lights” have been saved. “FNL” will last for a long long time since NBC knows that show has a huge fanbase. That show will get more popular in the future.

Kev

 

music, TV

Report: David Cook wins American Idol this year…

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The singer that once performed Chris Cornell’s version of Jackson’s “Billie Jean”, David Cook is the winner of this year’s American Idol.

David Cook is the first “rock” singer who plays real instruments to win the competition. Most of the winners over the years were pop singers and country singers. All the male rock artists never won American Idol although they tried.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iwXD4BoO2HF6nbttn2FU7Cw_ZtowD90QSJIO0

Wow! I hate American Idol but I’m shocked that they gave a rock artist a chance! Holy shit!

Over the years of American Idol, most viewers would vote on talent over the good looks and totally ignore the talent.

I guess America wants artists with real talent who play instruments and sing for real. Now it makes me wish I watched A.I. this year. It’s about time that American Idol is about to change with people that wanting to play real instruments, instead of Idol’s typical karaoke thing.

Idol sounds decent this year.

Kev

 

movies, music

Report: Scorsese out, Jonathan Demme in for Bob Marley documentary…

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Legendary director Martin Scorsese dropped out of filming the Bob Marley documentary due to busy scheduling conflicts, director Jonathan Demme immediately took over Scorsese’s place. Demme does have experience in directing music documentary films to such music artists as the Talking Heads, Robyn Hitchcock and Neil Young. Demme’s other movies include “Philadelphia” starring Tom Hanks, “The Manchurian Candidate” and more.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986278.html?categoryid=13

I am kind of shocked that Scorsese pulled out. He seems too committed to this project until now. I guess Scorsese has too many upcoming films to make on his hands.

Kev

 

music

BREAKING NEWS: The Red Hot Chilli Peppers breaks up…

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The longtime Red Hot Chilli Peppers frontman, Anthony Kiedis revealed that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers have just broken up. They didn’t break up for good, but for a long while at least. They have no grudges against each other, they just want to move on. Kiedis says he’s about to have a new son and wants do more surfing. Flea wants to learn more things on his bass guitar. Chad had joined a jazz band and moved to Japan. John wants to do more of his solo career and do other side projects.

A few articles about it:

Here:

http://www.ndtvmusic.com/story.asp?id=ENTEN20080050423

And here:

http://www.nme.com/news/red-hot-chili-peppers/36802

As a huge fan of the Chilli Peppers, I’m sad to see these guys go, but they’ll be back, I promise. This wasn’t the first time Anthony, Flea, Chad and John broke up and came back later, they’ll do it again.

While “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” is still the best album they’ve ever recorded, I would think their album “By The Way” is close behind it. “Californication” and “Stadium Arcadium” were both okay, I love “Blood Sugar” and “By the Way” way more though.

They’ll be back, so don’t be sad.

Kev

 

music

Report: Charges reduced on Trey Anastasio…

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The former frontman and guitarist for the iconic jam band Phish, Trey Anastasio has been doing well in drug treatment here in the Capital District area. Judge McKeighan has been pretty impressed with how Trey is doing in drug treatment and he is improving, and getting cleaner.

Trey Anastasio was pulled over in Whitehall, N.Y. caught with all kinds of drugs back in 2006. A legendary rock star being pulled over in our area, yes where I live in, had created a lot of controversy in the area left people wondering what the hell was Trey doing in Upstate, N.Y.

The judge dropped felony drug charges down to a misdemeanor, which is great news for him. Anastasio actually enjoys being in the drug treatment program and had some positive things to say about it as well. He just want to get clean with drugs and live a better life. While Trey is on a 3 year probation, the charges could get shorter if he continues to improve.

Trey has been living right here in Saratoga Springs ever since he was caught in 2006 because he’s not allowed to be out of the area during his probation.

WNYT Reports:

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S452141.shtml?cat=300

Once Trey finishes probation or the court lets him walk free if he improves, don’t expect Trey to live in Saratoga Springs any longer. He’ll probably wind up moving back to New York City where he was living before he was forced to move here.

Trey still makes appearances at local concerts playing guitar with greats such as Dave Matthews at Spac and Phil Lesh at the Glens Falls Civic Center.

While Trey is in the area, don’t expect him to play a gig at Valentine’s or Northern Lights because he’s too famous for those venues. It would be nice if he does play a solo gig at a small intimate venue though, he has a lot of New York fans. He’ll probably do it down the road, I’m sure. Maybe the Egg in Albany will book him, who knows.

Kev

 

music

Report: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith checks into rehab…

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Steven Tyler the longtime frontman for the legendary Aerosmith just checked himself into drug rehab at the Las Encinas Hospital drug rehab clinic, the same place where celebrity doctor and psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinsky works and where the TV show “Celebrity Rehab” was filmed.

The singer is getting treatment for substance abuse.

TMZ reports:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/21/dude-looks-like-a-rehab/

Steven’s doing a good thing. Drugs are bad.

Kev

 

Celebrity news, music, True Crime

Report: Lou Pearlman, boy band creator off to prison for 25 years…

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The man responsible for creating and forming the Backstreet Boys and N’ Sync, Lou Pearlman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on two counts of conspiracy, money laundering, and using false statements in a bankruptcy proceeding. The Judge said he would reduce the sentence if Pearlman would pay back the $1 million he stole from by one month.

Billboard Reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003806061

Good riddance! No more boy bands to make money off of now, douche!

As N’ Sync would say, bye bye bye.

Kev

 

Celebrity news, music, True Crime

Report: R. Kelly child porn tape shown in trial…

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R&B icon R. Kelly is finally in trial being accused of making a sex tape with an underage girl. The sex tape was actually shown “uncensored” and shown to the jurors in it’s entirety. The tape was about 27 minutes long and it shows a black man having sex with a young female who is an underage minor. Prosecutors say that the man in the video is R. Kelly and the girl in the tape is just as young as 13.

R. Kelly’s attorneys defended him by saying the man in the video is not him because he doesn’t have a mole on his back and R. Kelly does. The attorneys showed a photo of R. Kelly’s bareback to prove that he has a mole and that the man in the video doesn’t. The attorney’s also claim that the girl in the video is not the 13 year old they think it is, they think it’s a 23 year old prostitute seen that the man gave the girl money at the end of the video.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iDHEsJvok63RTREnCfLXu2ZvefDgD90Q1G500

R. Kelly has guilty written all over his face.

Now they are going to look into seeing if R. Kelly had surgery with a skin doctor to see if the mole was put on his back after the video was filmed. And R. Kelly could have forced the young girl to pretend to be an older hooker is another way he could get away with this.

It’s going to be hard to prove him guilty on this. One way to prove him guilty quickly if that girl in the video comes forward to prove it’s him herself.

The mole on his back really doesn’t prove anything in my opinion.

Kev

 

Celebrity news, movies

Report: Bruce Lee coming to theater…um, I mean theatre…

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Bruce Lee may not be coming back to the big screen in theater, but he is coming back to be played by an actor for a Broadway theatre play. David Henry Hwang will write the book/play for this show, and the play will be directed by, Bartlett Sher. This will also be a musical, and the music will be provided by David Yazbek. The show aims to arrive in Broadway between 2010-11. No casting for the “Bruce Lee” musical has been decided yet.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986190.html?categoryId=15&cs=1

Hmmmm, a singing Bruce Lee while fighting?

I don’t know about this one.

I hope they can cast good actors that know karate for this one though. The leading actor for Bruce Lee will need to learn Bruce’s karate skills and it’s going to be long hard work for sure.

Kev