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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: Country star Kenny Chesney slams the music industry about winning his award…

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Country music star, Kenny Chesney was named, “Entertainer of the Year” at this years Country Music Awards. He has nothing against his fans and the award show itself but he does have something against the music industry that were in charge of the voting thing for his award. He had some negative and harsh things to say about it even though he asked fans to vote for him anyway.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iT1rMUjOG0-44hA2K5qejA5-jxKgD90P38680

I’m no fan of Kenny Chesney’s music but I give him credit for being honest about this. I agree with him totally, he’s dead on right!

Kev

 

TV

Report: Bill O’ Reilly vs. Keith Olberman vs. General Electric vs. News Corp…

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Bill O’ Reilly is in the news again. He is now blaming the deaths of US Troops in Iraq on General Electric. Reports are saying that Bill O’ Reilly was sent out to do this by Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. You all know how talk show host Keith Olberman like to attack FOX News a lot? Well Roger Ailes threatened Keith by saying if he doesn’t stop the attacks at FOX News, he’ll send Bill after him. That’s what exactly happened. Bill and Keith were fueding for a long while, that this ended with a ongoing feud between Genereal Electric and News Corp.

Read this 5 page article to see how it all went down:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051900651.html

Just goes to show how much power and ego that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp really have.

Murdoch or Ailes would never fire O’ Reilly, Bill O’ has too much power that he can do anything he wants on TV.

Don Imus and Dog the  Duane Chapman can get fired for saying wrong things, but not Bill.

Kev

 

TV

Report: Bill O’ Reilly vs. Keith Olberman vs. General Electric vs. News Corp…

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Bill O’ Reilly is in the news again. He is now blaming the deaths of US Troops in Iraq on General Electric. Reports are saying that Bill O’ Reilly was sent out to do this by Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. You all know how talk show host Keith Olberman like to attack FOX News a lot? Well Roger Ailes threatened Keith by saying if he doesn’t stop the attacks at FOX News, he’ll send Bill after him. That’s what exactly happened. Bill and Keith were fueding for a long while, that this ended with a ongoing feud between Genereal Electric and News Corp.

Read this 5 page article to see how it all went down:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051900651.html

Just goes to show how much power and ego that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp really have.

Murdoch or Ailes would never fire O’ Reilly, Bill O’ has too much power that he can do anything he wants on TV.

Don Imus and Dog the  Duane Chapman can get fired for saying wrong things, but not Bill.

Kev

 

Celebrity news

Report: George Takei announces wedding…

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Ellen Degeneres is the first gay celebrity to announce marriage, now here is the second. Star Trek’s George Takei who played Sulu announced he is getting married with his longtime male lover Brad Altman, they plan to get hitched in the summer.

FOX News reports:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356576,00.html

Now that gay marriage is legal in Cali, expect a lot more celebrities to follow up, this is only the beggining.

Wonder what the Star Trek cast thinks of this?

Kev

 

movies

Film Review: “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”…

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Starring: Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, and Anna Poplewell

Directed by: Andrew Adamson

 

Yep, I just got back from seeing the movie “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” the second of the 7 series of novels made into a film. The original title to the book is “Prince Caspian: The Return To Narnia” of course, they had to change it for the film version.

The second movie focuses on the story where the Pevensie kids from the first one (played by the same cast from the first), return to Narnia again by accident while the kids were waiting for a subway train to come by. An evil King named King Miraz is the new main villain for this sequel who is played by actor Sergio Castellitto. While the Pevensie’s were gone from Narnia for over a 100 years, King Miraz has taken over Narnia, the Pevensie’s must find ways to battle King Miraz and his army out of Narnia so the Narnia people can be safe. So the Pevensie kids got help with Prince Caspian. Prince Caspian and the Pevensie kids worked together to get their own army to fight off Miraz. Does Aslan the lion (who is voiced by Liam Neeson by the way) return to help the Pevenzie’s and Prince Caspian out? You will have to watch the film and find out.

As far as my thoughts on the film goes, I was in complete awe throughout the entire film. I was speechless. Amazing cinematography, and once again the film blew me the hell away. Amazing musical score, the acting is once again great. The film is violent, and pretty much action packed. The film is a lot darker than the last one. The film has some of the most baddest sword fighting I’ve seen in any fantasy film ever. The film was “amazing” and I would say that “Prince Caspian” is the best film of the year so far!!!

There are seven novels for the Chronicles of Narnia series written by C.S. Lewis. Since they already done “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “Prince Caspian”, they now have to make the other ones into films in the future. The ones they have to do left are: “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (which would be Narnia 3), “The Silver Chair”, “The Horse and His Boy”, “The Magician’s Nephew”, and “The Last Battle”. The question is, will Disney make movies of all 7 Narnia books? They probably will I would imagine. If Harry Potter can do it, why can’t Narnia? Will the same cast who played the Pevensie children play in the rest of them? Yes definitely. Because the last couple of “Narnia” books, the Pevensie kids are adults then so Disney will probably want to keep the cast for the rest of the films so they can grow older as the films go along.

I love the “Narnia” series a lot more than “Lord of the Rings” or “Harry Potter”. I love the story telling in “Narnia”, I’m just fascinated by the great characters C.S. Lewis created. I would reccomend you all to go see “Prince Caspian”, such a beautiful film, I loved every minute of it and didn’t fall asleep at all.

Score for “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” = **** (4 stars as in excellent)

Kev

movies

Report: Aaaaarrggghhhh…another pirate movie coming to the big screen, but not Disney’s Carribean…

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Dreamworks has greenlighted another pirate movie to the big screen but this time it’s not a sequel to Disney’s “Pirates of the Carribean” series. Since Disney’s “Carribean” trilogy is all done and making no more sequels, Dreamworks decided to try to keep the pirate movies going.

Dreamworks will be bringing the legendary pirate “Blackbeard” to the big screen which is supposedly based on a true story. David Franzoni who wrote the films “Amistad” and “Gladiator” will be writing the script for “Blackbeard”.

No leading role for “Blackbeard” and no director has been signed yet, just writers and producers.

Variety reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986031.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

I never liked the “Pirates of the Carribean” trilogy. I hope they make “Blackbeard” a better pirate film.

Make “Blackbeard” a bloody and violent film instead of a family popcorn flick.

Who should direct and star in “Blackbeard”? I’d say give it to director Ridley Scott since Franzoni already worked with him in “Gladiator”, Ridley would make a great pirate movie.

As for who plays the role of Blackbeard himself, I’d say give it Hugh Jackman!

Kev

 

movies, Videogame news

Thought: The success of “Grand Theft Auto IV” calls for a live action movie…

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Yes, I know. Most movies adapted from videogames are crap. But a “Grand Theft Auto” live action movie would work and would be a really good one if done right. I remember Hollywood came this close to greenlighting a “Grand Theft Auto” movie back in the early 90’s with Enimem attached to starring the leading role, but as the news reported a while back, they dumped the “Grand Theft Auto” movie just recently.

It don’t hurt to fight for it to get made. I think a GTA  movie would be great.

As for the leading role of Grand Theft Auto film, it should definitely be a younger actor. Eminem is not a bad choice, he would be good but Marshall Mathers has gotten a lot older. I think Vin Diesel would also be a perfect choice for a leading role in a GTA film. I would also root for Matt McConaughey, Christian Bale or Edward Norton for the leading roles. Any of those guys would work in my opinion.

As for villains for the Grand Theft Auto film, think how Al Pacino would be terrific for a mob boss, Alec Baldwin would make a great mob boss too. Jack Nicholson too? Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, or Sly Stallone would be awesome for a mean mob guy.

If there ever were going to be a “Grand Theft Auto” live action film, they should definitely make it similar to the videogames, make it bloody violent, with lots of drug use and sexy women in the film version. Don’t make the movie a popcorn flick, a serious action movie similar to something like the Bourne series. I hope a Grand Theft Auto movie does get made in the future ’cause if it did, it would be more popular than the videogames.

As for “Grand Theft Auto IV”, I’m almost at the end of the game already, I played it most of the weekend, I have ten more missions left. I’m on this mission titled “Hostile Negotiations” where you have to rescue this guy from the mob in this warehouse, there’s a lot of gun shooting in this one ’cause you have to fight so many enemies, this is probably the most toughest mission in the entire game so far. This mission is frusrating and pissing me off as it takes me over 20 tries, and I still haven’t completed the mission yet.

I don’t believe in using cheat codes for videogames ’cause cheat codes are for pussies, I like to play the real way.

Kev

 

movies

NEW: “Vicky Christina Barcelona” premiere at Cannes… PHOTOS…

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Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen and actress Rebecca Hall posing for photogs.

Penelope Cruz looking gorgeous!

Penelope leaving photocall after her photo session is done.

Photog #1: “Oh my, she looks beautiful”, Photog #2 “I’m about to drop my camera because of her smile”, Photog #3: “Please turn your head this way sweetheart”, Photog #4: “Penelope want to hang out with me after this?”

 

That’s all for now, no word if Scarlett Johansson appeared at Cannes or not but I’m looking.

Enjoy.
Kev

movies

NEW: “Kung Fu Panda” premiere at Cannes…PHOTOS…

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Jack, “Come on, take a picture of my big ass, will ya.” (note the cameraman behind Jack pointing the camera at Jack’s ass)

A pregnant Angelina Jolie arrives at Cannes, damn she’s gotten BIG! She’s definitely having twins or triplets for sure!

Um…leave your clothes on Jack please!!!

Jack acting goofy as usual.

Wait…is that Dustin Hoffman? Yep, he does a voiceover for Kung Fu Panda as well.

Dustin not only poses for photographers, he poses with them too!

Dustin, Angelina and Jack being in a good mood. Oh my, Angelina is just as fat as Jack! Yikes!

More Cannes photos to come as I find ’em.

Enjoy!
Kev