Well today, I just hung out in a small town called Saratoga Springs, N.Y. which is a cool little town in my area. Hung out in that town all day to shop around ’cause this town has some cool stores. I had to go to Saratoga ’cause I needed a few guitar things from the guitar shop. I had to get a pack of guitar strings for both electric & acoustic. I also picked up a new guitar strap for my Mitchell electric guitar. Then I went to Northshire Bookstore and picked up a couple of books I need for my writing skills ’cause I’ve been looking to sharpen my grammar skills so I picked up a Grammar book and a Rhyming dictionary for writing lyrics/poems.

Later on, I hung out at the Saratoga Public Library most of the afternoon. Got myself a new Saratoga library card and borrowed a couple of books from them. I borrowed Joe Hill’s “The Fireman” (I’m a big Joe HIll fan) and a couple of books that teaches you how to write horror stories.

The reason I’m looking to sharpen my grammar skills is ’cause I’m thinking about getting back into fictional story writing. Ya know, write short stories and even full novels. I really should get back into it. I love to write ’cause it’s one of my favorite things to do.

That’s why I blog on the internet ’cause I just love to write and blogging it’s just a nice excuse to keep writing. You’ve probably noticed that my writing skills have improved a little bit ’cause I have been studying grammar a lot. Just want to improve my writing skills. Even though I’m thinking about getting back into fictional writing, I will always write song lyrics and will try to write more poems too. Reading and writing is just one of my favorite hobbies, always has been ever since I was a kid.

Also, an interesting thing happened earlier today while I was in Saratoga town. I wore my Trump MAGA t-shirt all day. I was walking the streets of Saratoga on Broadway, thinking that some angry liberal was going to confront me for wearing the shirt but thankfully no one did. Instead, I got positive responses wearing the shirt. I’ve had three different people look at me and said, “I love that shirt!”. So that means they were probably a huge Trump fan.

There was a bunch of young 20 something girls walking by me and one of them said to me, “I love your shirt”. I just looked at her, smiled and said, “Thank you”.

I love running into other fellow Trump supporters. It’s a good feeling. It was a good day today. I just had to get out of the house and do something.

Kev

So I find myself learning and practicing the piano a lot more all week. It’s a fun instrument to learn once you get into it. I just finally wanted to play something different other than guitar. Playing piano and learning to read music is not that hard. I’ve always loved piano ballads.

Whenever I feel I’m good enough at piano, I’ll start learning some piano covers. There are songs I want to learn like John Lennon’s “Imagine”, Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”, Elton John “Tiny Dancer”, The Commodores “Easy”, The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody”, Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, Ben Folds “Brick”, Evanescence “My Immortal” and many others. Those are some of my favorite piano songs and I want to learn them.

I would love to get an upright piano or a grand piano but there’s no room for either of those so I guess I’m stuck with electric keyboards/pianos.  I just love the sound of the piano and want to play that music myself. I will also write original piano ballads myself which is something I’ve always wanted to do.

Another reason I wanted to get into piano/keyboard playing is so I can have the skills to learn MIDI controllers ’cause a lot of MIDI controllers have keys on them and I need to learn how to do that stuff. When I write original rock songs through DAW software, I would like to add in all kinds of instruments like strings, brass and other kinds of cool sounds.

Piano/keyboards is a pretty cool instrument. As long as you are pretty good at guitar and have been playing for a long time, you should already have plenty of music knowledge to get good at piano fast. That’s what happening with me when I learn piano. I’m already learning things quickly. I could get really good at piano in about a year or so. I just gotta stick with it and I will.

Kev

Once again, I find it interesting how when people decide to attack someone and when that someone attacks back, that someone is a bad person all of a sudden. I go through the same thing. What Donald Trump is going through, reminds me of how the local music scene treated me over the years.

You see, local musicians and people involved in the music scene, thought it was okay to criticize me and bash me whenever they wanted. They had no problem to make fun of me all they wanted like through social networking, message boards, youtube, even blogs, etc. I decide to call the local music scene out for this stuff and sure enough they’ll be like, “Oh no, Brock is a douche and a troll. He’s so unprofessional and hurting the music scene”.

Same thing going on with Trump and the media. Media attacks him, Trump calls them out and now they think he’s a bad guy for it.

The local music scene thought it was okay to criticize my music, my singing, myself as a person and all kinds of stuff but when I decide to attack back even more aggressively, they don’t like that. I’m not gonna name names but they know who they are and many of them probably still follow my blog… ya know, the haters in this area. People publicly trash me, I call try to call them out for it and some people say I shouldn’t be doing that. Just ignore them and play my music. Kind of messed up, ya know?

In my opinion, I think it’s a good thing to attack those back when you’re attacked first. Trump has been inspiring me to do that more. It’s called standing up for yourself and there’s nothing wrong with that. I think Trump has been inspiring his supporters to do that ’cause I’m noticing that Trump supporters attack those back who attacks them first.

We should have every right to stand up to things of what we believe in and that means fighting back at the haters & bullies that come after you. When people attack you first, don’t let them think it’s okay. Just don’t sit there and let ’em win. Sitting there ignoring them is not gonna do anything. Usually when you call out people for attacking you, they usually play innocent victim every fucking time. Happens with me each time I call someone out for attacking me. They’re like, “Oh no, I have freedom of speech” and blah blah blah. Just like what’s going on in the media against Trump.

This is all fucked up. I still get haters to this day and I try to ignore them most of the time but Trump is inspiring me that I shouldn’t ignore them. Don’t let people think it’s okay to get away with their bullshit.

Stand up for yourself. Whether you get attacked by liberals. If you’re a musician and if you get haters, fight back at them as well. No matter what you do as a hobby or a profession you’re gonna get your share of haters. If you hit Donald Trump, he’s gonna hit you back harder. He’s inspiring me to have that same attitude and you should too. Fighting back at your haters used to be wrong but Trump is making it normal. Be tough and rise above!

Kev