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.
Videogame news

Report: Grand Theft Auto IV expected to break record in sales…

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TakeTwo the company who made “Grand Theft Auto IV” (Rockstar is still with the series) has made their prediction on videogame sales, they really think this game will be a big seller and could break $400 million in the first week the game is out. Grand Theft Auto IV will be released April 29th.

THAT’S TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out this interesting article in Variety:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984089.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1

I’m sure the game will be sold out everywhere quickly on April 29th, so I’m thinking about pre-ordering at the mall before then.

This will be the biggest selling game in history.

I can’t wait to get it. It’s going to be a badass game!!!!

Kev

 

Politics/war

Report: Pope Benedict XVI vows to fight against pedophile priests!!!!

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Pope Benedict XVI just made a visit to the US, and he just announced he is putting an end to pedophile priests who molest children in the USA.

The Associated Press reports:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7CMHl_nRqEaAwSLE_odoujTS4FgD902IE002

What took so long for someone to take a stand on this? It’s about time! Pope Benedict is the man for this! Priests turning into pedophiles has been going on for over a hundred years. It does need to end completely. Benedict is doing a great thing. Kudos!

Kev

 

music

Report: Motley Crue announce “Crue Fest”…

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Motley Crue announced they are hitting the road with a new festival simply titled “Crue Fest”. The four original members Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee, and Nikki Sixx will reunite. The band previously reunited back in 2004. Other bands also included on the “Crue Fest” lineup are: Buck Cherry, Papa Roach, Sixx A.M., and Trapt. The Crue Fest tour will kick off July 1st, and will hit 41 cities in the U.S. and Canadian cities.

This tour will be in support of their new upcoming album, “Saints of Los Angeles”, their 9th studio album which will be released June 17th. Tommy Lee describes the album as “old school and new school” Crue.

The Associated Press reports…

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iB7td_3LyAMHaqn-i6Z-1279__tAD902JSG80

Another band from the past has returned. What’s with all these bands from the past returning? I’m sure they all know how bad the music industry is today, I think they are coming back to save it.

The music industry is in need of a rock revolution badily.

Kev

 

Books

Report: Harry Potter court drama – day #2 Vander Ark testifies…

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It is now Steven Vander Ark’s turn to testify in the lawsuit for the “Harry Potter Lexicon” controversy today for Day #2. As I predicted, Vander Ark is upset. He actually cried to tears as he spoke in court today. Vander Ark says the book publishing company talked him into doing the encyclopedia but he did have concerns on whether or not it violated the copyrights to Rowling’s work.

The Associated Press reports:

http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=8170345&nav=menu554_2_4

What a way to treat your own fans Loudmouth Rowling. Never try to make friends with your favorite celebrities or they could stab you in the fucking back like Mrs. Loudmouth did to this poor fellow. Not all celebrities are the nicest people in the world and this shows it. Can you believe this shit? Mrs. Loudmouth got Vander Ark so upset that he got him crying in court. What a selfish stupid idiot she is.

Kev

 

movies

Report: Spielberg for “Ghost in the Shell” live action 3-D???

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Dreamworks studios has just acquired the rights to make “Ghost in the Shell” anime into a live action 3D movie and iconic director Steven Spielberg immediately jumped in the interest on directing it. He loves “Ghost in the Shell” anime films so much that he badily wants to make the live action.

“Ghost in the Shell” is a Japanese animated futuristic police story that fights against technology related crime.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984029.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

As long as Spielberg wants in, Dreamworks will definitely give this opportunity for him. They’ll just look at what Spielberg did to “Minority Report” and “Artificial Intelligence” and they’ll say, “Spielberg has what it takes to make futuristic films”.

Spielberg would make a good “Ghost in the Shell” movie, as long as Spielberg don’t get Tom Cruise for this one, I’ll go see it.

Kev

 

music

Report: Eddie Vedder rocks solo, plays first show in Los Angeles…

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Eddie Vedder decides to take a break from Pearl Jam to do a solo tour in support of his album soundtrack for the film “Into the Wild” (the album is one of the best Soundtracks of a film I ever heard) by playing his first show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The audience at the Wiltern venue was jam packed with mostly Pearl Jam fans of course. Eddie Vedder mostly played stuff from the “Into the Wild” soundtrack in it ‘s entirety, he also played several cover songs and of course, you guess it, he played some Pearl Jam songs acoustically as well.

Eddie also had special guest duets on stage, Liam Finn dueted with Eddie in the song “Society” from “Into the Wild” and Ben Harper played slide guitar and sang with Vedder on a few songs too.

Throughout Eddie’s entire acoustic set, the audience screamed and begged him to perform “Yellow Ledbetter” seems like that’s the only song the audience wanted to hear, nothing else. Eddie played at the Wintern for 2 hours and 2 nights in a row.

Entertainment Weekly reports:

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/04/eddie-vedder-so.html

If I was at that concert, I would have been there to appreciate the music, rather than being obsessed of forcing Eddie to play “Yellow Ledbetter”. Sounds like a great show Eddie played, I would have loved to been there. I would have loved to see him play those songs from “Into the Wild” live. That would have been an amazing experience.

If you were a true Pearl Jam fan, you would respect Eddie as a solo artist. Sounds to me the Pearl Jam fans don’t respect Eddie as a solo artist, they just wanted him to play Pearl Jam songs throughout the entire thing.

I would suggest Eddie to not allow Pearl Jam fans at his acoustic shows and just have regular music fans if he wants to be respected as a solo artist.

The audience was just a bunch of wannabe Pearl Jam fans. Sad.

Kev

 

 

music

Report: Madonna to perform intimate show in NYC and to be live on the web…

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Madonna will perform her first show in NYC with a small intimate performance at the Roseland Ballroom on April 30th in support of her new and last album “Hard Candy”. The concert will be cybercasted live on the web on msn in the US and it will replay internationally May 15th. This concert will be the day after “Hard Candy” is released in stores everywhere April 29th.

Billboard reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003789617

Besides playing her new songs on the album “Hard Candy”, I hope she performs some of her old classics from the 80’s. If she doesn’t perform “Like a Virgin” or “Holiday”, then it won’t seem like a real Madonna show.

I’ll probably pick up “Hard Candy” when it’s out. I’ll definitely try to watch her NYC concert on MSN if I can.

Kev

 

music

Report: Hey yo homey, Bill Cosby will release a hip hop music album next month fo shizzle yo…

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Legendary comic Bill Cosby is set to release a hip hop music album titled “Cosby Narratives Vol 1: State of Emergency” set for release next month in May. It’ll have mixture of genres from rap, jazz, and pop. Cosby says the profanity used in rap music these days is profane and degrading. Cosby revealed about the album that he won’t actually be rapping in it, he’ll be doing “spoken word” over the music.

The Associated Press reports:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_BILL_COSBY_GENT-?SITE=WIFON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Just like Bill Shat, Cosby is multi-talented too. We need a Cosby comeback to TV.

Kev

 

music

Report: Hey yo homey, Bill Cosby will release a hip hop music album next month fo shizzle yo…

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Legendary comic Bill Cosby is set to release a hip hop music album titled “Cosby Narratives Vol 1: State of Emergency” set for release next month in May. It’ll have mixture of genres from rap, jazz, and pop. Cosby says the profanity used in rap music these days is profane and degrading. Cosby revealed about the album that he won’t actually be rapping in it, he’ll be doing “spoken word” over the music.

The Associated Press reports:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_BILL_COSBY_GENT-?SITE=WIFON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Just like Bill Shat, Cosby is multi-talented too. We need a Cosby comeback to TV.

Kev

 

Books

Thought: Why I think Loudmouth Rowling is wrong…

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Yes, Loudmouth Rowling has every right to control her work since she owns the copyright to Harry Potter, I even said it was all about copyright when I first reported the story. So I know all about copyright infrigement.

What’s fucked about this story and what pisses me off so much about it, that Steven Vander Ark commended nicely to Rowling that she supported his website, and respected her to visiting his website, he wrote an open letter to her thanking her for it:

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/jkr-letter.html

In an article I posted earlier, she responded back saying nice things to Vander Ark and the website, and such.

In today’s court hearing she said nasty things about Vander Ark like accusing him of “jumping the Harry Potter phenomenon” bandwagon, and call him out in all kinds of nasty bullshit. Vander Ark have to be upset right now. I’m sure he’s sad about it.

She has the right to control her work how she wants but if you read the article I posted below again…

right here…quote from article “Vander Ark was contacted by an RDR Books employee, who told him that publication of the lexicon would not violate copyright law, he said.”

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080413/D9012L9O0.html

The book publishing company even flat out said that the book would not violate copyright law. This is why Vander Ark has every right to do this Encyclopedia. This is why he is going to win. Maybe the employee was wrong when he said it doesn’t violate copyrights, but a book company wouldn’t lie about something like that.

If writers can continue to write Star Trek and Star Wars fiction novels, it does not violate the copyright to those. Vander Ark’s “Lexicon” is written so Harry Potter fans can be entertained by, not to create a negative impact, I don’t know what Mrs. Loudmouth is worried about.  She should appreciate his promotion and marketing of Harry Potter and appreciate him being a fan, this is how he gets treated, being treated like dirt by an ego driven author. This is coming from the same woman who said one of the Harry Potter characters is gay when it wasn’t mentioned in the books and it created controversy in the news, this woman is a loudmouth because that’s what she is.

Oh yeah, and this gets better, she once said she was quitting the Harry Potter series for good and now she’s thinking about doing another one. Mrs. Loudmouth Attention Whore. I can come up with a lot of funny names for her.

Keep your head up high Steven, don’t let this egomaniac bring you down.

Kev