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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.
Politics/war, Uncategorized

President Trump is doing all the things Bernie Sanders wants but Bernie and his supporters still hating on Trump… WTF???

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I’ve always known that Trump and Bernie Sanders had similar political views. Bernie wanted to get rid of TPP. Trump did that. Bernie wanted to lower drug prices in the pharma industry. Trump did that. Bernie wanted protections for the LGBTQ community in the workforce. Well, Trump did that too! While Trump and Bernie Sanders mostly got similar views the only things they disagree with each other on is Climate Change and environmentalist stuff.

It’s really weird to me how Trump is doing all these things for Bernie and his supporters but they’re still hating on Trump. I think I would blame the media and social networking groups for that ’cause they are good at manipulating people. The media and social networking groups like “Being Liberal”, “Occupy Democrats”, “The Other 98%” will do anything to make Trump look bad even if he does good things for them.

The media, liberals and Trump haters tried to paint Trump as a homophobe and I’m sure their heads were spinning when the news got out today that Trump vows to continue protecting the LGBTQ community in the workforce. I’ve always known that Trump is a friend to the gay community, he always has been. Yet everyone still sees him as a homophobe. That’s why there are plenty of gay people who love Trump. Many in the gay community voted for him… there is a “Gays For Trump” movement, look it up if you don’t believe me.

I love how Trump is doing all the things Bernie wants and Bernie’s supporters can’t stand it that it’s all hilarious to see.

When will the left and some independent voters realize that Trump is for them too? Hopefully they’ll see it soon. Trump is for everyone, not just for conservatives!

Kev

 

Politics/war, Uncategorized

President Trump needs to realize that Barack Obama still hates him… Come on, Trump! Wake Up!

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I remember seeing on Trump’s first TV interview as president with Sean Hannity, Trump says he’s gotten friendly with Obama on TV. Trump clearly said, “I like him, he likes me”.

Trump says that at about 35:02 in this interview:

What President Trump doesn’t realize that Obama hates him. Always did. Obama lies well and pretends well. I think it’s obvious that Obama was just being friendly with Trump ’cause it was “inauguration” time and Obama just had to show respect to the new president. That was all. Now that inauguration is over, Obama is back to trying to bring down Trump. Obama just put out a statement condemning Trump’s immigration vetting and policies as you all probably should know by now.

Trump also keeps saying he has a lot of respect for the Clintons, well same thing. Hillary still hates him too.

While I think President Trump is doing a great job so far, I think him being friendly with the Clintons and the Obamas is wrong. It’s the only thing I disagree with Trump. Obama still wants to destroy America even if he’s no longer president.

Trump needs to wake up and start getting tough on the Clintons and the Obamas again just like he did during the campaign trail. Ever since getting elected and sworn in, Trump has gone soft on the Clintons and the Obamas which is sad.

The Clintons and Obama needs to be locked up. So hopefully when Jeff Sessions get confirmed as AG finally which will be today, Sessions will start to investigate the crimes of the Clintons and Obama.

Yep, Obama definitely hates Trump still. Obama wrote that letter to Trump after getting elected just to be nice and to show respect to the new President and that’s all. While Trump is doing a great job keeping most of his promises, he needs to drain the swamp. Get Hillary and Barack locked up ’cause as long as they’re out scot-free still, they will still do whatever they can to destroy America.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Learning Mixing, Mastering, MIDI virtual instruments and drum programming…

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Now that I have the full version of Acoustica Mixcraft, I’m gonna have to do research and learn how to do Mixing and Mastering. I’m not the best at producing my own music but I should be. I should learn how to produce my own music so I can make my own music sounding the best as possible. I don’t have a professional studio setup or anything, just a small basic setup. I just have the Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 audio interface and PreSonus studio monitors. I can make my own music sound really good with this small basic setup, though. I just gotta learn how to mix and master.

I don’t plan on taking a mixing and mastering course that’ll cost me a couple of thousand dollars. I’m not gonna take a college course for that or anything, I’m gonna figure it out all on my own. Teach myself how to record a professional sounding record on a small budget.

I just found an instructional book that could be me started, though. I’m thinking about ordering this book pretty soon.

Before I start making music on Mixcraft, I need Balanced TRS cables so I can hook up my monitors to my audio interface, that way I can hear playback while I’m mixing and mastering.

I do know the difference between mixing and mastering. After tracking and recording everything, I’m going to have to do mixing and mastering later. It’s a good idea to produce my own music so I can make it sound like however I want it to sound. I’ll admit when I used to record on different DAW’s in the past, I was so horrible at production but I didn’t give a shit. I just wanted to get the songs out of me and get it on recording not caring how bad it sounded but from this point forward, I’m going to take music production very seriously.

That’s why I wanted to buy a better audio interface: The Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 which is a professional enough sounding interface and professional sounding monitors. That’s also why I wanted to get a phantom powered microphone so my vocals can sound good and clear with no background sounds.

Mixing is just adjusting levels and tracks you recorded into one stereo sound. Mastering is trying to make the sound louder and adding in finishing touches like effects: Compression, EQ, etc. Also mastering to make your tracks ready to go for distributing ready for Itunes or release albums or whatever. It goes something like that, I believe.

As for MIDI, I’m also gonna have to learn to get good with that stuff as I have. Learning how to play the keyboards and learn to read sheet music and theory ’cause all that stuff is important if you want to deal with DAW recording.

If I want to put drum tracks behind my songs, I’m gonna have to learn drum programming as well. I might just use the drums in Mixcraft or I might buy Superior Drummer software as a plugin for it. I might get Superior Drummer soon which will cost a little over a hundred dollars but it’ll be worth it.

I want to make the best sounding music possible so all my listeners and fans (Yes, I do have some, believe it or not, they are out there) can listen to my tunes on their home stereos, ipods or in their cars or whatever.

I’m planning to make all my music homemade but will I sell the music online or make a real album on physical CD? Physical CD no ’cause nobody cares for CD’s anymore but I will probably release internet only albums. I’ll try to figure out how to get my music onto Itunes ’cause I’ve always wanted to sell my music on there. I’ll give it a try and figure it out.

The internet album will still happen, y’all. Small baby steps. That’s all it takes.

Kev

WWE

So the headline main event for “Wrestlemania 33” is gonna end up being John Cena vs. Randy Orton for the WWE Title? Looks like it!!!

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So I watched the Royal Rumble ppv last night and it was good. So the main event for the upcoming ‘Mania 33 is probably gonna end up being John Cena vs. Randy Orton for the WWE Title. Last night John Cena won the WWE Title from AJ Styles (which was an amazing match btw, more on that later in this post) and Randy Orton ended up winning the 30 Man Rumble matchup. So that basically means that Orton is now automatically slotted to headline ‘Mania 33 for the WWE Championship. Could it actually be Cena vs. Orton @ ‘Mania? Possibly if Cena can keep the belt for that long that is unless someone takes it from him before ‘Mania but I doubt it though. It may not seem like it but Cena and Orton never had a headlining singles match at ‘Mania before so I think it’s finally time. Cena and Orton had other singles matches at other ppv’s before but never ‘Mania. Correct me if I’m wrong. I think Cena vs. Orton should happen at ‘Mania ’cause that would make an amazing match.

It’s sad that the Undertaker lost again but I think the Undertaker will still have a match at WM-33 this year. Who would Undertaker have a match against? Undertaker will probably end up having a match against Roman Reigns. Undertaker got eliminated by Roman Reigns at the Rumble last night so the Undertaker will definitely want his payback. So watch out Roman, you just messed with the wrong guy!

As far as the Rumble match itself goes, it was pretty good but slightly disappointing. Not because that Orton won, though. I’m actually glad that Orton won ’cause that was unexpecting. They made last night’s Rumble match unpredictable this time which was good. I’m disappointed in the Rumble match ’cause they made Brock Lesnar and Goldberg look like babies, they didn’t last long in the match at all. Sad! There were also no surprising superstar returns from the past which also made it disappointing: No Kurt Angle, no Triple H, no Shane McMahon… nobody came back. Just current superstars.

I thought Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns match was really good. I’m starting to like Kevin Owens even more. After watching that match, I thought to myself, did Vince finally lift the ban on chair shots to the head? There were a few of those in that match last night I see.

I thought the best match of the night was Cena vs. AJ Styles. That match was amazing. You see Vince? That’s what we all want to see. GOOD WRESTLING. Technical wrestling finally made a comeback. That match was incredible and will go down as a classic years from now. Both men did a phenomenal job. Ya know, when I used to watch TNA Wrestling… I’ve had my eye on AJ Styles for years and I always knew that guy would be a big WWE Superstar someday and here he is. I used to hate John Cena but I don’t anymore. Cena is becoming my favorite lately and I’m liking him more and more. I don’t understand all the Cena hate ’cause like him or not, that man is very talented and works hard. My respect grew on Cena lately.

It was a pretty good Rumble last night.

Kev

Politics/war

Liberals in facebook are obsessed with re-sharing memes, sad that most of them believe them…

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I try not to be obsessed with political memes. I try not to re-share them too much ’cause I know most political memes are all bullshit… even the right-wing political memes are bullshit too but the liberal memes are the worst, in my opinion. FB liberal groups are awful. We have liberals in FB re-sharing a lot of garbage from well-known liberal FB groups like “Being Liberal” and “Occupy Democrats”. Here comes another dumb liberal facebook group that’s been getting a lot of attention by the left lately, “The Other 98%” is what I think they call  it.

I see liberals everyday re-share stupid liberal memes from various groups everyday. It’s annoying as fuck but I gotta deal with it, I guess. Most liberal memes are so one-sided. That’s all they are pretty much. Why are there so many liberal facebook groups? Well all those liberal groups would do anything they can to make the “liberal” party look good. That’s why they always re-share these memes that makes liberalism look good and make conservatives look bad. They’re always resharing quotes from liberal political figures that will make liberals drool over it. They also drool all over the liberal political memes that attack conservative political figures such as Donald Trump.

All these liberal facebook groups do is just to help promote “liberalism” and ram it down our throats even more. That’s also how a lot of people become “liberals” in social networking because most of them are totally brainwashed by these groups. If you want to know why a lot of liberals are so uneducated and dumb, it’s these liberal memes getting re-shared in facebook all the time that’s making them dumb.

If you think the MSM is bad with “fake news”, these liberal groups in social networking are much worse,  in my opinion. I just read these liberal facebook groups just for entertainment alone and it’s amazing how one-sided they all are. Wow.

It’s amazing that these groups try their best to make liberal political figures such as Barack, Michelle, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders look like “heroes” and good people when they are not. Most of us aren’t falling for their garbage ’cause we’re not that “gullible”. Liberals are trying to make themselves look good with these social network groups but it isn’t working. They lost the election this time ’cause of their “one-sided” opinions and dishonesty.

I don’t follow political FB groups too much well except for Breitbart News and that’s about all. I also try not to re-share political memes as I said above… the only time I re-share a political meme is if I agree with it or if it’s accurate. If a meme is accurate and actually “true”, it’ll probably be worth re-sharing but I try not to get into all them “memes” too much ’cause I have better things to do.

Kev

 

WWE

More on the Royal Rumble tonight… everyone’s expecting Undertaker to win tonight but…

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… something else can always happen. Here are the guys who I think that could possibly win the Rumble tonight:

-The Undertaker (There’s a lot of talk that Undertaker is retiring soon anyways so which will be his final match? The Rumble or the next Wrestlemania?)

-Triple H (HHH could be one of those 8 surprise entrants and I wouldn’t be surprised that he could win the whole 30 man matchup so he can go for another title run at ‘Mania. HHH is always putting himself in the spotlight around Wrestlemania time)

-John Cena (Cena is scheduled to have a match against AJ Styles for the WWE Championship at the Rumble tonight but there’s no stopping Cena being involved in the 30 man Rumble match too. Cena could win the whole thing and headline wrestlemania again. Cena hasn’t headlined a Wrestlemania since WM-29. Is it finally his time?)

-Brock Lesnar (Lesnar winning the Rumble tonight would make a whole lot of sense ’cause this would prove that Lesnar could get back to the top again after his loss to Goldberg.)

-Bill Goldberg. (Who knows, maybe Goldberg will actually get it and shock fans once again.)

-Braun Stroman (Maybe none of the guys above will win the Rumble. WWE has been pretty high on Braun Stroman who is pretty cool, btw so to give Stroman a huge main event push… they could shock the world and give Stroman a win. It’ll be nice if someone unknown and someone new could get the win for once.)

Yeah, I’m still a huge wrestling fanatic. I will never grow out of it. I know it’s fake and scripted but I just watch it for fun and that’s all! Hopefully tonight’s Rumble will be a good one.

Kev

 

WWE

Yeah, I’ll be watching the Royal Rumble tonight… the Undertaker will probably win the 30 man matchup…

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Well tonight the Road to Wrestlemania of 2017 officially begins. The Road to Wrestlemania always begins on the Royal Rumble ppv. I’m looking forward to it but who do I think is gonna win the 30 Man Rumble matchup? I’m predicting the Undertaker will probably win it so he can headline Wrestlemania for a shot at the title. Looks like another title-run coming for Undertaker this year which is good. ‘Taker hasn’t held the title in a long time so he deserves one-more title run before his retirement. I love ‘Taker always did.

So far, there are only 22 participants confirmed in the 30 man Rumble matchup but there are 8 left unannounced. My guess is those 8 will be surprise entrants? Who will those 8 surprise entrants be? My guess:

  • Kurt Angle (there’s a lot of talk that Kurt is returning for one more match, his Rumble appearance could lead to one more match @ WM-33)
  • Triple H (He hasn’t been on TV in a long while again. I’m feeling a Triple H comeback. We could see a Triple H vs. Seth Rollins match at the next ‘Mania)
  • Shawn Michaels HBK
  • Bobby Roode (former TNA star who just got signed to WWE)
  • Samoa Joe (another former TNA star making his way to WWE)
  • Hulk Hogan (it’ll be great to see Hulk get reinstated after all the Gawker controversy)
  • Shane McMahon (he’ll probably get involved. Would like to see more high flying action like he’s best at)
  • Sting (It be cool to see Sting again tonight. I doubt it though but it’s a possibility)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rumble_(2017)

Should be an exciting Rumble hopefully. Looking forward to the other matches too. The other matches will probably be kind of short ’cause gotta leave a lot of time for the big 30 man matchup. I’m almost pretty sure Undertaker will probably win.

Kev

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So I finally upgraded to the full version of Acoustica Mixcraft today…

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So I finally  upgraded to the Acoustica Mixcraft DAW today. I bought the half version from Best Buy like a few years back but never upgraded to the full version until now. I’m quite happy with the software. I think I’ll stick with Acoustica Mixcraft instead of all the other DAW’s that are out there like ProTools, FL Studio, Cubase, Ableton Live, etc.

What’s cool with the Acoustica Mixcraft it’s all a mixing, mastering and MIDI controller all at the same time. It has built in MIDI software in it. The software has every instrument on it you can think of and the instruments sound realistic enough. I could put drums and bass behind my electric guitar songs on this software easily.

Plus, I can make music with all kinds of instruments: strings, brass, etc. Whatever.

I’m still gonna get a MIDI controller to use with it, though… that way I can use the MIDI keyboard to put notes in instead of using the mouse and typing them in. Mixcraft is pretty nice. It not only has a piano roll, it has a “music score” on it where you put your own notes on in the treble clef and bass clef so that’s why I’m trying to learn how to read music.

Will I be making music with orchestration playing in the background? Yes! Absolutely. That’s the kind of music I’ve always wanted to make was to make music with violins, cellos, violas and brass instruments playing in the background. That’s the kind of music I’ve always wanted to sing over and who knows, maybe I’ll make a whole album like that?

First I’m gonna start with making a full band rock album before anything else though. I want to try experimenting with that. I think I can make some great rock n’ roll with heavy distorted guitar. I have plenty of riff ideas spinning in my head.

I’m also gonna have to learn how to mix and master my own music so I can make professional sound quality music. That’s what mixcraft is for, hence the name of the DAW “Mixcraft”.

My home studio setup is almost complete. Just got to get a MIDI controller and then I’m set.

Starting this year I’m probably gonna start writing electric guitar songs and get them out of me. Then I’ll try to figure out how to put drums & bass in the background.

Don’t think I can make some bad ass guitar rock? Watch me. As a matter of fact, a lot of my songs were originally supposed to be full band guitar rock but I played them on acoustic first ’cause I don’t have a band yet. Some of my songs were meant for full band especially a song like “Mr. Tough Guy” which I definitely plan on making a full band version of soon.

Kev

music, Uncategorized

Will the original Smashing Pumpkins lineup reunite for tour and possible new studio album? Hopefully!!!

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I have been obsessively following Billy Corgan’s documentary project on FB & Youtube called “30 Days”. It’s a video project where Billy travels across America. What’s the project is about? It’s just something he wants to do since he’s not touring at the moment. He’s just travelling around doing some sight seeing, checking out some different small towns & cities… he also goes around meeting people and performing songs with his acoustic guitar at random places. He does this thing called “50 for 50″where he plays like 50 Smashing Pumpkins songs over the years. He has already performed songs from “Siamese Dream” and “Mellie Collie” which both are amazing albums, btw.

There’s a lot of talk and so much buzz about the original Smashing Pumpkins lineup reuniting for a possible tour. Ya know, the original Pumpkins lineup featuring Corgan, D’arcy Wretsky, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin. According to Corgan the man himself, he says he doesn’t know if a tour would happen with them but he is talking with all the members again and he’s getting along with all of them so who knows? I think an original Smashing Pumpkins lineup tour will probably happen this year or next. If it does happen, hopefully they do a new studio album together too.

I love the Smashing Pumpkins. Always did and still do; however, like most people the original lineup will always be important to me. It’ll be fucking awesome if the original lineup would play all the Pumpkins songs from the first three albums on tour: “Gish”, “Siamese Dream” and “Mellie Collie”. All three are pretty amazing albums.

Anyways, I’m really enjoying Billy’s “30 Days” project. I’ve watched every video he did so far. Billy’s an interesting guy in real life. He seems cool and he seems like a nice guy too. I love how Billy loves his fans ’cause as he’s travelling out there, he does get spotted by die-hard Pumpkins fans a lot.

I’m looking forward to hearing Billy’s first solo album too as I will buy it when it comes out. I’ve been a huge Pumpkins fan throughout my life pretty much. They were important to me when I was a teenager in high school. I remember I used to bring my portable CD player to school a lot and I would listen to the Smashing Pumpkins during lunch or study hall or whatever. They were important to me as a kid so it would be cool if the original lineup gets back together so I’m crossing my fingers for now.

Kev

 

 

Politics/war, Uncategorized

Trump doing all the things he’s been promising and driving liberals insane even more… LOVING IT!

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So Trump actually going to build a wall. Banning Muslims/Refugees in the USA. Trying to repeal and replace Obamacare. Soon he’s going to announce a new justice for the Supreme Court in replacement for Scalia. People didn’t think Trump would do all these things. Well, he’s actually doing them and it’s driving liberals insane. Liberals heads has been exploding over Trump’s anti-abortion policies as well. All week long in my facebook page, I’ve seen liberals getting scared to death over the Wall, the Muslim ban and the anti-abortion policies. It’s all entertaining to watch.

While I don’t agree with President Trump being friendly with Hillary and Barack; other than that, Trump is doing a terrific job so far. I’m so impressed with the man. He’s making me feel like an American now. He’s making me love this country even more.

I’ve never seen presidents in the past work this hard. Trump worked all week, even on weekends. There’s no break with this guy at all. Trump gets up early in the morning and works ’til like late at night in the Oval Office.

Ever since Trump got in office, things are already looking good for America. Jobs are slowly starting to come back, the dow jones are way up and Trump just killed the TPP. Trump confirmed the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines are actually happening which is good news. Trump is doing a great job.

The days of “All Talk and No Action” are over. Time to stop talking about things and actually do them. I always knew that Trump  is the real deal. Didn’t take me long to figure it out.

It’s a shame that the media won’t stop attacking him, though. All that proves is how one-sided the media is. They’re in bed with liberal political figures. Liberals will always be on one side which saddens me really. Who cares, though. We got Trump and that’s all it matters. He’s doing an amazing job so far and hope he keeps up the good work.

Kev