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.

Creed frontman, Scott Stapp, announces that he’s homeless due to battle with IRS…

This is very sad. A shame what’s happening to former Creed frontman, Scott Stapp who is now homeless due to a nasty battle with the IRS. While squashing rumors of his death and drug/alcohol addiction, Scott posted a 15 minute long video revealing to the whole world of what’s going on in his life right now. It’s not very good either and this is coming from a singer who fronted one of the biggest band’s in rock history. Creed only released 4 albums in their career and all of them were very successful in the Billboard charts. They were a pretty mainstream and commercial band in the late 90’s and early 2000’s years.

If you think being a rock star makes you rich and make you feel glorious with all the fame and fortune, you may wanna watch this video.

I’m a fan of the band Creed. I know this band is not everyone’s favorite but I dig the band. I bought their albums and saw them in concert like two or three times. It was an honor to see Scott sing on a stage when I had the chance.

I don’t wanna gossip about him or speculate on what’s going with his personal life but it sounds like his divorce with his wife may be a part of it.

Now that he posted that video, I think people will try to help him now. People will try to send him some donations and I’m sure his bandmates in Creed will help him out as well.

The video is pretty sad and almost brought tears to my eyes admittedly. Remember, being a rock star is not always great. You’ll deal with a lot of setbacks. A lot of ups and downs. Fame and fortune can ruin your life.

This just goes to show how shady the IRS really is and what the economy could do to all of us. Wake up, America.

Kev

TV director, Michelle Maclaren to helm her first big budget big screen movie… “Wonder Woman” it is…

If I remember correctly, Michelle Maclaren was the one who directed that one shocking, “Walking Dead” episode that I remember. That one episode when the Walking Dead cast had that big barn shootout and Carol’s daughter ended up being a walker.

Michelle also directed a few episodes for other iconic TV shows such as “Game of Thrones” and “Breaking Bad”. Looking at her filmography, I don’t think she ever did big budget films so I guess you can consider, “Wonder Woman” being her directorial debut for the big screen. She spent many years of her life working on TV and it must be amazing for her to get asked by Warner Bros. to helm the “Wonder Woman” standalone movie.

Gal Gadot will still star as Wonder Woman for the film as well.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/michelle-maclaren-signs-develop-direct-752055

I hope Michelle does a good job and makes us a good “Wonder Woman” movie. I think it’s finally time for female superheroes to get the spotlight.

I know Warner Bros. have been trying very hard to make a “Wonder Woman” big screen movie since 1996 but they never got it off the ground until now. I remember Joss Whedon was originally attached to write and direct “Wonder Woman” but later on he changed his mind and said no so the film didn’t happen.

Gal Gadot has a busy career up ahead of her. She’s gotta star in “Batman Vs. Superman”, then her “Wonder Woman” movie and then the upcoming “Justice League”.

I’m sure Michelle will make the “Wonder Woman” film fun and exciting. Looking forward to seeing what she’s gonna do with the film. Congrats to Michelle on a big opportunity.

Kev

The big screen version of Stephen King’s “The Stand” will be 4 parts and Matt McConaughey set to play Randall Flagg!!!

Even more good movie news, the big screen version of “The Stand” based upon the book by Stephen King will be split into 4 parts. “The Fault In Our Stars” director, Josh Boone will helm the big screen version of “The Stand”. Matt McConaughey have also been signed to play the film’s main villain, Randall Flagg which is gonna be awesome!!!

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/24/matthew-mcconaughey-the-stand-stephen-king-adaptation

I remember seeing the mini-series version of “The Stand” on TV w/ Gary Sinise in the leading role and I remember it being pretty good.

I’m excited for Matt McConaughey playing Randall Flagg. Randall Flagg is a very popular Stephen King villain. Matt have been my favorite actor for a long while now. I’ve been impressed with him as of late. I loved Matt’s acting in movies like “Interstellar”, “The Wolf Of Wall Street” and “Killer Joe”. “The Lincoln Lawyer” was a pretty good movie too.

I think Matt’s gonna make a great, Randall Flagg. He’s gonna kill that role. Some of you out there may have not seen Matt play a villain before but he did play a villain in a movie before. Check out his movie, “Killer Joe” and you would see that he can play a great villain that makes you want to hate him.

Why is the big screen movie gonna be 4 parts? It’s because the novel is pretty thick. If they made it one movie, it would be a long movie so they would have to split in parts so they can fit the whole story as much as possible.

I’m gonna have to re-read “The Stand” novel. Haven’t read it in a long time.

Kev

Book Review: “Stonewalled” by Sharyl Attkisson…

Today, I’ve just finished reading Sharyl Attkisson’s book, “Stonewalled” and here is my review.

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a news journalist for TV??? If so, you might want to think of a different career to make a living off of ’cause being a news journalist isn’t an easy job as it looks. Just like our US government, our mainstream news media can also be corrupted and broken. Sharyl does a great job proving that in her book. She’ll give you a reality check of what it’s really like to work as a news journalist for mainstream news on TV. Once you read her book, she’ll make you look at mainstream news in a different way.

Attkisson is a well-known journalist who is most famous for her stories on Benghazi, Obamacare and “Operation: Fast and Furious”. She also does other stories too such as her green energy work. She explains in this book how there is a lot of stonewalling throughout the news media and our U.S. government. “Stonewall” means refusing to cooperate or communicate. In this book, she explains how she is under surveillance by the Obama administration and the national news media. She tells stories about trying to get the truth out about her big stories such as Benghazi and “Operation: F&F” but she seems to get babysat by the news network she used to work at (CBS) and getting spied on by possibly the Obama administration. If she got too far to the truth or revealed so much about the Obama admin. or the government… her stories would get changed, edited or not get published at all.

This book will give you a realistic look of how the government is controlling the media which they clearly are. This is part of why I don’t watch the news on TV ’cause it’s too much liberal bias and a lot of “stonewalling” going on. Sharyl is one of the few good “investigative journalist” left. Obama is trying to ruin them all and take away their freedom of speech. I’ve been saying for days now that the Obama administration have been controlling the media and this book will show you how he’s doing it. Obama just doesn’t like negative reporting that is written about him or he just doesn’t like the truth to be told.

I respect this woman so much ’cause her goal is to get to the truth no matter the consequences. She can get her computers hacked, get under surveillance by the government and all that stuff but she doesn’t care. Nothing is stopping Sharyl from her “investigative reporting” on her big stories like Benghazi, Obamacare and Operation: F&F. It was Sharyl that made me want to focus on those three controversies: Benghazi, Obamacare and Operation: F&F. It was Sharyl who helped me wake up about our bias news media.

You should read this book yourself and follow Sharyl’s work. She’s been accused of being a hardcore “conservative” but it doesn’t matter the party. She wants to get the truth. If you watch the news or read the news on the internet, then you should really read this… remember, don’t matter the party whether you’re: right, left, independent… who cares… just check this book out. People of all parties follow this woman’s work, not just conservatives.

This book was great. It was addicting and hard to put down.

Kev

Why I’m not getting the new albums by Pink Floyd or Ac/Dc…

To be honest, I don’t think I’m gonna get the new albums by either Pink Floyd or Ac/Dc. Pink Floyd released a new album called, “Endless River” which is a tribute to Rick Wright and unreleased material recorded around the “Division Bell” sessions. Honestly, I wasn’t too impressed with their new song that just came out, “Louder Than Words” in which David Gilmour sings. I wasn’t too impressed with that song at all. It was kind of boring and un-listenable at best. I listened to other clips of the album in ITunes and wasn’t too thrilled about the other tracks so I don’t think I’m gonna get it. I do like Pink Floyd, I prefer their older stuff with Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. I’ve noticed that “Endless River” is getting mostly negative reviews so I guess the rest of the Pink Floyd fanbase would come to an agreement that this new album release is a bit of a let down and disappointment.

As for Ac/Dc, I’m not really all that thrilled with their new songs either. It’s just the same typical three or four chord pop songs that Ac/Dc have always been known to writing. Plus, I don’t want to get an Ac/Dc album that doesn’t have Malcolm Young on guitar.

I don’t think I’m gonna get these two albums at all and think I’m gonna skip ’em.

I am gonna get the new Smashing Pumpkins album, “Monuments To An Elegy”, I’ve been impressed with the songs that Billy Corgan have been releasing so far so I’m probably gonna end up buying that one. There are still a few other albums I need to get that came out earlier this year like Fozzy “Do You Wanna Start A War”, Primus “Primus & the Chocolate Factory”, Opeth “Pale Communion” and Judas Priest “Redeemer of Souls”. I’ll try to get to those albums pretty soon.

I’ll have to admit that 2014 was a pretty decent year of music. I purchased quite a bit of new albums this year and I usually don’t buy too many new albums. When will my top music list be up this year? At the end of year I usually do a Top 10 Best of but this year, I think I’m gonna make it a top 15. So at the end of December I’m gonna do a list of Top 15 Best Music Albums of 2014. I’ll do the same for movies too. I’ll make the Top 15 Best of Music and Movies lists in a video blog at the end of the year… either at the end of Dec. or beginning of January.

Kev

Sly Stallone admits “Expendables 3” being PG-13 rated was a “horrible miscalculation”…

Sly and Lionsgate studios tried to experiment with the PG-13 rating for “Expendables 3”, hoping it would attract a more younger audience. Unfortunately, their goal failed miserably ’cause “Expendables 3” was a box office bomber. The first two were very successful simply because everybody loves the graphic violence with those movies. What do you expect, ya know? When you have an action movie full of iconic tough guys, people expect to see that kind of graphic violence and we didn’t get that with, “EX3”. In “EX3” there was tons of violence in the film but there was less-blood and less-swear words. Not what we want to see in an “Expendables” movie. Well, Sly Stallone is admitting they were wrong with the PG-13 rating and they’re going back to the way they were before for the next film except the next film is gonna be even darker.

Now that Kurt Russel is finally back to working on film again (he’s got a role in “Fast and Furious 7” and Tarantino’s “Hateful Eight”), hopefully Sly can get Kurt for “EX4”.

As for other actors for “EX4”??? I’d say Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would be a nice addition to the cast. I’m shocked they have never gotten Dwayne yet. I would also go for Tom Cruise and Vin Diesel. Why Tom Cruise? Love him or hate him, Tom’s been in plenty of action movies over the years of his career so I think he would be a nice addition.

Kev

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” teaser to debut in selected theaters this Friday…

Regal Entertainment Group has announced that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” teaser trailer will debut in 9 selected theaters before every movie. I guess this will be for Regal Cinemas only. If you go to Bowtie Cinemas like I do, you will not see it there.

While it’s good news that a teaser of “Star Wars Episode VII” is coming soon… don’t expect to see a lot on it. JJ loves his usual secrecy. All you’re probably gonna see maybe Luke’s bearded face or maybe the face of the main villain will appear. Something like that, ya know? JJ does this with all of his movies when making trailers. He will reveal a little bit at a time. That’s how he works. He did that with Star Trek and he’ll do the same for Star Wars.

Looking forward to seeing the trailer, though, and when Friday comes, I expect the bootleg of the trailer to hit youtube so better keep an eye on it fast or youtube will take it down quick.

Kev

Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi Select Committee to have public hearing in Dec. despite Intel Committee claims…

See? Told ya so!!! Despite the ridiculous claims of the Intel Committee saying there was no wrongdoing of the Obama administration, Trey Gowdy’s Select Committee is still moving forward. They got a new public hearing coming up in Dec. to focus on Hillary’s, State Dept. This one could be the big one and could potentially drop a lot of new bombshell’s about Hillary’s, Benghazi.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/11/24/?entry=6289&_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=politics&_r=1

Anybody that believes what the Intel Committee put out there is an idiot and it’s looking like Trey Gowdy himself is laughing off the latest report and ignoring it as well. The Intel Committee desperately tried to kill Trey’s investigation and they failed miserably. Remember, just their “side of the story”.

Kev

Bill Cosby… he’s innocent until proven guilty, y’all…

Like most people, I looked up to Bill Cosby over the years. He used to be my favorite comedian growing up. I’ve obsessively watched, “The Cosby Show” sitcom and “Fat Albert” cartoon series. I even watched his “Bill Cosby Himself” HBO film many many times. “Leonard Part 6” is also one of my favorite movies of his. Love him or hate him, the guy is a comic genius and legend.

What he’s going through right now is very sad. The fact of the matter is that Bill is innocent until proven guilty. I don’t think he’s a rapist or a sexual predator that the media is trying to make him out to be. In my opinion, I think all of these crazy women who are calling him out are just trying to leech off of his fame. Ya know, they’re just desperate crazy bitches trying to take his spotlight and get their 15 minutes of fame. Those women who are getting all over him are probably a bunch of losers with no life.

I feel bad for celebrities and legendary people in this day and age. Like with the internet, social networking, and gossip sites like TMZ/perez hilton. People will do anything to make celebs look bad to get their fame or money.

Anybody who believes that Cosby is guilty of rape or sexual assault before trial… man, I hope you don’t get called in for jury duty. I think Cosby is innocent. It’s sad that he have to go through all that. He’s an old man and he shouldn’t have to get hurt like that.

Why is this country talking about Bill Cosby when America should be talking about more important and serious stuff like Obama destroying America? People should be talking about Obama’s “illegal” amnesty instead.

Bill Cosby still has my support and I wish him well.

Kev