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: Lucasfilm announces, “Star Wars 1313” video game…

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Yesterday, Lucasfilm revealed some news about an upcoming new Star Wars video game, titled, “1313”, coming soon to your video game consoles. They didn’t say what consoles the game is going to be available on, probably all of them I would think. They also revealed an exclusive screen shot of the game, pictured above. The game is supposed to target the longtime fans of, Star Wars, not the new fans. The game takes place on the planet Coruscant, and I believe you play a bounty hunter in it.

Hopefully this game will be much better than the “Force Unleashed”, series. I did like, “The Force Unleashed”, series, but they were too short and easy. Hopefully, “1313” will be a long game and hopefully, it’ll be challenging to play too.

See the game’s official facebook, here.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Cool Video: This is why I’m a fan of the Hodge Twins, they give good advice on how much protein you should take in…

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This is why I like the Hodge Twins, the Twin Muscle Channel. What makes these guys so cool is that they make sure their fitness information is factual and they do a great job of it, in my opinion. They’re right on the money that a natural bodybuilder don’t need so much protein. I don’t really need so much, which is one of the reasons why I decided to give up drinking Whey Protein powders. I just get protein from real food like egg whites, fish, chicken breast, various meats, etc. Like the Twins said, you need your healthy carbs too, and you can get that stuff from whole wheat bread (I go for the organic bread), plain oat meal, vegetables, etc. You can also get healthy carbs from healthy beans like kidney beans, black beans, etc.

When I first started bodybuilding, I used to think I needed so much protein but then I had to slow it down some, which is why my nutrition is not all the way that strict like most people think. This is why I like to eat what I want on the weekends only.

The Hodge Twins do the best job giving fitness information in youtube. They also do the best job at keeping their videos funny and comedic. A lot of fitness gurus try to be comedic, but the Twins sure get me laughing the hardest. That’s one of the reasons why their channel is addicting.

Kev

TV

Report: First Kristen Wiig, now Andy Samberg leaves SNL…

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Wow, all these stars are leaving SNL like crazy. First Kristen Wiig left, and now Andy Samberg is leaving. It’s no surprise to me that Andy could be leaving soon ’cause he is getting too big to be on SNL anyway. We won’t be missing him though ’cause I’m sure Andy is planning to start a full time movie career. When SNL stars leave the show, pretty much all of them move on to movies or they star in their own shows.

Tina Fey left SNL to do “30 Rock”, and Amy Poehler left to do “Parks & Recreation”. Could Andy do his own sitcom and do movies too? Probably.

Who will leave SNL next? Bill Hader? Seth Myers? I’m still not much of a fan of today’s SNL. I only watch if there’s a good host or musical guest is on. I was mostly into the earlier SNL when Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Kevin Nealon, and all those guys were around. The earlier days of SNL were great!

Kev

movies

Report: Wow, look like George Lucas isn’t lying about retiring…does this mean no Indy 5 after all???

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Earlier this week, George Lucas, (the man responsible for bringing us, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and um, quack, Howard the Duck) he told Empire magazine that he is done with blockbuster movies. He’s retiring, says he’s serious about it and wants to make experimental movies. Well, turns out that he isn’t lying and meant what he said!

George just hired producer, Kathleen Kennedy, to be in charge of Lucasfilm, so she can take over as soon as he leaves.

More on the story, here.

For the past year or so, George and Steve Spielberg have been talking about doing a fifth “Indiana Jones” film. Steve said he’ll do it whenever George is ready. So what’s the status going to be on “Indy 5”? Will George pass the torch for the creative writing for someone else or will George scrap Indiana Jones for good? It’s obvious that George is in charge of the Indiana Jones franchise. He’s the one that put it together. George was in charge of the writing process for Indy, Steve just directed them.

I can understand why George wants to hang it up. The guy’s a fuckin’ billionaire, dude, he’s loaded. Made so much money from the Star Wars films and Indiana Jones movies. He can do what he wants to do now. It’s not yet known what they’re planning to do with the next planned Indy movie, but it’ll be interesting to see what they’re going to do with it. Hope they do something before Harrison gets too old.

If George does end up passing the torch of the Indy franchise to someone else, I won’t be heartbroken about it. The Indy movies needs a better writing team anyway. Hey, I enjoyed, Indy IV, “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, but it had a lot of problems with the writing. I’m sure the next Indiana Jones films would do fine with a better writer and better producer behind it. As I said, I liked Indy IV, just get rid of Shia Labeouf and the stupid fridge explosion scene, then the movie would have been fine.

I hope they will still make another Indy film ’cause the series deserves a good closure.

Kev

music

Report: Axl Rose banning Slash t-shirts at Guns N’ Roses concerts???

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While I hate Axl Rose like most people, I find this a bunch of bull. Axl Rose is being accused of banning Slash t-shirts if fans are wearing them at his shows. I don’t think Axl would be responsible for this ’cause the way his attitude is lately, he wouldn’t give a fuck what people wear at his concerts. It could be the venue’s decision or this punk kid could be trying to make Axl look bad. I don’t think Axl would really care what shirts people are wearing in the audience ’cause it would be hard to see out there, wouldn’t you say? In the front row, I’m sure you can tell what shirts people are wearing but way in the back, no. I don’t think Axl has anything to do with this. Probably a silly rumor going around.

More on the story, here.

Kev

movies

Happy 86th Birthday Marilyn Monroe

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This post is about celebrating the career of Marilyn Monroe, the legendary actress and singer. I’m proud to be a fan of her films, as I’ve watched too many of them and still plenty of more to go. While I’ve watched a lot of her films already, I still say that “The Seven Year Itch”, “Gentlemen Prefers Blondes” and “Niagara” are my favorites.

Thanks Marilyn for the inspiration. It was quite a ride, watching her films. I still haven’t seen, “Prince and the Showgirl” yet, but looking into checking it out soon. Enjoy the videos below.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Proving the doubters wrong, how to deal with it…

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Whether you’re into fitness, music, writing, acting, film making, etc. or whatever career dream you have…you’re going to get a mixture of both haters & doubters. There is a big difference between haters and doubters. “Haters” are the type of people that will come out and trash talk ya, for no reason. “Doubters” are the type of people who will not think you will succeed in your dreams and goals.

This post is about, “doubters”. If you’re getting too many people calling you delusional or laughing at you, or if you don’t get enough people that are supportive of your dreams, don’t ever let that stuff bring you down. Stay focused on your dream and don’t give up, no matter how much negativity gets in the way with things.

Best thing to do is not listen to anybody. If your goal is to be a big rock star someday or have a ripped body in fitness, the key is only care about yourself and keep going. You don’t have to give up if too many people are getting on to ya. That’s right, fuck the world and what everybody thinks. You must focus on you and not listen to what everybody else have to say.

For example, I want to become a better guitar player and singer. People don’t think I will ever become a better musician, but I could prove them wrong if I keep going. The same thing with fitness. I want to become the best shape of my life someday, and of course, I’ve gotten laughed at by people, saying it will never happen. Whatever you want to do, nothing is stopping ya.

If you already are getting too many doubters, saying things will never happen, that means you already are successful.

Kev

movies, TV

Brock was completely blown away by “Hatfields & McCoys” on the History Channel, a brief non spoiler review…

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Tonight, I just finished watching all of “Hatfields & McCoys” on the DVR. I DVR’d them, ’cause I almost forgot this series was on this week, so recorded the reruns. Plus, I think it’s better watching stuff on the DVR to fast forward the annoying commercials. This mini series marks the comeback of actor, Kevin Costner. As most of you know, Costner took a long break from acting. He took a few years off, to focus on his music career with his band, Modern West. It’s no secret Costner is a huge fan of Western, ’cause he had starred in many Western films himself with films such as “Dances with Wolves”, “Wyatt Earp”, “Open Range” etc. Bill Paxton also may have starred in a few Western films as he can be seen in the movie, “Tombstone”. So both actors obviously already, have experience playing in Westerns.

Finally, Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton team up for a Western for the History Channel, “Hatfields & McCoys”, based on real life and true events. I’m going to keep this review short and brief without any spoilers, ’cause I know a lot of people out there still haven’t watched it yet, I can still give a brief synopsis though. It tells the story of two men who used to be best friends, Anse Hatfield (Costner) and Randal McCoy (Paxton), they were best friends up until the Civil War was over with. After the war, they return home to go back to living their lives. The feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families began with increasing tensions, misunderstandings, and resentments.

As soon as I started watching, I was immediately hooked. The show was pretty addicting, and wish the movie could be a lot longer! It should have been a good 5 part mini series. Costner and Paxton still has it with the acting. Those guys were phenomenal, Costner was a badass in that role. I think this was Costner’s best Western role. The movie felt like a true Western. It was pretty serious. It was a pretty realistic Western too. It had a lot of action and it was pretty violent.

After watching this mini series makes me want to research the history of the Hatfield & McCoy feud. I’m sure there are plenty of books written about this famous feud, so I’ll have to find one to read. I’ll start looking through the Ibooks store for the Ipad.

Back to the show, it was pretty intense and powerful stuff! I can see why this was the highest rated TV show ever, it broke world records in the ratings. It also shows that people are still interested in Western and Cowboys. After the success of “Hatfields & McCoys”, they should keep the Western genre going. The Western genre doesn’t get much respect by the Entertainment Industry because they’re afraid that people don’t care about it anymore. Well, we still do care about the Western genre. It’s cool stuff.

I think the History channel should do a mini series on the Billy the Kid story next. A more true and more accurate story on, Billy The Kid. Not the fake stuff from the, “Young Guns” movies. “Hatfields & McCoys” was the best thing I’ve seen all year. I wouldn’t be surprised if this Mini Series would win a lot of awards ’cause it could.

Kev

movies

Happy 82nd birthday, Clint Eastwood!!!

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Mr. Clint Eastwood, is an actor and director that we’ve all followed and looked after over the years. I don’t like too many of his newer films, I was more into the earlier Clint films. Of course, I liked a lot of his earlier westerns like, “High Plains Drifter”, “Outlaw Josey Wales”, “the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” and “For a Few Dollars More”.

I am a huge fan of his Dirty Harry films mostly though. Some of my other favorite films of his are, “Escape from Alcatraz”, “Unforgiven”, “True Crime”, “Mystic River”, “Million Dollar Baby”, and “Gran Torino”.

I haven’t seen, “J. Edgar” yet.

It’s amazing that Clint is living this long. Here’s to Clint for surviving another year! Happy Birthday, Clint. Go ahead, make my day!

Kev

True Crime

Brock speaks out on the flesh eating man in Florida…

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The internet seems to be fascinated and interested about the naked flesh eating man in Florida. A lot of people seemed to be entertained by this story, calling it a zombie apocalypse or whatever. People act like this is the first time that these things happen in America. Which is expected, since this new generation of people don’t really understand true crime in this world. Learn all about, Cannibalism, here. Cannibalism has been going on for many many many years. All over the world. It’s still going to this day as you can see.

I believe a lot of people forgot the story, of Jeffrey Dahmer. He wasn’t the only serial killer that was into cannibalism, there were many others. Jeffrey just made it well known in the news.

I’m willing to bet that Cannibalism still happens all over the US, but I’m sure they happen in small towns, where the national news can’t pick up on it. Weird people, doing weird things is nothing new. This story of Rudy Eugene is so huge in the news, ’cause it was in Miami. What made Rudy want to do something like this? Well his girlfriend blamed it on LSD and a voodoo curse, see the article, here.

Maybe Rudy didn’t have a very good childhood. Maybe this had something to do with sexual frustration. Maybe he was simply mentally ill or insane. Maybe he had a strange obsession with death ’cause people can be like that. What he did was sick and disgusting yes, he deserved to be shot and killed, but don’t act like that these things haven’t happened before. Learn more about the Jeffrey Dahmer story if this Rudy story excites you. Jeffrey did MUCH worse things.

Usually serial killers and cannibals don’t have a very good childhood. They usually get their start at killing small animals and it escalates to killing humans when they get older. I think people calling this a zombie apocalypse is pretty lame.

Kev