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.
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!
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.
So Mayor Bloomberg made the surprising announcement that he is planning to put a ban on soft drinks that are more than 16 ounces, just in NYC only. They’re putting a ban on that in restaurants, fast food joints, movie theaters, stadiums and arenas. Do I think it’s a good move? Absafuckinglutely!
Soda is evil. It’s not good for ya, and whether you like it or not, it is part of why obesity is a huge problem in America. Before I got into fitness & bodybuilding, I was pretty addicted to soda. Drank so much of it, and it does indeed make you fat. I had to give up soda completely. I haven’t touched any soda at all ever since I started bodybuilding.
Then of course, people on the internet are mad about this. They’re in facebook right now going, “Oh no, the gov’t is taking away our freedoms and rights. We should be able to drink all the soda we want to”. Boo Hoo… you know what? Mayor Bloomberg probably already knew that this move was going to upset a lot of people. Maybe that’s the whole point? It’ll teach people a lesson. Get them thinking first before drinking bad beverages or eating bad food, that they shouldn’t consume. Soda made me fat before I started bodybuilding.
Now that I gave up soda and most junk food, look at the change it got me. I am now more fit than ever before. I have muscle and decent visible abs. This is the goal that Mayor Bloomberg wants for everyone. He wants everyone to get healthy. Stop the junk food addiction and get fit, just like I did. Soda should be banned everywhere, not just NYC. Soda is poison.
Why is it that musicians have crazy and weird personalities? We all have crazy and mixed personalities. Everything from short tempers, bad attitudes, weird sense of humors, some of us can get upset easily over the smallest things, etc. No matter if musicians are good or bad, we are all weird. A lot of us can also be delusional people, and we are all living in our own worlds. Not just me, everybody.
Musicians aren’t perfect even though they want to appear “perfect”, when they put themselves out there. Nobody is perfect. The whole world of music can be pretty insane. Just admit it now.
So why won’t singer, David Bowie, ever release a new album? Why did he leave people wondering if he’ll ever release a new one or not? This could explain it! Like I said before, he’s definitely not retired from music ’cause over the years, he kept releasing live albums and re-masters/re-issues of his classic albums. The reason he left so many people wondering if he’ll ever release something new is that back in 2001-2002, he was going to release an album called, “Toy”, but Virgin records rejected the album. It’s not that Virgin didn’t like the album, I’m sure they loved it, but the reasons they didn’t release it is because of contract disputes, rights issues, lack of popularity, and due to David starting his own record label. The songs on “Toy”, were supposed to feature 4 new songs and the rest of the songs were re-works of his classic songs.
Last year in 2011, this album, “Toy” was leaked on the internet. The album was getting very positive reviews by the listeners. So far, I haven’t seen anything negative said about the album. So I listened to some of it myself, and I’m like, “Damn, this is really good stuff”. It is a really good album. For some reason, David never bothered to find a different label to release this album on. This album have never found it’s release. It’s a shame since it sounded like it could be one of David’s best albums.
Why is David holding out on this album? Does he still plan on releasing it in the future? Or will he scrap it (since so many people heard it already) and come out with a totally different album. Like I said he’s definitely not retired from music completely ’cause he’s still doing other side projects for other artists (most notably his collaboration with Scarlett Johansson). I’m looking at forums and youtube, and fans are still wondering to this day if David will ever come back. I’m hoping the same thing.
Well, David doesn’t need to work too much anymore ’cause he’s made so much money from his earlier career and his movie career. Plus, the man has health problems as he had a heart attack in the past and other things. He’s also a family guy, so I can’t blame the guy for wanting to slow down and take it easy.
I’m sure Bowie will be back. Maybe he’s just waiting for the right time?
There’s a lot of musicians around here that like to call themselves, “musicians”. Are they really? With my own playing, I never considered myself an actual musician. I just play for the love of it, a hobby kind of a thing. I never considered myself a professional, but that is the goal that I want. I someday, want to be considered an actual professional, if I keep practicing and learning. How can you tell if someone is not an actual musician that they say they are? I’ll go down with the list here…
They don’t understand music theory –If you talk to other musicians about music theory, like what notes are there in a chord or a scale, key changes, etc. They don’t understand what you’re talking about and they get lost in things.
They don’t have a good ear, in other words, not good at improvisation – You jam with the musician and they don’t know what the hell they are doing or what you are doing, they just stand there watching you, trying to figure things out.
They don’t have a good sense of timing and rhythm – There are too many that don’t play in time.
They don’t have professional enough music gear – I’m not talking about piece of shit instruments you get from a trading store or yard sale. I’m talking about expensive gear you get from the music store or catalogs. If you want to be a respected musician, having the best sounding gear is important.
They don’t have enough musical influences – A professional musician would know a lot about their favorite band or artist they look after. They would learn as much as possible about music. You must know your shit. Not just liking the bands in the mainstream, you also must know a lot of underrated bands/artists that not many people know about.
They don’t know more scales than just the minor pentatonic scale – Professionals would know a wide variety of scales. From modes to unique scales nobody’s ever heard of.
They don’t jam with as much musicians as possible – A professional musician would have LOTS of experience jamming with a variety of musicians all over.
I could keep going with the list but you get the idea. I’m trying to work on all these above, so I can hopefully one day be considered an actual musician.
As some of you know, I’m a huge fan of David Bowie. Love the guy’s work, and this is one of his best albums other than, “Hunky Dory”. I’m getting this ’cause I don’t have this album yet.
Enjoy it, here. I just listened to it today and it sounds great like always
I wish he would quit re-releasing his classic albums and wish he would put out a new album already! He’s not retired from music, he just doesn’t need to work much anymore since he made so much money from his earlier career.
Kev
I missed “Game of Thrones” last Sunday, ’cause I was becoming less interested in this Season. This Season of “Game of Thrones”, hasn’t been that good. Why? Because this Season has been changing so much of the stories from the books. Altering the characters, and leaving important characters out from the books, lots of other things. They’re following the Tyrion vs. Joffery feud pretty well, but everything else they’re changing around. They even changed the Arya story a lot too.
Somebody told me that last Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones”, the “Blackwater” episode was one of the best episodes of this Season. After watching the re-run of that episode on DVR, I agree! The “Blackwater” battle was the best episode of this season.
Why is “Game of Thrones – Season 2” kind of boring this year? Well the pacing of the show is kinda slow this season. There’s not much violence and gory stuff. “Game of Thrones – Season 1” was very violent and gory. Season 2 didn’t have much of that, up until the “Blackwater” episode. The “Blackwater” battle was pretty epic, felt like a movie on the big screen.
Tyrion is going to be much uglier now, after what happened to him during the battle (Minor spoiler: Getting half of his face, chopped off). Don’t get me wrong, I still love the “Game of Thrones” franchise, it’s just that the books are way better, of course. I wish they would do more with the Brienne Maid of Tarth character, ’cause that’s a good character that doesn’t get too much screen time.
In other news, I also DVR’d “Hatfields & McCoys”, the western mini series on the History channel with Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, I DVR’D both parts, and I’ll start watching them today. I’ll review “Hatfields & McCoys” later this week. Looking forward to checking it out. I missed the first part ’cause I forgot it was on, so I DVR’d the re-runs on the History Channel.
People suck at supporting bands & musicians around here, and no, this is NOT me being jealous that they support other bands more than my music. I don’t care if other people don’t support me or not. I’m just going by how fans support local music in facebook. The way they do it is horrible, in my opinion. Again, this is not a jealousy kind of thing, just me being real.
The trouble is, that fans would almost be positive and happy at almost everything that the band does in their career. Whether you disagree with what the band does in their career, fans would support them no matter what they do. It doesn’t matter if the band is about to play some shit hole venue you don’t like or they’re about to do another stupid radio contest, fans would go along with everything they do. I understand fans want to see their favorite local band move forward and succeed, but how is being positive and happy happy joy joy all the time going to help make them succeed? Where is the honesty? We need more people being real about things.
Music fans can also be pretty childish and crazy, at times too. We need more fans supporting all local music more and not just them supporting the music that they like. There is also too much drama and soap opera with them. If regular music fans would understand how to support local music better, we could have a better music scene. It’s just that a lot of them don’t understand how music works. They’re not really musicians, that’s why they are what they are. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bashing fans, I’m just bashing their terrible communicating skills of how they’re supporting them.
Some of them can support music the smart and intelligent way, we just need more people like that. That’s what I’m trying to say in this post.
While I’m no fan of President Barack Obama, I’ll give him respect for this one time. He did a good thing honoring Bob Dylan. Whether you’re a fan of Bob Dylan or not, he deserves this. Bob Dylan, did change American history with his music. Bob did so much over the years. Bob is still going in music to this day. He is still releasing records and touring. Still doing his thing at 71 years old.
When will Springsteen and Neil Young ever get honored by the President? I’m sure they’ll get their chance ’cause they contributed a lot in American history too and made a difference. Neil Young maybe a Canadian but he did so much in the US.
Congrats to Bob and well deserved. Bob looks emotional in the pic from this article. He does look sad and happy at the same time. I’m pretty sure Bob didn’t think he would ever get something like that, he just did his thing over the years, make music and write songs.
Kev
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