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.
Have you ever noticed the videos on my youtube channel been kind of blurry and picture quality is not as good? It’s because I’ve been uploading them with the resolution of the Windows Media file being too big. I’ll admit it. I’m not an expert at video cameras.
I think the best resolution for youtube would be, 320×240. That’s what the site itself recommends.
All those 50 videos I made in the past, I always wondered why the video quality wasn’t picture perfect, and I think I just figured it out.
I think I’m going to redo that Johnny Cash “Hurt” cover and re-upload it to a better resolution so the picture can be more clear.
I’ve been filming videos for the past couple of years, and I wish I thought of this before. Oh well. No big deal. You can still see the videos fine and hear me fine.
While this kind of does piss me off a bit after doing all that work over the years, I would hate to delete all those videos and re-do ’em all again, ’cause it would take so much time. So I won’t bother. Oh well. It’s a lesson learned for future video releases though.
I’ll be sure to make the resolution lower from this point on. I’m a newbie at digital video cameras, a learning experience indeed.
Musician Birthdays: Brian Jones (Guitarist and founding member of the Rolling Stones, famous for the song, “Paint It Black” in which he played guitar on. Jones was found dead in a swimming pool on June 3rd, 1969)
– In 1964: The Yardbirds played at the Rhythm and Blues Festival at The Town Hall, Birmingham, England.
– In 1970: In an interview with the New Musical Express, Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green talked about his plans to give all his money away. The following year Green confronted his accountant with a gun after he sent him an unwanted royalty check. The guitarist went to jail briefly before being transferred to an asylum and was committed to a mental hospital in 1973. He re- launched his career in the 90’s.
– In 1970: Led Zeppelin played a gig in Copenhagen as The Nobs after Eva Von Zeppelin a relative of the airship designer threatened to sue if the family name was used in Denmark.
– In 1970: Simon and Garfunkel started a six week run at the top of the US singles chart with ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, also No.1 in the UK in March the same year.
– In 1972: George and Patti Harrison were injured in a car crash; Patti was unconscious for several days.
– In 1977: Ray Charles was attacked by a member of his audience who tried to strangle him with a rope.
– In 1984: Michael Jackson won a record seven Grammy awards including: Album of the year for ‘Thriller’; Record of the year and Best rock vocal performance for ‘Beat It’; Best pop vocal performance, Best R&B performance and Best R&B song for ‘Billie Jean’, and Best Recording For Children for E.T The Extra Terrestrial.
– In 1989: Bob Dylan recorded the first sessions for the Oh Mercy album at The Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana. What became Dylan’s 26th studio album, released by Columbia Records in September 1989 was produced by Daniel Lanois.
– In 1996: Grammy award winners included Alanis Morissette who won album of the year for ‘Jagged Little Pill’ best female rock vocal & best song for ‘You Oughta Know’, Nirvana’s ‘Unplugged won best alternative album and Coolio best rap performance with ‘Gangsta’s Paradise.’
– In 1997: Death Row Records boss Marion ‘Suge’ Knight was sentenced to nine years in prison for violating his probation for a 1995 assault conviction. Under US law, Knight would not be allowed to run Death Row Records while in prison.
– In 2008: Drummer Buddy Miles, who played with Jimi Hendrix in his last regular group, Band of Gypsys, died aged 60 at his home in Austin, Texas after struggling with a long-term illness. Born George Allen Miles in Omaha, Nebraska, Buddy’s nickname was a tribute to his idol, jazz drummer Buddy Rich. Rich also played with The Delfonics, The Ink Spots, Wilson Pickett, Electric Flag, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Muddy Waters and Barry White. In the 1980s, he achieved a certain amount of notoriety in the US as the vocalist on the celebrated claymation California Raisins commercials.
This week I’m taking a full week off of exercising and bodybuilding. It’s not that I’m losing interest in it, I’ll never give it up, it’s just that you need to take a break once in a while. I haven’t had a break since the last one around Christmas time. You won’t lose muscle in a week with no exercise, it’s actually good. You need the plenty of resting, so they can heal and grow. So taking week breaks is good sometimes. Plus your body needs to recharge and restart again. Don’t want to over do yourself. Some bodybuilders workout all year long non stop with no breaks at all, not good in my opinion. Pretty dangerous and you’ll kill yourself working out all year with no breaks.
Later this week, I’m planning to go to the mall to check out the movie, “Act of Valor”, the Navy Seals war movie. Looks pretty good. I’m probably gonna check it out on Thursday.
I’ll try to get the Johnny Cash “Hurt” cover up today. On Johnny’s date of death in Sept., I’ll do a bunch more Cash covers. Kurt Cobain’s date of death is coming up soon, so I’ll want to cover a few Nirvana songs for youtube.
Why am I doing all these cover songs for youtube? Am I going to start my own cover band down the road? Maybe I’d like to. If I were to get a band, we’d do a mix of both covers and originals. Plus, doing covers is fun. I just want to perform all my favorite songs that meant a lot to me over the years. Prove people I can be a good musician.
If Rick wins Michigan tomorrow, which he probably will, then this is bad news for Romney.
Thing is, people seem to be upset over Rick’s thoughts on JFK’s Houston Ministers speech in 1960. After all this, it got me to read the JFK Houston Ministers speech and do some reading about the, “Separation of Church and State”, which Rick is talking about. Rick doesn’t agree with the “Separation of Church and State”, Kennedy is in favor of it. While the “Separation of Church and State” is no where in the Constitution, but the 1st Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
All Rick is saying that he wants to bring people of “faith” and “non-faith” together. Kennedy wanted to separate them. That’s all Rick is trying to say I believe.
I don’t get into this whole religion thing ’cause religion is not part of my life anymore, but I get what he was saying. What Rick said may have been kind of harsh, but he has the right to be honest about it.
The “vomit” part, he just wanted to bring it to people’s attention. I think he did a good job getting people to talk about JFK’s speech, no matter what people thought of his opinion about it.
This is why I like Rick. He’s not afraid to say things, even though it’ll piss a lot of people off. That’s makes him confident. I like those kind of people that are open minded and honest, no matter the consequences.
Looking forward to the primary results tomorrow night.
The Oscars gave all three of the LOTR a nod at the nominations, but “Return of the King”, actually won Best Picture that year. Harry Potter? Nothing.
Well, Harry Potter may have gotten small nominations over the years like best editing, sounds effects, makeup, etc. but Harry Potter franchise, never got any major nominations. Now that the Harry Potter franchise is all done and over with, there is no chance for Oscars. No chance for “Best Picture”, “Director”, “Actor/Actress”, etc.
While I do love all the Harry Potter films, none of them are best picture worthy. They could have been if they were written better and directed better. There are actually a few actors in the Harry Potter series that I wish could have gotten a nod like Richard Harris who played Dumbledore, and Alan Rickman who played Professor Snape should have gotten something too. I also thought Ralph Fiennes did a great job playing Voldermort.
I do agree that Harry Potter was snubbed a lot though. Sad, but that’s the way it is. It’s Hollywood.
Musician Birthdays: Neal Schon (guitarist from Journey, famous for the hit, “Anyway You Want It”. Born in 1954), Adrian Smith (guitarist from Iron Maiden, famous for hit, “Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter”, “Fear of the Dark”, and more. Born in 1957), Josh Groban (US singer, born in 1981)
– In 1964: The Rolling Stones made their second appearance on BBC TV show Top Of The Pops performing ‘Not Fade Away’.
– In 1967: Pink Floyd recorded their first single ‘Arnold Layne’, with producer Joe Boyd at Sound Techniques studio in Chelsea, England.
– In 1971: Five months after her death, Janis Joplin started a nine-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Pearl.’
– In 1972: Led Zeppelin appeared at Sydney Showgrounds, Sydney in Australia.
– In 1974: Cher filed for divorce from Sonny Bono. Cher married Gregg Allman from The Allman Brothers band on 27th June 1975.
– In 1977: Keith Richards was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Toronto’s Harbour Castle Hotel, for possession of heroin and cocaine. Bail was set at $25,000 (£14,705).
– In 1980: Winners at the Grammy Awards included: song of the year, ‘What A Fool Believes’, The Doobie Brothers, album of the year, Billy Joel’s ’52nd St’, best new artist, Rickie Lee Jones, best disco record, ‘I Will Survive’ Gloria Gaynor.
– In 1991: James Brown was paroled after spending two years of a six-year prison sentence, imposed for resisting arrest after a car chase across two States.
– In 1993: After 14 weeks at No.1 on the US singles chart, ‘I Will Always Love You’, gave Whitney Houston the longest ever US chart topper, taking over from Boyz II Men’s hit ‘End Of The Road’, and became the second biggest selling single in the US.
– In 1999: Britney Spears started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘…Baby One More Time’. It became the biggest UK selling single of the year and also a No.1 in the US. It was originally written for TLC but the song was submitted after completion of their third record, FanMail.
– In 2007: Bobby Brown was sentenced to 30 days in jail over $19,000 (£9,670) in unpaid child support. An arrest warrant was issued in October 2006 after he failed to show up at a hearing on overdue child support for Kim Ward, the mother of two of his children.
– In 2010: U2 raked in more money than any other music act in the US in 2009 making $109m (£71m) from touring, record sales and other royalties, almost twice as much as the second best, Bruce Springsteen who took home $58m (£38m), followed by Madonna with $47m (£31m) and AC/DC with $44m (£29m). Coldplay were the most successful British group, at number eight, with takings of $27m (£18m).
I know last night’s Oscars are going to be questionable for some. Some people are going to think what the hell were they thinking, giving a movie with no talking, the most credit last night. The problem with that is, most young people of this generation, don’t understand what, “silent film” is. I never even heard of that film, “The Artist”, until last night. Never saw the trailers before. Since the movie was getting the most recognition last night, I had to look it up online for myself, and to me, “The Artist”, looks like a very interesting movie. I’m probably going to check the movie out when it arrives on DVD.
I love silent film. That is how movies and Hollywood all started back in the 1920’s – 30’s. Silent film was the beginning of movies. The makers behind, “The Artist”, just simply wanted to give the genre a comeback to the movie industry. If you call yourself a movie buff, and don’t understand silent film, then you’re not a true movie buff. Like I said, I love silent film. Silent movies like the original “Phantom of the Opera”, “Metropolis”, “Nosferatu”, etc. Ever hear of Charlie Chaplin? He was a legendary silent film actor, back in the day! Silent film deserves to comeback to the movies. After, “The Artist”, you can expect more silent movies to be made in the future.
As far as the rest of the Oscars go, it was okay. Billy Crystal’s opening segment, was kind of boring and not funny. He started off parodying other Hollywood movies in the opening segment, and then he came out on stage doing his usual song & dance thing, every time he hosted. I thought Billy was kind of boring, and it made me wish Eddie Murphy was hosting it last night instead of him. Eddie, I’m sure would have made the show more entertaining.
The movie, “Hugo” started to get the most awards last night. I haven’t even seen, “Hugo”, yet, but I want to. I love Martin Scorsese’s work and I’ll wait to see that film when it arrives on DVD.
Most of the Oscar winners were disappointing last night, to be honest with you. There were only a few that I agreed with. I’m happy for Octavia Spencer that she won for Best Supporting Actress for the movie, “The Help”, which is well deserved. Octavia actually got an emotional standing ovation from the crowd, and she deserved that as well. She was obviously, the best thing about that movie.
I’m glad that Meryl Streep finally won an award. Even though she holds the most record breaking nominations, she hasn’t won an award since “Sophie’s Choice” in 1982. So if you think she’s won a lot of awards, not true. She may have been nominated a lot, but out of all the nominations, so far, she won about 3 or 4 awards, I think. She’s an amazing actress who can play just about anything.
I am actually glad they didn’t give the “Best Actress”, award to Michelle Williams, ’cause “My Week With Marilyn”, looks like a terrible movie, in my opinion. Michelle doesn’t make a good portrayal of Marilyn at all, because Michelle looks nothing like Marilyn.
While Christopher Plummer is a great actor, I was disappointed with his win. Nick Nolte, got robbed for “Best Actor” for “Warrior”, he really should ‘ve gotten it.
As for the red carpet intro before the show, Sacha Baron Cohen was The Dictator was there but he had a couple of women with him. He was interviewed by Ryan Seacrest for the E! channel and I heard that Sacha dumped ashes all over Ryan. Of course, I find that fake, kind of a work. This Sacha vs. The Oscars feud, is kind of like a wrestling storyline. Kind of like what Andy Kauffman did back in the old days. Sacha wasn’t really banned from the Oscars, and proof of that, he showed up in the celebrity interviews during the Oscar show itself. I’m sure Sacha was there in the audience somewhere out of character watching the show, but he had to be there anonymously, so this publicity stunt won’t get ruined. This stunt is entertaining though and it’s good publicity for the film, “The Dictator”, that’s why they’re doing it. It is their way of marketing the movie.
Last night’s Oscars was okay. It should have been a little better.
I was going to do it tonight, but I didn’t feel like doing all that work. It takes a few hours to finish one video. Takes a long time. I’m thinking this week will be Johnny Cash tribute week in honor of his 80th birthday. I’ll probably do a few more Cash covers for my youtube page.
I really think before slamming a politician, they should research and learn before they miscomprehend his religion and politics. What he said about the JFK Houston Ministers speech in 1960, his opinions on the separation of church and state. I would sit here and write a long blog post defending what he said, but I don’t feel like it right now. The Oscars are on tonight. I’ll write the blog post tomorrow.
Seriously, the Santorum haters piss me off sometimes. They just hate, hate, hate. For no reasons. Haters are gonna hate. That’s another reason why Rick is kicking ass in the GOP lately, and this is why he’s going to be the next President.
People call Santorum uneducated and not smart, well, sorry to say, the man knows what he’s talking about and he’s smarter than most of us.
A lot of people like to say JFK was a wonderful president and amazing, but honestly, he was much worse than Obama/George W. Bush back in the day.
I’m off to watch the Oscars red carpet.
Kev
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