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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.
Health and Fitness

It takes years to get a successful ripped physique, just like it takes years to play great guitar…

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The way I look at it, bodybuilding and guitar playing are kind of similar. How? When you first start playing guitar, you knew nothing about it at first. You learn the guitar by learning easy basic stuff from the instructional books and then you build your way up from there. 20 years from now, you’ll be playing like a guitar god.

It’s the same with bodybuilding. When you first get into bodybuilding, you knew nothing about it. You start off learning the easy stuff at first, and then build from there. People make the mistake that you can build great muscle in such a short period of time, when the sad reality is, muscle building is a slow process. It takes years to look like a giant pro bodybuilder. I may look okay and decent now, but I still got a lot of ways to go and lots to learn.

The muscle magazines and Hollywood movie stars made it easy for you to believe that you could build muscle quicker but it’s not true. I’ve been bodybuilding for 4 years now, and I’m still young. While I’m still young, is a perfect time to get into it, ’cause I’m predicting, I’ll be really jacked when I turn 50. I believe that’s the age when I’ll look like a pro bodybuilder. That’s what I’m kind of hoping for.

Back to guitar playing, I’ve been playing for 15 years now and still got lots to learn just like with bodybuilding. I want to play like a guitar god someday and it’s going to take many years to get up there. There are too many guitar players around here (not naming names) who think they’re so great, when the reality is a lot of them are shit (probably worse than me). Famous guitar players like Jimmy Page, Joe Satriani, and Clapton. They didn’t become a guitar god over night even if it seemed like they did. They’ve been playing the instrument for way over 30 years. I do hope to play good like that someday and doing the best I can.

People just don’t like hearing the truth that it takes years to get good at something. It just needed to be said.

Kev

movies

Report: Paramount greenlights, “Paranormal Activity 4”!!!

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Today, Paramount Pictures sent out a press release announcing all the films they will release this year in 2012. We already knew most of the movies coming out in 2012 that Paramount will release, but what we didn’t know about yet is, a fourth installment to the, “Paranormal Activity”, franchise.

Read more, here.

Plot details are being kept under wraps for “P.A. 4” right now, but I’m sure we’ll hear something very soon. The last film, “P.A. 3” was a prequel of the first movie. So hopefully the next film will leave off where the second movie ended. I won’t give any plot spoilers of the earlier films but it’s going to be interesting to see what they are going to do with the Katie Featherston story. They seem to be going somewhere with it. Keeping her story secret and mysterious. Will they finally reveal why this character is so important in the next one?

Anyway, “P.A. 4” will probably get released around Halloween, like P.A. movies seem to be getting released in October.

I know people are talking a lot of shit about the Paranormal Activity franchise, but I personally love them. They are realistic and I like the found footage films. No big budget cameras or special effects.

Looking forward to seeing the next one.

Kev

 

music

This Day In Music: 1/2/12

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Musician Birthdays: Roger Miller (country singer/songwriter, famous for the hit, “King of the Road”, born in 1936), Ricky Van Shelton (US country singer/songwriter, born in 1957)

– In 1965: Elvis Presley went to No.1 on the US album chart with the soundtrack from ‘Roustabout,’ Presley’s eighth No.1.

– In 1968: The entire shipment of John and Yoko’s album ‘Two Virgins’ was seized by authorities in New Jersey due to the full frontal nude photograph of the couple on the cover. The album was eventually wrapped in plain brown paper in record stores.

– In 1969: Led Zeppelin played the first of four nights at the Whisky A Go-Go, Los Angeles during the bands first North American tour. Support group was the Alice Cooper band.

– In 1969: Filming began at Twickenham studios in England of The Beatles rehearsing for the ‘Let It Be’ album. The project ran into several problems including George Harrison walking out on the group on January 10th.

– In 1971: The George Harrison album ‘All Things Must Pass’ started a seven week run at No.1 on the US album chart, making Harrison the first solo Beatle to score a US No.1 album.

– In 1979: Sex Pistol’s bass player Sid Vicious went on trial in New York accused of murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen three months earlier.

– In 1992: Meat Loaf started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Bat Out Of Hell 2-Back Into Hell.’

– In 2003: 50 Cent was arrested by police in New York after guns were found in his vehicle, after his SUV was searched when it had been left in a no-parking zone. Police found a .25-calibre handgun and a .45-calibre pistol in the vehicle, officers said both guns were loaded.

– In 2005: Green Day were at No.1 on the UK album chart with their seventh album ‘American Idiot.’ The album went on to be nominated for seven Grammy Awards, winning the Best Rock Album of 2005.

– In 2009: According to official US sales figures AC/DC were the biggest sellers of 2008 with over 3.4m sales. To promote the group’s latest album Black Ice, Columbia Records created “Rock Again AC/DC Stores” as well as “Black Ice” trucks which were dispatched on the streets of New York and Los Angeles playing AC/DC music aloud and making various stops each day to sell merchandise.

Random/off topic posts

I don’t look up my name in google too much anymore…

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The google search engine can be a great and useful tool, when you really need to look up something, but the tool can also be sometimes a little embarrassing and frightening. Why? If you type your name in google, you just never know what may come up. I used to google my name up everyday, but I don’t do that too much anymore. Why would I want to see a bunch of titles in other blogs, forums, and youtube videos in google that are pretty much bashing me as a person. Using my full name and all.

I’m fine with people calling me out and ranting about what I post in my blog, but really, people should leave my name out of it.

Usually, when I rant about people publicly, I leave their name out of things, just so that the post won’t show up in google and I won’t get a legal threat by this person.

Other people think they can use my name whenever they feel like, the same goes for twitter and youtube. Well, it’s not alright to be honest with ya. When they use my name, that’s why I do my very best to report those pages to get them shut down and off the net.

This is another reason why I’m planning to trademark my staged name, Kev Brock, so people would quit using my name.

I’ve been mostly a positive person all year, and prefer to stay that way throughout 2012. If a negative person is what some of you want to be, go for it. If you want to revolve your life on talking trash about the same person for a long time, then you got some serious mental issues. I don’t deal with negative stuff anymore ’cause I got better things to worry about and better things to do.

Kev

 

World Wide Web

The Top Fifteen – Year In Review news…

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This is another Best of 2011 that I do pretty much every year on this site. Considering this site is about entertainment news, this is a year in review kind of thing of which I thought was the most interesting or got the most attention in this blog site. Now that 2011 is completely over, I thought I would do this today.

I will do 15 of them, enjoy the read…

15. Lindsay Lohan poses for Playboy, Marilyn Monroe style – Playboy has been trying to get her for years, but Lindsay turned down all the offers until now. Even if she’s getting so much hate over this, people are still buying the magazine ’cause Hugh Hefner says the issue is breaking record sales. Like I said, people wouldn’t resist seeing Lindsay Lohan naked, just out of curiosity. I’ll admit that she’s kind of a hot lady whether she is airbrushed or not, she is still a cute looking woman, just admit it now.

14. Movie being made about the Gotti’s – Looking through my earlier blog posts through the 2011 year, this movie about the Gotti mobsters certainly got a lot of attention in this site, so I had to include this one. The film makers have been having a tough time trying to keep some cast and crew on the job ’cause a lot of people dropped out, including Joe Pesci, and who else, Lindsay Lohan. So far, the film stars, John Travolta, Ben Foster, and Al Pacino.

13. Amanda Knox gets murder conviction overturned and is now a free woman – The story of Meredith Kircher has been all over the web non stop. Amanda got herself a memoir deal confirmed earlier this year, so expect a book soon. Would I buy her book when it hits the shelves? I’m not sure yet. She got mixed opinions on this case. Some say she’s guilty and some say she’s innocent. I’d say she’s guilty as fuck.

12. Netflix raises the prices of subscriptions, angers customers – Before the price raise, Netflix was a very popular service. Pretty much everyone I knew had the service, which inspired me to get it. I subscribed to Netflix, a few months before they announced the price raise, I remember. Pretty much the whole internet was angry about it. People threatened to cancel their accounts and Netflix lost a lot of subscribers. They still have some support though and I’m one of those very few people who would gladly support Netflix still. Netflix rocks, fuck the haters, ya know?

11. Bill Murray all skeptical on “Ghostbusters 3” movie script – Just when are they ever going to get this damn movie made? They want Bill Murray to do it so he can reprise his role as Peter Venkman, but Bill claimed he has never read the script yet. We still haven’t heard from him. Does the script suck that bad? Is that why Bill won’t respond on whether he will do it or not? This story has got a lot of attention in this blog, so I had to include it.

10. The West Memphis Three released from prison – This story was pretty huge, so this had to be part of the top 10. Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Jason Baldwin were accused of murdering young boys, they were released from prison earlier this year as part of a Alford plea deal. These three got a lot of support by the music community. A lot of famous musicians supported them and said they were innocent. Music fans all over the web supported them as well. I watched the first “Paradise Lost”, movie about them and it was pretty interesting.

9. The Ultimate Warrior feuds with Hulk Hogan – This was a pretty real feud. It was no wrestling storyline for sure. The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan feuded throughout most of 2011. What the Warrior is upset at Hogan about is that Hulk Hogan has been attacking Warrior in interviews publicly. Hulk has used some of Warrior’s image and catchphrases in other things too. So Warrior made all these video blogs calling out Hulk Hogan that he should stop what he’s doing. Of course, typical Hulk plays the innocent victim and claims he’s doing nothing wrong like usual. This story got a lot of attention here as this was an entertaining feud so I couldn’t help myself.

8. Donald Trump feuds with President Barack Obama – The Donald announced he was going to run for President, so as an idea to get his campaign to get more attention, he decided to feud with Barack. Saying that he is the worst president of the U.S. and accused Barack of not being a U.S. citizen. So The Donald demanded Barack to release his long form birth certificate, so the Donald got his wish when the President released his certificate at the White House press conference. This was a pretty entertaining feud, the Donald is a good trash talker for sure.

7. New Superman/Batman movies moves forward – Warner Bros./DC is in a huge legal war against the Segel heirs over Superman copyrights. This is why Warner Bros. is rushing the new Superman movie because of the lawsuit. Warner Bros. hired Christopher Nolan to be “Superman’s” mentor, not director. So Chris Nolan and WB’s hired Zack Snyder to direct, “Man of Steel”. The reason Chris couldn’t direct the new Superman movie is because he was going to work on the new Batman flick, “The Dark Knight: Rises”. Both movies have been hard at work and looking good so far for both films.

6. Jared Lee Loughner goes on shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords survives shooting. – I couldn’t leave this one off of here. I’m glad to see Gabrielle Giffords doing better and doing okay. Lets hope that sick fuck, Loughner, gets what he deserves.

5. Steve Jobs dies – The Apple head honcho and inventor of many computers and gadgets. Macintosh, Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, etc. The man was a technology genius, love him or hate him. I guess you can consider that the Ipad I got for Christmas was in honor of Steve, RIP.

4. Lou Reed & Metallica collaborates – When Lou Reed & Metallica announced they were collaborating, they kept their project top secret for now. Everyone got excited at first ’cause we were thinking if they were going to get together to play their hit songs in the studio. It turns out the project wasn’t that. When they announced the album they were going to do is titled, “Lulu”, based on the German play by Frank Wedekind and they released a few samples off the album, the project sparked some controversy online. You either loved it or hated it. I thought it was kind of interesting how people reacted to this project. I do support the album, “Lulu” ’cause it is great.

3. Casey Anthony found not guilty of first degree murder – Yep, another one walks a murder a free woman. Poor little Caylee Anthony, is spinning in her grave while her killer is still out there.

2. Amy Winehouse dies – While the UK popstar’s death was expecting, I didn’t think it would happen this year. So her death was pretty shocking to me. Her death got mixed reactions. Some didn’t care ’cause of her drug problems, and her die hard fans mourned her death. She was quite a talent. I loved her music and it’s a shame she’s gone too soon. If she got her act together and got herself clean, if she survived, she would have had a big career ahead of her. Her music career was sadly very brief. Kind of like Jimi Hendrix’s career was very brief.

1. Charlie Sheen vs. Chuck Lorre feud – So Charlie Sheen gets fired from his sitcom, “Two and a Half Men” after talking trash about the show’s producer, Chuck Lorre, in interviews. After this, Charlie continued to feud with Lorre in interviews for radio and TV. Earlier this year, Charlie did a few live internet broadcasts shows called, “Charlie Korner’s” in which he filmed at in his home. In 2011, Charlie became the most talked about actor on the internet. He was everywhere. Facebook, twitter, etc. It was basically his “Winning” catchphrase, that gave him all this attention. Even though Charlie is pretty calm and easy going today, I wish he would get back into the insane Charlie ’cause I’ll admit that insane Charlie was pretty entertaining.

Kev

music

Cool Video: Phish rings in the New Year last night at MSG in NYC…

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No matter what you think of the jam band, Phish, they are great live performers and they certainly know how to put on an exciting fun show. I know this, because I’ve seen Phish in concert myself at least 3 or 4 times in my life. Yes, I love Phish and am a big fan of them myself. I don’t need to do drugs and drink alcohol to enjoy their music. I just admire their talent and the way they perform their concerts. Plus, I like Trey Anastasio. He’s a great musician and a great guitar player.

Enjoy this. Floating people over the crowd and balloons all over the place. Pretty amazing, makes me wish I was in NYC for this show.

Kev

music

This Day In Music: 1/1/12

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– In 1953: Country singer Hank Williams died of a heart attack brought on by a lethal cocktail of pills and alcohol aged 29. Made his first record in 1946, scored 36 Top 10 US country hits, his best Known being ‘Your Cheatin Heart.’ Over 20,000 mourners attended his funeral.

– In 1955: Elvis Presley appeared at The Eagles Hall in Houston Texas. Presley went on to play over 250 shows in 1955.

– In 1956: Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around The Clock’ went to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time.

– In 1960: Johnny Cash played a free concert for the inmates of San Quentin Prison, California.

– In 1964: The first edition of the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops was transmitted from an old church hall in Manchester, England. Introduced by DJ Jimmy Saville, acts miming to their latest releases included The Rolling Stones, (I Wanna Be Your Man), The Dave Clark Five, (Glad All Over), The Hollies, (Stay), and The Swinging Blue Jeans, (Hippy Hippy Shake). The first song played was Dusty Springfield’s ‘I Only Want To Be With You’. Also featured on disc and film, The Beatles, (I Want to Hold Your Hand), Freddie & the Dreamers, Cliff Richard and the Shadows and Gene Pitney.

– In 1965: The Yardbirds (with Eric Clapton), played two shows at The Odeon Cinema, Hammersmith in London. One at 6.15 and 8.45pm.

– In 1966: Simon and Garfunkel started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Sounds Of Silence’, a No.13 hit in the UK.

– In 1967: The Doors made their first live television appearance lip-synching their first single ‘Break on Through’ on Shebang, KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles. The single peaked No. 126 on the US chart mainly due to lack of airplay after censors objected to the drug use implied by the line “she gets high”, which is repeated in the middle section of the song.

– In 1972: Carole King started a three week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Music’, her second US chart topper.

– In 1972: Marc Bolan signed a deal with EMI to release records in the UK on his own T Rex Wax co. label.

– In 1989: Nirvana signed a one-year recording contract with Sub Pop records. The Seattle based label began not as a record label but as a fanzine (called Subterranean Pop), in the early 80’s, also signed Soundgarden and Mudhoney.

– In 1990: New American radio station WKRL in Florida played the Led Zeppelin track ‘Stairway To Heaven’ for 24 hours, as a prelude to an all Zeppelin format.

– In 1995: Garth Brooks started a six week run at No.1 on the US album charts with ‘The Hits.’

– In 2007: Queen beat The Beatles to be crowned greatest British band of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in the UK. They pipped the Fab Four in a live contest, trouncing other finalists The Rolling Stones, Oasis and Take That. The bands were judged on song-writing, lyrics, live performances, originality and showmanship. More than 20,000 listeners voted by email, text and phone.

– In 2011: Chuck Berry cut short a concert at Congress Theater, Chicago, Illinois after collapsing on stage an hour into the show. Berry slumped over a keyboard and did not move for a couple of minutes before being helped off stage, he returned 15 minutes later only to be forced off again almost immediately. The 84 year-old later re-emerged on stage but told fans he had no strength to continue performing.

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Have a safe and happy new year…

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To all blog readers, have a happy safe and happy new year tonight. If you’re out partying, drink responsibly. Don’t drink and drive, don’t ride in a car with someone who is drunk.

I’m not a party animal like I used to be. Yes, I was a pretty hard partier when I was younger, and I had enough of that shit. Partying is pretty stupid and boring, in my opinion. I like to enjoy myself and have fun in good & positive ways.

I don’t like making new year’s resolutions, but if I had to pick a few that are fitness related. I hope to get better with nutrition and get even more strict with my meals. I also hope to keep working out throughout the year nonstop and become even more muscular. I want to concentrate on trying to improve the pecs.

I also hope to get a job ’cause I plan to start job hunting in Jan. It’s going to be a long time for me to find work since the economics are still shit, but I’ll find work somehow.

Yes, I’m still single, and I hope to get hooked up with a special woman this time around. I’m getting older and need a nice girlfriend at some point. I’ll try to get to work on that as soon as possible. I’m just waiting for the right woman to come along. I say this every year, but I think I’m definitely going to do something about it, this time. She doesn’t have to be hot and she doesn’t have to be a musician, just trying to find somebody that will understand me and respect who I am. I’ll find a woman locally around here ’cause I’m not into this long distance relationship thing. I’m hoping I’ll actually get lucky this year.

Have a good one tonight, and be safe.

Kev

UFC

Thought: Did Sable talk Brock into retiring????

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Brock Lesnar, said he retired ’cause he made a promise to his family that he’ll hang it up if he lost his fight against Overeem last night. When Brock made the not so surprising announcement last night, I kept thinking that Brock and Sable must have had an argument about Brock continuing to fight even though he has health problems. If it wasn’t for Sable, I’m pretty sure, Brock would have kept his career going, because MMA and caged fighting is Brock’s passion. He gave it up ’cause his family wanted it.

Brock retiring wasn’t Dana White’s decision, it was all Brock’s himself. Dana would probably let him keep going if he wanted to.

So all this, tells me that Sable (Rena Mero), must of been extremely worried about Brock continuing to fight, so she talked him into retiring and begged him to stop. When Brock was out there, last night, he didn’t look very good. Something says about him that he isn’t really a 100% that he claimed.

Brock calling it quits was probably a smart move. If he kept going, he could get killed out in the Octagon.

Everyone is already wondering what’s next for Brock if he’ll go back to WWE or do other things in his career. Maybe he’ll do some acting in movies or he could continue to write books. He’ll find himself a new job ’cause he needs the money to take care of his family. It’ll be interesting to see what Brock is planning to do next.

If he goes to WWE full time, he’ll be away from his family a lot more, so I don’t think he’ll go for a full time run. Maybe a part time run.

Kev

UFC

Brock Lesnar ends UFC career after losing to Overeem last night. What’s next for Lesnar? WWE Return???

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I haven’t been watching UFC for a long while ’cause I’ve been cutting back on PPV’s, but I ended up watching last night’s UFC 141, ’cause I can’t miss the Brock Lesnar fights. The Lesnar vs. Overeem fight was a quick one like I expected. I was rooting for Overeem to win it in one round and my prediction was right. I knew Brock wouldn’t be able to handle him due to his sickness and Overeem having more fighting experience than Brock.

Right after the fight, Lesnar announced he is done with UFC. He maybe done with the fighting part of it but will he still work for UFC? Could Lesnar become an interviewer or a color commentator? Or will he quit UFC for good???

Lesnar’s UFC run was very brief. He only had 8 fights. I’m sure he’ll walk out UFC a happy man anyway ’cause he was a Heavyweight Champion and he got the opportunity to fight UFC legend, Randy Couture, so that’s good enough for him.

I like Brock Lesnar, he’s an interesting guy and entertaining as hell. Could he be on his way back to the WWE in the future? Lesnar said he would consider a WWE return if something happened to his UFC career, and I’m sure WWE will try to talk him into re-signing with them, so anything is possible. Hopefully Lesnar returns sometime before Wrestlemania 28, so there can be a Lesnar vs. Undertaker match.

I will start watching WWE again if Brock decides to return. Brock is featured in the new “WWE 12” video game, so that’s a hint that Brock could be on his way back.

Last night’s UFC was a good PPV though, the other fights were good too.

Kev