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.
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Haters, they’re just people who secretly want to be like me!!!

It seems like a lot of people want to write negative shit and not be supportive of me these days. A lot of times, I just can’t figure out why. Over the years, I’ve never said anything wrong or offensive. I’ve never committed a crime or anything like that. I never really understood the negativity I got over the years. I’m just a simple guy posting on my blog and enjoying life. Playing my guitar, and working out at the gym. I’ve been thinking about this and I’m beginning to figure it out. Like the title of this topic says, they all simply want to be like me and they can’t. People are just mad that I have a lot going on in life, ya know? That’s all it is really.

People have been getting mad at my web presence for years, so I’m pretty used to it. That goes for way back in the old Crumbs website back in the day. I never forget that stuff, I still remember it all like it was yesterday.

I really do think people are just jealous of me, a little bit. They’re just mad ’cause they know that my web presence is pretty popular. They’re mad because I play guitar and write my own music. When I started working out in the gym like a little over 3 years ago, the jealousy kicks in even more, by people making fun of my progress photos.

It’s not just the internet where people are jealous, and not supportive of the things I do in life. People around me in the real world, I get the same thing, everywhere I go. When people on the internet like other musicians and regular music fans, write about me in facebook, twitter or make videos talking about me in youtube, they know they have no reason to do what they do. They do it because they want to be me. When people say that there is nothing to be jealous about, it’s showing your jealousy even more.

With all this being said, I didn’t have to change my internet personality for anybody at all. This is how I am, as a person and human being. I won’t change. I only changed my internet personality a little bit, so I can avoid my blog getting shut down by people, that’s it. I will always be an honest guy and have my own opinions. If I have different opinions than yours, that won’t change either. So you can write all your hateful comments and pull your hair out all you want to, I will always be the same guy.

Although I must admit that some the things that people write about me, can be pretty hurtful, but I learn to get over it. I don’t care about haters, man. They can all jump off a building if they have to.

I’ve been living my life as positive as possible lately, and I’m feeling good. Life is good. Maybe that’s another reason they all come after me ’cause they know that my life is a good one.

Kev

Edit to add: This is why I’m strict on posting comments in this blog, youtube or where ever ’cause simply put, I have a lot of enemies out there. If I left the comments open where everyone at random can post, that would make them want to post hateful comments at me anonymously. I won’t tolerate that. Please try to understand why I’m strict on comment posting.

music

This Day In Music: 11/28/11

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Musician Birthdays: Berry Gordy (founder/owner of Motown Records. Born in 1929). Randy Newman (singer/songwriter/pianist. Born in 1943). Matt Cameron (drummer for Soundgarden, Pearl Jam. Born in 1962)

– In 1960: Elvis Presley started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’, his third US No.1 of 1960. The single included a spoken passage loosely based on Shakespeare.

– In 1962: The Beatles performed two evening shows: the first at the Cavern Club in Liverpool and the second at the 527 Club in Liverpool. The 527 Club show was a dance for the staff of Lewis Department Store in Liverpool, held on the top floor of the store.

– In 1974: John Lennon made his last ever concert appearance when he joined Elton John on stage at Madison Square Gardens in New York City. Lennon performed three songs; ‘Whatever Gets You Thru The Night’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ and ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.’

– In 1976: The Sex Pistols appeared on BBC TV’s ‘Nationwide’ and ITV’s ‘London Weekend Show.’

– In 1987: Taken from the film ‘Dirty Dancing’, the Jennifer Warnes’ duet with Bill Medley ‘(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life’, went to No.1 on the US singles chart.

– In 1987: REM had their first entry in the Top 10 on the US singles chart with ‘The One I Love.’

– In 1991: Nirvana recorded a performance for BBC TV music show Top Of The Pops in London. When asked to lip-sync ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ to a pre-recorded tape Kurt Cobain protests by singing in a low-pitched funny voice with the rest of the band not even trying to mime in-time to the track.

– In 1992: Whitney Houston started a record-breaking fourteen-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Will Always Love You’, taken from the ‘Bodyguard’ soundtrack. The song was written by Dolly Parton.

– In 1993: Steppenwolf drummer Jerry Edmonton was killed in a car crash not far from his Santa Barbara, California home, he was 47. Steppenwolf had the 1969 US No.2 & UK No.30 single ‘Born To Be Wild’.

– In 2004: Metallica played the last show on their 137-date ‘Madly in Anger with the World Tour’ at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. It became the fourth-highest grossing tour of 2004, reaping $60,500,000 in ticket sales.

– In 2006: US actress Pamela Anderson filed for divorce from rapper Kid Rock after just four months of marriage. In a statement on her website the 39-year-old confirmed she had split from Rock.

– In 2007: Kanye West and stuntman Evel Knievel settled a copyright dispute over West’s use of the name “Evel Kanyevel” in a music video. The 69-year-old daredevil had claimed his image was tarnished by the video’s “vulgar, sexual nature.” The clip for Touch The Sky, showed the rap star cavorting with Pamela Anderson and trying to jump a rocket-powered motorcycle over a canyon.

Enjoy!

Kev

TV

“The Walking Dead – Season 2” Mid-Season ends with a shocker… ****Major Spoilers****

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So the 1st half of the “Walking Dead” is over and here is my review with some major spoilers. If you haven’t seen any of the episodes yet or tonight’s episode, then don’t read any further after you see the spoiler warning below.

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In the beginning of Season 2, Carol’s little daughter, Sophia goes missing after the cast tries to protect themselves from walkers in the highway. The cast ends up staying at Hershel Greene’s farm home after Carl’s been shot and they continue to stay there for safety & hospitality.

Honestly, this season started off kind of boring. It was more like a soap opera than anything. There wasn’t too much zombies, blood & guts like the last season. I’ve been getting some predictions right and some of them wrong. I knew Lori was going to get pregnant this season, and I’m betting it’s going to be Shane’s baby.

I was kind of disappointed that Merle Dixon only appeared for one episode this Season, but I don’t think it was actually him and it was really Daryl just dreaming or something of that one episode where he went looking for Sophia by himself.

Hershel, the farmhouse owner, has a barn full of walkers because he has family in there. A wife and a step son. He refuses to kill the walkers because he thinks they’re still people and wanted to care for his wife & step son like any family would. Glenn found out about the walkers in the barn and in tonight’s episode, Glenn told the cast about that secret.

The cast wouldn’t leave Hersel’s home because they wouldn’t leave without the missing Sophia, who they were still on the look out for her. The cast thought she was still alive and out there somewhere.

I did too. I had a couple of guesses on what may have happened to Sopha, Carol’s daughter. I thought Merle Dixon kidnapped her as his way of getting payback for leaving him on the rooftop in Atlanta handcuffed, or Sophia could be living with a different family somewhere. Neither prediction was right.

Turns out that Sophia was a walker and she was in that barn after all this time. Now I can completely see why Hershel didn’t want Rick and his friends getting in the barn to kill the walkers, because he didn’t want them to see Sophia as one.

I know the pacing of the show was kind of slow at the start, but they ended this season very nicely. The ending tonight certainly shocked the hell out of me. My jaw fell open when Sophia as a walker, came walking out of the barn. I think the writers of the show made the beginning of it kind of boring on purpose so they can save the best for the last. Now I get why they did what they did.

The second half of the season which will air on AMC later this Spring, will get real interesting now. Hopefully, Merle Dixon will return second half, I’m sure he will.

They did a real good job ending the show this time around. Hope they keep up the good work for the second half.

Kev

music, WWE news

Billy Corgan’s “Black Friday” wrestling event in Chicago, a major success…

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So Billy Corgan, the leading frontman of the Smashing Pumpkins, started up his own wrestling company, called Resistance Pro. It’s where they would have wrestling events in Billy’s hometown of Chicago. Well, last Friday’s event at the Excalibur nightclub was a huge success.

Billy couldn’t be there ’cause he’s stuck in a European tour overseas, but he was able to watch the event via, Skype.

Read the full story here of what went on.

Here’s a couple of videos from that night. Looks a lot of fun, wish I was there.

Kev

 

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This Day In Music: 11/27/11

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Musician Birthdays: Jimi Hendrix (guitarist, singer/songwriter, born in 1942).

– In 1962: The Beatles recorded their first BBC radio session at the BBC Paris studio on Regent Street in London. They played ‘Twist and Shout’, ‘Love Me Do’ and ‘P.S. I Love You’, the tracks were aired on the BBC Light Program ‘Talent Spot.’

– In 1964: Mick Jagger was fined £16 for driving offences by a court in Tettenhall, Staffs. His solicitor told the court: “The Duke of Marlborough had longer hair than my client and he won some famous battles. His hair was powdered, I think because of fleas. My client has no fleas.”

– In 1969: During a North American tour The Rolling Stones played the first of four shows at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The group played to 55,000 fans over the four nights grossing over $100,000.

– In 1970: George Harrison released All Things Must Pass. The triple album included a number of songs that were left over from Beatle sessions, the set would go on to be certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, making it the best selling album by a solo Beatle.

– In 1982: Lionel Richie was No.1 in the US with ‘Truly’. Richie achieved a No.1 each year from 78-86 as a writer, ‘Three Times A Lady’, ‘Still’, ‘Lady (Kenny Rodgers), ‘Endless Love’, (Diana Ross), ‘All Night Long’, ‘Hello’ ‘Say ‘You Say Me and as co-writer of ‘We Are The World’.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Why shaving arm pit hair is important…

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Shaving arm pit hair may sound silly, but it’s important and pretty serious to do. I’m about to explain why in this post. Not only that shaving your arm pit hair would help make your bicep and lat poses look better, there’s a more important reason than that. You know how after every time you get done working out, you always get this sweaty smell? That’s why. Shaving arm pit hair helps get rid of the body odor.

I don’t shave body hair at all because that’s for the professionals, but it’s okay to shave the arm pits. Don’t have to shave arm pits if you don’t want to, it’s your choice but it is strongly recommended in bodybuilding.

To get rid of my body odor after workouts, I shower after every workout and use deodorant. Plus, changing into new clothes after a workout is important too.

I’ve been shaving my arm pit hair a lot more often now, at least once a week. It feels good and more comfortable.

Kev

WWE news

5 reasons why the Ultimate Warrior is the most inspirational wrestler…

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There are a lot of wrestling legends out there, who were once pretty big in the 80’s. The question is, who is the most inspirational of them all? Hulk Hogan? Bret Hart? Macho Man? Roddy Piper? Shawn Michaels? The Undertaker? The list can go on.

They were the greats back in the day, but in my opinion, I think the Ultimate Warrior is the most inspirational retired wrestler of them all. Warrior is so special in a lot of ways.

Here are 5 reasons explaining why:

  • His match at Wrestlemania 6 with Hulk Hogan was a classic – This is one of the important reasons why we all love Warrior. It’s his classic match with Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 6 where Warrior won the IC title. This was the first time where we all began to think that Warrior was an important figure in the wrestling business.
  • He doesn’t believe in comebacks and refuses a Hall of Fame induction – Warrior is a retired wrestler, and he “stays” retired. He doesn’t believe in wrestling comebacks. Most so called retired wrestlers have came out of retirement over the years, but not with Warrior. Why make a comeback and ruin what he had in the past? He had a good and positive career run, why mess it up, ya know? Fans want Warrior to make one last WWE run, but I don’t think he will anytime soon. Even though he is a retired wrestler, he’ll still do events for fans like autograph signings and things like that, just to entertain the fans that he still has. He also keeps refusing a WWE Hall of Fame induction, and that’s good. The WWE Hall of Fame is a joke anyway.
  • His web presence is addicting – He had a web presence for years. For a long while, he’s been writing on his official blog, but then he launched. O.W.N. (One Warrior Nation), earlier this year where he could interact with his fans on a personal level. He’s a very honest guy. He’s a good speaker and just interesting to listen to. I like the way he thinks. He’ll open your eyes up on a lot of things. He’ll speak on topics about anything he wants, no holds barred discussions. That’s another reason why I like him.
  • He’s good with his fans – He enjoys meeting his fans in person, signing autographs and posing for photos. He even responds to people online through the O.W.N. website.
  • He makes great youtube videos – There’s a lot of wrestlers that have their own youtube channels, but Warrior’s the best. He also gets a lot of youtube hits than most of them. I’m always watching Warrior’s videos and always looking forward to his next one. He does a great job entertaining people than any wrestler out there.
  • He’s the fuckin’ man!!! – He seems like a real good guy in real life. Most professional wrestlers can have huge egos but Warrior has no ego in him at all. He’s just down to earth and friendly.

That’s it, enjoy!

Kev

Books

“Best of 2011” for books is coming too…

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I’ve been reading quite a lot of new books that came out this year, so I figure, why not have a “Best of 2011” for books as well? Thing is, the “Best Books of 2011”, will be posted in late January ’cause again, there are still new books this year, I still want to read. I still have to read Ace Frehley’s new book “No Regrets” and Stephen King’s new book, “11/22/63”. There are other new books I still want to buy too. I’m a slow reader and it takes me a long while to finish one book, but I’m still able to get through so many books in one year, somehow though.

Reading’s one of my favorite hobbies to do.

Kev

music

This Day In Music: 11/26/11

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Here’s the This Day In Music for the day. Enjoy.

Kev

Musician Birthdays: Tina Turner (solo artist, singer for Ike & Tina Turner. Born in 1939.), Natasha Bedingfield (singer/songwriter. Born in 1981)

– In 1958: Johnny Cash, made his debut on the US country chart when ’Cry! Cry! Cry!’ made it to number 14. His next seven singles would all make the country top 10, with ‘I Walk the Line’ and ‘There You Go’ both hitting number 1.

– In 1962: The Beatles recorded their second single ‘Please Please Me’ in 18 takes and ‘Ask Me Why’ for the flip side at EMI studio’s London.

– In 1968: Cream played their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Also on the bill were Yes and Taste.

– In 1976: The Sex Pistols released the single ‘Anarchy In The UK’. It peaked at No.38 on the UK charts.

– In 1990: The inaugural Billboard Music Awards were held in Santa Monica, California. Janet Jackson was the main winner of the night, winning in eight categories, including Top Pop Album, Top R&B Album and Top R&B Artist.

– In 1991: US Country singer Garth Brooks asked fans to bring 10 cans of food to a grocery store in exchange for a lottery envelope, some of which contained tickets to see Garth at a forthcoming show. Over 10,000 cans were donated to charity.

– In 1994: The Eagles started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Hell Freezes Over.’

– In 1995: Alice In Chains were at No.1 on the US album chart with their self-titled album.

 

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Guns N’ Rose’s angers the Capital District for cancelling Albany show…

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Originally, Guns N’ Roses were scheduled to play the Times Union Center, on the day before Thanksgiving earlier this week, but as predicted, the band cancelled out on us. Local people in facebook, have been putting up status’s and comments, bashing the band for it. It was blamed on low ticket sales.

To be fair to Axl and Guns N’ Roses, maybe it wasn’t their decision to cancel the show. Maybe they really wanted to play it but maybe it was the arena’s decision to pull the plug. I wouldn’t quickly blame the band.

I can see why people would quickly blame the band, since Axl’s been well known to be late at gigs and not showing up at some of them. Things like that.

Even if it was the band’s decision, maybe Axl and the rest of the guys wanted to spend their Thanksgiving with their families. Maybe it had something to do with travelling conflicts. He lives in California so it would be difficult for him to travel like that.

People should not be so quick to judge.

Kev