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.
Local music

Cool Video: Check out, Cletus, the band I’ll be opening for on June 4th…

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Check out this new band in the area, that I’ll be opening for on June 4th at the Alcove Marina venue in Schuylerville, N.Y. They are a hard rock band called, Cletus. One of the members of this band is a friend of mine, he’s the heavily bearded guitar player on the left and his name is Mike. These guys asked me to open for them and I gladly accepted.

I just love opening shows for other bands and other acoustic acts. I’ve done a few gigs where I played by myself without sharing with other acts before, but I like sharing shows with other musicians way more, why? Because I like being in the community with musicians, meeting new people and a smart way to promote my own music. My way of being part of the music scene and become known.

Enjoy these videos. I’m looking forward to sharing the stage with this band in June. They rock!

Kev

Politics/war

Thought: Why “The Donald” is doing the right thing to President Barack Obama…

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Everyone is wondering why Donald Trump have been getting on Barack Obama in the media lately. Bashing him and trying to expose his US citizenship. All that stuff. I’m pretty sure, The Donald, is accused of being jealous and an ego-maniac. I don’t think he’s jealous, but an ego-maniac, yes. The Donald needs to be an ego-maniac if he wants to run for president. Ego is what politics is all about. All those elections from the past, the past president hopefuls such as John McCain, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, etc. They all had huge egos, but none of their egos were as powerful as Donald Trump. Donald Trump maybe heated and he maybe harsh, yes, but this is what he needs to do, if he wants to make it.

This is just his way of trying to get people to know that he’s serious about running. Plus, it’s his way of trying to turn off Obama’s voters so they wouldn’t vote for him again in 2012. The Donald may have a temper tantrum, but he’s always been this way. It’s how rich people are. In reality, I think Donald is a good guy and he can be a professional when he wants to be, but the President Election, he must act like a temper tantrum ego-maniac.

If the Donald actually makes the election, I can’t wait until the days when Barack Obama and the Donald goes face to face in a debate. Oh man, imagine how entertaining this debate would be. The Donald and Barack haven’t met each other in person yet, but they will soon when they get the election going. Does the Donald actually respect Barack? Possibly. It could be possible that Donald actually likes Barack Obama and this could be an act to help hype up Donald’s possible election.

What the Donald is doing is great, I love it. The Donald is a pretty powerful figure, and I truly believe he will make the Election. He’s also been accused of having no political experience, but if you knew Donald’s history, he’s dealt with politics for years. He may have never been a mayor, governor or a senator, but he is pretty smart about politics. Where do you think the Donald get his billions of dollars from? Because he knows politics and knows about money more than anybody.

If the Donald is in the election for 2012, who will be his vice president running mate? It’s going to be interesting who he is planning to pick.

And for the record, The Donald is not a racist. He’s worked with plenty of black people on his “Apprentice” shows on TV, so I don’t see how he could be a racist just because he tried to expose Barack’s citizenship. Hillary tried to do that too, so that makes her a racist as well?

Kev

Books

Report: Superman goes political and hates America, “I’m renouncing my U.S. citizenship”…

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“Superman” is in the news again but this time in comic book form. Instead of celebrating the #900 issue of “Superman – Action Comics”, DC has decided to pull off some controversy with Superman by having him renounce his US citizenship. He hates America now, he’s done. Superman will renounce his citizenship at the United Nations but he will continue to fight crime globally but not in the United States.

Read more on the story, here.

Interesting! I love this idea! Most Superman stories were strictly taken place in Metropolis and other areas in the United States. Look like the rest of the “Superman – Action” comics will focus on Superman saving people around the world. Superman will save people in the U.K., Russia, Africa, China, Japan, Mexico, etc.??? He’s going to completely ignore the United States no matter how much danger our country is in?

I’m going to have to buy this issue. There is a comic book store at my local mall. I’ll have to see if they have it. If not, I’ll order it online.

Kev

movies

Report: Arnold Schwarzenegger will try some serious “acting” before getting into “action”…

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Yes, Arnold is officially back with the Terminator but don’t expect him to get back into action movies this soon. The Governator is set to star in a drama film called, “Cry Macho” which will be directed by “The Lincoln Lawyer”, director Brad Furman. The filming for “Cry Macho” will begin as soon as possible later this summer.

Arnold wants to find out if he has serious acting chops after all the silly popcorn action flicks he has done for so many years. “Cry Macho” is a novel adapted from N. Richard Nash. The plot/synopsis from this article, “He will play a damaged-goods horse trainer who’s just been ignominiously put out to pasture by his feckless boss. In exchange for some retirement money, the broken — and broke — horseman agrees to kidnap the boss’s 11-year-old son from his rich Mexican ex-wife. Things take an unexpected turn, however, when the ex-wife is all too glad to be rid of her juvenile delinquent.”

Arnold is signing on to projects like crazy. First announced was the Marvel project with Stan Lee for “The Governator” cartoon series & comic, then he announces action thriller “The Last Stand”, earlier this week he’s officially in for the next “Terminator”, and now this.

I’m glad Arnie is getting away from politics and getting back where he belongs, in the movies. As for “Cry Macho”, I wonder if he’s going to try to get an Oscar nod for this movie. Arnold’s never done a serious drama film in his life. They’ve all been action flicks. Sure, Arnold has done a few other genres. He’s done a few comedies like “Kindergarten Cop”, “Junior”, “Twins”, and he’s done a few thrillers like “End of Days” & “Collateral Damage”. He’s even done some sci fi films like “Total Recall” and “The 6th Day”.

Do you think people would care to see him in a drama? We’ll wait and see how the box office does with, “Cry Macho”. I don’t think Arnie will get an Oscar nod for that film. I can’t blame him for trying something different for once.

Kev

Politics/war

More on President Barack Obama’s citizenship…

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Here is a couple of youtube videos proving that the Obama birth certificate released yesterday are photoshopped. I know a lot of people online actually believe this birth certificate is real, but I don’t buy it for a second. You can’t believe and trust everything you see that is thrown out there. Especially from the White House.

It could be possible that Barack is an adopted child that was sent away from Kenya to Hawaii. Yes, Barack does have a white mother, Ann Dunham, but is she really his biological, Mom? I don’t think so. It’s possible she could be his adopted mother.

Barack knows he’s about to be exposed, as an illegal immigrant. Barack knows people are after him and he should be afraid, because once he’s exposed as an immigrant, an impeachment of his presidency should be coming to him very quickly.

Watch these videos and you be the judge. This is not his actual birth certificate. I’m sure his real birth certificate is locked away in a safe place.

Kev

Local music

Check out the Knyghts of Fuzz and Sandy McKnight Fiasco here…

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The two bands I will be opening for at Savannah’s in a few weeks, you can check them out and listen to them yourself at their Reverb Nation pages.

Check out Knyghts of Fuzz and the Sandy McKnight Fiasco.

Both of those bands actually sound very good. I’m looking forward to seeing them and meeting them after my set. It’s going to be a great night of rock n’ roll.

Glad to be back to where I belong.

I would love to release my debut album with an actual CD cover and all, it’ll happen sometime. I want an album to happen. It’s just very expensive to make a professional studio album to sell at local shows.

Kev

Health and Fitness

This is one of the reasons I got into fitness for…

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I got into fitness hoping to be in better shape for the performing stage when playing gigs. To look good when performing. Now that I’m in decent shape, I won’t hide my physique by wearing long sleeved shirts on the stage. I can tell you that. I’m probably going to be wearing more sleeveless shirts and wife beaters at my gigs a lot. In my past gigs, I used to wear fancy clothing. I used to wear all black on stage like Johnny Cash, you’ve seen all my past gig pictures. There will be a change of fashion this time around. My plan is to look like a rock n’ roll bad ass and not look like some country/folk singer. The Johnny Cash like image is long gone. Maybe my transformation will help draw more women to the audience at my gigs, who knows.

One thing to keep in mind though, being muscular for my music is not an ego trip, you see. I just wanted to look better when playing guitar. That is all.

Even though my two upcoming gigs, are bar rooms, I’m not going to drink. I don’t drink alcohol anymore, but I can still have fun and party though. I’ll still have fun meeting new people and enjoying the live music of other bands. I can’t drink because of my fitness. I know a lot of people drink alcohol while bodybuilding, but not me. You don’t need to drink to have a good time.

Kev

movies

Not a Cool Video: “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” trailer hits the web today…

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As expected, the third Transformers movie, “Dark of the Moon” looks like a piece of trash. Looks worse than the last one. Nothing but a big special effects movie. The only reason this trailer dropped early is so they can compete with the Harry Potter trailer. I usually disagree with re-boot films myself, but this franchise needs to be re-booted. This calls for a re-boot. It needs to be done better by a better director ’cause Michael Bay is a hack, he sucks. Such a damn shame ’cause I loved Transformers ever since I was a child and they ruined the legendary action figures ’cause of these crappy movies. I’m waiting for DVD on this new Transformers flick. Check it out, here.

Kev

Local music

New gig announcement: Savannah’s “Ralph Renna’s Capital Underground”, opening for Knyghts of Fuzz and Sandy McKnight Fiasco!!!

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Well, what do you know? I was just asked another gig today and out of no where, Ralph Renna asked me to be on his “Capital Underground” series at Savannah’s. I’ll be opening for two bands that night. Knyghts of Fuzz and Sandy McKnight Fiasco! This show is updated in the “Brock Shows” tab in this blog.

I’m so glad to be back into booking shows again! I do miss performing live. I’m glad I’ll be performing Albany first, that way my Albany fans can come see me and I can make new fans as well.

I’ll be video taping all my live gigs, so you won’t miss anything.

Kev