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.
WWE news

Thought: Brock reviews last night’s WWE RAW…

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Man, RAW is getting so much better, I’m so proud of WWE. If WWE can keep up the great work like this, the company will get everyone’s respect again. On RAW last night, started off with a Championship match between The Miz vs. John Morrison. It was such an awesome match, very well played by both men. Of course, the Miz, won, but it was still an excellent match. John Morrison did a really good bump by jumping off on top of the WWE logo on the stage. It felt like a PPV match and a great way to kick off RAW.

The main event that ended RAW was a steel cage match with 3 wrestlers: Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett vs. Sheamus. It was a pretty long match too, also felt like a ppv match. Of course, CM Punk interfered when Wade Barret was going to score the victory but CM Punk pushed Barrett down from the cage, costing him the opportunity to be part of the 30 Man Royal Rumble match up.

All the other matches last night were fun and entertaining too.

Wow. Ever since the WWE ditched celebrity guest hosts, they’ve been doing a great job on their shows so far. Even John Cena wasn’t on last night. See? WWE can do good without Cena. They don’t need Cena around to bring up ratings. All they need is good story lines and good wrestling. It’s pretty nice that the WWE is concentrating on good wrestling for the past couple of weeks and that’s what I want to see.

Congrats to the WWE creative team. Keep up the great work.

Kev

Health and Fitness

More thoughts on P90x…

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If I had anything positive to say about P90x, anything at all, here is something. I’ll admit that the P90x DVD instructional packets can help you lose some weight and gain a little muscle, sure, but it’s certainly not going to make you look like those buffed guys you see in the Calvin Klein commercials. That is why people fall for P90x. They think that stuff is going to turn them into a male supermodel. If you want that male supermodel look, the hot and sexy look that women drool over, the transformation. P90x won’t do that for you, I’m sorry. The key to getting that hollywood buffed look is in the weight room and in the kitchen.

I truly believe it’s possible you can look like those guys you see in the magazines, commercials, and movies…it just takes a lot of research, knowledge and dedication. Do I want that look? The supermodel look? Not really. My goal is to look like a tough guy. I want the wrestler and action star type of look. That’s the look I’m going for. When you get into fitness, you must have a goal and a vision in your head of what you want to look like for your transformation.

Kev

Health and Fitness

BREAKING NEWS: Power Balance admits their wristbands are fake!!!

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I’ve said it so many times, people. Don’t trust every product in the fitness industry. Some products in the fitness industry do work and some don’t. The makers of the Power Balance wristbands that claim they are to enhance your performance, improve strength, flexibility and balance, admits it’s all a lie.

More on the story, here.

If you want to improve strength, flexibility and balance. You don’t go through these fake gimmicks. To improve your goals, you learn stuff like yoga or martial arts. Yoga or martial arts will indeed improve strength, flexibility and balance.

Will BeachBody ever admit that “10 Minute Trainer” or “P90x” doesn’t work? No. As long as they are making billions of dollars, they’ll keep ripping people off.

Kev

Celebrity/musician deaths

RIP: Pete Postlethwaite 1946 – 2011

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Pete Postlethwaite, a legendary theatre, TV and film UK actor died of cancer yesterday. He had roles in films such as “In the Name of the Father” with Daniel Day Lewis and “The Tempest” which are his two most well known roles. He was also in, “The Last of the Mohicans”, “Alien 3”, “The Usual Suspects”, “Aeon Flux”, and also had roles in the new films, “Clash of the Titans” remake, “Inception”, and “The Town”. “The Town” an action movie starring and directed by Ben Affleck was Pete’s final American film. Pete’s last film before his death, “Killing Bono”, will be released on April 1st later this year. Pete was just 64 years old.

Kev

 

Random/off topic posts

Studying music theory continues…

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I now totally understand how the “CAGED” system works. You can play scales over chords, just by using that. I learned those 5 patterns of the major scale and put them together, so I can play them  up and down the neck, all over the fretboard. Whatever key the song is in, you can use the “caged” system. It’s just like any scale. All scales uses the caged system, not just the major. With this book, I’m learning through, I am now reading about chord harmony and triads. How chords and triads work with the 1,3,5 progressions. Learning riffs and licks with triads. Simple stuff to learn. The key to getting good at lead guitar and improvisation is learning music theory. This is pretty fun stuff to learn.

I’ll be ordering Jim Gillette’s “Vocal Power” DVD from Metal Method company this week ’cause I’ve also been looking into learning to sing better like I said before. As you can see, I’m learning to improve both guitar and vocal to a more professional level.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Pull ups…

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I read somewhere in a certain blog, that somebody had trouble doing pull ups for the first time. This person couldn’t do one single pull up because it was too strong. Well, this certain person need to not worry. When I first started doing pull ups, I couldn’t do them for shit either. When I first started bodybuilding, I could only do one or two reps. That was it.  Now I can do ten reps or a little more. Why am I able to do more pull ups now? Probably ’cause I have been doing fitness for over a year and have gotten more strength. Keep doing the pull ups, you’ll be able to do more in the future. It takes time and practice to do good pull ups. Don’t want to do pull ups on a chair, that’s just exercising your legs and not your back. When you get into fitness and can’t do pull ups, don’t blame yourself. You’re just getting started, that’s what it is.

When you get into fitness, and people disagree with you on how you do things, people will point it out to you. That’s how fitness goes. You don’t run away and whine about it. You accept it and learn to get better. Take people’s advice and learn to deal with the critics. If you can’t take criticism, then fitness isn’t for you.

You’re not going to get a ripped physique with P90x. When you complete that program, you’ll be disappointed at the end.

I try to help others and give people advice with fitness the best I can. Of course, there will be some people that think I’m the badguy ’cause I’m too “honest” and they couldn’t take the truth. At least I tried to help. You need to have a good and positive attitude in fitness. If you’re going to be negative about yourself in fitness, then you wouldn’t get anywhere.

Kev

Edit to add: On another note, doing pull ups while standing on a chair is very very dangerous, it could fall out from under you and you could do a crash landing onto the floor, could get you badly injured. What was this guy thinking when he tried to use a chair to do pull ups on? Bad move. Idiotic, I must say.

music

Cool Video: Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You”… such a great song!

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This song titled, “Fuck You” by rapper Cee Lo Green is creating a lot of internet buzz this week. This video has been floating around facebook so I decided to post it here too. I’m not into this type of music much, but I actually love this song. It’s very well written. The lyrics are perfect, the vocals and harmony are fantastic. Plus, most importantly, the song relates to a lot of people. The song is very true and very honest.

If you listen to the lyrics, it’s just a simple song about dating gone bad. Men who date women that wants more money, aka gold diggers. A lot of men goes through these experiences in life, even me.

Thanks Cee Lo for writing a song that is so real and inspiring! A catchy song too, I might even get his new album from Itunes.

Kev

WWE news

Thought: I trust WWE in their Awesome Kong signing…

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Ever since the announcement of former TNA star, Awesome Kong, getting signed to WWE, there have been many worries by wrestling fans how WWE is going to use her. When WWE bring in new wrestlers, they usually use them for humorous and silly storylines that makes it look embarrassing to wrestling fans like what they did to the Hornswoggle, the Great Khali and Santino Marella characters. Fans worry that WWE will make Awesome Kong head down that road.

Will Awesome Kong be brought in as a heel or a babyface?

When Awesome Kong was in TNA, she was always seen as a heel. I don’t think she was ever a babyface in TNA. In TNA, she was also seen as this unstoppable monster. She couldn’t be defeated in the women’s division in TNA wrestling. Not too worry wrestling fans. I think WWE will use her good. They will continue to use her as this unstoppable heel that she’s known for. I think WWE have been wanting her for a long time, they’ve been waiting to sign her until she’s done with TNA. Now they finally got her since Awesome Kong was released from TNA earlier this Spring.

There’s a couple of possibilities on how WWE is going to use Awesome Kong. They will bring her in as this unstoppable heel against the WWE Divas. Kong will come in, beating up all the Divas, she can’t be stopped or she could be brought in as a new Nexus member. Why would Kong be a good Nexus member? Well I think the Nexus could use a good female heel and Kong would make a great addition to the group.

WWE will obviously give her a new staged name and a new gimmick ’cause I’m very sure TNA owns the rights to her name and gimmick. So WWE will create something else for her, unless WWE tries to buy the “Awesome Kong” name off of TNA so she can keep that name. WWE won’t disappoint fans with the Awesome Kong signing. Not sure when she’ll make her debut, they’ll make it unpredictable. I think she’ll come in in the 30 Man royal rumble matchup, she’ll make her debut at the Royal Rumble ppv. She could also come into feud with Beth Phoenix or become the bodyguard for LayCool (Layla and Michelle McCool, tag team). It’ll be interesting how WWE is going to use Kong. I believe in WWE and trust in them. They’ll use her good.

Kev

movies

Thought: Films to look forward to in 2011…

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Say goodbye to 2010, say hello to 2011. During the past year, Hollywood teased us a lot of upcoming films that will be coming out this year. What movies do I look forward to seeing this year?

Here is the list:

  • Season of the Witch (Supernatural fantasy film starring Nicolas Cage)
  • Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows part 2 (Part 2 of the Harry Potter finale)
  • Rango (A Guillermo Del Toro directed animated movie voiced by Johnny Depp)
  • The Three Musketeers (A new Three Musketeers remake on the way, actually looks decent)
  • Cowboys & Aliens (Jon Favreau movie about cowboys going to war against aliens from space, stars Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig)
  • Sucker Punch (A new Zack Snyder action movie)
  • JJ Abrams “Super 8” (JJ Abrams directed alien invasion movie starring Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning)
  • Thor (This actually looks very very good, I will definitely see the new “Thor” movie by Marvel)
  • X-Men: First Class (New X-men movie focusing on the earlier days of Magneto and Professor Xavier, can’t wait for this)
  • Source Code (An action thriller by director Duncan Jones, stars Jake Gyllenhaal)
  • Rise of the Apes (prequel to the original “Planets of the Apes” movie, I’m a huge fan of the Planet of the Apes franchise, always has been)
  • Captain America: The First Avenger (Finally, Captain America coming to the big screen, hope this will be a good one, probably will be)
  • The Beaver (Jodi Foster directed movie with Mel Gibson playing with a Beaver puppet, looks very good, I’ll see this one)
  • Paranormal Activity 3 (Yes, there’s another Paranormal Activity film in the works, as the second left open for a third film, I love the PA franchise, can’t wait for the third!)

That’s it so far. “The Expendables 2”, won’t be coming out until 2012, I think. Not sure when Sly Stallone plans on filming the next “Expendables” movie. Maybe later this year.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Happy New Year!!

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Well Happy New Year to all readers!

What did I do last night? Nothing. Just stayed home and played, “Call of Duty: Black Ops” until the Ball Drop. I don’t party on New Year’s Eve anymore. I used to, but I think I’m getting too old for that partying shit. I don’t party anymore. Just boring and stupid.

What are some things that will happen this year in 2011? I will continue fitness and bodybuilding throughout the year. It’s a life long commitment. I’ll never give it up. This year I will try to find ways to beef up my chest, and try to make my pecs more defined. They are slowly getting better as my pecs are slowly becoming more visible as you can see in the latest pics. Look like training the pecs for a strict one day a week, really works. I really want the muscular physique so badly, but I’m just taking my time. I just feel proud of what I have now.

On with the music, I plan to try and get better at guitar. Play more professionally. Get better at ear training, improvisation, music theory, scales & modes, etc. I really want to get better and it’s time to be called a real musician here. I’m doing the best I can to become a better guitar player. I am getting a little better too. I’ve been learning through some instructional books, some more intermediate and advanced stuff. I also hope to write more songs for a new demo CD, get a band going and start recording some full band tracks hopefully. I will try to get back out to playing live shows again. Hopefully a Brock comeback to local music will happen this year, it’s in the planning stages though. Just little baby steps.

Hope everyone had a safe New Year’s Eve last night.

Kev