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.
Well, new song ideas are starting to hit me, pretty hard. Yes, I’ve finally started writing new ones again. Recorded a new one on my ProTools this morning. Here is a new song called, “Be Home Safe”, another war/political based song, a song about being home safely and staying alive from all the wars and evil in the world. This is just a rough draft, it was quickly recorded in one take. The vocals aren’t the best and no click track with the guitar playing. I will improve the song down the road.
It’s just me and my electric guitar, using a Boss Super Overdrive pedal. I hope this will be a full band track down the road too and I hope to make a full band demo CD in the future.
Enjoy it, here. Click play or feel free to download.
Yes, I’ll admit it. J.K. Rowling is a genius storyteller. The reason the blog has been slow this weekend is because I’ve been trying to catch up watching the Harry Potter films before Friday’s “Deathly Hollows” release. So far, I have watched the first three Harry Potter films: “The Sorcerer’s Stone”, “Chamber of Secrets” and “Prisoner of Azkaban”. So far, I’m loving them all. The movies are fun and the storytelling is great. Plus, the action and special effects are way cool.
I’m only going to watch one Harry Potter film tonight, which will be, “Goblet of Fire”. I’m only watching one Harry Potter film ’cause later tonight, I need to catch up watching “The Walking Dead” series ’cause AMC will be re-airing the first two episodes tonight. I already saw the first episode of “The Walking Dead” online, but the internet don’t have the second episode, so I’ll watch it on TV tonight before the new third episode.
I’ve worked my day job for a full 7 day straight in one week, so my boss gave me the weekend off to rest up before another busy week next week. So I’m just relaxing this weekend by watching movies/some TV at night, playing guitar, and doing some reading. Been working out at the gym most of the week too. Today is my day off of workouts, need to have a few of those every week.
Back to Harry Potter, it’s interesting how much I go from hating a franchise to loving it. I guess Harry Potter grew on me.
I have been a longtime die hard fan of wrestling legend, Mick Foley, for years. It was him that kept me hooked to wrestling. I’ve followed Mick Foley’s career for years. Back in his ECW/WCW days, his Japan Pro Wrestling days to WWE to TNA. I’ve also read most of his books. Yes, I even got the opportunity to even meet the man in person. I met Mick Foley at one of his speeches at ACC College in Glens Falls when he was out promoting his book, “Foley Is Good”. I have a pic to prove it, I’ll find it somewhere. I had Foley sign my “Have a Nice Day” Hardcover book and a Cactus Jack T-shirt which I still have both of those. I’ll show you all those things sometime.
Why do I admire Mick Foley so much? It’s simply because, he’s one of the best performers in professional wrestling. He’s one of the only wrestlers who can put on matches and make them historic. He’s a great mic speaker. Even though he doesn’t have a lot of technical wrestling skills, he’s known as a hardcore wrestler, a street fight anything goes type of guy. Plus, another reason I respect him, is because there is no ego in him at all. He’s always very nice, friendly and professional in the wrestling business. He’s one of those rare guys who has never taking drugs. He has never done steroids, dangerous painkillers or any other substance that wrestlers are known to doing these days. Even though he is an obesed guy (he admits it in the book), he has always been very healthy and clean. I also respect him ’cause he is willing to get hurt for real, taking the risks to put on good hardcore matches. Even if it takes losing an ear or a few teeth, he doesn’t care, he’ll do whatever it takes to put on a classic wrestling match. These are reasons why so many people respect the man.
On with the book, “Countdown to Lockdown”, it takes place before the iconic TNA match at “Lockdown” ppv between Foley vs. Sting. Foley talks of the events leading up to the match, giving it a countdown to the ppv. It is not just a book about wrestling. He talks about a lot of serious things. He talks about meeting famous singer, Tori Amos, and how she’s an inspiration to writing this book. He also talks about helping children and talking about being a member of RAINN, a company that helps fight against sexual violence.
What topics about wrestling did he cover? He talked about his departure with WWE, his feud against McMahon. Talked about his off TV feud with Ric Flair. Of course, he mostly talked about the legendary WCW wrestler, Sting. He also talked a lot about wrestler deaths and steroids. He even covered all of the Chris Benoit murder/suicide controversy.
While Ive read most of Foley’s books, I thought this was his best one. It was insightful and intelligent. Foley is a great storyteller. Foley is on a bit of a hiatus from TNA, but not sure if he is on his way back to WWE or not. It’s long rumoured that he could be the next RAW Anonymous GM, but always denied that rumour and says he’s happy with TNA, not WWE…but who knows, maybe he’s lying to tease the fans. The RAW Anonymous GM could be Foley, since he hasn’t been working for TNA lately. This book is a must read for all you wrestling and Foley fanatics out there. Check out the videos below in which Foley talked about those moments in the book.
So I became officially interested in seeing the upcoming new Harry Potter film, “The Deathly Hallows” which is about to hit theaters next Friday. Yes, I will definitely go see it. However, I’m trying to catch up with the first six Harry Potter films on DVD. I just watched the first one, “The Sorcerer’s Stone” earlier tonight and it was quite good, I actually liked it. I will watch “Chamber of Secrets” the second one tomorrow night.
I know, I know. I used to bash J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter in my blog, in the past, but now I feel kind of bad for that, ’cause Harry Potter, is actually kind of cool. I’m late getting into the series. After I see all the movies, I’ll read all the books.
It’s just that when I saw the Harry Potter theme park at Universal and seen the “Deathly Hallows” trailer, that’s what made me become interested with Harry Potter. Don’t know what it is. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the movies. I’m going to try and watch all of them before, “Deathly Hallows” release, next Friday.
Today is a very special day in the world of rock and roll music. Why? Because today is Neil Young’s birthday. Yes, the Canadian legendary rocker turns 65, today. He is one of the reasons I got into music in the first place, and he is one of the reasons why I wanted to write my own original songs, and to play guitar. His music means so much to me. He is not only a great singer/songwriter, but he is also one of the best live performers. He puts so much energy and heart into his live concerts. When he plays on stage, you can tell that Neil Young doesn’t care about fame and the money, he does it for the love of music. You can really see his passion for music when he performs live.
This post is about celebrating the music of Neil Young. One of the greatest rock and rollers of all times. I love Neil. Have a little over ten of his albums in my CD collection and counting. Neil deserves this post ’cause he is one of the only legendary rockers still alive and rocking. He still puts out albums year after year, like he has always done and always touring. Most legendary musicians died of a young age, and kudos for Neil for sticking with us. Thank you Neil, for all the wonderful music you made for us.
Here’s another shirtless progress pic, to get a better view of the abs and chest. Yep, pecs are really starting to shape up a bit, got a bit of a washboard too. I don’t tell myself how good I look that most fitness people seem to do, I just put my progress pics out there and let the public do the judging. Why? Because, I can’t really tell how good I look, this is why I put my pics out there hoping to get feedback by people. I don’t put these pics out there to admire myself. Putting pics out there is important so you can get feedback and people can tell you what you need improvement on.
Chris Nolan has lined up six different actresses who are in the hopes of being female leads for, “The Dark Knight: Rises”. It is said that one female lead will be Bruce Wayne’s love interest, the other will be for the main villain. If you look at all these six actresses, they are young. So the villain for the next Batman film, will be female. Does this mean that the female villain will either be Poison Ivy or Catwoman? I would like Natalie Portman as Bruce Wayne’s love interest. I would also like Naomi Watts as Catwoman if the villain will be Catwoman. It’s looking very likely that the next villain will be Catwoman, I’m very sure of it.
Well, this news actually kind of surprised me. I didn’t think a director like Jon Favreau will direct a movie such a this, so he must be a huge fan of Disney. Keep in mind, that Disney owns part of Marvel, so that’s probably how they got in contact with him. How are they going to come up with a plot for this? It’ll be interesting to see what the plot will be. Also, how much do you want a bet that Robert Downey Jr. will get a role in this film? Whether it’s leading role or small role?
“The Walking Dead” a new TV horror fiction show, have been so popular on the web lately. Other people have talked me into watching the show myself. So I saw the first episode on the AMC website, and was pretty impressed. As you all know, “The Walking Dead” TV show was adapted from the black and white comic books that were around back in 2003. Yes, the storyline of some guy waking up and finding the world being taken over by zombies have been told so many times in various styles. I think AMC does their version perfectly. There have been so many horror TV shows in the past but most of them have been garbage. The first episode was really creepy and scary. It was also bloody and gory. Something that would been shown on the big screen, not the small screen. So it’s really weird that AMC is able to show these things. “The Walking Dead” was really good, I was very impressed by it all around. I think Andrew Lincoln is a great actor. Frank Darabont, the legendary director is the one who created this show. Consider me a new fan of “The Walking Dead”. I’ll be watching every Sunday night. I’m going to try to watch episode 2 of “Walking Dead” to catch up before Sunday, the new episode. So I now watch two different new prime time drama shows on TV, “The Event” on NBC, and now, “The Walking Dead” on AMC. If you seriously like, George A Romero and zombie fiction, of course, you would love this. This is an awesome show, definitely check it out. I can see why it’s so popular!
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