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.

Cool photo: John Landis directs Michael Jackson for the “Thriller” music video…

(photo credit: Quint of Aint It Cool News)

This photo is so freakin’ badass, that I just had to post it for myself. I gave credit to AICN for copyright respect. At the end of the Thriller video, I always thought that MJ’s yellow eyes was some kind of special effect. After seeing this photo, the yellow eyes were actually eye contacts. In that picture, that’s the young MJ when he was really cool, the red jacket and all. RIP, Michael Jackson.

Kev

Brock is planning to get into more jazz music…

I’m going to start listening to a lot more jazz music. I learned that if you play guitar and want to get better at the instrument, listen to a lot of jazz. I already do listen to some. I like jazz artists such as Miles Davis, Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock, but I need to listen to a lot more. Just started listening to Wes Montgomery as you see in the pic above, got one of his greatest hits albums in Itunes. I’m not giving up rock n’ roll and metal, of course. I will never outgrow that. I just want to listen to something different. I will probably get into a lot more jazz artists too such as Al Di Meola, Allan Holdsworth, Django Reinhardt, and plenty of more. After listening to Wes Montgomery, I have to say that I like it very much. Jazz is very good to get into.

I want to start learning jazz guitar. It might help bring my guitar playing to the next level and become more professional. I want to become a better guitar player.

When not working out in the gym, I spend the rest of the time playing guitar. Your body needs relaxing and healing from working out, so guitar playing is a good way to get rest. So is playing video games, watching movies or listening to music.

Not only I want to learn jazz guitar, I want to listen to jazz ’cause I find that jazz helps calm’s me down and it’s relaxing. Playing lead guitar along with jazz music is good ear training too. Jazz music is awesome. If you’re a music lover and you say you can’t get into jazz, then you aren’t a true music lover over all. You should enjoy all genres of music. I even enjoy classical and opera sometimes as well.

Kev

Thought: Speaking of Wonder Woman, why does everyone want her on the big screen so bad?

Everyone wants Wonder Woman to get a new movie for the big screen. The internet has been talking about it for a long time. Wonder Woman has done TV shows and cartoons, but this character never had a movie on the big screen before. That is one of the reasons everyone wants her on the big screen, but there are more reasons. More reasons why? I am guessing the reasons why: 1) People are getting tired of male superheroes hogging the big screen, they all want a woman superhero for once 2) With more women getting into action movies these days, they want to see Wonder Woman do a lot of dangerous action scenes 3) A lot of men want to see something sexy. I think that could cover it.

If WB’s are still planning a Wonder Woman theaterical release film, they gotta be careful with this, so it won’t be popular with a lot of lesbian women ’cause it could happen, if they aren’t careful with the new Wonder Woman costume. The Wonder Woman movie should be enjoyable for all men and woman, no matter the orientation. Everyone wants this film to happen, but there are questions that need to be answered first. Will the writing of this movie suck? Will they have a good actress for the character? Will it be a hit movie?

I don’t think the first Wonder Woman movie will be as big as Batman and Superman of course, but Wonder Woman could possibly be a failure too. Who would want to see Rihanna or Beyonce as Wonder Woman or any other pop star? I like the Wonder Woman character, don’t get me wrong. I read her comics, saw the Lynda Carter TV series when I was a kid, yes. I don’t know how good the movie is going to be. It could be a boring CGI popcorn movie with bad writing. Don’t get your hopes up that this could be a good movie.

I care more about another Batman and Superman movie than Wonder Woman to be honest with you. If a Wonder Woman film happens, great, I’ll go check it out, but I won’t expecting it to be great unless I see a trailer first. There’s really nothing special about Wonder Woman possibly on her way to the big screen. Oh yeah, and Angelina Jolie wouldn’t be a good Wonder Woman. She’s too old for the role. I think the role was meant for an actress in her 20’s-30’s. Wonder Woman will probably do ok in the box office, but she won’t be able to top Superman and Batman. Sorry.

Kev

Report: Wonder Woman coming to the small screen by Warner Bros., will be written and produced by David E. Kelley

Look like Warner Bros. is moving forward to a new Wonder Woman TV series. The original starred Lynda Carter from the 70’s. The new series will be written and produced by David E. Kelley, who also brought us, Ally McBeal. See the article here at, Deadline.

Lynda Carter, would obviously be too old to reprise her role for the new series, so they would have to use a young actress.

Hope they do a good job with the new TV series. I remember when NBC redid, “Bionic Woman”, it only lasted for one season due to a, writer’s strike.

I’m pretty sure Lynda Carter would probably appear in the new “Wonder Woman” series but as a different role.

Kev

Cool Video: Chuck Norris, finally returns to acting, well sort of…

This is very strange. Is Chuck Norris making a big comeback to acting? He’s been away from the entertainment industry for years and we haven’t heard from him in a long time. Finally, Chuck wants to let the world know that he’s still alive by starring in a political commercial for, “Trigger Your Vote”. Chuck is still looking the same, although he is aging a bit as you can see. According to the wikipedia, Chuck is 70 years old now. So is he wearing a wig to hide his gray hair or whatever? What’s his secret to aging and still looking like he’s in his 40’s? Nice to see him again briefly.

Lets hope he returns to acting for TV and movies.

Kev

Neil Young’s “Le Noise” is absolutely mind blowing

I think Neil Young’s “Le Noise” is his best new record in years. In fact, it’s ranked high up in the top 5 list of his best albums. Neil Young is seriously at the top of his game now. On this new record, Neil doesn’t play with a band. It’s just him and his electric guitar. The songs on the album are absolutely haunting and creepy in a way. The album maybe hard for new Neil Young fans to get into, but once you get into it, the album will grab you. I think it’s very interesting Neil, playing his electric guitar without a band, using overdrive or distortion pedals. He wants to prove electric guitar music doesn’t need a band. This is the best that Neil Young has been in years. It’s definitely the best album all year long. This album is different than the stuff he did in the past. The sound in Daniel Lanois’s home is out of this world. The songwriting on this album is great.

You can hear the whole album here in, “Le Noise – The Film”, in youtube, the entire album is here in this video below. Watch this whole thing if you would please. I’ve been a die hard fan of Neil Young for years.

Enjoy.

Kev

My new plan for chest improvements…

Over the week, I have came up with a new plan to improve my chest. I think what my problem is, I did push ups pretty much all the time. From this point on, I think I’ll do push ups for once a week. I’ll do push ups on the day I train my chest before I do dumbbell presses or whatever. That’ll be the only day of the week, I’ll do chest on. Give the chest some time to rest and heal for the rest of the week. Maybe I’ll get an improvement in a month or two. I’ll see what that does. I’ll post a new shirtless progress pic at the end of November before Winter.

Kev

Feedback from Scooby’s Workshop…

So I posted my latest progress pic at Scooby’s Workshop, just to see what kind of feedback I get from there for the hell of it. So far the feedback there, is surprisingly positive as well.

I love this comment here:

Deffo need to stick to a diet as your half way there on the abdominals…. alot of people struggle to get to this stage… but the stage your at now you can easily get a nice set of abs… just eat well and do a lot of crunches for upper abdominals and leg pull ups for lower abdominals 🙂 good luck.

I just loved it when he said that a lot of people struggle to get visible abs, which is very true. There are even skinny guys out there who have trouble getting abs and not making them visible. Why is this? Not good enough eating and not enough cardio probably. If you want to get a washboard belly, like I said before, it takes three things. 1) Good nutrition 2) doing your crunches and 3) plenty of cardio (running, jogging, walking, jump roping, swimming, biking, etc.)

I get a lot of nice comments on my abs, my arms, shoulders, etc. People don’t say much about my chest if you notice, which I’ll admit, I still need work on the chest pecs. I’m donig the best I can on the chest. The chest is probably the most difficult and challenging thing to grow. It’ll take some time, but I’ll get there. I’ll look like a tough guy soon enough.

Getting visible abs is real easy. Whenever I get a good all around tough guy physique in the future, maybe the haters will think twice before writing something nasty to me online? LOL.

Fitness is an amazing ride and I’m enjoying it a lot! It’s my blood!

Kev

Thought: How to make Superman right…

I know I talk a lot about Superman, but that’s because he’s my favorite superhero. Always has been, ever since I was a child. I’ll never outgrow this character ’cause I’m always fascinated by this story. Some people worry that Christopher Nolan and who ever the new director is, will make the next Superman flick, a shit movie. Don’t worry folks. It’s not gonna happen. That’s why Warner Bros. hired Christopher Nolan as a mentor for Superman, because WB’s wants to make the next Superman movie, right, since Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns” didn’t do that well. I am seeing that Chris Nolan wants to stay true to the Superman franchise, he wants to give what the Superman fans want.

What Superman fans want to see for the next movie is less Superman/Lois Lane romance. Fans want to see Superman save a lot of people in Metropolis. Fans wants to see the next movie action packed and exciting. They want to see a Superman movie with good acting and writing. Most importantly, everyone wants a different story and not being remake of “Superman: The Movie”.

Yes, I’m sure Nolan’s version of the film will open on the planet Krypton where Superman is from, and there will be scenes with Jor-El, and all that. Then we’ll get scenes in Smallville where Clark Kent grew up on but with Nolan’s version, we will for sure, get a different feel of those scenes. Nobody wants to see Lex Luthor as the main villain again, but I’m sorry folks, like I said many times, Luthor is needed. Luthor is an important part of the whole Superman story, so Nolan and David Goyer will probably write Luthor in the script. If they’re going to use Luthor again, they’ll need an actor with talent. Somebody that could possibly top Heath Ledger’s, Joker. That way Lex Luthor can be watchable for the next Supes flick.

I’ll tell you right now, folks, that Christopher Nolan will not fail this. I promise you, they’ll make the next Supes flick a really good movie that everyone will be happy about. You can see that Chris Nolan is being very careful with his choice of directors, that’s why he’s listing all these directors, to audition each one of them to see which director would be right. Could Robert Zemeckis be the right pick like everyone’s saying? Maybe, maybe not, but Zemeckis could also screw it up as well. I really want Chris Nolan to get Richard Donner back so hopefully Chris would get lucky to get him if he can.

Superman deserves to have a good movie again, that’s why they’re trying. What will the new Superman costume look like? I’m sure it will have the same red, blue and yellow, with the S symbol on the chest, of course, but I’m sure the suit will be different than Singer’s and Christopher Reeve’s version. Also, the next Supes movie will have to be a big special effects movie. There will be plenty of CGI like it or not. They need the special effects with Superman’s powers like flying, fast running, x-ray vision, heat vision, super breath, and all that stuff. It seems that Christopher Nolan knows about Superman more than anybody, so he will stay true to the character and from the comics. Nolan likes to stay true with things, just like he did with his Dark Knight flicks.

I don’t think the next movie will be taken place in our current time either. It’ll probably be taken place in the 30’s – 50’s, ’cause that’s how the original Superman was in the original comics. So I would think the new Supes flick would be around that time, not in 2010. So they might go the old fashion way with the new Superman costume. I’m not sure what the story is going to be for the next Supes flick, but we’ll know something very soon once a new director is hired. I sure can’t wait to see who the next director will be as it will be interesting. There is a reason that Chris Nolan is not directing the next film himself, ’cause even knows he wouldn’t be right for it. He’s just shipping in ideas and giving advice to WB’s like he’s hired to do. I am thinking that the next Supes flick will be the best Superman movie ever made. I think they will do a great job.

Kev

RIP: Tony Curtis 1925 – 2010

Legendary actor, Tony Curtis, most famous for starring the leading role in the Marilyn Monroe movie, “Some Like It Hot” died yesterday, in his Las Vegas home, of cardiac arrest. He also had movie roles in, “Spartacus”, “The Bad News Bears Goes to Japan”, and many other films. While he acted in films for most of his life, he was lucky enough to star in a film with Marilyn Monroe, which he got to kiss and make out with in the film. “Some Like It Hot ” is one of my favorite films of all times.  RIP Tony, him and Marilyn will be seeing each other in heaven right about now.

Edit to add: I also forgot that he is also the father of legendary horror star, Jamie Lee Curtis.

Kev