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Tabloids & rumors…

As I said before, I don’t mind people talking about me, either good or bad, talk all kinds of shit about me, all you want to, I don’t care. The one thing you don’t want to do is to make things up about my life.

The homosexual rumors and the horse accident rumors, people still seem to be obsessing with that stuff. I don’t know why.

– I’m not a gay man. Although, I can understand why some would think of me this way ’cause of my fascination with muscles & fitness, and also, I don’t date women too much. No matter what you think of me, I’m not gay at all, I’m a 100% straight. I keep getting these kind of rumors, I have no choice but to deal with it. I don’t date women too much ’cause I choose not to. I enjoy the single life. It’s by choice. I will get a girlfriend at some point (hopefully), it’s all about waiting for the right woman to come along. Nobody likes being called a gay person, right?

– The horse accident. Several years ago, I was involved in a car accident in which I was a passenger. The car accident involved horse back riders in the road late at night. People didn’t even get the whole story and I only told parts of it, not the whole thing. What’s messed up about this is that people thought it was funny and they thought it was comedic material. Then I’ve started seeing them making offensive photoshop work of me with horses. No matter what kind of accident someone was in, you never make fun of them. It’s just wrong and mean. I could have been killed that night, and for them to make fun of that accident, you think I’m just going to ignore that? They continue that shit to this day. Now it makes me wish, I never made that story public and kept it to myself.

-I am also not a mentally retarded person in which people seemed to be confused on. I may not be perfect, but that doesn’t mean I am one. It is also wrong to call people that. You are no better than others. You don’t make fun of and bully people who are because they can’t help for what they are. I’m a normal human being. Nobody likes being called a mentally retarded person either. I may not speak well (admittedly), and may not have a straight back, but I’m sure you have worse things than I do. Everyone’s not perfect and that goes for you.

I doubt this post will stop the bullshit and hopefully it’ll help clear everything.

Kev

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My internet personality…

I understand that the way I speak my mind online maybe critical to some. I understand that I can be controversial at times. Whether I post in forums, other blogs or even this site, sometimes a bunch of people would flip out and go crazy over the things I say online. I even get kicked out, banned, or suspended from other sites at times too. Some of you may ask, why is Brock like that? Why does he seem like a jerk online? I’m about to tell you why in this post.

The thing is, I’m a realist. I’m not afraid to say things no matter the consequences. If other people don’t like it, that’s fine. It just shows that they don’t like hearing the truth and they know that I’m right on certain things. That’s how it inspired me to do a blog. It’s my own little area where I can get the truth out. A lot of people like to hide behind the truth and lie about things, I’m going to let people know that they can’t do that.

I’m an honest and open minded guy. If something’s on my mind, I’m gonna say it. I don’t hold my thoughts in. If other people want to respond to me in a negative direction, I’m all good with that. It doesn’t bother me at all. I’m the same way in person. If you ever meet me in person, I’m gonna be the same guy like you see on here.

I don’t feel ashamed or guilt about any of this. I’m all good. The truth is good. I’ll always believe in the truth and freedom of speech. If other people want to be honest and all critical about me as a person, I’m okay with that too. Everything people say about me online, you’re just opinionated, not the truth. I’m all about facts and honesty.That’s what this blog site is all about.

Kev

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Why I never furthered my music to the next level…

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Some may wonder why I never furthered my music to the next level. Maybe for possible touring, possible label signing and all that stuff. I’ve always got mixed opinions with my music. Some hate it. Some love it. Yes, believe it or not. I do have quite the following with my music. Yes, I have a fan base of my own with my music. With that being said, I am honored that some people out there actually enjoy my music

The question you have to ask is, will I ever have an actual career with my music down the road? Probably not. I just do music and write songs for fun. That’s it. It’s just a hobby of mine.

A lot of musicians and bands have this attitude of, “Hey, my music is great, listen to my stuff.” I never lived in that kind of fantasy world that a lot musicians seem to be in these days. I just do music for fun, pure and simple.

I believe that a lot of musicians and bands take themselves way too seriously. A lot of them are pretty desperate to get heard, to get recognition and they just feel important to get known. The truth is I never saw my music as a career kind of thing. I play music because it is pretty much all I have in life. It gives me something to do during the day and keeps me going.

I never cared to make money off of music. I never cared to get fame, that so many bands seem to be obsessing with these days.

I could further my music toward the next step if I wanted to, but who knows, maybe someday it’ll actually happen. If it doesn’t, I’m cool with that too. I just want to keep playing my guitar and making music. It must be nice to win Battle of the Bands, open for some big national acts and play some huge festivals, but honestly, all that stuff is kind of silly. I just want to play music. I never cared for big opportunities.

Kev

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Did social media change the way we all look at music???

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Whether it’s local music or national music, seems like all bands and artists have joined the social media bandwagon. All musicians & bands seem to have their own official website, blogs, twitter, facebook, etc. In the past, myspace used to be a big hit with music, but people are no longer interested in myspace anymore. These days it’s all blogs, twitter, and facebook when bands are promoting themselves.

What is it about everyone joining the social media bandwagon?

Not only that it’s an easy way to promote yourself like your gigs, project announcements, etc. Bands & artists see it as an opportunity to interact with their fans in a more personal way. Bands have been chatting back and forth with their fans in social media pages lately.

Back in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, and even the 80’s, when there was no internet around, it made music promoting a lot harder. Back in those days, you had to use flyers to hang in town and mailing lists by regular mail if you wanted to promote your music. Newspapers and magazines were also used to  promote music in those days. Today, it seems that music promoting is much easier.

I’m not trying to sound negative, but I’m going to be honest here. I think the internet pretty much killed the music business. Nobody is buying records anymore because of it. Everyone is doing everything online these days.

It seems that more bands are getting record deals because of the internet but is that a good thing? No, not really. I miss the old days of music when the A&R guy used to go to a band show and just sign a band to a major label because he/she likes their music, that’s how it used to be done in the old days, but it’s not like that anymore. These days labels sign bands based on their popularity alone, not caring if their music is good or not.

I miss the old school ways of promoting music and wish it was still like that. I know I’m sounding like a hypocrite, that I do this social media thing myself, but I do it because everyone else is doing it. I’ll never forget the quote from John Mellencamp, “I think the internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.”, or something like that.

It’s easier for bands online to make themselves look popular when in reality, a lot of them are nothing. Bands have been releasing free music to the internet like what Radiohead have been doing as of late and a lot of bands have been making their own youtube videoblogs.

Self publicity is great, don’t get me wrong, but I believe the internet has taken the love of music away from bands & musicians itself. Social media has certainly changed the way we all look at music, but honestly, it didn’t help, it only makes the music business much much worse.

Kev

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Brock’s Top 15 favorite comedy films of all times…

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With “American Reunion” coming out soon, this inspired me to do a list of my favorite comedy films of all times. I need to have a good laugh once in a while.

I’ll name 15 of my favorites at the top of my head, in no particular order. Enjoy the list, all.

  • Monty Python & The Holy Grail – The best Terry Gilliam flick ever! This film is a classic, especially the hilarious killer bunny scene.
  • U.H.F. – This “Weird” Al Yankovic comedy is one of my favorites of all time. It wasn’t very big & successful but I thought it was one of the great comedies in the 80’s. Slapstick done the right way. I love this movie.
  • Ernest Goes to Jail – This is the best Ernest P. Worrell movie. I love all Ernest films but this one is my favorite. I own it on DVD too.
  • Pee Wee’s Big Adventure – I know you are but what am I?
  • Analyze This/That – I love both the Analyze movies, with Robert Deniro and Billy Crystal.
  • The Money Pit – This is Tom Hanks best comedy in the 80’s. I’ve always loved this flick.
  • The Burb’s –  Another great Tom Hanks classic.
  • Anger Management – This is my favorite Adam Sandler movie, him and Jack Nicholson playing together is fantastic.
  • School of Rock – This film makes me smile every time I watch it. My favorite Jack Black movie.
  • Groundhog Day – My favorite Bill Murray comedy. Another movie I’ll never get tired of watching.
  • Superbad – This was the only Michael Cera movie that I liked. A very enjoyable film with lots of laughs.
  • The Police Academy – The Police Academy series are great but I’ve always loved the first one more.
  • Spies Like Us – An excellent classic starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase. I grew up on this film.
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – My favorite Steve Martin movie starring Michael Caine. I’ve seen this flick so many times. Every time it was on TV, I would watch it.
  • Plains, Trains & Automobiles – Another great Steve Martin flick, also starring the late, John Candy, RIP.

There are plenty of more comedies I enjoy, but the ones I listed above are my absolute favorites.

Kev

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Music is not always a happy world…

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Some people always wondered why I’m always brutally honest about “music” and “bands”. Well, here’s the thing. A lot of people out there mistakenly think that the world of music is such a “happy” and “lovely” world, all the time. Yes, I agree that music can be a lovely and happy thing, but not always. You have to be real about stuff, ya know. The second you’re brutally honest about something, like say something bad about a band that a lot of people like or something they are doing, you’re all of a sudden, the badguy just because you were honest. This is what I always tried to do about music. Bring out the truth about “things” that people don’t understand.

Music is one crazy world. Obsessive fans will always side with the band, no matter what you say about them. That’s how people interact in the music world.

A lot of bands and acoustic acts, obsess with opportunity. Trying to get to that next level in music. A lot of them want to move forward and get bigger opportunities. As I always say, I just want to enjoy myself. I don’t care about “fame”, “popularity”, “money” or “being a rock star”. I just do this for fun and make myself happy, pure and simple.

I just like writing my songs, playing the gigs, I’m set. That’s all I need. That’s all I want.

This is why some people think I’m a “negative” person when it comes to music discussion, ’cause I like to bring the truth out about things. This is just the way I am. You need to have different feelings when it comes to music ’cause it would be boring if it was a “happy’ world, all the time. The music world is not always “happy”. Everyone is positive about music just to be friendly, not everyone have to be that kind of person.

Kev

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Report: Sylvester Stallone to start his own men’s fashion business based on “Rocky” and “Rambo” characters…

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Many people don’t know this, but other than being an actor, writer, director, & bodybuilder, Sylvester Stallone is also a business man. He was the one who helped start the “Planet Hollywood” restaurant with other movie stars. He started his own magazine in the 90’s for a while called, “SLY”, magazine. He also started the “Instone LLC” business which is a company that sells healthy supplemental products for bodybuilding/fitness. Not sure if he still has that in business or not.

Sly’s next business adventure, that he will start his own fashion clothing line for men. It will be mostly aimed for men around Sly’s age, but I’m sure people all ages could buy his stuff from there. Sly’s new clothing line will start next year in 2012. The clothing that the business will sell, will be based on the “Rocky” and “Rambo” movie characters. His goal with the company is that he wants men of his age to look like a “Rebel and a gentlemen”.

Read more about it, here.

Kev

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Cool Video: Will we get a violent “Superman” movie next time around???

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In Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns”, there wasn’t much violence, it was pretty much a love story and a family film. Brandon Routh as Superman didn’t really fight at all. Maybe that was the problem with “Superman: Returns”.

In Collider’s interview with Zack Snyder the man himself, he was asked if Superman will punch somebody in the face. Of course, Zack wouldn’t reveal spoilers, but he admitted that he wants to see Superman kick some ass. So there’s a hint for ya that the next Supes flick should have a lot of violence and more fighting.

That’s what I’m hoping too. I’m hoping the next Supes flick will be an action movie. I don’t want Supes just saving people. I want him to do a lot more than that. I want Supes fighting the bad guys. I hope they stay away from the love story with Lois Lane and concentrate on the Superman character. That’s what I want.

We want a fun Superman movie that is fun to see like “Superman II” was with Christopher Reeve. Superman have all those powers for a reason and he needs to use them for a reason. With Christopher Nolan mentoring this movie, I think he’ll want it to be an action movie too.

If they use Brainiac or Dark Seid as the main villain, just imagine the great fight scene they would have in Metropolis. Imagine the sound and special effects. It would be quite a ride.

Zack, Christopher and Warner Bros., want to make Superman fans happy with a good film, and I think they would be successful at that.

Kev

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Cool Video: See the Undertaker and Triple H’s return here…

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Last night’s RAW was such an amazing show, all the way through. It was better than the “Elimination Chamber” PPV. We’ve been getting a lot of superstar returns this year, really weird. The Rock came back. Booker T came back. Christian finally returned at the Chamber PPV. Kelly Kelly, the popular diva also returned. And most importantly…the Undertaker and Triple H were both revealed from the “2/21/11” videos. The Undertaker was seen in the “2/21/11” video but there was another figure wandering around in that video. Those two figures in the video were revealed on last night’s RAW. They were Triple H and the Undertaker, making their match together for Wrestlemania 27 official.

To be honest, I’m not really excited for Wrestlemania 27 this year, it seems like a regular RAW card. Triple H vs. the Undertaker is the only match worth looking forward to, that match is going to be amazing. Triple H and ‘Taker wrestled in matches many times before, they had a long history together. The first Wrestlemania match they had together was way back at Wrestlemania X-7.

I’m also looking forward to Jerry The King Lawler vs. Michael Cole. Of course, I’m predicting Michael Cole will win that match, with a little help of other heel wrestlers.

See the return of Triple H and Undertaker in this video. Listen to the crowd response. It’s crazy. They got a much powerful crowd reaction than the Rock. This is why I love WWE, folks! Gotta give the stars respect.

Now that the 2/21/11 video and the Wrestlemania guest host have been revealed, when will the Anonymous RAW GM ever get revealed?

Kev

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I’ll admit it, I’m not that great at guitar solos…

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…it is why I’ve decided to take some time to study up guitar again, to get good at guitar solos and play like my heroes. I can play all the techniques: hammer ons, pull offs, slides, string bending, vibratos, etc. I can do all that stuff fine. The only thing I’m not really good at yet, is improvising and having a  good ear. I’ve been practicing and learning ear training, and getting better. I’m also not good at making my lead guitar solos sound musical. You want to make your lead guitar solos sound musical. Not making your solos sounds like  your practicing scales. It’s all hard work to learn but getting the hang of this stuff.

A lot of musicians out there are afraid to admit that they suck, because a lot of them are delusional and their ego will get in their way, but not with me. I’ve always been honest about my talent. I’m not that great of a singer and guitar player, I just do it for fun because music is my passion. As you all can see, I am looking to improve both guitar & vocal. I’ll always be looking for ways to get better.

Kev