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Thought: Going back to school?

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I just got back home late for work, decided to work extra this weekend as a request from my boss, I gotta work most of the day tomorrow so my blog may be a little slow this weekend.

I know a long time ago, I’ve discussed in blogs that I plan to go back to school…to college I mean, to get a college degree for a better job. It might actually happen this fall when classes start back up.

I might be going to Acc College in Queensbury, N.Y. What courses will I be taking? I may be taking a few of them. I’ll be taking some type of “English/writing” class so I can learn how to write better. I want to learn to write better to work on my grammar and work on better writing skills. To work on writing so I can write better for my blogs plus to hopefully start a novel writing career. Becoming a novelist and author was my original dream before music, and I just started to take novel writing again seriously. For novel writing, I’ll probably mostly write horror and crime fiction the stuff that I mostly enjoy reading.

I also might take some type of business course where I can learn how to run and open up my own small business. I own my own small business, I can be my own boss and not worry about working crappy jobs. Opening up my own store has always been a dream of mine. I’m thinking of opening up a bookstore that sells music CD’s too.

Don’t know if the college thing will actually happen but I’m definitely looking into it. I’ll never give up the music and guitar playing, and performing live, that I’ll always do. I just do music for fun and a good hobby. I don’t think I’m ever gonna become a profesional musician nationally, so I figure why not get back into writing fiction stories soon and open up my own store.

I’ll have more on this college thing later this summer.

Kev

 

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Thought: Myspace is full of anonymous fakes…ways to tell that the profile is not real…

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So are you the type of myspace user that is willing to add anything that sends you an add request? Are you the type of myspace user that adds people you don’t even know? Or did you come across a myspace fake anonymous just to cyberbully you?

Here are easy ways to tell if the myspace account is anonymous and fake. Many people in myspace aren’t really who they are. When I had my music account up, I came across a lot of fakes so I know this with experience. It’s easy to tell that if a person in myspace is a fake.

Here is a step by step:

  • Their pictures in the photo galleries may look like the same person but if you look closely at each photo you can see that the photos is a different person, example, the face is not quite the same and the hair color of the person is a little different each photo. It’s just their way of trying to make the anonymous page look like a real person.
  • The myspace user uses a default picture that is not of themselves, just some random google images or photoshop work they did themselves.
  • You think you’re making friends with the user, they refuse to give out who they really are, they refuse to give their phone number or where they really live.
  • You want to meet the user in person to hang out like friends, they tell you where to meet, and surprise, they never show.
  • You don’t hear from the user much and rarely see it logging in often…it’s because they are too busy using their own “real” myspace account, switching back and forth to their real one and their anonymous one.
  • In the information they write about like in the “About Me” stuff, they write silly and humorous things that a real person wouldn’t write about themselves, for example they write stuff like, “I’m fat and hairy, Richard Simmons is my hero” and stuff like that. They mainly write nasty and obscene things in the “General Interests”, and “About Me” stuff just to press your buttons.
  • In the comments section, you never see real people interacting with the myspace fake user, it’s mostly either advertisements and myspace hacked accounts posting stuff, for example, you never see the fake users friends calling them by the real name and just posting ads in the comments. Mostly hacked faked accounts. If there were real people in there, they would just be making fun of you.

And there you go. I can completely understand why people with myspace accounts only add people they know ’cause they don’t want to run into fakes. Myspace is a whole world of fake people.

Nothing wrong with adding strangers and trying to make friends with people you don’t know in myspace, but you gotta be careful. Just make sure they are truly a real person and make sure you can trust him or her long enough first.

Kev

 

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Thought: About embedding a widget jukebox player into this blog…

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I just read in the help section of wordpress that wordpress doesn’t allow media outside of wordpress to embedd into this blog, like other widgets elsewhere and stuff like that. So look like the media widget mp3 player is out, I can’t do it here. Now I figured out why I couldn’t do it!

Oh well, this weekend, I’ll link my soundclick page to the side of this blog at the “blogroll” section and you can hear my tunes from there. At my soundclick page, I got older songs on there from last year but I plan on using my soundclick page for my music only.

I’ve been writing songs again. Been coming up with a lot of great ideas. Can’t wait to finish ’em, record ’em and get ’em online.

Last week when I picked up “Grand Theft Auto IV” videogame, I picked up the “Guitar DVD – How to Play Acoustic Rock Guitar” instructional DVD/booklet that only costed $10.00, it’s a guitar instruction series made by Andy Aledort who is the Guitar World editor/transcriber. I looked through the booklet of the DVD pretty quickly and I pretty much already know everything in it. With myself being an acoustic guitarist. I would say I am pretty dedicated to rhythym guitar. Now my lead guitar playing could get worked on a little more but this DVD instructional set will help play lead guitar better. I want to get better at guitar solos, it’s the main reason I picked up the instrument to become a kick ass lead guitarist. I’m doing everything I can to get up there.

My blog is a good promoting tool for my gigs ’cause I know everyone in the Capital District is reading this thing. Most people who came to my shows in the past have been mostly my blog readers and it’s a great feeling. It’s not a delusion ’cause I know what I see and it’s the truth. If the entire Capital District wasn’t reading my blog, then it wouldn’t have gotten a nod in the Metroland twice in a row.

I just want nothing to do with myspace. Too many whack jobs in that site. I feel good without it. I’m still considering going to Facebook though. When I make an account there I’ll let you know.

I’ve been playing Grand Theft Auto IV a lot and I’m still amazed and in awe of how realistic that game is. Ok, that’s it for now, I figure I would talk about something other than “news entertainment” topics for a change.

Kev

 

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Back from the mall…

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I just got back from the Wilton Mall in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Yes, I did pick up Grand Theft Auto IV for PS3 at Best Buy. Best Buy wasn’t mobbed at all as a matter of fact, it was easy to pick up. I just walked in and grabbed the game.

I did pick up a music CD too. I almost bought Madonna’s “Hard Candy” but I put it back and bought Kate Nash’s new CD “Made of Bricks” instead. I’ll get Madonna’s new album another time.

I did see a movie today just to make time pass by even if there was nothing playing in theater so I decided to check out “The Forbidden Kingdom”, the action flick starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li, the movie was actually pretty good and entertaining to keep it small and brief. I’m not going to bother reviewing that film.

Like I said, I’m going to complete “God Of War” first before I start GTA IV.

So far I have three games for the PS3… “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock”, “Viking: The Battle of Asgard” and “Grand Theft Auto IV”. I bought that “Viking” game a couple of weeks ago and haven’t even played it yet. So many games to play so little time.

I won’t buy any new games for a while since I have plenty that will keep me busy.

Kev

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Thought: Myspace clarification…

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Btw, I have nothing against the “friends” personal profile part of myspace, I have nothing against that part to be honest because that’s what myspace was once was before a “friends” place to hang out. Now myspace has turned into a music site. What I am against in myspace is the music part of it. That is what’s bothering me about myspace, the music bands/artists section. I lost my respect in interacting with some of the other musicians in myspace. Some of them promised to get me on some shows of theirs, but of course they never happen and I explain more reasons, I’m just trying to keep a long story short.

It’s not an opinion and should be no surprise to you that the internet has officially taken over the music industry. People has been using the net for music, instead of buying CD’s at the stores these days. It’s getting very rare that you ever see people buying CD’s much anymore because of the online world. Itunes, myspace, etc. Buying albums from the record stores is pretty much dead. People with Ipods and mp3 players and shit like that. It’s why you constantly see crappy music high in the Billboard charts.

With my own music, I plan on doing something different. I want to find some type of html mp3 player to embed into this blog where I can play my songs while you are reading this blog. If I can find something like that, I’ll put up a jukebox player up here on the blog. I plan on turning my blog into my official website. Maybe have a new domain name that’s much cheaper. That is my plan. It is another reason why I got rid of my old official website because I plan on turning this wordpress blog into a new one. That way it can be a music website and a regular blog both at the same time. I’m gonna look into doing that. Soon if I can ever learn how to do that and I’m researching it.

Since my blog gets a lot of hits everyday (at least 1,000 hits a day), I figure uploading my songs here into a player would be a cool thing.

Kev

 

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Thought: No more myspace for the Brock…

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I have decided to cancel my myspace music account today. I am actually thinking about leaving that stupid site for good. Myspace is in fact a crappy site, I actually despise it, I’ve been hating on myspace for the longest time. So many weird and crazy people in that site, people who are delusional and you can’t trust anyone there. I can explain so many reasons I hate that site. See the post I did before “10 Reasons to Hate Myspace” several entries back.

As far as uploading my music goes, there are other sites where I can do that. I’ll just go to my soundclick music page. I don’t like myspace at all. The site is pure crap.

What’s funny is that most bands and musicians think “myspace” is a great promoting tool for your music, hate to burst your bubble, but it is not. “Myspace” does not get people out to shows. I will explain more on that another time.

Myspace is a disgrace to this society. I feel much better without it and it’ll help me become less addicted to the site. There is more to life than myspace and I have found better things to do than that site. I’m thinking about cancelling my personal account too.

Thanks for your understanding.

Kev

 

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Report: Teen describes role in “myspace” hoax…

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Remember last year the report of the 13 year old girl, Megan Meier, who committed suicide over myspace harrassment? The story has been getting strong national attention as of late. Another teenage girl Ashley Grills is responsible for all this because she was posing as a boy named Josh Evans, she just found some random picture online of a good looking boy and started flirting with Megan as a boy, then the online chat became aggressive harrassment saying to Megan that “the world would be a better place without you” and harsh things like that. Since Megan’s suicide, Ashley Grills became suicidal and felt really guilty ever since.

The Associated Press:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gg5xCtQtLBF6vJqWXStItGEOsJfwD8VPCSRG0

Use myspace wisely and carefully kids. It maybe a fun and addictive site, but honestly, I don’t like it. I don’t like myspace at all, as a matter of fact, I hate it so much.

I always thought about deleting both my music and personal myspace profiles but I can’t because I have to use the site to “network” local music, it’s the only place where I can get gigs, plus I use my personal profile to keep in touch with friends/family that I know well.

As you noticed I’ve been taking lesser time from myspace, I’ve been finding better things to do than hang on the computer. It seems like people don’t really use myspace as a place for friends that everyone claims. They seem to use it as their own little drama soap box. You can’t trust anybody in that stupid site.  

I’ll have a myspace “rant” later on today.

Kev

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Thought: Movie rentals…

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I worked a full 10 hour shift at my part time job today and for some reason, I don’t feel all that tired. I must feel energetic and upbeat today, that could be it.

Last night, I finally watched the movie “No Country For Old Men”, and the movie was fuckin’ amazing! Oh my god, that movie was one of the bests I’ve seen in a long time! Josh Brolin played such an awesome character, and of course, I loved Javier Bardem’s character as well. I would have to say that “No Country For Old Men” easily headed up to one of my top 10 favorite films of all times. I plan on buying the Blu-Ray for that movie sometime most definitely! Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet.

On the way home from work, I stopped at the video rental store and rented 3 films… I rented “Michael Clayton”, “Death Sentence”, and “We Own the Night”. I’ll be watching those 3 movies tonight to relax after a long day of work. I’ll let you know my thoughts on those films.

Not much to blog about today, maybe more tomorrow.

Kev