Ever since the Godfather of Soul, James Brown passed away 10 years ago today, I never forgot him. Ever since then, I mentioned his anniversary passing each year. While it’s Christmas, never forget that a music legend left us 10 years ago.
I fucking love James Brown! Huge fan for sure. I thought his music was genius. Now don’t go accusing me of becoming a James Brown fan just because he died, I’ve been a fan of his long before that. I listened to his music for a pretty long time!
Kev
I just got these from the family earlier this morning. So yeah, no more video game buying for myself for a long while ’cause I have plenty of video games to keep me busy. I’ve been wanting to get Skyrim SE ever since it came out ’cause like a lot of people I’m a huge Skyrim nut myself.
I’ve also been wanting the new Deus Ex game. Got the “Hunger Games” blu-ray set… I’m a huge fan of the “Hunger Games” movie series. Saw all 4 “Hunger Games” movies in the theater. I didn’t buy any of them on BluRay yet ’cause I’ve been waiting for the Hunger Games bluray set and it’s finally here now that the movies are all done.
As for “The Conjuring 2”, I’m a huge fan of the Conjuring series too. They are horror films that are actually very scary! I’m enjoying them so far. “The Conjuring 2” is like one of the best films of 2016.
Merry Christmas to all my blog readers, social networking followers, fans/supporters and even the haters. Hope you’re having a good one. Rock on!
Kev
This article at the Daily Mail UK pisses me off as I’m sure it pisses a lot of people off. I’m sure some others are speculating that Carrie’s past drug addiction may be the cause of Carrie’s heart attack but come on, where’s the compassion in people these days?
I’m not really all that big on Star Wars anyways… I do like “Star Wars” don’t get me wrong but I’m not much of a geek like a lot of people are but I respect Carrie for her legacy with Star Wars. Princess Leia is a pretty iconic character.
I hope Carrie pulls through and gets a speedy recovery as I’m praying for her myself. Those that are quick to speculate that her past drug addiction did this to her needs to get a life.
Kev
For now, I just have a small and basic home recording studio setup. I have a computer, a Focusrite Scarlett audio interface, two studio monitors, a phantom powered Shure microphone, a pop filter for the mic and there’s one more piece of equipment that I’m missing. I think I might need a MIDI controller in which I will probably buy soon. I already have a MIDI controller but it’s an old piece of shit MIDI keyboard. I want to get something better and something that sounds a little more professional.
I’m not really good at playing the keyboard yet so I’ll probably just buy a small MIDI controller something like this. Not sure if this is the one I’ll get, just to give you an example.
I would like to get a MIDI controller so I can make my own backing tracks to my songs. Put drums and bass behind my songs. Would like to add other virtual instruments like violin, cello, piano and other keyboard sounds so I can make some creative music. I would like to write some songs with a classical orchestration in the background which would be pretty cool.
A lot lately, I’ve been studying music theory and doing my ear training ’cause being good at both of those is important if you want to do home recording with. I would like to get some instructional books on how to play the electric keyboards and MIDI controllers if I can find some.
I want to start writing and recording songs in 2017 so I can finally get that internet album in the works that I’ve been talking about. I just need to get my basic studio setup completed. Need to get a MIDI controller. That’s why I got an audio interface that has a MIDI controller hookup on it so I can one day get myself a MIDI controller. Like I said, I would like to make songs with drums and bass in the background of my guitar playing & singing but I want to have other instruments and sounds too. I need to learn how to play piano/keyboards and I will. I try but piano is hard, I’ll try to get back into it. I would like to write some piano ballads too.
I’ll get a new MIDI controller sometime in 2017.
Kev
One thing I’ve noticed when it comes to Christmas this past week is liberals saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” when it comes to celebrating Christmas. Conservatives like to use “Merry Christmas” and liberals like to use “Happy Holidays”. Maybe Trump is onto to something about this when he says, “We will start saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again”. Crazy. Why is it that liberals have been avoiding, “Merry Christmas”? Well, I blame it on the fake news media for the most part. The fake news media tells liberals how to think and what to say. I don’t see many people using the famous phrase, “Merry Christmas” at all that much. Mostly Trump supporters and conservatives use it. It’s no secret that liberals are a bunch of “atheists”. They hate religion. They hate anything that has something to do with Santa Claus or Jesus Christ.
Just wait until Christmas Sunday comes… I’ll be using “Merry Christmas” all day. I’ll post the meme above to offend libtards in facebook. It might earn me a couple of blocking/deleting from libtards on FB but that’s okay. While Christmas this year is exciting, the best Christmas present I could ever ask for that actually happened is Trump becoming our next President. I would think most Americans who voted him feels the same.
Kev
I’ve first heard about the Swedish prog rock/metal band, Opeth, through Guitar World magazine. I’ve read a few interviews about Opeth through Guitar World which is how I was first introduced to them. Their interviews with that magazine got me intrigued with their music so I decided to check them out for myself. That’s what I like about Guitar World magazine ’cause they help introduce me to a lot of music which is what that magazine is here for to begin with. Opeth is becoming one of my really favorite rock bands right now. Why do I admire them so much? Well, musically they can do it all. They’re not just metal. They can do it all. The singer/guitarist for the band, Mikael Åkerfeldt is so talented. He can do more than death metal growls and screams which is what I like about him. Mikael can sing clearly too. Mikael can sing in all different vocal techniques. As for their music goes, they can play all styles of music. They’re prog rock. That’s what I call them. People call them “heavy metal” but I don’t believe in that term. I like the term “metal” better. Yeah, they do play metal but that’s not all they play. They also play regular rock and they do a lot of folk & acoustic music too. Not all their stuff are heavy, they write a lot of slower ballads too.
This band is so talented and I hope to get my opportunity to see them live ’cause I would see them in a heartbeat if they ever play a show around here. I think their newest record “Sorceress” is pretty amazing stuff. Probably their best record in their career. I heard their entire discography and so far my favorite albums they did were: “Deliverance”, “Watershed”, “Blackwater Park”, “Pale Communion” and their latest, “Sorceress”. Opeth is a really great band. I’m becoming obsessed with that band now, can’t stop listening to them.
I was listening to a lot of Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Megadeth and bands such as those but my attention turned away from them so I can listen to Opeth more. I would seriously recommend you listen to Opeth. They really are talented and they are underrated too. They deserve more recognition. I’m trying to collect all of Opeth’s albums. I already heard them all through online streaming but I don’t do online streaming anymore. From now on, I would rather buy the album from either Itunes or physical CD.
Back to Opeth, I really respect that band. I would like to get a t-shirt of theirs sometime. Yeah, I still love to wear rock band t-shirts even though I’m 40 and I don’t give a shit if people have a problem with that!
Kev
Newt Gingrich is going around claiming that Trump no longer wants to use the phrase, “Drain The Swamp” and Trump the man himself just tweeted this today. I’m not sure if Newt really said that or if the “Fake News Media” trying to make Newt look bad but it seems that Trump is still committed with “Drain the Swamp” which is good.
This is why you should listen to Trump the man himself. Don’t listen to other people or the fake news media.
I had a feeling that claim of Trump no longer “Draining the Swamp” is bullshit and glad it is. Don’t listen to CNN, the Washington Post and all that garbage.
Get ready for Jan. 21, that’s when the draining the swamp begins. Take out the trash and clean house! That’s the American dream we voted for!
Kev
So it’s almost at the end of the year. 2017 is just around the corner. Usually I do this list every year for my blog as to what movies to look forward to next year.
Here’s a top 15 list of movies I’m definitely looking forward to in 2017:
Well, that’s it! Enjoy!
Kev
Splendid Film company has bought rights for the next Expendables movie which will be the fourth and last installment. According to this article it sounds like the movie already got Sly Stallone, Jason Statham and Arnold Schwarzenegger to star so does this mean that Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews and Randy Couture are out? Keep in mind that Dolph, Terry and Randy were part of the Expendables group throughout the first three films.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/splendid-takes-expendables-4-german-speaking-europe-957840
I think Dolph will be back for EX4 ’cause I can’t see these movies without him. His character for these films is pretty interesting. I read this interview with Dolph and he says he would do EX4 if it happens so he’ll probably come back.
Dolph Lundgren on Kindergarten Cop 2, doing comedy and The Expendables 4
I hope Randy and Terry comes back as well. I hope Jet Li returns also.
I’m sure EX4 will add a bunch more cast members. More tough guy actors. Who else should they add? I hope they get Kurt Russell this time. Dwayne Johnson would be cool too. What about Jackie Chan? Hulk Hogan said he wants in on EX4 so I can see Hogan getting added to the cast. Also these guys would be a cool addition too: Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, Chris Hemsworth, Jason Momoa, Dave Bautista and hopefully Bruce Willis will return.
Can’t wait for the next Expendables movie ’cause I love these movies. I’m loving them all so far and yes, I think the third one was real good even though it wasn’t R-rated. Glad EX4 is finally confirmed!!! Hopefully they do go back to the R rating and make it violent ’cause that’s how they’re supposed to be!
Kev
Denzel’s the freakin’ man! I loved it when he said this, “My father worked 50 years for the water department, he was also a minister and he worked three jobs all the time,” Washington told the New York Post’s Page Six during the New York premiere of his new drama, Fences. “He made it, he was successful. Celebrity is really overrated — we don’t want anything to do with celebrity. I am an actor.”
I totally agree that term “celebrity” is overrated. How about calling these people “actors” instead of “celebrities”? In my opinion, that term celebrity was made up by the entertainment media and gossip sites like TMZ. What a lot of you don’t realize is that a lot of actors who act in big screen movies, hate fame. They really do. Like Denzel said a lot of “actors” don’t want anything to do with “celebrity”. Why do you think actors hate the paparazzi?
A lot of actors don’t see themselves as famous people. They’re just regular people like all of us. You want proof of that? Go to facebook or twitter and they would show you how normal they really are. They eat, sleep, talk, piss and get sick like all of us. They’re no different than us, ya know? You know how real people like us work regular day jobs like at an office job, construction or whatever your field of work is? Well these “actors” see acting in movies as their regular day job. That’s what they do for a living. They act in movies ’cause they enjoy it. That’s what they’re passionate about. Everybody has their own way of doing work. Well that’s what these actors do for work.
Do these actors deserve to get paid millions for what they do? Oh yeah, absolutely! These actors in Hollywood always get criticized by movie fans for getting rich off of making movies. They deserve to get paid a lot ’cause acting is a hard job. Really try it yourself. It’s not easy. Making a movie is a tough and overwhelming job. These actors work on films all day long and all night. They spent most of their lives training to become an actor ’cause acting isn’t easy as it looks. While most people bash actors, most of them don’t want to admit they watch most of their work and enjoy ’em. They give their blood, sweat and tears to make all this entertainment for us so fuck yeah, they deserve to get paid millions for sure. I’m sticking with my opinion.
If you check out these actors official FB pages, Sylvester Stallone and Vin Diesel, those guys post videos talking on video to you all the time. They make their own videoblogs for the internet and you watch videos by those guys, you would see they are just people like us. I follow Vin Diesel’s official FB page and he posts all these videos of himself all the time — I’m surprised of how down to earth and cool Vin Diesel seems. He’s just a normal guy. Sly Stallone is a normal guy.
I wish the media and gossip sites would stop calling them “celebrities”. How about calling them actors or even better, “people”? They call them celebrities ’cause how they get paid and make their money. That’s how gossip sites and gossip bloggers stay in business. Before the internet there was no such thing as gossip sites but we still had gossip TV shows like “Entertainment Tonight” and the E! channel. It’s real sad that the media and gossip sites obsesses over “celebrities”. It’s pathetic. Leave them the fuck alone is what I would say!
Kev
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