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Happy Birthday Vince MCmahon, Thanks For giving us Wrestling…

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You can love this man or hate him all you want but Vince McMahon aka the CEO/Chairman/owner of the WWE is such a genius and a legend. Us wrestling fans wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Vince.

Yeah, pro wrestling has been around long before the old WWF but Vince definitely helped make wrestling more mainstream and popular. Without Vince, we wouldn’t have gotten WCW, ECW, TNA Impact, ROH, NWA.. and most of all we wouldn’t have gotten AEW as well.

Vince gave us wrestling, love him or hate him all you want to.

Look, I don’t agree with everything Vince does… I’m not a fan of his booking and writing myself but the man is a genius, I respect him so much. On top of that, Vince McMahon was a helluva performer himself during the Attitude Era/Ruthless Aggression era when he played this evil boss character, Mr. McMahon. I think that’s another reason why a lot of us respect him ’cause he was a great performer in the ring in his own right and he even had a few great wrestling matches himself too believe it or not. Vince made himself a wrestler and performer ’cause he was drawn into it after the Montreal Screwjob.

I’ve been a fan of WWE ever since I was a kid. How did I get turned on to wrestling? Well, I had cousins that were obsessive fans and used to watch it with them. I still watch wrestling even to this day. Sometimes I do take long breaks from WWE when they get bad but I continue to watch.

I don’t think Vince himself realizes how much he’s respected by a lot of us. All those internet wrestling smarts will never admit that they would never be around today if it wasn’t for Vince. All those “smart” fans, ya know?

Everyone wants to see Vince step down and retire but it’s not gonna happen. Vince is gonna run WWE until he dies, trust me.

Nobody wants to admit that Vince is a hard working guy. From all the stories I’ve heard from behind the scenes people of WWE, Vince doesn’t sleep much… I think he has insomnia pretty much and he’s a workhorse. All he does is work for WWE. There are times when he doesn’t work and takes a little break but when he’s not working he hits the gym and I read that Vince usually hits the gym over night. Vince is a heavy lifter in the gym with video proof. A guy who is 76 now and hitting the gym hard and heavy. If you continue to hate on Vince after seeing that, you are insane!

Happy birthday Vince. Thanks for all you do!

Kev

Health and Fitness

Powerlifting training is challenging, I gotta learn how to program better and I’m researching it now…

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Powerlifting and strength training can be challenging and tricky… that’s why I love it so much. When you’re doing strength training that requires heavy lifting like 1 – 5 reps. Have you ever lifted a number that you thought you could successfully smash at one time but the next week you try that same number for some reason you can’t do it? It’s not that you’re losing strength and gains, no. What’s happening here is you’re CNS is getting worn out. You need to take a recovery week every now and then… known as something what they all call “de-load” week.

What I’m reading through powerlifting sites is that powerlifters usually train heavy for 3 weeks and then they either take a de-load week or a week off to recover. I’m trying to figure things out.

Ya know…. lifting heavy week after week very frequently isn’t good. The reason it isn’t good is ’cause it could lead to frying out your CNS, could lead to overtraining and worse could lead to multiple injuries. If you ever wonder why you’re getting injured so much then this is probably why… lifting heavy week after week. Yeah, you gotta leave your ego at the door and take your lighter weeks. Do like 2 or 3 weeks of heavy lifting and then take a de-load. I’m reading about this stuff now.

I was able to smash a 310 lb. deadlift a few weeks ago but can’t do that number again for a while. I know I’m capable of smashing over 300 lb. deadlifts now which was my goal.

Now I gotta start improving my squat and bench numbers, goal is to get over 150 lbs. for both of those lifts… maybe even try to get over 200 lbs for both of those if I can.

I love powerlifting training. I haven’t competed in a local powerlifting meet in a long time and I wanna do it again. I wasn’t able to ’cause of covid but hopefully Albany Strength does another one soon. They haven’t announced a new one yet.

Kev

WWE

Watched WWE Summerslam last night, it was pretty good… Becky Lynch and Brock Lesnar finally returns.

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Well I guess now that live crowds are back and WWE is back to doing arena/stadiums shows, they’re back to do 3 or 4 hour ppvs. I actually enjoyed Summerslam last night. Not the best but pretty good.

Match of the night was Edge vs. Seth Rollins… I’m getting impressed with Edge more and more. Used to not be much of an Edge fan in the old days but nowadays he’s winning my respect.

The other good matches were RKBro vs. Aj Styles/Omos, Drew McinTyre vs. Jinder Mahall, Alexa Bliss vs. Eva Marie and Damien Priest vs. Sheamus were pretty solid matches.

Disappointed with Bianca getting squashed by Becky like that. You think Bianca and Becky would put on a helluva match together a longer one but ended up being a squash. Anyhow, I can see Bianca challenging Becky for a re-match and WWE will give us a better match with them too for the next ppv, I’m sure.

Goldberg vs. Bobby was actually okay… I was extremely surprised that Goldberg lasted longer in the ring than we all thought. Most Goldberg matches are very quick but he actually did a little more this time.

Had a feeling the Usos and Roman were gonna retain their titles. Brock will end up taking the belt from Roman real soon and that’s when Roman’s “Head of the Table” group will split. It’s looking like Brock will feud with Paul Heyman which will be real interesting. This storyline will be like why did Paul Heyman stab Brock in the back while he was gone? It’s gonna go down something like that.

It was a pretty good show and WWE slowly improving.

Kev

World Wide Web

Onlyfans banning pornographic content but still allowing nudes… um, what???

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The site onlyfans has been catching a lot of buzz for a long while. What is it? It’s a content subscription service made by London, UK… where you have to pay to see people’s stuff.

The site became extremely popular and blew up for so-called, “sex-workers” ’cause the site allowed nudity and hardcore pornographic content. Yes, X-rated sex videos and pics used to be allowed but not anymore. The over explicit content on onlyfans are now banned on the site but nudity is still allowed.

https://www.engadget.com/onlyfans-sexually-explicit-content-ban-184819350.html

In my opinion, “onlyfans” is an evil website and should have never been created. So people think that posting X-Rated and pornographic stuff onlyfans and paying for it to see it as “sex work”??? No not at all.

In my opinion and sticking with it, I think “onlyfans” is prostitution, really. Why would you want to do that? Force people to pay to see you naked and have sex with someone?

Even if you still use the site to not post sexual content and use it for “clean” stuff, it’s still evil.

Those that join the site to do “sex work” or not, are just desperate for money and that’s it. They don’t care about you. It’s just amazing that people would pay a lot of money to see only fans garbage.

Selling your bodies like that is just wrong anyways. There are other ways to make a few extra bucks you don’t need to do “onlyfans”. Have some respect for yourself.

Kev

music

44 years ago today, music world lost Elvis Presley…

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44 years ago today, we lost one of the greats. I can see why Elvis meant to so many. I don’t have a lot of Elvis music in my collection but I have a few Elvis albums. Just a Greatest Hits and a few live albums, that’s all I think. Yes, I am a fan like most. I definitely would love to get more Elvis on vinyl for sure.

While I like hearing his rock n’ roll stuff, I was more into the ballads ’cause that’s where his talent really shined.

RIP King…

Kev

music

This Johnny Cash quote explains his addiction with studio recording…

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That quote is very inspiring. You want to know why Johnny Cash has a very large album discography over the years, this is why. The man in black was very addicted and obsessed with the studio. A lot of musicians and bands only record in the studio when they need to but with Johnny Cash, that was all he ever did.

According to his album discography, he has a total of 67 studio albums. His debut record was titled, “Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar” (yes that was the title) and that album had the hits “Walk the Line” and “Folsom Prison Blues”, the two songs that made him famous. Johnny recording albums one after another up until his final album that he recorded when he was alive: “American IV: The Man Comes Around” (in 2002) and then he passed away in 2003.

He has a very large album discography but I’ll think he has tons of unreleased stuff too and they are trying to release some of it. I would think Johnny’s vault would be pretty huge.

Originally Johnny never really wanted to become a country singer. He wanted to sing gospel but he had to sing country ’cause it was the only way for him to get into the industry.

I love Johnny Cash though and I’m a massive fan. I have all of Johnny’s American albums but don’t have a lot of his older albums ’cause he has so many. I just have a greatest hits album and a few live albums too.

Johnny Cash definitely was obsessed with the studio. It was the only thing he was good at and he died what he loved doing.

Kev

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What are Some Bands & artists that I like that Everybody Hates??? Yes, I do Have some…

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I love music but sometimes haters of some bands can get quite annoying… I don’t really care about them, though. I listen to whatever music I want, it didn’t matter if it’s mostly hated by everybody. Just for a fun topic, I thought I would name a few bands that I love that everybody seem to criticize harshly all the time. Ya know, bands that people hate on obsessively.

Metallica – Everybody actually liked Metallica with their 80’s speed metal and their 90’s hit album “The Black Album” but they all of a sudden became one of the most hated bands with their Napster controversy and getting accused of selling out changing the band’s sound and style with Load/Reload/St. Anger. Look, I still love Metallica and always had. I own every album they did in their discography even Load/Reload & St. Anger and yes, I love those three albums. Obviously, the band is not afraid to take risks with their music and I respect them for that.

Phish – Phish has been hated on for years and I don’t know why. I think the band is great and I think Trey Anastasio is a very talented musician. I don’t have all their albums yet but getting there. Have about 8 of them so far. I’m a big Phish fan and saw them in concert twice. He is also a fine solo musician as well.

Nirvana – Yup, Nirvana is definitely one band that got a lot of hate over the years. I’ve always loved Nirvana. Loved them ever since MTV was obsessed with them in the 90’s so I went out and bought the CD “Nevermind” which I still have sitting on my CD shelf. I love “In Utero” and love “Bleach”. People hate Nirvana ’cause of Kurt’s singing and they just how simple Nirvana songs are. Well all you need is 3 or 4 chords to write great rock songs anyways.

Oasis – The band Oasis also got a lot of hate over the years and can’t understand why. I always dug the songwriting of Noel and Liam. They’re amazing songwriters. They were big heroes of mine during high school and still love them today.

U2 – Need I say more? U2 and Bono got a lot of hate over the years. It got worse when they ditched their rock n’ roll sound for pop music with their controversial albums “Zooropa” and “POP”. They got people even more pissed off when they forced everyone who owned Apple products a free album “Songs of Innocence”, remember that??? I still love U2 and have most of their albums. I thought “Songs of Innocence” was a great album, though.

Creed – People couldn’t stand Creed ’cause of how mainstream they were but they still wrote kickass rock songs. Always dug that band and still hoping for a reunion now that Scott Stapp got himself better.

Eric Clapton – Clapton has always got a mixed reaction with his career over the years. You either love him or hate him. People prefer the stuff he did with Cream and they prefer his earlier solo work. With me, though, I’ve always been a loyal Clapton fan. Loved everything he has done really. He’s a guitar playing and songwriting genius.

That’s about all I can think of for now but you get the idea.

Kev

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Going to live concerts and playing live gigs in the age of Covid Control??? No Thanks, not for me…

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It’s great that live music has finally returned both national and local… I was thinking about going back out there to see concerts for myself both national and local… and since I’m a musician myself, I was thinking about playing some open mics and few gigs. Make a comeback to live gigging was gonna be my goal but I don’t think so anymore.

I was kind of looking forward to going back out in the music scene but since I’m seeing that a lot of venues both national and local venues forcing their bands and music fans to take the vaccine and going back to “Mask required”, I don’t think so.

So I’m done with this music thing in the Capital Region, I’m out. No more going to concerts national and local and no more playing gigs of my own until we get our freedom back and the bullshit stops.

It’s no surprise that the covid control is gonna get worse even though covid is done and over with.

I’m seeing a lot of NY venues forcing the vaccine and masks so nope… not for me, sorry. I’m done with it all.

Yeah, even though live music is back… cancel cultures continues as well ’cause bands are cancelling their tours left and right for “Safety concerns”. *yawn*

As for playing gigs of my own, I’ll just continue to do that at home and do it with a video camera virtually for the internet. I prefer to do that more nowadays. I’m thinking of getting back into songwriting again and continuing to learn new cover songs all the time. Yeah, I’m still making and playing music of my own.

Eric Clapton and Van Morrison are the only two musicians that are fighting back at this dictatorship and I’m thankful for them at that.

Musicians, bands and venues that take the covid virus seriously are nobodies to me. I’m so done with them.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Shopping malls are Now a thing of the past??? I’m afraid so…

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Back then shopping malls in America used to be a thing… back when they were huge in the 80’s and 90’s. Now in the 2000’s years and forward, shopping malls started slowly dying and now shopping malls are dead for good.

In the past, shopping malls were a thing for families and people to go have some fun for themselves and to shop for things that people need. Stuff like clothes, furniture, electronics, books, music, video games and other things. You can go to the malls for the movie theaters, get yourself something to eat in the food courts or grab yourself a little snack in the hallway like get pretzels or nachos or whatever. Go to a candy shop and get all kinds of chocolate and other types of candies. I also remember arcades used to be huge in the malls too and used to play all these old school video games at the arcades. You can take your kids to the Toy store and buy them toys and all that stuff.

Those days are over and done with. Shopping malls started dying over the years ’cause most everyone does their shopping online like amazon… that’s pretty much what killed “the mall”. Now the mall is pretty much dead for good thanks to the pandemic.

When I walked into the Wilton Mall above, I was amazed how dead it was. A pretty much empty mall. A lot of vacant businesses all over. Crazy. I felt like I was in a zombie movie or something… remember George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” where that movie was taken place in a mall? Well it felt like that almost.

Nobody goes to the mall anymore except the only time the malls pick back up is when a huge movie comes out in the theaters but now theaters are dying too. There’s no movie theater in the Wilton Mall anymore as well.

I used to go to the mall all the time ’cause admittedly I’m a shopping addict. Since there is no mall anymore, I may as well do most of my shopping online. If I want to continue to collect BluRay movies, I’ll do that on amazon, I guess.

Crazy times we’re in for sure.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Butt Lifting coming off the bench has Become accepted by the public… and I don’t like it…

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While benching at the gym, I never agreed with lifting the butt off the bench just to push more weight. If others want to do it, that’s their prerogative. It’s bad ’cause it shortens the range of motion and it could lead to an accident or injury. Of course, they don’t give a shit.

You see almost every bencher doing it… lifting the butt off the bench when bench pressing. Even the most experienced bodybuilders and powerlifters do it. It’s just stupid, in my opinion… I never did it when I started benching for powerlifting.

On top of that, lifting butt off the bench is very much cheating.

You watch instagram and youtube videos of people benching and you can see them do that everywhere. Why has butt lifting off the bench become so popular and publicly accepted???

My guess as to why this has become publicly accepted are those weighlifting know it all youtube vloggers and weightlifting blog sites that defend “butt lifting” when benching and they explain why it helps. Well dumb and naive lifters actually believe that shit so they decided to try it and now everyone’s doing it.

It doesn’t look safe. They just do it as a way to get those big numbers. Butt lifting off the bench is definitely an “ego” thing for sure. I’ll never do it.

I’m sick of seeing it everywhere. If they want to kill themselves, that’s fine by me. It’s just silly and dumb. They’re just lifters who are impatient… in a rush to get the big numbers.

Kev

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