Books, movies, TV

Happy 75 years, Batman!!!

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In celebration of Batman day today, I thought it would be cool to make this post. Like most, I am a pretty huge fan of Batman myself. I love the character. The stories. All the creative villains.

I’m not a very big comic book reader but I did read Batman comics as a kid and sometimes I still read Batman graphic novels.

I’m still a lifelong Batman fan. Obsessively watched the old TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. Watched all the Batman big screen movies over the years. Out of all the Batman actors over the years: Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale. You’d have to ask which one who I think was the best Batman??? Some may find this pretty crazy but I always thought Adam West made the best Batman. He felt more realistic and he had personality than all the others. Keaton was great. Bale was pretty good, not amazing but pretty good. Kilmer and Clooney were terrible.

Even though I didn’t think Bale was the greatest Batman, I did love the Nolan movies though. I just liked them for the stories. “Batman: Begins”, “The Dark Knight” and “The Dark Knight: Rises” were all pretty amazing flicks. It really is too bad that Nolan couldn’t do one more Batman flick when he could have if he wanted. He spent many years on the Batman flicks so I can’t blame him for finally wanting to move on. I really wanted to see Nolan’s take on the Riddler and the Penguin.

I think Ben Affleck could do a good job on Batman, though.

Batman is the coolest superhero ever ’cause he’s one of the very few superheroes who doesn’t have any powers. He’s an actual human being who have to fight crime with good fighting skills and gadgets. All of his villains are mostly crazy and insane people with different costumes and makeup.

He’s definitely one of my favorite characters.

I am also looking forward to that new Batman TV show called, “Gotham” which will air on FOX later this Fall… looks like a pretty cool show and I’m gonna check it out to see if it’s any good.

Happy 75 years, Batman and I’m sure there will be 75 years more.

Kev

Local music

Why musicians responding to bloggers and critics is not a good career move…

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I understand that musicians who play in bands like internet discussion and they enjoy interacting with people but they must be careful with this stuff especially the more successful and popular bands. When all a musician is gonna do is call out bloggers or critics who give them bad reviews that is not good for them in a professional way. It’ll hurt them professionally in so many ways and let me explain…

There is this certain guy who thinks he can be a critic of mine. That’s his goal and that’s his whole point. I understand what he’s doing but it’s not a good idea for him to do. A guy who fronts a well-known local original band that should be nameless at this time. It’s not professional what he’s doing. What’s he’s doing is that he is criticizing me on two different blogs. One of his own and another anonymous one. I refuse to show links here ’cause those two sites don’t deserve to get promoted, they don’t deserve even more attention. What he’s trying to do is trying to make me look bad publicly. He’s trying to get a discussion going with his supporters and fans. I am noticing that no one is replying to his posts written about me so that’s a good sign that no one else really cares which is good on them. I know he’s just messing with me for fun but it’s not healthy for his professional career in music if he ever had one.

The more he keeps it going and the more he keeps getting obsessed with it, the more it’s gonna hurt his music and hurt his band’s reputation. He thinks he has every right to be doing what he’s doing ’cause he’s hiding behind freedom of speech. That’s all good and cool but when he’s playing music on a professional level, he can’t be doing that stuff.

Look… I know other musicians around the scene don’t like the way I blog at all and I have plenty of musicians who don’t like me but they don’t waste a lot of time trying to call me out. Why? Because it’s not a professional thing for them to do and they know it’ll hurt their careers. They have better things to do and better things to worry about like making their music and playing the gigs.

When bands reply to bloggers and critics… calling them out in an aggressive manner… it could potentially turn a lot of people off. Especially the fans and clubs/venues. More fans could get turned off with their immature behavior and they’ll stop supporting them just like I just did. More clubs/venues could stop booking them.

When you’re a solo artist or a band and you get up to the point where you’re big and successful, you have to ignore all bloggers and critics.

I can’t wait until this certain guy that I speak of gets his first negative review toward his band when they release an album. Let’s see if he can be able to take it ’cause it’s gonna happen. Not everyone is gonna like your band. You will get a few bad reviews from other critics and bloggers.

This is why I believe this guy doesn’t have what it takes to get big and successful if he’s going to continue to act this way. That’s the only reason he started blogs of his own so he can have an opportunity to criticize me. If that’s all he’s going to do, that’s not good for his music and his band as I explained above. It’s a distraction with his music and career.

A shame. I expected more from this guy.

If he keeps this going, his career could go downhill.

I know he’s gonna laugh at my face and disagree with this but everything I said above is the truth. I’ll let him keep it going. I’ll let him wreck his own career. He’s already hurting himself even if he doesn’t realize it.

He really should stop what he’s doing but I have a feeling that he won’t. Anyway, let him keep talking shit… it’s good publicity for my blog. Sometimes bad publicity is good. I used to be a big fan of his music. Was a huge supporter but he lost all respect from me. Respect to him is now gone.

Kev

Politics/war

Latest Benghazi shocker… some members of Ansar Al Sharia lived next door of US Consulate before attack…

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This Benghazi attack stuff just keeps getting more and more interesting. It has now been learned that some members of Ansar Al Sharia who were blamed for the Benghazi attack lived next door to the US Consulate before the night of the attack but they couldn’t do anything about it.

Check out the article, here.

So the attackers were pretty close by. They weren’t far at all. I wonder who gave them some tips to move there? Obviously, Obummer. If they knew exactly where to stay, the US government had to know about those homes that the attackers were staying in. Like the article said, D.C. was warned early that the attackers were living there but of course the warning was ignored. So the U.S. definitely already knew that the attackers were living next door.

Another big clue that Obummer was responsible for this attack.

Kev

 

 

 

 

 

 

Politics/war

Another Smackdown on Obamacare… YES!!! Subsidies found illegal!!!

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First the contraceptives got the smackdown on Obamacare and now the federal subsidies have been found illegal in 36 states. Which I think means that the feds can’t provide health insurance subsidies to those who have enrolled through the new changes.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/court-strikes-down-federal-obamacare-subsidies-n161981

Of course, this administration will play innocent victim over this ’cause you know they will never take responsibility for anything. When will Obamacare supporters get the hint that this is a shit health law and it’s full of illegal things???

Wake up idiots!!! This needs a full repeal. It’s needs to go.

Kev

movies

Congratulations Weird Al, he’s gonna get his first no. 1 album this week!!!

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After a thirty year long career, Weird Al Yankovic never had a no. 1 album. It’s true. He may have came close to it a couple of times, though. In the Billboard charts, Al is battling Jason Mraz for the no. 1 spot and I think Al Yankovic is definitely gonna get it.

I’m very proud and happy for Al Yankovic. I really am. Al should soon be bigger than Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber in youtube.

I love Al’s idea of no longer releasing albums and rely on youtube to release his music. “Mandatory Fun” is indeed Al’s final album. It doesn’t look like he’s gonna sign with a different label any time soon. He’s just gonna release music exclusively for youtube from this point on. Al have become very successful on the internet last week. I’m proud of him.

“Mandatory Fun” seems to be his best album of his career and I’m gonna buy my own copy soon.

Al Yankovic have been in the music business for many years… even before the days when there was no internet. Because of the internet, a lot of people in this generation are just discovering Weird Al. Many still don’t understand his parody thing so they criticize him for it. That’s understandable ’cause people like that just discovered Weird Al and they don’t know much about him.

I have been a lifelong fan of Weird Al. Been listening to him ever since I was a child. In “Mandatory Fun” he still has that old-school 80’s humor in him, absolutely.

I really respect him for his honesty. Listen to him in interviews. He’s not afraid to say what’s good and what’s bad. He’s also not afraid to agree and disagree with things. For example, in his recent interviews he called out MTV saying how that network is no longer a music station. It’s all reality shows. Man, he’s right. I remember the days when MTV used to be cool. MTV used to be pretty important to Weird Al. I remember when I was a teenager, I would go home from school turn on the TV and switch it to MTV hoping a new Weird Al video would come on ’cause MTV was always playing his videos over the years. He’s so right that youtube is the new MTV.

This is good that he’s doing this ’cause he no longer have to wait for 4 or 5 years to parody a song.

How can you not like Weird Al? His music has always been accused of being for children which is why a lot of adults don’t like him but it’s not true. His music is really for all ages.

Al Yankovic is a genius. How come he isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet when he totally deserves to be? He’s so worthy!

The “UHF” movie has always been my favorite thing that he did. Now that Weird Al has gotten bigger and more successful, maybe more people would discover that movie which he played the leading role in. The only film that he played the leading role in. I really wish Al Yankovic would do a sequel to “UHF” ’cause that would be awesome if he did one. “UHF” is one of my favorite films of all time. It’s one of those movies you can watch over and over and laugh so hard every time you watch it. I’d like to get that movie on BluRay sometime. If you haven’t seen “UHF”, I’d suggest you check it out yourself.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Only support musicians who treat you with respect… don’t support the jerks…

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Nothing wrong with supporting other musicians that you like and becoming friends with them… all of that is good but the trick is you don’t wanna support musicians at random. I stopped doing that a long time ago. I don’t support musicians who don’t share the same respect in return. What you wanna do is support musicians who really believe in you. If they really like you as a person and musician, that’s when you wanna return the favor. Show them your full support in return. When you do this that way you can absolutely tell that these musicians really do believe in you.

Ways you can tell that other musicians really believe in you and respect you:

1) They are always positive about you. They think you are a good person.

2) They support your music and willing to help you. They go to your shows. Always giving positive feedback on your music and playing. Things like that.

3) They stay loyal to you no matter what others say about you. In other words, they stay friendly with you no matter all the negative things people say about you.

When musicians treat you like shit for no reason and treat you with disrespect, why continue to support them, ya know? They no longer deserve the support and respect when they all of a sudden act like a jerk. You were nothing but nice to this guy. You went to his band’s shows a lot, you bought his albums… gave his band good reviews… they don’t care to return the same respect.

This is what’s going on with me. I was nothing but extremely supportive of this band. A well known local original band who plays country/bluegrass rock and I’m sure you know who I’m talking about. I went to a lot of their shows. Bought all the albums they released. Gave them plenty of shoutouts on my blog and even gave their latest album a positive review. I’m done with that now ’cause their frontman won’t show me respect. He have seemed to join the Brock hating bandwagon.

You see, don’t support musicians like that when all they want to do is spew out all kinds of negative opinions about you.

Make no mistake about it, though… I have other musicians around the area who respect me and I am grateful and honored for that. I do have other musicians who fully support me around the area… agree with it or not. It’s true.

Just because one musician is saying all kinds of negative opinions about you doesn’t necessarily mean the rest of them will agree. All negative criticism about you is just all opinion. That’s it. End of story.

Like I repeatedly say, haters are gonna hate.

Like I said before, only support musicians who support you. That’s how you create your own little music community. No matter what people say about you… you’ll always get supporters and fans. Never listen to the negative jerks.

I know you enjoy this band’s music but why would you want to continue to support them when they don’t seem to care about you at all?

That’s not how a band should act around people. They shouldn’t even have a career and shouldn’t even be playing music. Bands who treat people like shit should be banned from playing clubs and venues. They don’t deserve all the opportunities and good stuff they are getting.

It’s all ego. They’re egomaniacs who think they’re better than you. Pay no attention to them and only support the musicians who DO like you. Music life would be easier this way. 🙂

Kev

 

 

 

Politics/war

Gov. Rick Perry for 2016 please!!!

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Gov. Perry says, “Fuck Obama. I’m doing things my way!!!”.

Haha! Rock on, Gov. Rick! This is a real leader here. This guy really cares for the state of Texas and the United States of America. He’s a pretty serious guy.

I bet Obama himself is not happy with Gov. Perry right now. Like it or not, this immigration and border thing is getting way out of hand.

Kev

 

 

Random/off topic posts

Your meme for the day: “Don’t be afraid to remove toxic people from your life”…

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Great advice. When people treat you like shit, don’t be afraid to remove them from your life. Like Danielle said above, it shouldn’t matter if it’s someone you know really well or not. I’ve been doing this for a long time and it works.

When you have your own cousin or a family member of yours or someone you know really well who treats you with disrespect constantly… just pretend they’re dead. It’s gotta be easy to do.

When all ignorant people wanna do is slander you, judge you, and make negative opinions about you… you don’t have to listen to them at all. You shouldn’t be afraid to shut people out of your life.

You deserve happiness and joy. Don’t allow people to ruin things for you.

Kev

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I don’t have time for feuds or online drama… let them whine and cry…

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Yes, I’m in a feud with a certain someone but it’s none of you guys. It’s with somebody who fronts a well-known local band that should be nameless at this time but you’ll probably figure out who I’m referring to soon enough. Which is a shame. I did nothing but support his music… going to his shows, buy his albums. I did nothing but show this guy respect but he doesn’t want to show the same respect in return and he just wants to treat me like garbage online. That’s what goes on a lot around the area’s music scene… a lot of backstabbing going on.

The feud ends here and now. I will no longer reply to this idiot ’cause all he’s doing is just trying to get attention off of me and I don’t need negative people like that in my life.

I have nothing against you guys at all. It’s just that this other douche thinks he can ruin the fun by telling me what I can and can’t post on my blog. He’s been doing that for a long while now. I’m not gonna change for him or anyone else. Not gonna happen. If he hates my blogging so much then why does he continue to read?

It’s my site. It’s not his decision to control it. It’s not his decision of what he wants to see on it.

You guys are cool with me… this dude that I speak of is not. Nobody tells me what to do or how to post on my blog.

I don’t have time for drama and bullshit. Just wanna continue to do my thing. Enjoy life and be happy.

Rock on! \m/

Kev

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