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David Bowie’s “The Next Day” album review…

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So David Bowie, is finally releasing his most anticipated album, “The Next Day” after a 10 year long wait for his return. David, agreed to let Itunes stream the new album for FREE. I gave the album a listen in Itunes today. When you take a long break from music, some people mistakenly believe musicians lose it with their musicianship and songwriting talent. Well, after giving this album a listen, David haven’t lost it at all. The man still has IT!

While David released his first single, “Where Are They Now”, fans worried that the album will be full of slow ballads. Turns out that most of the album is pretty rockin’! The album is full of guitar playing all the way through. There are only like two or three slow songs, but the slow songs are still really good. David’s guitar player, Earl Slick, has been playing guitars on David’s albums for years now. This album has Earl’s best playing, yet. This album also has David’s best singing. After listening to this album, I immediately thought that this album is a celebration of his music over the years in his career. The album has something for everyone on it. You want a tight rock n’ roll song that he had in the 70’s. You will hear a lot of that. You want to hear David’s dance & pop stuff (like he did with songs such as “Lets Dance”, “Golden Years”, etc.), there’s some of that on there as well. David still has that energy and intensity in his songs. It has an old school Bowie feeling.

After the long 10 year wait, David probably thought to himself… “My fans have waited too long, I better give them a rock album, something they’ve always wanted to hear”. This album is clearly for the fans who missed him during those 10 years. This album is David clearly saying to everyone, “I’m back and better than ever”.

I thought the album was absolutely amazing and incredible. It gave me goosebumps throughout. When I get my own copy of the album, I’m gonna be listening to it a lot. Welcome back, David, and please, don’t make us wait so long for your next record!

Kev

Books

Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep” cover revealed…

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Stephen King has a new book coming out later this year in Sept., and it’s the sequel to “The Shining”. The cover jacket artwork has been revealed. Check it out, here. I’m pretty stoked for this book, and can’t wait for it come out. I’m glad he’s finally getting back into horror ’cause he’s been staying away from that genre for years. The plot of the story, sounds like it’s horror to me!

Who’s the girl on the front cover? According to the synopsis of the book, it’s a character named, Abra Stone, who Danny Torrance must save from the True Knot. The True Knot, is a name of a group of travelers who travel across the country, feeding off of children. Of course, Danny, who is now a middle aged man keeps getting haunted by his father’s past at the Overlook Hotel.

You can expect plenty of Jack Torrance flashbacks in the book for sure. Hopefully!

Will they make this book into a movie to follow up Stanley Kubrick’s movie? Wouldn’t surprise me. I’m feeling this book is going to be King’s biggest seller in a long time, so Stephenie Meyer and J.K Rowling, should take note and watch out. It’s the Shining, and it’s a horror novel. It’s going to get everyone stoked for this novel, so expect a lot of over hype too.

Kev

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Would I be a good movie critic for the professional industry? I could but…

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… I just like to review movies just for fun. It’s just a hobby of mine. However though, I’m beginning to think that I should take being a movie critic as a profession. I could make a pretty good living doing something like this. Could I become the next Aint It Cool or Roger Ebert? Where I get to see movies for free and get all kinds of DVDs/Blu Rays in the mail? That job would be awesome. I’m beginning to think that’s what I was made to do. So many people tell me, that I should get paid for doing this. I’m flattered but for now it’s just a hobby. I would like to make a living doing this but it takes a college degree I think. I could even get paid for blogging if I wanted, but if I did, I would have to load this site up with a bunch of advertisements. You wouldn’t want that would ya? I just do it for fun. It’s what I like to do, talk about movies.

It’s gonna be a long while for me to see a new movie in theater ’cause there is no movie theater in the Wilton Mall anymore. It closed down, but there is another movie theater moving in but it’s gonna be a long while. Sucks, ’cause I want to see, “The Last Exorcism II”. Looks good.

I just love movies. Talking about them, giving my opinion on them. Giving my thoughts and opinions on the upcoming movies being in the works. Things like that. I kinda would like to get a professional career doing that. I’ll figure something out. If I’m having trouble getting a job else where, I’m taking this into consideration.

Kev

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Scott Weiland’s, STP firing, sparks huge debate in music community…

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All over the music community online, STP kicking out Scott Weiland, started this huge debate about his firing. There’s been pretty interesting discussions everywhere in facebook, other blogs, and music forums. Places like those. Of course, fans of Stone Temple Pilots, are upset that the band kicked out their leader. There is also a bunch of other people who blame this on Scott’s drug problems and think it’s his fault. As usual there is a mixture of opinions and responses when it comes to Scott’s firing… however, one thing that we all came to an agreement on is that Scott Weiland IS, Stone Temple Pilots. Everyone also agrees, that Scott is irreplaceable.

I think the question that we’re all wondering is, can Scott be fired from something that he created himself? That’s the mystery there.

Heh, this feud reminds me of that movie, “School of Rock”, when Dewey Finn was kicked out of his own band that he created, so he went and formed a band on his own, and wrote a song about it. “How can you kick me out of what is mine”, is the line from that song from the movie.

When you form your own band, can the other guys in the band, have the power to kick you out even if you’re the leader? That has always been debatable.

Here’s how Scott can’t be fired from his own group… as long as Scott owns some of the trademark of the Stone Temple Pilots name, and as long as he owns the copyright for a lot of STP songs, those reasons alone are why he can’t leave. Scott Weiland DOES own part of the trademark for the STP band name, I looked it up on the trademark website, and it’s filed under his name along with the other 3 members listed. All 4 members of the band, share the name. So as long as Scott’s name is a registrant for the trademark, he has the power to sue and take full control of the name if they battle it out in court, if he wanted to.

Lets say if you own a business, and your employees, hate your guts and want you gone, they can’t do anything to get rid of you, since you’re the owner. Well, it’s the same thing with a band, ya know?

Scott can’t leave unless he chooses to. I’m a Stone Temple Pilots fan, sure, but I only loved their first three albums. Their newer stuff aren’t that good. STP is Scott’s band. Always has been. The other members can be replaceable, but not their leader who has always been an important member. This is interesting and I’m going to be following this feud. Looking forward to seeing how it’s gonna end. Will Scott and the band resolve their differences behind the scenes, or will they take it to the court room? Who knows.

Kev

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Scott Weiland, quick to respond to STP firing…

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Scott Weiland was quick to put out a statement for the public, after learning about his firing from STP.

Weiland’s statement: “I learned of my supposed ‘termination’ from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press,” Weiland said in a statement. “Not sure how I can be ‘terminated’ from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that’s something for the lawyers to figure out. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to seeing all of my fans on my solo tour which starts this Friday.”

From MTV News.

It is kind of sad that he was fired by hearing about it from the press and not from the guys themselves. Bunch of cowards. I guess, I’m siding with Scott on this, ’cause he does bring up a good point that you can’t kick someone out when that person is the creator, ya know? Scott really did form STP himself, if you do your research. He was the one who found the other three guys himself.

Like I said before, Scott’s voice defines the band’s sound, so he is irreplaceable. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like the guy or don’t agree with his drug problems, you can’t kick out their creator.  It looks like Scott may see the rest of the guys in the court room soon. Other than that, Scott doesn’t seem all that hurt being kicked out ’cause he is moving right on to his solo tour which starts this weekend.

I wouldn’t really blame this on Scott’s drug problems. Don’t speculate, when you don’t know what’s going on.

Kev

Celebrity news

Thought: About Miss Delaware sex tape controversy…

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So Miss Delaware Teen USA resigns as soon as a sex tape which featured her in it, leaked the internet. She was with no partner in the video, it was just herself performing sex acts. From the sounds of things, it might be a stripping and masturbation video. Later, she claims the girl in the video wasn’t her. *sigh* If she’s going to resign after the video surfaced, why would she claim it isn’t her? Because it is probably her if she resigned.

On top of that, these kind of scandals is nothing new in the world of beauty contests and pageants. These things happen to these women, all the time. When you have a beauty contest/pageant full of beautiful and gorgeous women, of course, a lot of them are going to have a past with sex tapes or nude photos. When they want to enter these competitions, they become public figures and more well known. That’s when obsessive fans will start digging around for sex tapes or nude photos and they’ll just leak them on internet for all to see. It happens. It just proves how slutty and sexual these women can be in real life.

Yes, it’s awful that people leak these things but they had it coming, ya know? Guys like beautiful women, and they won’t give up searching for pornographic material that they may have had a past with. Guys don’t do this to humiliate them, they do it ’cause they know that this is what other men like to see. Men like porn, that’s all there is to it. On top of that, this is pretty much the women’s fault ’cause if they don’t want these things viewable to the public for the whole world to see, then they shouldn’t have filmed sex videos or taken nude photos of themselves at all.

Yes, these sex tape/nude photo scandals will hurt the pageant and will hurt the women’s reputations, but that’s the way today’s technology and the internet works. A lot of people pay attention to those beauty competitions/pageants ’cause they all wait for something pornographic to leak out ’cause they know they all have something. You want to see what these women look like naked, you’ll soon be able to, the more popular they get. You may think these models weren’t made to be porn stars, but you can tell that’s what they really want and why they enter these competitions just to help jump start their career in porn or to try to get recognized in the celebrity world.

I don’t really enjoy these competitions to begin with. I see it as exploitation of the women, and they don’t need to enter these things to be beautiful. They are pretty much fake. Bad plastic surgery and bad makeup. There are tons of beautiful and gorgeous women everywhere, who cares about these models in the pageant. They’re nothing.

Kev

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Thought: About Scott Weiland being officially fired from STP…

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So Stone Temle Pilots, made it official that Scott Weiland is no longer, the lead singer. They put out a small statement saying the singer has been officially terminated. I’m sure you’re wondering my thoughts, so I would give it briefly. I’m sure a lot of people want to blame it on the drugs. It probably is the drugs, but I’m sure it’s more than that. You see, Scott has a huge ego problem, and he seems to be a huge dick toward other band members, which is how Scott got booted from, Velvet Revolver. I think Scott Weiland is a talented rock n’ roll singer, he’s one of the best out there, but you can’t deny that he is a bit of a douchebag. Scott and Dean Deleo has been feuding on and off for a while now, and looks like they aren’t getting along again.

On top of that, the Stone Temple Pilots aren’t a relevant band anymore to begin with. Their first three albums “Core”, “Purple”, and “Tiny Music…” were really phenomenal and amazing, but everything after “Tiny Music…”, the band went downhill.

Scott will probably try to go back to Velvet Revolver, but it’s pretty unlikely they’ll want him back at all. Scott will try to find another band to join, but I don’t think other bands will want him either after what happened with Velvet Revolver and STP. Scott needs to learn what karma is all about. You become a drug addict, all kinds of bad karma will come out of it, everywhere you go.

I just wish Scott would get himself clean, so he won’t end up dead or back to prison again. He is a talented guy, he just needs a lot of help. I don’t see how STP is going to continue on without Scott ’cause Scott is STP. Scott’s voice is the reason for the band’s grungy sound. I don’t think he’s replaceable so they may as well break up the band again, if they’re gonna get rid of him.

Kev

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Not only that I’m trying to improve my guitar playing, I’m also trying to improve the singing…

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After listening back to my older songs, I came to a realization that I’m not liking the way my singing voice sounds. So I’m taking the time to improve that too. I’m realizing I don’t have the strongest singing voice. I want to be able to have a strong voice and hopefully sing a little higher. I don’t like the deep voice I have in my songs. My singing sounds like I’m talking, not actually singing. Kind of like a Bob Dylan or Tom Petty thing. Maybe that’s why so many compare my music to those two artists. I want to learn to be able to sing better. Learn to sing with more passion and sing with heart. I’ve been working with vocal exercises everyday. Working with a vocal exercise CD where you can practice reaching those high notes. I can actually sing pretty high, and I didn’t think I could either.

Maybe this is part of why I have a hard time people accepting my music maybe the singing is part of the problem and that’s getting worked on too. I’m really working hard on both, guitar playing and the singing. I sing because it’s fun and it’s enjoyable. I want to get better at it. I want to actually “sing”. Not be a talking, storyteller kind of singer if you know what I mean.

Becoming a good singer doesn’t happen over night either. Some people say it’s impossible to become a better singer, they mistakenly think what you hear is what you get. Not true at all. There are ways to improve your voice with a lot of vocal instruction. You can either be self taught or work with a vocal coach. I’d like to work with a professional vocal coach at some point, but I don’t know any around here, so I just teach myself for now.

When I start writing songs again, you might hear a little improvement than the last batch of songs. I hope so, anyway. I plan to start writing soon ’cause I want to test out my singing skills.

Kev

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Cool Photo: See the NEW Carrie drenched in pig’s blood!!!

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Chloe Moretz herself, was the first to release this photo still from the upcoming “Carrie”, remake. She released it herself exclusively on her instagram page. Stephen King himself, is not involved with the new “Carrie” remake, at all. Which is a good thing actually. I’m a big Stephen King fan, but mostly a fan of his writing. Most of his movies are garbage with the exception of “The Shawshank Redemption”, “The Green Mile”, “Misery”, “Needful Things”, “Pet Sematary”, “Stand By Me”, and “Dreamcatcher” which I thought were really good films.

I didn’t even care for Depalma’s version of “Carrie” that much, it didn’t follow the book hardly at all. So I’m hoping the remake will stay faithful to the book. I plan on re-reading “Carrie” soon.

See Chloe drenched in pig’s blood here. I hope they do the film justice, and hope they make it better than the Depalma version. Sissy Spacek was a great Carrie White, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that the script was really bad. Could the remake do the prom scene just as good? I’m hoping!

Kev

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Happy Birthday, Johnny Cash….

When someone ask other people, “What is your favorite Johnny Cash song?”, my response to that would always be, “All of them, I don’t see how you could like just one Johnny Cash song”. It’s true. I loved all of Johnny’s music. Everything from the Sun recordings, all the Columbia stuff, and of course, the American era. I even loved all of Johnny’s gospel music too! Originally Johnny never wanted to be a country star. He originally wanted to be big in gospel music. He was forced to play country music ’cause it was the only way he could break into the industry, since gospel didn’t sell back in the day. Later in the years, Johnny focused on gospel more. As you noticed, all the American recordings weren’t country at all. The 6 American albums he did were mostly gospel influenced, and he did covers of modern songs but they were gospel like. He always hated the country genre, but he was dragged into it. He kept the country thing going through the years ’cause it was the only way for him to make a living and he wanted to be known for his music.

He has always been an incredible artist and a longtime favorite of mine. He was an inspiration to me too. Of course, I loved all the stuff he did with June Carter.

RIP, Johnny.

Kev

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