The queen of rock, 400 saves and the target still shoots first + this day in history w/the West Berlin blockade and our song of the day by Mindseed on your #MorningMonarchy for May 12, 2023.
Notes/Links:
Media Monarchy 2023 Baseball Caps
https://newworldnextweek.com/products/media-monarchy-2023-baseball-caps
Country Star Jimmie Allen Suspended by Label Following Sexual Assault Lawsuit From Ex-Manager
https://archive.is/nfqmK
Ricky Martin’s nephew countersues artist for 10 million dollars for sexual abuse
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/music/2023/05/05/6454fce5e2704e89258b45c8.html
Rob Laakso (Kurt Vile & The Violators, Swirlies) Dead At 44
https://www.stereogum.com/2222887/rob-laakso-kurt-vile-the-violators-swirlies-dead-at-44/news/
Goodfellas star Ray Liotta’s cause of death revealed a year after he died
https://news.sky.com/story/goodfellas-star-ray-liotta8217s-cause-of-death-revealed-a-year-after-he-died-12876895
Robert De Niro becomes father to seventh child at age of 79; There are 51 years between Robert De Niro’s eldest child and the newest addition to the family.
https://news.sky.com/story/robert-de-niro-becomes-father-to-seventh-child-at-age-of-79-12877157
The 2023 MET Gala: A Ridiculous Parade of Industry Slaves
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/the-2023-met-gala-a-ridiculous-parade-of-industry-slaves/
Aussie DJ Ian Bell suddenly dies in Paris before he was set to attend the Eurovision Song Contest
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12056357/Aussie-DJ-Ian-Bell-suddenly-dies-Paris-set-attend-Eurovision-Song-Contest-UK.html
Image: Ian Bell “Boosted as fuck baby!”
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/414600236783239168/1105355104778985593/Screenshot_20230508-214256_Chrome.jpg
‘Queen of the mummy bloggers’ Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce, dies aged 47
https://news.sky.com/story/queen-of-the-mummy-bloggers-heather-armstrong-known-as-dooce-dies-aged-47-12878231
Rita Lee: Brazil’s ‘Queen of Rock’ dies aged 75
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65531905
Video: Brazil’s ‘Queen of Rock’ Rita Lee Passes Away After Battle with Lung Cancer (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBIlOq6WcE
Video: Rita Lee é vacinada contra a covid (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8hb1FWGaIc
Eurovision 2023 officially kicks off in Liverpool as Frankie Goes To Hollywood reunite for opening ceremony
https://news.sky.com/story/eurovision-2023-officially-kicks-off-in-liverpool-as-frankie-goes-to-hollywood-reunite-for-opening-ceremony-12876499
Sum 41 announce they are officially disbanding
https://www.altpress.com/sum-41-break-up-announcement/
The Tracklist for Dolly Parton’s Rock Album is a Sight to Behold
https://consequence.net/2023/05/dolly-parton-rockstar-tracklist-release/
Image: Dolly shows she’s in the big club
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/414600236783239168/1105522958950203583/left_eye_Dolly.png
Morgan Wallen Cancels Six Weeks of Tour Dates Due to Strict Vocal Rest
https://americansongwriter.com/morgan-wallen-cancels-six-weeks-of-tour-dates-due-to-strict-vocal-rest/
Still obsessed with orange man eh? tds is a helluva drug…
https://archive.is/zjSUQ
Video: In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then spun it into one of the most mind-bending comments on identity in the digital age I’ve ever heard. (Audio)
https://twitter.com/JVsLooseCannon/status/1656513934793363456
Adjoa Andoh’s ‘terribly white’ coronation remark becomes most complained about moment of 2023, Ofcom says
https://news.sky.com/story/adjoa-andohs-terribly-white-coronation-remark-becomes-most-complained-about-moment-of-2023-ofcom-says-12877889
Video: ‘Terribly white balcony’: Bridgerton actress slammed for criticising royal family (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cbgZugYB7Rg
Another One Dies: MTV News To Shut Down As Paramount Slashes Workforce
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/another-one-dies-mtv-news-shut-down-paramount-slashes-workforce
Image: @Hybrid’s Cover Art – The Axing’s ‘White People Problems’
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/809978495454412840/1106596030629298316/20230512_MorningMonarchy.jpg
White People Problems; Trump’s rise signals that “woke” white allies must challenge racism more directly
https://www.mtv.com/news/tiidwu/white-people-problems
Disney+ and Hulu to combine content in single app
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65553932
Scoop: Tucker Carlson ready to torch Fox News; The ousted host “knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and is ready to start drawing a map,” said a Carlson source who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson
Tucker Carlson: Former Fox anchor to launch new show on Twitter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65536392
Top NBCUniversal Ad Exec And World Economic Forum Taskforce Chair In Talks To Become Twitter CEO: WSJ
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/top-nbcuniversal-ad-exec-and-world-economic-forum-taskforce-chair-become-twitter-ceo
Ronaldo becomes world’s highest-paid athlete
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/65471162
Olympic Esports Series: Shooting event in computer game Fortnite added to inaugural event
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/65495230
West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins apologized on Monday after using an anti-gay slur in an interview with a Cincinnati radio station. The incident is under review, according to a statement made by the university.
https://twitter.com/espn/status/1655712661550538754
Video: ⚠️ Here’s the audio of Bob Huggins calling Xavier fans “Catholic f–s” during an appearance on Bill Cunningham’s WLW radio show in Cincinnati (Audio)
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1655670978381226001
Red Sox gave Kenley Jansen bass guitar, played video tribute after save 400
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/05/red-sox-gave-kenley-jansen-bass-guitar-played-video-tribute-after-save-400.html
Video: Kenley Jansen on 400th Career Save // Kenley Jansen Records 400th Career Save! (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqlowfCFBs // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU-tx3NRi_s
#DeepFocus: Actor Richard Dreyfuss Slams Woke Hollywood Best Picture Standards: ‘They Make Me Vomit’
https://resistthemainstream.com/actor-slams-woke-hollywood-inclusion-standards-they-make-me-vomit/
#DeepFocus: Meet the firm sweet-talking Hollywood into utter financial ruination. The sad thing is that they don’t seem to be doing so deliberately. Forget all the desperate, goalpost-moving nonsense about 9th dimensional chess you hear in Truther circles. All these media emperors are going to be fatally exposed without their free-money invisible clothes.
https://twitter.com/SecretSunBlog/status/1655675733711134728
#DeepFocus: Parrot Analytics Destroyed Hollywood by Confusing ‘Outrage’ with ‘Demand’
https://bleedingfool.com/news/parrot-analytics-destroyed-hollywood-by-confusing-outrage-with-demand/
#DeepFocus: Why Prayers Weren’t Answered For ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ At Box Office: It’s Complicated
https://deadline.com/2023/05/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret-box-office-bomb-1235351382/ // https://archive.is/OqrFb
#DeepFocus: ‘The Target Shoots First’ at the Music Business, Then Itself (May 12, 2017 // Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/the-target-shoots-first-at-the-music-business-then-itself/
#DeepFocus: Video: ‘The Target Shoots First’ Full Documentary
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/379774652719038466/1106622130650632222/The_Target_Shoots_First.mp4
#ThisDayInHistory: 1949 – The Soviet Union ended its blockade of West Berlin (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAi2_vlKH2w
May 2013 – Page 5 – Media Monarchy
https://mediamonarchy.com/2013/05/page/5/
Flashback: Decoding the Past The Templar Code (May 12, 2013)
https://mediamonarchy.com/decoding-the-past-the-templar-code/
Flashback: Retro Sci-Fi Weekend: ‘The Land Unknown’ (May 12, 2013)
https://mediamonarchy.com/retro-sci-fi-weekend-the-land-unknown/
Flashback: #PumpUpThaVolume: Episode058 – Future Hunter ♬ (May 12, 2013)
https://mediamonarchy.com/putv058/
Flashback: Legend of the Apprentice Pillar (May 12, 2013)
https://mediamonarchy.com/legend-of-the-apprentice-pillar/
#MorningMonarchy: May 12, 2016
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160512morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 12, 2016 ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160512pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Public Reaches Breaking Point With TSA + Obama In Hiroshima & US/UK Terror Drills
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw268-audio/
#MorningMonarchy: May 12, 2017 (Contains original ‘The Target Shoots First’ at the Music Business, Then Itself segment)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170512morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 12, 2017 ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170512pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 12, 2020
https://mediamonarchy.com/20200512morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 12, 2020 ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/20200512pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 12, 2022
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220512morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 12, 2022 ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220512pumpupthavolume/
#ThisDayInHistory: 2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYwG6Z6NvsA
#ThisDayInHistory: #May12 w/the #LindberghBaby found dead in 1932
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/863078880826974209
#ThisDayInHistory: #DonnerParty departs, #ExileOnMainStreet out
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/863079552695676928
#ThisDayInHistory: #May12 w/The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people in 1989. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1260266423571505152
#ThisDayInHistory: #ThomasKyd arrest/torture, #Luna5 crashes on the Moon, ‘#AreYouExperienced?’, @TrilateralNA’s #JimmyCarter visits #FidelCastro, #DionneWarwick weed bust
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1260266427602239489
#ThisDayInHistory: #KatharineHepburn, #YogiBerra, #BurtBacharach, #GEORGECARLIN 86, #IanDury, #BillySwan, #SteveWinwood, #BillySquier, #KixBrooks, #EricSinger, #BillyDuffy, #BruceMcCulloch, #EmilioEstevez birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1260266429707780096
#ThisDayInHistory: #StephenBaldwin, #TonyHawk, #KimFields/#TOOTIE, #SamanthaMathis, #MackenzieAstin, #JasonBiggs, #RamiMalek birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1260266432337608704
#ThisDayInHistory: #May12 w/Brett Gurewitz, Bebel Gilberto birthdays
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/730805040005271553
#NewWorldNextWeek: Nick Cave and the Bad Scenes + Pakistan’s Wrath Of Khan & Epstein Chomsky Allen & Associates
https://twitter.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1656800448492494848
#PumpUpThaVolume/#NewMusicFriday: Eclectic releases for #May12 from Portland’s @Eluvium, @MarkusPopp_Oval’s museum collabo, @BCCamplight’s last rotation, #TheDarkSideOfTheMoon go thru a Metamorphosis, Simian/Arctic’s @JamesEllisFord has #TheHum + New Graham Day, Alison Goldfrapp, Bela Fleck and @AnmlCollective’s debut reissue
https://twitter.com/mediamonarchy/status/1656827948899663872 // https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/20230512
#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: Mindseed (@MindseedMusic) – “Up The Wall” (Audio)
https://mindseedmusic.bandcamp.com/track/up-the-wall