Can’t buy happiness, gibberish junkets and purely artistic impulses + this day in history w/depression diagnoses up 33% and our song of the day by The Boatrawker on your #MorningMonarchy for May 16, 2025.
Notes/Links:
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Air Farce One and Ye Heils Hitler + Meltdown-Proof Reactors
https://x.com/shartstorm8d8/status/1923241923529015394
Lil Durk Murder-for-Hire Case: Feds Delete All Reference to Rapper’s Lyrics In New Indictment; After the star’s attorneys accused prosecutors of unfairly using his lyrics against him, they’ve been removed from the newest version of the case.
https://archive.is/KYPuK
THE BIG STORY: Rap On Trial – Or Not?
https://archive.is/kIl6N
‘New Bud Light’: Versace fashion brand blasted for partnering with Dylan Mulvaney
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/versace-partners-dylan-mulvaney-called-new-bud-light/
Luxury brands: higher standards or just a higher mark-up?; Research challenges assumption that there is a link between the cost of clothing and the way it is produced (Dec. 10, 2014)
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/dec/10/luxury-brands-behind-gloss-same-dirt-ethics-production
‘No joke’: Aussie actress Isabelle Cornish hospitalised after impaling herself on stake fence in freak accident
https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity-life/no-joke-aussie-actress-isabelle-cornish-hospitalised-after-impaling-herself-on-stake-fence-in-freak-accident/news-story/461c273924941a2cde3eb4c04c9f4e12
Tash Sultana added to WHO’s ‘One World’ COVID-19 concert series
https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/tash-sultana-one-world-series/
Search: TASHSULTANAA covid
https://x.com/search?q=TASHSULTANAA%20covid&src=typed_query
Tash Sultana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tash_Sultana
Video: ROCK STAR & WIFE 100% DESTROYED BY VAX POISON INJECTIONS (Audio)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/V4fZwUOXBrG6
Taj’s Fedbook account with a search of “vaccinated”
https://www.facebook.com/profile/100044237178904/search/?q=vaccinated
Tash Sultana – “Can’t Buy Happiness” (Audio)
Digital Single
Mom + Pop Music/Sony – Apr. 4, 2019
*Tash Sultana – “Can’t Buy Happiness” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85rY9IT9rXM // Vax pushing/damaged dingus hasn’t made an album since 2021, I wonder why that is? This only charted in New Zealand.*
lolol a lady at the Angels @ Padres game just held up a sign behind home plate that says MAGA with the first A as the Angels logo lol :verifiedtroll:
https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250512_maga-angels-at-padres.png
Bud Black let go by Rockies in ninth season as manager
https://www.mlb.com/news/bud-black-fired-by-rockies
Dead Kennedys’ East Bay Ray: Jello Biafra Won’t Reunite With Us Despite Lucrative Offers
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/dead-kennedys-east-bay-ray-172907383.html
Gaza, Trump dominate politically charged Cannes Festival opening
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cannes-festival-under-pressure-stance-105710894.html
Jake Tapper’s new book says Joe Biden didn’t recognize George Clooney. Glad to see the media reporting on this long after it mattered.
https://x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1922392656644014332
Video: Lefties Losing It – Brandon jibberish on ‘The View’ (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDG1X4LkFeQ
Ultimate Fakebook – “Real Drums” (Audio)
‘This Will Be Laughing Week’
Noisome/Sony 550 – July 25, 2000
*Ultimate Fakebook – “Real Drums” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKaEjocwD_Q // https://www.thepitchkc.com/opening-up-and-saying-awesome-an-oral-history-of-ultimate-fakebooks-this-will-be-laughing-week/ // Manhattan, Kansas power-pop trio and major-label survivor Ultimate Fakebook broke up in 2003. But since 2008, the band has reunited for occasional holiday and benefit shows. 1999’s ‘This Will Be Laughing Week,’ with its catchy “She Don’t Even Know My Name” and “Little Apple Girl” was originally released on local label, Noisome Records, but subsequently picked up and reissued by Sony 550 in 2000. For a minute, it looked as though Ultimate Fakebook was going to hit nationally. I loved playing it on the college station, it was radio ready without being overexposed – perfect for a scrappy little station trying to forge its own identity.*
#BookSmarts/Video: Robert Osborne intro to The Lady From Shanghai 1947 20131115 (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TRvnj3frhU
#BookSmarts: Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans (Book #2 in the Orson Welles Series) By Simon Callow
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/orson-welles-volume-2-hello-americans_simon-callow/649516/?resultid=4ba7c6df-92ad-468d-ae74-183418c4b495
#BookSmarts/Video: Noir Alley – The Lady From Shanghai 1947 outro 20200628 (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7gbGwZ-iS0
They Might Be Giants – “Lady Is a Tramp” (Inst. Rodgers & Hart Cover // Audio)
‘Then: The Earlier Years’
Restless/Rykodisc – Mar. 25, 1997
*They Might Be Giants – “Lady Is a Tramp” (Inst. Rodgers & Hart Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u8JJeZYDig // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then:_The_Earlier_Years // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Is_a_Tramp // ‘Then: The Earlier Years’ is a double album compilation by the band They Might Be Giants, released in 1997. ‘Then’ contains the band’s first two studio albums, 1986’s ‘They Might Be Giants’ and 1988’s ‘Lincoln,’ in their entirety, as well as the 1991 B-side compilation ‘Miscellaneous T,’ in addition to a few unreleased songs from their 1985 ‘Demo Tape’ and other songs previously unreleased.*
May 2015 – Page 1 – Media Monarchy
https://mediamonarchy.com/2015/05/
Flashback: @PumpUpThaVolume: Episode158 – Oh Man The Future (May 16, 2015)
https://mediamonarchy.com/putv158/
Flashback: Ancient Deity Drawing May Shed Light on Rise of Andean Religion (May 16, 2015)
https://mediamonarchy.com/ancient-deity-drawing-may-shed-light-on/
#MorningMonarchy: May 16, 2016 – Someone projected ‘Daesh bank’ on the Saudi Arabian embassy in Berlin
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160516morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 16, 2016 ♬ Skid Row & Swervedriver
https://mediamonarchy.com/20160516pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 16, 2017 – Investigator Says Evidence Showing Deceased DNC Staffer #SethRich Was Emailing With #WikiLeaks
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170516morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 16, 2017 ♬ BDAY BOY Woody Herman & Blooded The Brave
https://mediamonarchy.com/20170516pumpupthavolume/
#ThisDayInHistory/#MorningMonarchy: May 16, 2018 – Major Depression Diagnoses Up 33 Percent Since 2013, Study Finds (Audio)
https://mediamonarchy.com/20180516morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 16, 2018 ♬ The Chapin Sisters & Joan As Police Woman
https://mediamonarchy.com/20180516pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Whole Foods Bails On GMO Labeling + Cannabis Coins & Digital Licenses
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw341-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw341-audio/
#MorningMonarchy: May 16, 2019 – Stanton Friedman on The Bible and Flying Saucers
https://mediamonarchy.com/20190516morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 16, 2019 ♬ Clinic & Preservation Hall Jazz Band
https://mediamonarchy.com/20190516pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 16, 2022 – BBC interviews their funder, Sir Bill Gates
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220516morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 16, 2022 ♬ The Clash & The Kumari
https://mediamonarchy.com/20220516pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 16, 2023 – 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite hit New Jersey home
https://mediamonarchy.com/20230516morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 16, 2023 ♬ The Brothers Johnson & The Orb
https://mediamonarchy.com/20230516pumpupthavolume/
#MorningMonarchy: May 16, 2024 – First recipient of genetically modified pig kidney dies
https://mediamonarchy.com/20240516morningmonarchy/
#PumpUpThaVolume: May 16, 2024 ♬ Percy Faith & Ennio Morricone
https://mediamonarchy.com/20240516pumpupthavolume/
#NewWorldNextWeek: Aurora HAARPealis + Banks In Play & Rooftop Ninjas
https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw554-video/ // https://mediamonarchy.com/nwnw554-audio/
#PumpUpThaVolume/#NewMusicFriday: #May16 w/Morgan Wallen, Peter Doherty, Tanika Charles, The Sherlocks, Chuck D, Ezra FurWoman says goodbye to his small head, tUnE-yArDs whine, Jose James does a buncha covers + compilations from American Trance Music, Chet Baker Re:imagined, Bardo Pond & more! ♬
https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250516_NewMusicFriday.png // https://www.allmusic.com/newreleases/20250516
“Point Me Toward The Real,” says fake
https://x.com/mediamonarchy/status/1922095641414578421
The Boatrawker – “I Don’t Like Commies” (Audio)
YouTube Video
The Boatrawker – May 2, 2025
*#PumpUpThaVolume/#TruthMusic: The Boatrawker – “I Don’t Like Commies” https://youtu.be/hi7Cux7UxDE // https://www.patreon.com/boatrawker // The commies want to burn the whole place down! Here’s a new Boomtown Rats parody by The Boatrawker, available now via the artist.*