Music

Media Monarchy plays Playboy Manbaby, Stabbing Westward, Skatenigs and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for January 3, 2021. ♬

Premise The following is a light piece on a man. The dream of becoming a tap dancer. A white kid from West Virginia (via San Fran and Guam) who got the Big Apple bug, that is, the Great White Way bug to be a hoofer on Broadway. The man comes to me via my volunteer […]
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DazBand | Anti-lockdown, pro-bodily autonomy, pro-choice, and pro-freedom anthem has gone viral. 

It’s Christmas Eve! It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be! It’s a sort of a miracle because […]
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"Don't forget your papers for the satisfaction zone" on Media Monarchy’s year-end mixtape: "You've Lost Your Shit" and the #BestOf2021! ♬

Sixty years ago in the late fall and early winter, a seventeen-year-old blue-eyed Bronx boy went by himself to see an afternoon showing of West Side Story on Fordham Road in the north Bronx.  He took the bus to the theater but walked the few miles home in a romantic daze, in love with Maria […]
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No one who frequents the dark auditorium is really an atheist — Edgar Morin, Marxist Movie Critic Orientation Cross-cultural uniqueness of celebrity culture If members of a tribal society during Paleolithic or Neolithic times, or even members of Bronze Age Egypt or Mesopotamia had heard about the United States population’s devotion to celebrities, they wouldn’t […]

Media Monarchy plays The Vaccines, Elvis Costello, Gorillaz and more on the last #PumpUpThaVolume of the year for December 17, 2021. ♬

Media Monarchy's annual all-Christmas music show features seasonal sounds from John Williams, Buck Owens, Burl Ives and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for December 16, 2021. ♬

As history repeatedly shows, it is under deteriorating social and economic conditions that the most unscrupulous, the most opportunistic–i.e., the very worst people–end up on top.  And because they are the worst, they demand even more, take even more, and abuse and intimidate and/or bribe anyone who stands in their way.  Such persons, clearly sociopathic […]