Houston Press : Weasel hadn’t been as happy-go-lucky about SXSW as the rest of the town, remarking on his Twitter stream, “Gearing up to play the most depressing show of my life in the most joyless, soulless, shameful excuse of a music event in modern history.” He was even less charitable towards the machinery of SXSW , writing “I’m about to go play for free for douchey rock critics and music industry… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily Swarm Discovery Date : 19/03/2011 16:58 Number of articles : 2
Last Night The Internet Saved My Life of the Day: Georgia college student Nitesh Bhakta spotted three masked intruders invading his home and quickly hid in the attic with his laptop, which he used to shoot off a Facebook status message pleading for help. The unusual update prompted his best friend to call the police, who made it to Bhakta’s home in time to intervene. [ ap / mashable .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 19/03/2011 00:11 Number of articles : 2
After Wednesday’s American Idol episode where the Top 12 performed songs from their birth year, the contestants lost a member in last night’s elimination round. And if you checked out our Idol Power List last Friday, you’ll know that the unlucky hopeful who said goodbye was not too much of a surprise for us (hint: … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 18/03/2011 15:35 Number of articles : 2
Artwork of the Day: Duane Keisler paints his tangerine and peels it too. [ neatorama .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 18/03/2011 19:39 Number of articles : 2
14:59 of the Day: As promised, Rebecca Black performed an unplugged, AutoTune-less version of her chart-climbing single “Friday” during the taping of this morning’s GMA interview . Spoiler Alert: It’s still the worst. [ ontd .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 18/03/2011 21:04 Number of articles : 2
Rapper was arrested in September for trying to board a plane with a firearm. By MTV News staff Petey Pablo Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage North Carolina rapper Petey Pablo faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to gun charges from trying to board a plane with a firearm on September 11, 2010, according to The Associated Press. According to original reports, Pablo (born Moses Barrett III) was arrested when security at Raleigh-Durham International Airport found a Smith & Wesson 639 in his carry-on luggage. According to reports, the rapper was on his way to Los Angeles to attend the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Pablo claimed he didn’t know the gun was in the bag but was still charged with possession of a stolen firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and attempting to take a gun onto an aircraft. On Wednesday, the rapper — who is best known for his singles “Raise Up” and “Freek-a-Leek” — reached an agreement and pleaded guilty to the possession of a stolen firearm charge. The remaining two charges were dropped and the rapper faces sentencing in June. Prior to making his rap debut, Pablo served six years of a 14-year jail bid for armed robbery. In 2001, he released his debut album, Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry, and saw the LP’s single “Raise Up” peak at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three years later in 2004, he once again rose to prominence thanks to his hit single “Freek-a-Leek” (#7 on the Hot 100) from his sophomore album Still Writing in My Diary: 2nd Entry. That same year, Pablo appeared on R&B singer Ciara’s breakout single “Goodies.” He reappeared with a meager hit in “Show Me the Money,” a song from the soundtrack to the 2006 film “Step Up,” but Pablo has made little to no musical noise since.
Filmmaker and brother of Lil Wayne videographer DJ Scoob Doo tells Mixtape Daily he wanted to show what’s really ‘going on inside.’ By Alvin Blanco, with reporting by Rahman Dukes Photo: MTV News The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive Omar Broadway has managed to make the cable series “Lockup Raw” and “Locked Up Abroad” look like sitcoms. While serving out a 10-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey, the filmmaker and former inmate shot the deplorable and chaotic conditions he was living in. No easy task considering what he was doing was illegal. “My relationship with several officers allowed a camera to fall into my lap and record how we were living back there, how life was in a gang unit,” Omar told Mixtape Daily. “We just managed not to get caught with the camera.” Using a Panasonic PV-GS12, Omar secretly documented his life behind bars over a 14-month span. Originally, he planned to use the footage as a bargaining tool for an early release but instead he worked the material into “An Omar Broadway Film,” which was picked up by HBO Documentaries and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary is a raw and uncut look at prison life without any sanitization for television audiences or prison officials. “I feel the world really needs to see what’s going on inside of the country’s many prisons because people see what they see through the [National Geographics] and the Discovery Channels,” Omar said. “But they’re authorized productions with people coming in, a lot of stuff is contrived and it’s not a natural look at what’s going on with everybody knowing that a camera is there and you not being able to act out in certain ways. Because it’s an authorized production, the officer isn’t going to say and do certain things off the top.” Omar also revealed that the DVD of “An Omar Broadway Film” is coming soon, as well as a sequel. The Jersey native is actually the biological brother of DJ Scoob Doo, Lil Wayne’s videographer and director of the “Nino Brown” DVD series. After a recent trip to Africa, Scoob was back taping the rapper on the I Am Still Music Tour this week. And Omar shares his sibling’s enthusiasm for hip-hop music. “Lyrically, a lot of artists are stepping it up all around the board,” he said. “A lot of artists: Wayne, Drake, Em, Jay, Kanye. The South is where it’s at, really.” Now a free man, and with his brother by his side, Omar said, “If someone can make a film from the confines of a cell, regardless of a recession, you have no excuse when you live in the land of milk and honey.” For other artists featured in Mixtape Daily, check out Mixtape Daily Headlines .
MTA Tiff of the Day: A subway patron doesn’t take kindly to being called an animal for eating spaghetti on the train, proceeds to act like an animal. (For the record, Gothamist points out that eating on the MTA is not prohibited, but is frowned upon.) [ nyctheblog .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 18/03/2011 16:00 Number of articles : 4
Supercut of the Day: A montage of movie characters saying the name of the movie the are appearing in. [ reddit .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 18/03/2011 16:22 Number of articles : 2
(Video Link) YouTube user GrandmaBird made this outstanding video that presents Futurama (specifically, the season 2 episode “The Lesser of Two Evils“) as an 80s-era Nintendo game. Quite properly, Bender scores points by stomping on popplers. via Comics Alliance Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 16/03/2011 20:00 Number of articles : 2
