Chris will premiere 12 Strands: Matrix, a full-length video

On September 27th at 8pm EST, Chris will premiere 12 Strands: Matrix, a full-length video that will be released as a pay-per-view event. This exclusive opportunity will be available to the online community only. Fans can pay $2.99 to watch the highly anticipated video on the official site MechanicalDummy.com. A percentage of the proceeds from this project will benefit Brown's foundation Symphonic Love. The Symphonic Love Foundation aims to provide support and funding for a wide variety of music and arts programs dedicated to the artistic development of children and youth while striving to promote an awareness of philanthropy by encouraging volunteerism and every day respect and kindness to others.  
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Usher Opens Up about Divorce

Source:Popeater
Even though his marriage to Tameka Foster , Usher says he doesn't regret marrying her at all. The singer tells PEOPLE in a new interview that he doesn't consider the union a failure. "I appreciate the relationship for what it was. Even though it didn't work out, I'm glad we got together. I love her as the mother of my children; we just couldn't be married," he told the magazine. The couple has two sons: Usher V, 2, and Naviyd, 1.When asked what went wrong, Usher recalls that soon after the birth of their second son, he and Foster started to argue about everything including parenting style. "We're two different people and we have two different goals. It just was never going to work out 100 percent," he said.More excerpts from the PEOPLE interview after the jump.On raising two boys:"Usher [V] is always in everything. He's an instigator. He's the one who leads his brother astray. I was like that when I was his age... if one gets in trouble, the other one does, too. They both have a lot of energy. They can wear me out." On his mom babysitting:"She spoils them. She lets them do everything that she wouldn't let me do. Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'how did Jonetta get in here?' " On his music:"My music is about where I am at the time, In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart and I was suddenly a single father. But now, with Versus, I'm singing about being a dating father." On finding love again:"I still believe in love. I believe in marriage. When I fall in love again, everyone will know. I'll sing about it."
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Hey blog followers

I know its been a while since I blog but I been a busy bee. I'm an Avon representative, cooperative president and mother. I hope everyone is a great summer. Summer summer summertime (Will Smith's voice)
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Jasper Howard, Three arrested in college (his)athlete's death

Three arrested in college athlete's death

Jasper Howard, 20, was a cornerback for the University of Connecticut Huskies.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
21-year-old charged with murder, conspiracy to commit assault
Two other men also facing charges
Connecticut football player was stabbed to death this month
(CNN) -- A 21-year-old man was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with the stabbing death of a University of Connecticut football player this month, police said.
John Lomax III also faces a charge of conspiracy to commit assault, Maj. Ron Blicher of the UConn Police Department said at a news conference Tuesday.
Lomax was in jail, with bail set at $2 million.
Two others were arrested in connection with the October 18 slaying of UConn cornerback Jasper Howard, 20.
Howard was stabbed in the abdomen in a fight after a student dance on the school's campus in Storrs, authorities said. He died at a hospital in Hartford.
Hakim Muhammad, 20, faces a felony charge of conspiracy to commit assault, Blicher said. Muhammad remained in jail, with bail set at $750,000.
The third person arrested was Jamal Todd, 21, police said. Todd was charged with a felony count of falsely reporting an incident and a misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment. He was released on a $5,000 bond, police said.

Disturbia Lyrics

Lyrics for Disturbia as interpreted by Droobles
Disturbia Lyrics
Send "Disturbia" Ringtone to your Cell Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (What's wrong with me?)
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (Why do I feel like this?)
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum (I'm going crazy now)
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

No more gas in the rig
Can't even get it started
Nothing heard, nothing said
Can't even speak about it
All my life on my head
Don't want to think about it
Feels like I'm going insane
Yeah

It's a thief in the night
To come and grab you
It can creep up inside you
And consume you
A disease of the mind
It can control you
It's too close for comfort

Throw on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must faulter be wise
Your mind is in disturbia
It's like the darkness is the light
Disturbia
Am I scaring you tonight
Your mind is in disturbia
Ain't used to what you like
Disturbia
Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Faded pictures on the wall
It's like they talkin' to me
Disconnectin' your call
Your phone don't even ring
I gotta get out
Or figure this shit out
It's too close for comfort

It's a thief in the night
To come and grab you
It can creep up inside you
And consume you
A disease of the mind
It can control you
I feel like a monster

Throw on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must faulter be wise
Your mind is in disturbia
It's like the darkness is the light
Disturbia
Am I scaring you tonight
Your mind is in disturbia
Ain't used to what you like
Disturbia
Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

Release me from this curse
I'm trying to remain tame
But I'm struggling
You can't go, go, go
I think I'm going to oh, oh, oh

Throw on your break lights
We're in the city of wonder
Ain't gonna play nice
Watch out, you might just go under
Better think twice
Your train of thought will be altered
So if you must faulter be wise
Your mind is in disturbia
It's like the darkness is the light
Disturbia
Am I scaring you tonight
Your mind is in disturbia
Ain't used to what you like
Disturbia
Disturbia

Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

RIP Alania Reed Hall

Sesame Street Star Dies of Cancer

Somewhere, behind a building, Big Bird is weeping.
He may be 40 now and have long since learned the meaning of death, but that doesn't make the passing of his Sesame Street pal Alaina Reed Hall any easier.
The actress, who starred as Olivia for 12 years on the PBS show, died of breast cancer on Dec. 17 in Los Angeles, reports Springfield, Ohio's WHIO Radio. She was 63 years old.
In addition to working with Muppets, Hall starred on the sitcom 227. She also graced the Great White Way as Matron Mama Morton in the original production of Chicago and the 1977 revival of Hair.

Brittany Murphy, Actress in 'Clueless', Dies at 32

Source: USA Today

Brittany Murphy, Actress in 'Clueless,' Dies at 32

Brittany Murphy, the perpetually perky and slightly quirky actress who worked her way up from supporting parts to romantic leads after her breakout role in the film "Clueless," died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 32.
Ed Winter, an assistant chief coroner in Los Angeles County, told The Associated Press that Ms. Murphy apparently collapsed in the bathroom and that the cause of death "appears to be natural." He said that an official cause of death might not be determined for some time.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at 8 a.m. Sunday at the home that Ms. Murphy shared with her husband, Simon Monjack, a British screenwriter, in West Hollywood. Ms. Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. Sunday, said Sally Stewart, a spokeswoman for the hospital.
The actress's wide brown eyes and unrestrained, asymmetrical smile made her a frequent choice for the role of ditz with an edge - such as the urban transplant to a Beverly Hills high school in "Clueless" and the riches-to-rags au pair in "Uptown Girls" - or a woman over the edge, playing characters with severe mental illness in the thriller "Don't Say a Word" and the drama "Girl, Interrupted."
The 1995 teen comedy "Clueless," an adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma" set in southern California and starring Alicia Silverstone, was a surprise hit, and though Ms. Murphy was 15 when she played the supporting role of Tai, the airhead persona stuck with her. It was her 2003 stint as the romantic lead in the Eminem vehicle "8 Mile," she told The A.P., that earned her more recognition.
"That changed a lot," she said in the 2003 interview. "That was the difference between people knowing my first and last name as opposed to not."Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said Ms. Murphy played the character of Alex "with hot desperation and calloused vulnerability. She's dynamite." But she was never a critics' darling. Stephen Holden of The New York Times was among those who compared her unfavorably to other female contemporaries, writing that she "suggests a dumbed-down Meg Ryan with a gloss of Melanie Griffith" in the 2004 romantic comedy "Little Black Book."
Ms. Murphy was born on Nov. 10, 1977, in Atlanta. Her parents divorced when she was very young, and her mother, Sharon, raised her primarily in New Jersey before bringing Ms. Murphy to Los Angeles to pursue a screen career.
But during the filming of "Clueless," her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, an event Ms. Murphy said affected her profoundly.
When Sharon Murphy's cancer returned in 2003, Ms. Murphy told People magazine that she "went to every doctor's appointment and chemo session" with her mother. "My mom taught me there's always a way to channel your fears into love."
A diverse set of credits accumulated in Ms. Murphy's filmography, including the tough, abused waitress in the gritty "Sin City," a concentration camp victim in the television film "The Devil's Arithmetic," and the voice of an animated penguin in "Happy Feet."
She also lent her voice to the character Luann on more the 200 episodes of Fox's animated series "King of the Hill," and collaborated on a song with the D.J. Paul Oakenfold.
"I don't really take myself very seriously," Ms. Murphy told The San Jose Mercury News in 2003. "I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions. It hasn't really been a plot or scheme in any way, shape or form."
Indeed, her image often slipped beyond her control. She was repeatedly romantically linked to her co-stars, including Ashton Kutcher from "Just Married," and a string of broken engagements made her tabloid fodder. Ms. Murphy married Mr. Monjak in 2007. She is survived by him; her mother; her father, Angelo Bertolotti of Branford, Fla.; and a brother.
The Sylvester Stallone film "The Expendables," which features Ms. Murphy, is in post-production and is scheduled to be released next year.