February 25, 2006 (1) Comments

I have been waiting for this night forever... I am attending my cousin's quinceanera--Chris is coming with me--SHIT IS GOING TO BE LIVE!!!! PHOTOS TK!!

February 25, 2006 (1) Comments

AMAZING

Even if you just watch the first ten minutes... the writers WERE DEFINITELY aware of the absurdity they were presenting--the best part, though, is that when I was watching it religiously as an impressionable grade schooler, I WASN'T.

February 25, 2006 (2) Comments

what is he thinkin when he looks into my eyes? wooooah

and, hands down, the best song of 1986. predates third-wave/independent women brand of feminism. wrought with drama. dance party clout for days. and synergy.

February 24, 2006 (0) Comments

KOOL G RAP "ILL STREET BLUES"

SOUNDS GOOD EVEN ON THE SUBWOOFER OF THE NOTORIOUSLY SHITTY STEREO THAT IS REQUIRED OF ALL MUSIC CRITICS

IT'S OVER

February 24, 2006 (1) Comments

NYC turn on radio, Mister Cee Throwback at Noon, aka one of maybe 2-3 bulletproof reasons to legitimately listen to hot 97 as music authority... earlier this week Chris and I debated the degree to which Mister CEe has lately been falling off.. cuz a couple weeks ago he did this BADONKULOS NYC glory days of house set... like all crystal waters cathy dennis and "hot music" then the next day a killer roots reggae hour... and after that everything was paling. BUT LO! TODAY I TURN IT ON AND DUDE IS PLAYING A BEST OF PORTRAIT! HE just dropped Arrested Development and now "Rump Shaker" the party is OCCURING.. actually, fuck turning on the radio, just come over! WE WILL TAKE OFF OUR SHOES AND DANCE IN OUR SOCKS

February 23, 2006 (2) Comments

I haven't seen it yet but Marisa just emailed to tell me our Rap Francais story, AKA THE REASON I WAS IN PARIS IN DECEMBER!! (god, how long i have been dying to tell you), is out now in the March issue of SPIN magazine, six pages in length. No score w/Grosdidier quotes and I'm still tryna jog off all the petit pain au chocolat (PASTRY POUR LE PETIT DEJEUNER? ARE Y'ALL SERIOUS? fuck), and yet, I feel wicked awesome about this whole deal.

February 22, 2006 (2) Comments

Even though he thinks I am anti-Semitic for loving Ryan over Cohen (it is only because we are both troubled, working-class geniuses who overcame our predestiny of pregnancy and the pokey), Josh Kun is probably in my Top Three of "fave people living in Los Angeles (non-blood relative division)." He's also one of my favorite writers. And he wrote this AMAZING piece in LA Weekly about the elusive, corrupt mayor of Tijuana, an endangered animal-trafficker and alleged int'l drug don, plus an impressively broad purview of the specific political climate of that city, and the ecological disaster that is Baja, among other things I didn't know so much about before. AWESOME. GO READ NOW

February 22, 2006 (1) Comments

dudes, go here right now and just sign yr name and click, cuz companies are starting to charge for the internet, and once the floodgates are opened.... ?

February 22, 2006 (3) Comments

YAY to turntable lab having a blog, BOO to "SHADY DUDE"'s gross and incessant gross fucking disgustoid referencing women as "TANG" and putting up boob shots, like hello, WOMEN LIKE RECORDS TOO, record-appreciation is not a closed circuit, and that shit just makes me, a record-purchasing, record loving woman, feel alienated. PS the whole "shady dude" irony does not defang how icky gross and "NASTY OLD MAN ON THE CORNER LEERING" that shit is

February 21, 2006 (0) Comments

cuz there's so much crap i'm juggling at this very second, i just want to say something real quick to all the rappers out there:

YO! I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR SOUNDSCANS

& hearing about them in yr raps is like me calling yr answering machine and reading the filled-in boxes of my W-2s! JADAKISS, WHAT U KNOW ABOUT MISCELLANEOUS INCOME!!! 1099-MISC, AMIGO! WHaaaa!

love
jshep

February 21, 2006 (0) Comments

This new Jane magazine blog stuff is goin live today... I think that maybe you will see me on there, talking. Comfortable pajamas, the professional blogger's equivalent of rocking a power suit. Comfortable pajamas, that is, or Fitted Sweats.

February 17, 2006 (0) Comments

For all 12,000-14,000 of you following my molcajete saga, it has concluded triumphantly! In the best valentine's day gift this year (second-best: Jaheim's Ghetto Classics fed-exed on 2/14, with love, direct from my boyfriends the Warner Brothers),
the very best v-day gift, mi madre pulled through and USPS'd a small molcajete, one my grandma bought her in Mexico in 1972! That's 34 years' worth of garlic and chiles populating the lava, waiting to ghost-season my secret guacamole and special salsa roja. WRD TO MY MOMS

February 15, 2006 (0) Comments

Paul Allen, RAIDER JON'S GOT YR NUMBER!
(watch out, tho, Raider Jon: Paul Allen's the Cascadian answer to a Kennedy. You don't want yr girl to find you all laid up on the futon with an empty bottle of valium on the dresser, a week's worth of dirty clothes in the hamper, and enough forlorn journal entries for the coroner to rule yr shit a "suicide")

NOTES:
* Z-Bo is a nice dude who likes nice things and I, too, would've punched Ruben Patterson in the face
* John Nash is a bigoted fuckwad who chased Sheed away. I think if he hadn't shown up with his iron fist, the Blazers would've pulled it together.

1999, friends. Sigh.

Unrelated memo to Rick Ross: IT's MANUEL Noriega, dude. MANUEL!

February 14, 2006 (0) Comments

I got $5000 on Harry Whittington dying from his "heart attack" before any journalist gets a callback from the hospital "marketing department" (?!?) that is taking his messages. Who's with me?

February 2, 2006 (1) Comments

You just need to go here and listen to "Robert Christgau's Jop'd in the Closet," it's something of a compendium of robertchristgau.com and the Best of 33 years of Pazz and Jop, including some rare commentary on Lester Bangs, all in podcast format. Choice material for those who've followed P&J through its history, and for the fans who like to take their pop-cultural engagement just a sliver beyond the beyond.

February 1, 2006 (1) Comments

PAZZ & JOP 2005, up and motorin' like the computer in the Hatch, HERE IS JESSICA'S POST ABOUT BOTH OF OUR ESSAY-TYPE THINGS GETTING PUBLISHED THIS YEAR! In the Voice! Pazz and JOP! Comment from my dad: "Cool! (Cool about your writing, that is. I don't like hard rap)," italics mine. I envision mi padre flipping thru the satellite radio in his WYO-centric Dodge Ram extendo cab, stopping the dial on "Lite Jamz n Oldiez" and going, "HO, SHIT! 'IESHA,' I LOVE ANOTHER BAD CREATION." But alas, my dad does not blaze-gunz in capital letters like that--it's a trait I developed on my own. Nevertheless, it is cool when your parents think you are cool and say so.

And J.Hova's right, check for Rob Sheffield and for Jon Dolan's comments all over, Dolan's the smartest and funniest, I ain't just saying that cauze right now some shit i wrote is in his editor's hands neither, pls go easy dolan, i am just a little baby bird with baby toes, killer cuban motion and a nasty slang habit.

Back to Pazz and Jop. Perhaps you would like some champagne as you read all the commentary about Kanye? A nice merlot? What's that? You've been sober since '86, after a full litre of Cisco (it was legal back then) inspired you to evil-kneivel-leap yr American flag-motif'd Dart across God's great chasm, the marvelous gape of earth we call Grand Canyon? Knowing, simply knowing your impenetrable faith would carry you to the other side?

Mais oui. Perhaps, then, you will prefer the TRAILER for the "Touch the Sky" video. YES, the trailer. For the video. I hope xgau is right and dude falls in love with someone besides himself, stat. Perhaps he will fall in love with Chris Milk.

February 1, 2006 (6) Comments

Home interweb was broke today so thankfully missed everything, like Alito and King and King George, I missed every goddamn thing, except for two amazing hot 97 interviews. Best-of:

T-Pain, aka singer of "I'm in Luv with a Stripper," on the Morning Show:

" I just wanna say: to all the married dudes in the strip clubs at 4 pm?
...Come on, man."

Ghostface, aka Ghostface, on Angie Martinez show:

Ghost wearing "fur-lined Sherlock Holmes hat, with feather."

Angie: "Does PETA ever try to get at you?"

Ghost: "PETA, who's that?"

Angie explains People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Ghost:
"I guess animals are whatever-whatever, but I'm just caught up in the moment, you know?"

Ghost on men who love
"When it's time to deal with emotions, it kinda like hits that spot, like, 'Yo. G.' If we love you, we love you. I'm a Taurus, so when I love, I love hard."

I didn't even try transcribing the polygamy part, but let it be known: ghostface killah = pro-polygamy