Urban Honking

When you have TIVO, you are eating at the all-glitz Vegas style magic-spread buffet of mass television… but you are missing out on Brooklyn Community Access (BCAT), the homemade paper-plate spread at the block party. I have just discovered Jamaican television on three separate BCAT channels: a Bounty Killer live interview and videos by Junior […]

the blogs have not been updated because nearly all the rock-crit bloggers in the tri-state area were at matos’ birthday party last night, in case you were wondering. amazingly, when i woke up this morning, the internet was still there!

fuck a valentine’s day, but my cousin brian has been chronicling the “i love you”s spraypainted across the city, which i think is sweet of him.

i would like to give thx my friends and all people who hold jshep & co close to their hearts, or even those don’t but who live their lives with love and spirit, and holler a heaping womanpile of “eat mes” to the done-me-wrongs 1976-2005: you are toejam. don’t call me crying until after the […]

Mark Ibold‘s new psych band “Cam’Ron’s Foreskin” may be playing this weekend at the Kitchen, matinee show before the Fawn Kreiger/Wynne Greenwood installation performance. Also, they are new, but because of Mark’s vision and penance in some sort of underground famousish bands through the years, someone told C’n’P that Cam’Ron’s Foreskin might be going on […]

I keep forgetting to tell you that my friend Shayla Hason, photographer/DJ extraordinaire, has a photoblog. (As does Chas Bowie, the best [retired?] art critic in Portland, Oregon.) Shayla’s been posting photos of Portland/vicinity musicians all week, including J.Ho/JShep PazznJop ballot superstar Randy Jones aka Caro of the Little Pretty Pony, Rock & Roll Camp […]

Pazz and Jop time again… which means… time to be reminded that a lot of man-critics are jealous of Amy Phillips! I don’t blame them, she is a great lady who writes from her heart and in clear language; I could see her being a good Times critic one day. I very much relate to […]