Urban Honking

Joanna Newsom will tell you she loves the Senegalese polyrhythms for the kora, she learned them in art-composer’s school before she dropped out. I am essentially unfamiliar with kora music, but today I’ve been listening to Toumani Diabete & Ballake Sissoko’s New Ancient Strings–:37 into the first track dudes start high-end, magic treble counterplucking and […]

Gawker reminds us today that Inside Deep Throat is amassing press. I have not seen the film, but I want to refresh our memories on Linda Lovelace’s post-porn life, that in two autobiographies–Ordeal and Out of Bondage–she detailed physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of her manager/husband/pimp, Chuck Traynor, which lasted until she […]

i knew it was that time again when, walking through bryant park at 10 am, two angelic boy-men in Knotsberry-plaid knickers and golf hats offered me a free pill-packet sampler of Cargo lipgloss. Sign on industrial-sized trash can outside NY Public Library: “NO FASHION SHOW GARBAGE IN DUMPSTER”

I would apply to be MIA’s backup dancer/ choreographer, Paula Abdul to Janet Jackson style, if everyone else in NYLA wasn’t already palming that stick shifty (Anyway, I only work with unknown artists with a specific vision, or multi-million dollar productions like Honey II. Mekhi Phifer, holler at your pas de bourre). Last night, the […]

BINOCXULOKX–something so binoculars it requires harder consonants. As in: “D Double E’s verse in that ‘forward riddim’ video Sasha posted is BINOCXULOKX.” Dogstarr–term of endearment. Combo of “dog,” Gang Starr and Keanu reeves’ band. Teeter–Teeter Sperber, aka SUI GENERIS AND FOCUSED. on the phone w/Kris Ex: “what do i want with a woman without a […]

My dear friend Elizabeth Mendez Berry has published a milestone of a piece in the Stefani/Pharrell issue of Vibe mag, hitting stands forthwith. It is an investigation into the facts of domestic violence and hip-hop, correlates between one who raps lines like “[she] get beat like tina” and the actualization of that sentiment, airs the […]