Hello friends! For the rest of the weekend, I’m going to be partaking in what this site built on - fuckery, hoe shit and tomfoolery. Suffice it to say, posting will be slow. While advil and crackers nurse me back to health, get into Golden Girl Betty White calling Sarah Palin a bitch and salivating about her love for my imaginary boo Obama. She is the wind beneath my looseneck wings.
Instead of doing a lengthy post anniversary blog, I’ll just post an interview I did with Urbane Perspective Magazine a while back. It’s a great online mag for Latina, Black and Asian women (head over there ladies, they just might learn ya a thing or two ).
Urbane Perspective Magazine: Can you please tell us about your background , when and why you decided to start www.looseneck.com?
Likkle Miss: Brooklyn born, Kingston raised. My mom was smart and made sure I wouldn’t have to go through the stress of getting a visa and green card, but I was raised in Jamaica, that’s where I call Jamaica home, and that’s my heart. I love writing. After college in Jersey, armed with a degree in communications and an internship at MTV I moved to NYC determined to get a job in media. After months and months of endless interviews, it didn’t happen and I was beyond frustrated. I took an administrative job, and one day at my desk, I decided I would shape my own destiny and start my own blogsite. I looked up the domain name looseneck.com and discovered it wasn’t taken so I bought it right then and there. I owned it for months before getting the guts to post anything.
UPM: Explain to the Urbane Perspective audience, what looseneck means.
Likkle Miss: Looseneck was a phrase my friends and I used to describe anything that was out there, crazy or just awesome fun. It really just means “doing you.” Think Kanye and Frankie. Despite what you might think, they just live for them and that kind of attitude has won them legions of fans. People love authenticity.
Ok no pizza - it’s a recession people, I’ll just send friendly greetings from Looseneck land Hope you’re all enjoying the weekend, getting into some Looseneck activity which hopefully you’ll capture and send to me (very unsubtle attempt to hint at some new material). I’ve asked my Facebook friends and Twitter followers how I should ring in this achievement and most of you said to do a personal post on myself. Well, Likkle Miss is a friend of the people so here we go. I’m going to answer some of the questions that I get asked the most, kind of like a self-interview. I talk to myself all the time, so this really isn’t that weird.
Hit the jump for a few old pics and the rest of my self-interview, lol!
Question #1: how did you come up with the name Looseneck?
The first time I heard the word was on Katt Williams’ (LOVE him) American Hustle in the scene with Red Grant, see the video below. ABSOLUTE HILARITY!!!! “In the case of 3 month old Antoine “Looseneck” Richardson…Antoine, you are NOT the father!” *dead*
Anyway, after I watched it everything that was crazy, fun, silly, just overall out of the ordinary suddenly became looseneck. It was an ongoing joke between my friends and I (shout out to B and Roly), so it was only natural that “Looseneck” would be the name of anything I started. This brings me to question 2.
I present to you the reason you should stay away from vodka, and evil bitches who say they’re your friend but capture moments like this on a camera phone. This is me 2 years ago DRUNK dancing to TI’s “What U Know About That.” There is no sound, but you get the idea. (I’m mad I did that little shake thing at the end too, smh). I hate you Lashur and I WILL get you back!
Those of you who follow me on Twitter undoubtedly got a hearty laugh at my expense yesterday. My epic fail yesterday was ignorance - ignorance of the Porn World and by extension, Lacey Duvalle!
I will admit, the first time I ever heard the name Lacey Duvalle was about a month ago when I interviewed Charles Hamilton. I didn’t flinch, I simply figured she was some semi-unknown and semi-talented actress (like Meagan Good) that I would hear more about in the coming months. Now, let’s skip ahead to a few weeks from then. In the weeeee hours of a Thursday morning, I get an email from a friend at MTV2 with the “Brooklyn Girls video. I was so excited, so excited to actually be leaking something, I didn’t even watch it all the way through that day. I had seen the video many times before, but somehow never caught the ending with Charles’ tribute. When I finally did, my heart was heavy. I thought, “that poor young starlet, her life so tragically cut short.”
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