Internet home of Maria Tessa Sciarrino. Please leave your shoes at the door. I don’t like dirt being tracked through the apartment. I host a radio program of the same name on WPRB 103.3 FM and have been blogging since September 2000. Her Jazz was the first music blog in Philadelphia. And then I shuttled myself off to graduate school. Anyway, in its current reincarnated form, Her Jazz is a discussion spot for music and the ephemera of life. Tumblr (3.0; @theoreticalgirl)http://herjazz.org/It’s very easy! Be mediocre yet high-strung, and drink heavily. Before you sober up, write...http://herjazz.org/post/442359286http://herjazz.org/post/442359286Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:13:00 -0500Oh what the hell: Ask me a question.: I’m in an answering kind of mood.http://herjazz.org/post/442339730http://herjazz.org/post/442339730Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:03:51 -0500<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=400931498032">Tomorrow: Her Jazz returns to WPRB.</a>http://herjazz.org/post/441919677http://herjazz.org/post/441919677Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:18:09 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4zvl39hk1qzuxbmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thanks, Paul.</p>http://herjazz.org/post/441840688http://herjazz.org/post/441840688Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:33:20 -0500Before you deluge me with emails about SXSW parties I wouldn’t attend even if I was going to...http://herjazz.org/post/441438922http://herjazz.org/post/441438922Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t4AdI5NMMu8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t4AdI5NMMu8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>I’ve been digging the London group <b><a href="http://www.myspace.com/yourtwenties">Your Twenties</a></b> for a while, and I’m posting this because one of my favorite WFMU DJs, <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/LM">Trouble</a>, is playing this track right now.</p> <p>Reason enough to donate? Heck yeah.</p>http://herjazz.org/post/441287156http://herjazz.org/post/441287156Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:07 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2plsixvD1qzyucao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://dreadatthecontrols.tumblr.com/post/439162851/dear-mattel-you-blew-it-joan-is-the-sexiest">dreadatthecontrols</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Dear Mattel,</p> <p>You blew it. Joan is the sexiest woman on television but you clearly can’t deal with that. You had to cast her in the mold of every other shitty Barbie. That doll doesn’t deserve to share a name with a character like Joan or an actress Like Christina Hendricks. Die.</p> <p>Sincerely,</p> <p>the dread at the controls</p> </blockquote> <p>Barbie: making busty, curvy ladies irrelevant since whenever.</p>http://herjazz.org/post/439164759http://herjazz.org/post/439164759Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:57:39 -0500I’ve been up to phenomenally little: Hanging out in the park Riding my bike Movie’s...http://herjazz.org/post/439138343http://herjazz.org/post/439138343Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:36:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyxrycz93c1qzuxbmo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Pho:</b> <p>Pho from scratch. I used oxtail for the broth. I know, that’s not very authentic but it was cheap, marrowful, and etc. (Marrowful = not a word UNTIL RIGHT NOW.)</p>http://herjazz.org/post/433379604http://herjazz.org/post/433379604Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:58:33 -0500I feel like Gutter from PCU was unfairly ridiculed. After all, he was into music made in 1989. In...http://herjazz.org/post/431039674http://herjazz.org/post/431039674Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:56:51 -0500Polizei Motion: My friend Ryan started up this site with his lady friend to showcase their bizarre...http://herjazz.org/post/430257069http://herjazz.org/post/430257069Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:09:20 -0500For every douchenozzle who questions radio’s relevancy in 2010, I humbly submit WFMU as...http://herjazz.org/post/426513521http://herjazz.org/post/426513521Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:33:00 -0500The Reconstruction of American Journalism: I won’t lie — I’m barely 3 pages into...http://herjazz.org/post/426246408http://herjazz.org/post/426246408Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:58:56 -0500- Grading 50 papers in the span of 5 hours. - Grading under the influence of — and I say this...http://herjazz.org/post/425516638http://herjazz.org/post/425516638Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:04:06 -0500See me and my students on NBC10's "10! Show" this morning: I’m about 1:15 into the piece.http://herjazz.org/post/420218372http://herjazz.org/post/420218372Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:22:45 -0500Why not? Send me details!http://herjazz.org/post/418146031http://herjazz.org/post/418146031Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:04:54 -0500<a href="http://herjazz.org/ask">Gang, I got nuthin'. Ask me a question.</a>http://herjazz.org/post/415719422http://herjazz.org/post/415719422Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:03:24 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyfcq1oy3Q1qzs8ano1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fuckyeahjohnnyweir.tumblr.com/post/412640059/via-maybeyouvebeenbrainwashedtoo-another-what" class="tumblr_blog">fuckyeahjohnnyweir</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://maybeyouvebeenbrainwashedtoo.tumblr.com/">maybeyouvebeenbrainwashedtoo</a>)</p> <p>Another “WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS PHOTO” moment ^^</p> </blockquote>http://herjazz.org/post/412645878http://herjazz.org/post/412645878Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:57:26 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyfmlrT0WR1qzuxbmo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>American Mortals</b></p>http://herjazz.org/post/412625655http://herjazz.org/post/412625655Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:46:39 -0500DID YOU HEAR TED LEO IS PLAYING THE TERRORDOME SATURDAY NIGHT? NO, I DON’T THINK IT’S...http://herjazz.org/post/412448026http://herjazz.org/post/412448026Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:20:00 -0500