Oscar-winning actress and my sister Gwyneth Paltrow emailed me and said, “I love your new site. Can I ask you five questions about it?” I said, “I’ll show you mine if you let me see yours.” Here are mine. Go see hers at goop.com. It’s fresh.

Further:

Sean Carter: Personally I was very surprised at your extensive knowledge of hip-hop songs. Particularly how you can sing ’90s hip-hip songs word for word. I can’t even do that! How does a girl from Spence discover hip-hop?

Gwyneth Paltrow: I first was exposed to hip-hop when I was about 16 (1988) by some boys who went to collegiate. The Beastie Boys were sort of the way in for us preppie kids. We were into Public Enemy, Run-DMC and LL Cool J. But then I went to LA the summer between my junior and senior year of high school and I discovered N.W.A which became my obsession.

Also pertinent to my interests are pretentious ways of talking about things, so “went to collegiate” is something I may start peppering into my conversations.

Oh, ALSO, I love the idea of Jay-Z calling Paltrow “my sister,” but not in an accented way. He’s just like, ‘This is my sister, Gwyneth. We hang out in that European nation they talked about on 30 Rock. It’s real.’ I suppose I’m less interested in celebrity privilege and more interested in the hyperreality of it all. The postmortem I mean postmodern thing.