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I wanna go 2 the studio NOOOWWWW!

I really and truly hope it doesn’t seem like I’m on his d@*k (I’m not a rider in that sense!), but I just really really am a fan of Ryan Leslie. I was here sipping and listening to music, and my itunes saw it fit to interrupt my Sade with Ryan, which in turn made me go to his website and start watching all kinds of video footage. Dude is just amazing. This truly makes me wanna go write/record right now.

Funny (yet oddly ingenious) that this recording of reference vocals really made the album as a real song. And people, including myself, really jam to it! Yay

And another one of my faves, “Just Right”

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Random Observations

Photo by Laretta Houston

It’s two days until the big Melrose photo shoot!  Yippee!!!  We’re shooting with a great photographer named Laretta Houston (you can check her work at www.larettahouston.com) and my new fave hairstylist Minrell.   I’m sure it’s gonna be a dope shoot and I’m really, really looking forward to it, but unfortunately I’m getting sick.  Boooo!  Actually, I’m rebuking the germs..I cannot afford to be sick right now.  After the shoot, I’m heading back to LA with Kee to record for a week straight.  Though I don’t mind a little gravel in my voice, I do want to be on point for these sessions.  I feel it’s sink or swim time, and I intend on having a deal done by end of spring.  Come hell or high water.  No stupid cold is gonna sidetrack that.  Look for a nice lil entertaining video blog on Saturday!

I’ve also noticed what a difference a new-do makes.  Not that I haven’t been short before, but this new cut has got me feeling like a new person.  I went out the other night and just on the fact that I didn’t have hair down my back like 95% of the rest of the females, the attention meter was way up.  Hmmm….weird.  I guess it’s that shorter hair screams bigger confidence.  Who knows.  Too bad I wasn’t feeling very receptive to any of it.  Whatevs….but I do love my new hair cut

I don’t think I have one friend who has a boyfriend right now and all have been lamenting on that fact due that Valentine’s Day is this weekend.  I am, once again, solo, but it’s not new.  I know last year I went to Harlem Bar-alone, ordered dinner and drinks-alone, and listened to some great live soul music- alone.  It was a good night!  I intend on doing the same thing this year.  I’ll put on a fly red dress, order up some martinis and casually converse with whomever’s in my company.  Don’t let them play some Beyonce!  (lol)  And as a sidebar: people shouldn’t feel obligated to showing love to another on just one day out the year…friendships/relationships/hearts/feelings should be cared for 365.  Just a thought.

Other than that…hmm….I’d been hearing good things about Ryan Leslie’s new release, and since  I loved the singles he put out, I just purchased it on itunes.   I’m not gonna listen ’til later, though.  I’ll make an event out of it (lol).  Music, candles, and Nyquil…sexy fun, right!?  Feel free to tell me what your fave joint on the album is…

Until later, smooches.