Travelin' Gal...

Been out and about from LA for a week to MIA for a week. Still in MIA and will be back Thursday. Not looking forward to the cold...but at least I will get back to bloggin' then!

I'm not on retainer!

Was caught in the matrix of projects yesterday. Got so wrapped up did'nt get a minute to post. A project I have been sitting around waiting for it to start finally kicked in and I almost decided I wouldnt take it on (which would have been stooopid on my part). But I just got really fed up when they told me they may need me to cut my trip to MIA short next week. I felt like I had been waiting around for a project that should have gotten started a month ago. I wasnt on retainer and wasnt going to put my life on hold any longer so I had booked this trip. Oh, and I told them this too..almost talked myself right out of the gig!! Aye!! But I then thought about it (logically)and decided it would be in my best interest to cut the dang vacay short if need be...so I backpedaled! Damn career goals keep getting in the way of chilling on the beach:)

I read this yesterday & thought this was a quite kool. Check it out...


" Those who know the great joy of reading have richer lives and broader perspectives than those who do not. You can travel east, west, north, and south and become acquainted with new people and places in books. Reading transcends time. You can go on an expedition with Alexander the Great or become friends with people like Socrates or Victor Hugo and hold dialogues with them." ~ Daisaku Ikeda



How often do you read? I am one of those people who reads everything..signs, billboards, books, magazines, small print, fine print...maybe I'm just nosey! Right now I'm reading this book "Black Girl in Paris" it is AWESOME. I love ("me encanta" feels like a better way to express the feeling) traveling to ar away places so reading books that involve textured descriptions of other cities and countries takes me awaayyyyyyyyy! So, every night this week I have been in Paris.




Oh, and "I think it just got a little easier out there for a pimp!"- Jon Stewart ...that about sums up my thoughts on the Oscars.

Who would've thunk it!?

Run into the restroom after the movie lets out...and dammit there is already a line! The only available stall is the handicapped stall. I say to myself, "well we all have a handicap, right?" So I go in --- so not to go "on" myself! Just as I am about midway through my pee (yuck -- i know, i know)... someone starts banging on the door and yelling "Come outta there!!" "This is for handicap use!!" I stop midstream! This cant be happening. You know, I have always pictured something like this happening in a parking lot when I park in a handicapped parking space (yes, I am guilty of that too--AHHH!) but NEVER in a million years did I ever think that I would encounter this in a public restroom...

"Helllloooooooooooo, I have to PEE and I, unlike YOU, am in a wheelchair!" "Oh shyt, oh holy shyt!" I think but for some reason cant seem to form a word! "Uhmm, okay, uh one sec."
She knocks again -- and this time someone else yells. "Who would DO something like that!?" The woman in the wheelchair says "An idiot, moron!" with much bitter emphasis on the word idiot. So I quickly finish up. By now the pee has been scared out of me and all I want to do is fiqure out where the button for the "hole in the floor" is. I just want to get outta there without being seen! After realizing no such button is in sight... I slowly emerge saying "Sorry, sorry really had to go." She says... "Yeah, uh-huh and so do I (DRUMROOOOLLLLL)....Bitch!" And she rolls into the stall!

WHOA!!! In my head "How do I respond? How do I respond?" Wanting to kick the door behind her I instead skip pass the sinks without looking up (nope, dont even wash my hands) and hot tail it out of there!! I was sooooo embarassed!

Am I the only one who uses the handicapped restrooms?

Scared in NYC...

There is a crazy ass deranged killer on the loose in NYC and it is SCARY. I havent felt like this since the Atlanta Child Murders -- or the sniper in DC (that is where I am from originally-havent lived there for a long time but my family is there). And then there is the whole cab driver spin-- we ALL take cabs here. I hope they catch this horrible SOB and punish him to the fullest extent for this vile crime. I cried when I saw the girls mom and sister on TV -- they were so broken.

Life is short but life is grand -- spread as much happiness and joy as you can. I often wonder if criminals had just received more love and joy would they have turned out differently. You know, was there one seemingly small incident that pushed them over the edge? -- to the point they no longer respected life?...

Here are some of the details...

New York Police are seeking clues in the brutal rape and slaying of a 24-year-old criminal justice student whose nude body was found near a Brooklyn street 14 miles from where she was last seen around 4 a.m. Saturday at The Falls, a bar in the SoHo section of the city.

The nature of the death of Imette St. Guillen, a graduate of the Boston Latin School, George Washington University and a graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, touched off a massive investigation by the NYPD and a media storm in Boston and New York. The pretty and bright student apparently died a horrible death.

St. Guillen's body was found wrapped in a floral print bedspread or comforter like the kind used in many hotels, her hair had been crudely chopped off on one side, her hands and feet were bound with plastic ties, a tube sock had been stuffed in her mouth, and her entire face wrapped in packing tape, according to police sources.

An examination of her body revealed that she had been raped, sodomized and choked to death. She had bruises around her neck and police believe that she was either gang raped or violated with objects due to the wounds she suffered.

Widespread Investigation

Due to the nature of her torture, death and how her body was found, some observers believe the killer or killers may strike again, leaving coeds in the area concerned about their safety if they venture out into the city after dark.

One police source told the Boston Herald that the killer may be someone in the furniture moving business, since some of the items used to tie up St. Guillen's body were items used by movers -- packing tape, plastic ties, and blankets. No fingerprints were found on the packing tape, indicating the tape may have been applied with a wrapping tool like movers use, the source said.

Fake Cab Driver?
Police sketch

Meanwhile, New York police have released the sketch of a person they want to talk with in connection with the case. According to the New York Post, the sketch is of a man police believe was posing as a cab driver on Feb. 12 when he picked up a woman in New York, raped her and threw her out of the cab near the vacant lot where St. Guillen's body was found. The cab driver is described as in his 30s, Middle Eastern, with a dark complexion.

Also, investigators have been contacting hotels and motels to see if they can find bedspreads with the same floral pattern as the one used to wrap St. Guillen's body. A photo of the bedspread is posted on the America's Most Wanted Web site.

St. Guillen would have turned 25 years old this week, but instead of celebrating her birthday, her family was planning her funeral, a private service scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 4, in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 800-577-TIPS. A reward has been offered for information.

Is it just me...

or was Paula Abdul OFF HER ROCKER last night? Come on, I KNOW I am not the only one watching American Idol!

Man, has painting...

made me realize how damn impatient I am. How I run through life claiming to "feel" but not really feeeeeeelingggg. Ya know, I do all these things that are inside me like I paint, I take photos ( alas ANOTHER photographer with a little 5MP digital camera), I read, I act, I work in the music field in a creative position... but damn, I could be actually GOOD maybe even GREAT at some of these things instead of ok -- if I would just take a moment ....reaaaallly take a moment. Okay, I am good at what I do for a living but even at that I can be better. Today I decide that I will make a commitment to myself not to be scared to feel and feeeel forreal, foreal...

Swimming Upstream.....