I visited The Hit Factory and it was awesome!!

Remember the snowy hot mess of a first day of spring we had last Friday? Well I got the pleasure of spending it with up and coming music industry mogul Lori Trigonis at The Hit Factory-- home to Gibson Brands, and more music history than you could ever handle! Kay Lori helped me escape this year's millionth snowpocalypse by taking me to the room where Beyonce recorded "Crazy in Love," the studio John Lennon left right before getting shot, and to the spot below filled with mad guitars. Once she told me this was the most Instagrammed room, I let my fangirl flag fly free and took my only pic of the day (I KNOW! #fail).

Music, and music history are two of my greatest interests, so getting to actually stand in the studio where Paul Simon returned to mix and master Graceland after pulling an original Dave Chappelle in Africa - the hallowed ground where Biggie laid down, in my opinion, the most visceral of his cannon, "Everyday Struggle" - and the place where after a cosign from his then protégé Usher, Diddy gave a group of high school friends from Atlanta the opportunity to record their debut, 112, in the city where dreams are made... from which you KNOW "Cupid" still is THE CUT - I found myself less focused on the idea that I was there standing on the shoulders of giants, but rather standing face to face with the fact that, despite whatever misses I could spend all day criticizing myself about, I HAVE to do whatever it takes to make my own hits. That's passion to me. 

Kehinde Wildin' at Brooklyn Museum (had to lol)

Finally went to check out the Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic exhibit at Brooklyn Museum, and it was pretty interesting. Honestly I thought a lot of it was pretty homoerotic, which is def something to think on if you know anything about various echelons of the black male experience, and hip-hop and other stuff. Neither a professional social nor art critic, I also know absolutely nothing about this artist or what this was supposed to be, beyond the fact that I've always loved that MJ painting, and I wanted to go see some more cool stuff. I did notice that every single one of his cherubs was throwing mad shade, which I found kinda funny. Haha like some commentary on the proverbial gods laughing at our belief in any level of manifest destiny-- gotta say, that's pretty apropos. 

#PRIVATEEYES

THE JAM ALL DAY. #tbqh my girls and I have a very special place in our heart for easy listening, adult contemporary, the hilaire names of those genres ...and wall to wall cream carpet. A simpler time. Yes the 90's, or 80's, *I dunno, and I don't care, because I'm a millennial and I'm not responsible for anything other than consuming and creating content for your viewing or fiscal pleasure... content like this song that reminds me of being a carefree baby haha. The pressure generated by the necessary tunnel vision it takes to attain any type of success today, especially given how easy the time we grew up in led us to believe it would be, makes these songs, reminiscent of when my biggest problem was getting used to sharing my toys with a brand new brother, all the more fire sometimes.

*Oookay just looked it up and this song actually dropped 7 years before I was born... I guess even then I had classic tastes hahaha B-)

**Photobooth opp courtesy of Franklin Park, which is more or less in Crown Heights for now, but judging the clientele last night, it will somehow be located in something called "CroHo" within the year. Oh Brooklyn, Oh 2015, how I love thee!

Chinatown adventures aka Jin Fong food frenzy

Haha it's def been a min since I've explored Chinatown, but had a blast yesterday celebrating the biffster Samantha's 28th b-day! When she told me she was doing a dim sum brunch, I had no idea what I was getting into. Semi lost going down this little strip on Elizabeth Street, I found myself in front of what could have been mistaken for a movie premiere. A crowd of people lined up in front of a red carpet... only the red carpet led to two escalators, where atop sits Jin Fong: the most bizarre place I've been to in a while. Jin Fong Restaurant is probably best described as a nonstop foodie flashmob of insanity. Packed with what looked like everyone on earth, the food kept coming faster than we could eat it. Despite the fact that it was buzzing like a telethon the entire time, it was a cool experience... but notice in the pic, I'm the one who's only drinking the tea ; )

Get at me on LinkedIn!!

Lol I don't think anyone pictured here would understand if I made the caption for this screenshot "LinkedIn on fleek!" ...so I wont. Nice to be most viewed, so let's connect already! #careerhighs