Venting....

Though I am thanking my kids don't attend a public school, for lack of better words THEY SUCK, I am still disappointed with the unorganized way the charter school they go to handled this snow day. I mean I get up at the butt crack of dawn to look for the listing of delays and school closures. I watch as the numbers go from 98 to 431 but none of them the one I'm looking for. Phone call after phone call goes straight to voice mail. My decision, keep them out or go on good faith that it will open on time. So... Off we go only to wind up banging on the door for what seemed like forever until a janitor let's us in. He proceeds to explain the school is on a 2hr delay and none of the teachers are expected to show until 10. I'm fuming inside asking myself why didn't they post this!! No phone call. No email. Nothing but a guessing game for us parents! So now I'm stuck in a cafeteria with several kids on a sugar high for the next 2 HOURS.... Taking your kids to school should never resemble home! Sheesh!!!!!
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What Makes Or Breaks You....

Someone one once told me that in the Music Bizz all you have is your Rep and Credibility to offer. And that there will be times when both of those will be put on the chopping block or to the test so to speak. To see if you're going to stand amongst the Chaos or wither into the dark hole you once lived. There are decisions and choices you'll have to make to elude some of the craziness that comes with the territory. The goals you have set will be challenged and you will have to decide, will you Stand and Succeed or will you Wither and allow all that you have Bled and Sweat for Die. Better yet, will you put your life on the line for it??
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All's Quiet on Campus..

The hustle and bustle of the week is over and many out of towners who decided to stay after the Inauguration have gone home. At last we Washintonians have our streets and sanity back. Though the shops in Georgetown loved the extra pedestrian traffic, we on the other hand , hated the bumper to bumper cars on M St.
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The Day After......

Today is officially the first day on the job for our newly appointed President Barak Obama. I can't imagine the paperwork that must've flowed onto his desk this morning. The questions and decisions that he has been presented. I'm talking about the stuff even the media doesn't have access to. I'm wondering what's going on in his mind, his heart? Is he scared? Is his heart beating so hard it feels like it's gonna jump out of his chest? Has reality hit him as hard as it did most of us? Has who he is and what he means to this country sunk in? These questions I have because after all he is still a Man...

An Historical Time....

Living here in DC for most of my life i've seen many Inaugural Ceremonies. Some that have bought this country great success and some that have bought it nothing but heartache and poverty. But this years Inauguration seems to bring us hope of a different color. You see for me, the Swear In Ceremony means much more than what's instore for our ecomony. It means much more that just having a "Black" President. It means my son's can now say with pride "I can do and be anything as a man of color"! For them it shows how hard work and determination can surpass anything anyone has ever said could and would never be done. It shows that we as a people have more chances that not to live out our dreams, to be somebody ( taking those words from Dr. Martin Luther King himself). So you see for my family we celebrate for the possiblities of our future and that of our children's future. Who knows, maybe some day My Son will be President......It's possible.

Best Place to Be....

I've only been apart of the company (Don Ghotti/Felicitous Records, Inc.) for a short time, but in that time I've had the privilege of seeing how different aspects of the music industry works behind the scenes and in front of the camera. From Black Carpet events in Atlanta, Red Carpet in Beverly Hills, to being in the studio with major producers and watching their interviews. It is about the most exciting thing that I have ever experienced. And it gets better and better. Oh, busier too. But I'm up for the challenge. Especially with the new (The Adventures of Don Ghotti & Don Pitts Official Mixtape Vol. 1 coming available on Jan. 31, 2009), it's really going to be a crazy time!

Sometimes you make yourself crazy!!!!

Well, I'm almost finished getting everything together for both my trips to Altanta, LA and the Inaugural festivmyities here in DC. I must say with all of these things happening within a thirty day period my stress level went to the roof! I think I must have said "Wooossaa" about twenty times in one day. Lol! I guess sometimes we get a little (lot) crazy when it comes to making sure everything is done perfectly. Why? Because waiting until the last minute to anything of importance will have you pulling your hair out. And I just don't look good bald!!

I haven't blogged in two days with good reason. I've been busy as hell! I've got two major trips coming up, one to Altanta and the other LA. Not forgetting about the Inaugural festivities that are just around the corner. It seems there is never enough time to get everything done. At times it just get so frustrating I want to scream. Woooosaaa!

The mind is a crazy thing!

I start my day with the intentions of only a little browsing in Georgetown specifically the Betsy Johnson store on M St. But i venture a little further than that. As i turn the corner of M & Wisconsin Avenue something says look up and what do a i see, a Gold Dome at the very top of what use to be the Farmers Merchants bank! My heart started to flutter as my mind went into a tizzy. "Atlanta" i wanted to scream! All of the images that were stored in the back of my memory banks come front and center like the rapidly flowing river. "All this time" i said to myself. Realizing I've been in Georgetown a trillion times since my trip to the A' in December and I never once noticed it. I'm still trying to figure out what made me look up. Hmmm?

Crazy situation!

So i'm walking through the medical/research building here @ Georgetown University when up comes this gentleman, wearing scrubs and a lab coat, and a little boy who i figured was his son. Anyway, a quick hello i give to the guy and his son, but i guess he wanted to hold a conversation and out he comes with " are you looking for a sugar daddy". I'm like "WTF", in my mind of course as my attention turns to the smile on this about 11 yr old boy's face. I say to the guy, chuckling @ his comment, "see you're putting bad thoughts in his head already". Then the guy states "oh he knows what a sugar daddy is". I was outraged inside. But the look on my face doesn't seem to stop him from talking. He preceding to say how it was a new year and he needed someone to talk too when his pager goes off, and that's when it really gets creepy! He started explaining how he hated holidays and weekends, his reason, because there were so many bodies that came in. I glanced at the name tag and looked for his title OMG! This dude works in the morgue! I almost puked right there!