After I dropped Angela off at the airport, I made plans to go out with my girlfriends–whom I hadn’t had much time to see–and blow off some steam. In other words, we went to a wine bar in South Beach. The wine bar is called 555Bistro, maybe some of you have been there! It has a great vibe. We sat outside and the weather was beautiful; a little chilly for South Beach, but I was in a thin shirt and jeans–no complaints here! We drank a healthy amount of wine and as the heat lamps outside started to run out of gas, we started to freeze in the 60 degree weather. Whomp whomp whomp. That’s when we decided to head over to a local spot called, “the room.” It’s a cozy little watering hole.

We called it quits at an early morning hour, and I took a cab back home with the girls and a new neighbor I met earlier that day. I convinced my neighbor that I had to see the rooftop Club 50 on top of our building; so many people had boasted about to me, so I had to see what they we’re talking about. We took the elevator up to the 50th floor and I was sucked in immediately by the gorgeous infinity pools and Latin music. We called it a night soon after we arrived and before I shut my eyes, I made sure to put Club 50 on my, “top places to meet hot Latin men,” list. Oh yeh.

If you’re curious, I am including some pictures of my new apartment at the Viceroy, designed by renowned interior designer Kelly Wearstler. I am just so in love with the simplicity and the style. I feel so comfortable here, and I’m happy to call this home–for now!

I’ve been shooting video for you guys on my trip to Miami, and I am working on putting together a, “Model in Miami,” video series. I’m new to editing film, so be patient.

Hope you all are staying warm up north! Ta for now!

  Mujeres In the Club  by  MLEstyle

Being in the front row at the Wisin Y Yandel concert is mega exciting. You can feel the sweat dripping off of the singers and dancers, and everyone in the house is moving their hips and bouncing around to the strong Latin beat; it’s no wonder why their shows get so caliente!

So as I said before, mega exciting. Take my word for it. Now here’s the humor in it all. Yes, I was in the front row, and yes, I was at least a head taller than everyone at the concert! So you can imagine that I stuck out like a sore thumb! Note to self: When going to Latin concerts, wear flats. My natural height is 5’8″…now with heels (the kind that I wear), I’m 6’0″ or 6’1″. And that’s how tall my mystery man is too. So there we were, two towering people in the front row, and I was just waiting for the crowd to start yelling, “Down in front!! Down in front!!” Fortunately for us, that never happened!

Now, as some may know, I grew up with a French Stepfather. The closest Spanish speaking relatives that I have are Janette and Jasmine, who really aren’t blood related, but rather they’ve worked for my family for so long that I feel like I grew up with them. Needless to say, the ladies are so so so sweet and hardworking that they always make a concerted effort to speak to me in English. So, my Spanish is basically at the beginning of the beginner level. Encouraging.

With little or no knowledge of the Spanish language, I danced my butt off with a huge smile on my face, with my mystery man on my right and a group of middle school kids on my left, to songs that I later found out were saying things like, “tonight is the night for sex…” Uhhhhhh, OMG. Can you say, “Drew Barrymore in the movie Never Been Kissed when she’s dancing with the pink boa in between her legs on stage,” moment?? Kuuhhhraaaahhp. I’m sure the whole, “I’m waaay taller than everyone here at this concert and standing in the front row,” really helped the, “I’m dancing with a smile on my face to a song about having sex tonight, with middle school kids next to me,” scenario. What a debacle.

And as the concert and fun began to wind down, I realized that my ears were ringing unusually loud! Like, hello…I was nearing deaf. I turned to my mystery man and all too loudly exclaimed, “THIS CAN’T BE GOOD!!” And he put his finger over his lips and attempted to tell me, “Shhhh!” When all I heard was, “RiIiIiInNnNnNgGgGgG!!!” You know when you used to listen to your CD player (omg…that will date me in years to come!) with your headphones on, as you were trying to concurrently hold a conversation with someone else? And the first bit of feedback you always received was, “You’re talking too loud!” Well last night, for me, was one of those moments.

As my mystery man dropped me off, I told him to call me when he got back to his place. And he did. Except I couldn’t hear him!!! So after a struggling bedtime phone conversation, I called it a night and told him we’d talk in the morning, when my hearing would certainly be better. Right? Wrong.

How do deaf people wake up to their alarms in the morning???! I let my alarm go off for 10 minutes before I actually heard it. What an excuse to be late for work. It’s almost as bad as the old, “my dog ate my homework,” trick.

So it’s the morning after the concert, my hearing completely sucks, I’m trying to take phone calls at the office and it seems that I’ve asked every caller, “could you please speak louder,” and, “could you say that again, please?” My guess is I’ve used the word, “huuuhh?” in one morning alone, more than I would in several weeks. I’m deaf.

So as I spend all morning learning these:

And investing in a pair of these:

You can spend your time looking at these:

Now, because the drive home from the concert was a piece of cake and I have no great stories about driving down 95 South at midnight, let’s jump to the pictures! Remember, no cameras allowed in FedEx Field, so you get my BlackBerry camera phone pictures…. You lucky ducks! Enjoy!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photoshoot at the Warehouse. Tonight. With Angie and Jenny!

http://bit.ly/CrookedMonkey

Happy Sunday!!!

xoxoMLE

Photoshoot at the Warehouse. Tonight. With Angie and Jenny!

http://bit.ly/CrookedMonkey

Happy Sunday!!!

xoxoMLE

Proceeds from this evening’s event support student scholarships in Art and Visual Technology, Dance, Music, Theater, Arts Management, Computer Game Design and Film and Video Studies, and the Center for the Arts Great Performances at Mason Season.

Buy Tickets Now!

It’s important that we all support the community!! I hope to see you there!

Another event where fashionable is in. And fashionably late is…OUT! You have got to be there on time to see these musicians perform; I went to this event last year and speaking from experience, the performances will blow your mind!

xoxo,

MLE

Proceeds from this evening’s event support student scholarships in Art and Visual Technology, Dance, Music, Theater, Arts Management, Computer Game Design and Film and Video Studies, and the Center for the Arts Great Performances at Mason Season.

Buy Tickets Now!

It’s important that we all support the community!! I hope to see you there!

Another event where fashionable is in. And fashionably late is…OUT! You have got to be there on time to see these musicians perform; I went to this event last year and speaking from experience, the performances will blow your mind!

xoxo,

MLE

For those who choose to embrace the journey and pursue their dream, this post is for you.

When I listen to the R&B artist, Maxwell, talk about his journey through the production of his new CD, BLACKsummers’night, I feel so emotionally connected with the way that he pointedly articulates exactly what he feels through his song.

It seems that all too often, music is produced for money and well, money. Rightfully so, but on occasion, I come across an artist that really does a bang-up job of delivering their fresh produce. And when I find them, I get the same feeling that I had when I found my metallic-gold leather Chanel skirt from a resale store in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It feels like this: My heart pumps faster, my body temperature quickly warms, and my cheeks blush to a rosey-pink, leaving the physical evidence that no makeup can cover; evidence that what I found is truly one-of-a-kind, a real hidden gem!

Although Maxwell communicates as a musician, his organic thoughts and his, “It is what it is, take it or leave it,” hard-working attitude is feverishly contagious. He composes and produces his album strictly by the raw nature of his emotions (always emphasizing the importance of being in the moment), Maxwell’s humble character along with his unduly passion to share his story stirs up the perfect recipe for his personal success.

Maxwell’s brilliant delivery of his simple yet mystifyingly descriptive lyrics, laces our boots up and passionately marches us through the mountainous ups and downs of the journey through his relationships, rejection, and the pursuit of happiness. With that said, it is all-to-easy to find the connection between his journey and OUR JOURNEY. This is about the PURSUIT of YOUR DREAM. This is about the JOURNEY to YOUR UTOPIA.

Inspiring and beautifully motivating, the R&B musician, Maxwell, says it best:



“In the beginning you know I always wanted to make things perfect. Perfection’s a process, and that process is a few mistakes along the way, that end up in hindsight becoming perfection. I’ve learned that the lesson is you live first, you create after. That’s the best order for me. On this album I know that, really well, I don’t need everything to be completely in pitch or in whatever, If the emotion is right, then, then it’s right. At this time in my life I can only do what makes me happy inside, creatively. That’s what I love about this record because I’ve had few years to go up and down in terms of life and u know, relationships, just making hard decisions and becoming a man, basically. I feel like there’s something really…special around this, for some reason. I definitely feel its difference… I think it comes from u know being a grown man now and not being a guy who’s sketching out and his masculinity and his identity through his manhood but like, being there, and writing from a place where my most of my most favorite records from my most, you know, from people that I love the most, it’s from when they were in the prime of there lives that they could express the greatest experience on wax, vinyl, wave form.”

“We’re basically on the road to being finished. This is what it is. Now you have to just finish it completely with whatever you’re gonna get back from the musicians that have come in. Now you have to really kind of, you know, live up to the dream of what you were promising everyone. What did you promise everyone??? Every musician, every painter, every director, whatever you are, your first moment when everyone just looks up, to see who you are…is…a promise. So I feel like I’m in sync with what that promise is. I just hope that we bring a lot of joy to people who need something at this time, when I think art is very, very, important. People need something that they can feel again, that they can really emotionally feel. I, you know, as simple as it is, I hope people like it. ”

-Maxwell on his new album (Deluxe version), BLACKsummers’night.

What’s my perspective on it all? It’s not about knowing your “personal recipe,” but rather finding it along your journey.

And what’s enlightening about it? As we journey through life, we knowingly chase the idea of perfection, believing that it’s achievable. What we must understand about perfection: We can never get there without abandoning all judgment.

So, to appropriately illustrate the foundation and building blocks to success and happiness, I’ll use a quote straight from the $30,000 Paul Wall grill of rap artist Rocko, who succinctly puts it, “You do you, umma do me.”

…And he’s so right. I believe that success can be defined by the enjoyment that you get from “doing you.” Which begs the questions, “What is ME?” Well, that’s what the journey’s all about. YOU.

MLE’s resolution: Keep exploring. Keep learning. Keep trying new things and experiencing new cultures. I know that the seeds you plant along your journey can grow into something greater than multimillion-dollar government contracts, an unsettling divorce, and the thought of buying love instead of sharing it.

Now let’s wrap this package up:

Dear Mr. Drizzy Drake,

We all just want to be so successful like, Adele at age 19. And though at times we feel like we’re Chasing Pavement and we’re sick and Tired of getting the Cold Shoulder, Usher would agree that when we look back, we’ll find that we’ve been Moving Mountains the whole time.

xoxo,

MLE

For those who choose to embrace the journey and pursue their dream, this post is for you.

When I listen to the R&B artist, Maxwell, talk about his journey through the production of his new CD, BLACKsummers’night, I feel so emotionally connected with the way that he pointedly articulates exactly what he feels through his song.

It seems that all too often, music is produced for money and well, money. Rightfully so, but on occasion, I come across an artist that really does a bang-up job of delivering their fresh produce. And when I find them, I get the same feeling that I had when I found my metallic-gold leather Chanel skirt from a resale store in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It feels like this: My heart pumps faster, my body temperature quickly warms, and my cheeks blush to a rosey-pink, leaving the physical evidence that no makeup can cover; evidence that what I found is truly one-of-a-kind, a real hidden gem!

Although Maxwell communicates as a musician, his organic thoughts and his, “It is what it is, take it or leave it,” hard-working attitude is feverishly contagious. He composes and produces his album strictly by the raw nature of his emotions (always emphasizing the importance of being in the moment), Maxwell’s humble character along with his unduly passion to share his story stirs up the perfect recipe for his personal success.

Maxwell’s brilliant delivery of his simple yet mystifyingly descriptive lyrics, laces our boots up and passionately marches us through the mountainous ups and downs of the journey through his relationships, rejection, and the pursuit of happiness. With that said, it is all-to-easy to find the connection between his journey and OUR JOURNEY. This is about the PURSUIT of YOUR DREAM. This is about the JOURNEY to YOUR UTOPIA.

Inspiring and beautifully motivating, the R&B musician, Maxwell, says it best:



“In the beginning you know I always wanted to make things perfect. Perfection’s a process, and that process is a few mistakes along the way, that end up in hindsight becoming perfection. I’ve learned that the lesson is you live first, you create after. That’s the best order for me. On this album I know that, really well, I don’t need everything to be completely in pitch or in whatever, If the emotion is right, then, then it’s right. At this time in my life I can only do what makes me happy inside, creatively. That’s what I love about this record because I’ve had few years to go up and down in terms of life and u know, relationships, just making hard decisions and becoming a man, basically. I feel like there’s something really…special around this, for some reason. I definitely feel its difference… I think it comes from u know being a grown man now and not being a guy who’s sketching out and his masculinity and his identity through his manhood but like, being there, and writing from a place where my most of my most favorite records from my most, you know, from people that I love the most, it’s from when they were in the prime of there lives that they could express the greatest experience on wax, vinyl, wave form.”

“We’re basically on the road to being finished. This is what it is. Now you have to just finish it completely with whatever you’re gonna get back from the musicians that have come in. Now you have to really kind of, you know, live up to the dream of what you were promising everyone. What did you promise everyone??? Every musician, every painter, every director, whatever you are, your first moment when everyone just looks up, to see who you are…is…a promise. So I feel like I’m in sync with what that promise is. I just hope that we bring a lot of joy to people who need something at this time, when I think art is very, very, important. People need something that they can feel again, that they can really emotionally feel. I, you know, as simple as it is, I hope people like it. ”

-Maxwell on his new album (Deluxe version), BLACKsummers’night.

What’s my perspective on it all? It’s not about knowing your “personal recipe,” but rather finding it along your journey.

And what’s enlightening about it? As we journey through life, we knowingly chase the idea of perfection, believing that it’s achievable. What we must understand about perfection: We can never get there without abandoning all judgment.

So, to appropriately illustrate the foundation and building blocks to success and happiness, I’ll use a quote straight from the $30,000 Paul Wall grill of rap artist Rocko, who succinctly puts it, “You do you, umma do me.”

…And he’s so right. I believe that success can be defined by the enjoyment that you get from “doing you.” Which begs the questions, “What is ME?” Well, that’s what the journey’s all about. YOU.

MLE’s resolution: Keep exploring. Keep learning. Keep trying new things and experiencing new cultures. I know that the seeds you plant along your journey can grow into something greater than multimillion-dollar government contracts, an unsettling divorce, and the thought of buying love instead of sharing it.

Now let’s wrap this package up:

Dear Mr. Drizzy Drake,

We all just want to be so successful like, Adele at age 19. And though at times we feel like we’re Chasing Pavement and we’re sick and Tired of getting the Cold Shoulder, Usher would agree that when we look back, we’ll find that we’ve been Moving Mountains the whole time.

xoxo,

MLE