Weekend Run Down!

Whoa what a weekend. Coming off of MTL celebrations for New Year's only to get back into the thick of it for the first official 2009 weekend in Toronto.

Word on the street Wayne Warner's event at Lobby Friday night was a nice vibe. A lot of beautiful looking people (as per quota) and Obama poster posting. For all those who follow you know what I am talking about (wink).

I actually made it out to Toika for Junior's FREE post-New Year's gathering with Starting from Scratch. Felt like I was back in MTL again (which just so happens to be Scratch's home town). Not too many people, but if you stuff them in a 500 square-foot room it makes for quite an evening to move around. Too much house music for me, but one thing's for sure Scratch is one ver-sa-tile baddddd ummm hmmm.

After, tried to make it out to Ashley Barnes Low-Key Birthday Soiree at Dragon-I. It was about 1:30 am and still the venue was at capacity. We were told by the bouncer that if we wanted to wait around then we could. -15 whattt??? Umm hell no! Sorry girl I tried.

Now Saturday, one of the most anticipated events of the new year Ian Espinet's The One Birthday Celebration at 6 Degrees. Reached there with the crew at 12:00 am. The line-up was CRAZY. Weaving in and out of the club's covered garage all up Yonge Street. Felt like I was waiting in line to ride the Behemoth. Yeah it was like that! Once we got in though, the place was packed to the rim. I seen people literally hanging off the railings of the stair case. A few blips through out the night, one fine young man thought it would be cool to throw his bucket of ice cubes on some chick right in the middle of the dance floor. Seriously, who does that? Straight ignorance!

Due to capacity issues line-ups were common for all services... dance floor, bar, washroom, coat check, 1st floor, 2nd floor... I think you get the picture. The urgency of just trying to get from the bar to the dance floor when "your" song comes on, took a good 15 minutes of pushing through herds of people... just HILARIOUS! The DJ line-up was covered by all genres from Hip-Hop to R&B, to Soca then Reggae and even the W/P-music. Lindo P threw on the Pink and it was over. A lot of familiar faces in the crowd (I love all my Toronto people). The party hands down was off-the-hook... Happy Birthday Ian! You deserve it.