Suzy: A revolution
What a beautiful evening it is. I hope that NY and LA and everywhere that everyone is is just as beautiful. It is the last day of September in San Francisco. SF experiences an Indian summer and this can often be the most pleasant time of the year. The fog that attacks in the summer months is what brought Mark Twain to say, “The coldest winter I ever saw was a summer in San Francisco.”
I’ve spent the day slowly walking the streets of the city. From Nob Hill into Union Square an then a slow stroll down through “SOMA” and into the Mission, my old home. I’m at my 3rd cafe of the day, taking breaks to sit in Delores Park or a great bookstore. There are some great bookstores around here and I wish I wasn’t already in the middle of so many other “reading projects” these days and all days. I look forward to retirement, I do!
I’m now at Revolution. A most energetic little spot on 22nd and near Mission. It’s full of all types and like most San Francisco cafes, they sell wine and beer and come the evening hours, that is what we’re having. I’m sipping a nice cold Fat Tire that must have been on Happy Hour at $3. I know some of NY has beer in coffee shops. But LA and Philly usually do not. What a shame.
Tell me about the fall evenings in Brooklyn!
suzy, i really really enjoyed
Hi Suzy, friends. It’s a cool, sunny afternoon in San Francisco and I am downtown at Cafe Bean sipping on a Sam Adams. I just treated myself to a movie and overpriced nachos that come with that delicious spicy yellow cheesey goop. MMMM. BURN WITHOUT READING is another crazed movie from the Cohen brothers and I loved it. All great actors and a hilarious view into the idiotic workings of the American government, of course. Brad Pitt is always great when he plays a goofy guy and I will never have enough of Francis McDormand. He, I even enjoyed George Clooney.
It’s been an ever so special visit in San Fran so far and I always feel home again. There’s nothing like walking the streets of a place so great.
See you in just a couple weeks!
letters from the bay area
hi suzy and all. i’m sitting in friends apartment on jones street in san francisco. sipping fat tire as well as espresso. i wish i could write to you in every moment. hiking in muir woods, thai food, bars, cabs, bars and house parties. i was in a friends apartment that i haven’t been to in maybe 2 years and it made me smile and laugh and feel like i never left. shortly headed up to the height and then onto ???
lynden is dancing behind me in the apartment, i can see his shadow.
there are 2 cats who make many funny noises and faces, to. die. for.
and tomorrow i’ll be lounging in delores park on a big blanket with champagne in hand and perhaps a fast stop at the folsom street fair – the countries largest lovefest founded by the diverse and wonderful fetish community…
what are your plans and where out here in october? we will swap coats, it will be great.
from the philadelphia R5 producations email
i still get this email from R5 producations, and even though i am rarely around to catch a show, it is good to read because A) a band i read about in the email may be coming though brooklyn, B) a friend of mine claimed it’s knowing what new bands are out there and connecting with them that keeps a person young (and he is 30something and seems 20some) [though another friend claims its kinky sex that keeps one young- and he seems young, too; maybe it is a combination?]
and C) the other best reason for reading the R5 upcoming shows email, even when i dont think i can get out to a show in that area, is stuff like this… how amazing does this sound!: “DAN DEACON’S ROUND ROBIN TOUR
(all of the bands will be arranged in a circle, each playing one song at a time in a circle, audience in the middle)
EYES NIGHT (Wednesday October 15th)
BEACH HOUSE (best new music sleepy time drone/psych/folky gaze from bmore. carpark)
JANA HUNTER (devendra banhart protégé. beautiful, haunted, quiet songs)
SANTA DADS (a duo who mostly just use vocals and beatboxing for their songs)
LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS (an all female acapella group from baltimore. carpark)
NAUTICAL ALMANIAC (heavy duty noise from baltimore. load records)
LIZZ KING (weirdo lo-fi female rap from, yup you guessed it – baltimore)
CREEPERS
WZT HEARTS (super sick baltimore pals blending free jazz, punk and electronics all into one stew)
ED SCHRADER (one man crazy person band and talk show host)
SAND CATS
(followed by one more night of a new line-up, same circle thing)
i love circles. as much as i groaned when college teachers made us sit in a circle in class, i now remember every teacher that had us do that as being really cool.
live on! new music, kinky sex, and circles!
(ps- am in nj. its pouring rain this weekend. alex, i feel like you and i are on a race to see who can be in the most cities that are near to where they live but NOT where they actually live. who is winning? i think we both will win when we swap coasts in oct and i am on the west and you are on the east at the same time.)
alexander is coming home!
or rather, to one of my favorite homes to date.
love love love it. i will find a quiet cafe in the mission to write to you from one day. otherwise, you all can find me flowing in the streets, and cabs, and parks and parties and people that make it such a san francisco treat.
(these i took upon first arrival (w/ jill) in fall 2004. wow.
i love that red wall, suzy.
and this wonderful statement also i love today,
This is now. Now is. Don’t posporn till then. Spend the spark of iron on stone. Sit at the head of the table; deep your spoon in the bowl. Seat yourself next your joy and have your awankened soul pour wine. Branches in the spring wind, easy dance of jasmine and cypress. Cloth for green robes has been cut from pure absence. You are the tailor, settled among his shop goods, quietly sewing. -Rumi
When are we going to create a new page, so you post all you like?!
I’m cleaning up my little cottage today and headed to San Francisco tomorrow. WOOOO!
suzanne’s pet peeves, concerning napkins
i hate when they give me 75 napkins with my take-out order.
but, i also hate when they give me none.
from someone related to my office job in someway
i got this email. looks interesting. check it out!
“Tomorrow is a very important day for me: my new book, You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet gets released.
Please order a copy and pass the word to everyone you know. It’s hugely helpful to get sales this first week. I’ve attached an e-card. And the link above will get you to Amazon.
The book will be featured on the Today Show Wednesday 9/24 during the 8 a.m. hour. And if you live in Los Angeles, come to Vroman’s in Pasadena Saturday 9/27 at 5 p.m. for a signing.”
oh yeah, alex, about suzanne lanza
hi alex.
yeah- there is a real deal professional model named suzanne lanza. she was on covers of magazines in the 80s, and a victoria secrets model for awhile. now i think she does some film. on more than a few occasions, people think i am her when i am responding to castings. its funny. im friends w ‘her’ on facebook. i think she lives in LA now, so, say hi if you see her.
and then, there is a woman named suzy lanza who is the leader of this athesist organization in new york city. ive had people email me and say “so i know you arent into organized religion, but i never thought i would see you quoted in the post talking about atheism!”
so, yes, all in love i am totally ungoogleable. esp considering i do much of my work under a sort of fake name (suzy loves). which i sort of like. to be ungoogleable. it will make it harder for the CIA to trap me. or, whatever. ; )
i thought this was interesting
Secret school network spreads in Myanmar
Political activists have established a network of schools that serve impoverished students and teach unofficial texts. For decades, the most reliable source of unofficial information has been smuggled books or underground discussion groups. Today, many go today to the American Center, a consulate branch that provides outside publications. The schools exist along the border with Thailand, in monasteries, and in jungles occupied by ethnic rebels. The Christian Science Monitor (9/22)
monday becomes eclectic.
morning suzanne…. what and how and where is your monday this week? (oh now that we have briefly chatted i know how your monday is, and you really needed another sunday, eh? enjoy your hangover nap.)
my kitchen has aromas of coffee and beets and grapefruit this morning. and i think
it’s a very interesting wonderful thing.
i’m boiling beets (which boil for a long time)… i may or may not include some chopped beets in this recipe,
Walnut Rosemary Quinoa
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 small onion
1-1/2 cups quinoa, rinsed in boiling water and drained
1 small red bell pepper, diced
3 cups water
1 tablespoon Tamari soy sauce (or to taste)
1 teaspoon fresh rosemary or 1/2 teaspoon dried
1 cup fresh or frozen peas, thawed if frozen
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 350. Heat oil in a medium saucepan; add onion and quinoa. Sauté over medium heat, stirring constantly for about 3 minutes. Add red bell pepper and sauté an additional 2 minutes. Add water, soy sauce, rosemary and peas (if using fresh peas).
Bring to a boil and cover; simmer 15 minutes or until water is absorbed. Meanwhile, roast walnuts in 350 oven for 5 to 10 minutes. When quinoa is cooked, turn off heat and mix in walnuts and frozen peas (if using frozen peas). Let sit an additional 10 minutes and serve.
which i am making for friends tonight – except instead of the soy sauce, i actually boil up the grains in water with miso paste added. it really does wonders ! and i skip the peas if i don’t have them fresh.
oh, i wanted to tell you that last night i had dinner in TRUCKEE, CA – truckee is a wonderful mountain town right over the NV border into CA. it is nestled just at the bottom of DONNER PASS, where the beloved donner party ate each other on a winter night in 1846. poor things.
anyway, truckee is just darling and we ate at a little delicious restaurant inside the truckee hotel that is sometimes frequented by paul mccartney, who has a place in truckee.
suzy, a saturday evening aural….
that is a little crazy, beautiful. yes, a young cute white boy acapella group sings crosby, stills, and nash’s HELPLESSLY HOPING. always been a favorite of mine since a group of friends and i circled the streets of san francisco perfecting this tune…. this is slightly better, somehow.
“They are one person,
they are two, alone.
They are three together,
they are for each other.”
GRAND!
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