everyone,
MY HOUSE IS EMPTY. THERE IS ONLY ONE THING LEFT IN MY HOUSE. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS? IT’S SUZY….. SUZY IS THE ONLY GREAT AMAZING THING IN MY SOON TO BE “OLD PLACE”…
by everyone, we’re (ME AND SUZY!!!) are going to venice beach… so i can get my last of the cheap sunglasses… and maybe tear up with my toes in the pacific ocean in december the last day of the year, my last day in los angeles, last days near the pacific. so many lasts.
Last day of the year, what Alex is doing. By Alexander.
YES! Suzy, you will be here in hours. I bet you wrote that last post before we spoke on the phone, but I know the foreign airport syndrome . I am very excited and relaxed about nearly everything… I only concern for my cat, who has never been on long car rides or moved houses before. And I concern for my truck packing time, I feel I made EVERYTHING. TOO. TOO. HEAVY.
This is my strange surrounding this day in time.
I don’t even have to bother with any New Years Resolutions, for my entire life and character is somewhat of one, and my surroundings as well. I do resolve to leave in each moment wherever I may be and to make the best of it and be healthy. That sounds so boring. I’ll have a glass of wine, too. Ok.
I think we will have a great party in the Hollywood Hills (adjacent) tomorrow night, and we will have a wonderful ride North to Virginia City, NV where the sun is shinning great and we can really see the other side. !
HAPPY HAPPY DAYS TO ALL… I will love you on the other side next week!
i am packing and am full of big rushes of energy!
alex– in hours i am making my way from southern maryland (a foreign country still to me) to baltimore (a foreign city to me– i may as well be on an eastern european tour) to board a PLANE to get to LAX!!! who-hoo. im finishing up all my last min. office work and modeling planning and unpacking my bag that i packed bc i think i just want to bring like four sweaters, a lovely dress for new yrs eve, and one pair of jeans. and, a bag of lingerie [for work] ; )
i want to make so many new years resolutions! i want a healthy life in all ways next year! i think i can do it, i am getting close to being pure!!! i have a nice positive boyfriend, i have my work life figured out for the time being, i have a choice of safe and good places to live. i think thats all i need! now i want to make more art and write more coherent things and sell many of my belongings and live sparsely and simply yet very fully. i think its going to happen in 09. i can feel good things coming. for one and all.
ok time to make oatmeal and then unpack repack send emails then be on my way! <3
and ps this is for everyone on new years eve. may none of us get to this point. (though, im sure we will.) 
we have been holiday-ing! {by suzy}
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/25/half-of-the-usa-is-covered-in-snow/
whoa!!
happy holidays everyone. we love you!
suzanne and alexander will be reunited in LA on tuesday! how happy is the entire world for THAT to happen??
we know, we know. you ALL are~! <3 coxoxoxoxoxo
well, thanks! : D
Suzy, check out “Some of the things they said were good for us..”
And re:below. You don’t ALWAYS have free will, sometimes SHIT HAPPENS and you gotta roll with it. But I must admit, I’d want to stab myself if I were stranded in such a public shopping area during this mad week.
The Week Magazine published 2008’s unusual GOOD FOR YOU LIST:
MAGNETS – Scientists demonstrated this year that magnetic fields increase blood flow and reduce swelling, It’s now possible to treat some bumps and with a magnet rather tan ice pack…
POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT boosts your brain power…..
CHARITY is good for the world AND your own self esteem and mood.
FASTING can help cancer patients deal with chemo… as well as jet lag: Research shows that when you don’t eat before and during an overnight flight, it suspends your body’s sense of time and once you land and eat a meal you reset your body’s clock…
BOTTLING UP YOUR FEELINGS is actually a useful strategy for getting over a traumatic event. Studies find that for some people, pushing away memories can be more therapeutic than talking about it..
MAGIC MUSHROOMS might just make you a happier, more spiritual person. John Hopkins researchers found that years after taking the hallucinogenic drug, subjects were still effected by their experience… 61% felt that they were better people- more loving, open, and happy…
GOOD SMELLS give you pleasant dreams.. even in deep sleep, the world around you can flavor the dream world. We need to start putting lavender lotion on our faces at night kids!
WHITE WINE is finally getting credit it deserves… It is found to contain the same heart protective chemicals as red.
So, hope that helps everyone. I’m trying to look at the list and consider how we throw a party to include it all… a white wine, mushroom party where we celebrate Obama’s win as we donate money to UNICEF and talk about the world and love but NOT about our personal problems. We don’t eat and we all go to sleep next to roses. And something with magnets.
HAHA.
I feel it would look something like THIS, and I LOVE ITTTTTT!!!!
suzy is: stranded in washington dc
ak,
hours in a starbucks in chinatown. bc i thought bolt bus went from dc to philly. but no, it doesnt. and amtrack is way the fuck outside of the city (i think), and, i am dedicated to taking the cheapest form of transportation i can. thus, im waiting for the next chinatown bus to come. 11:45. ive been here all morning, and im missing all my gigs in philly today. boo! canceling, rescheduling, having a cold and unproductive day so far. ugh. o. well.
thats the way it goes some days.
but, at least i get to go hang out w all the other people who forgot to buy some of their xmas gifts at some awful stores in nj and buy shit today. THAT should be fun. ; )
(tag with: cranky suzy, suzy is sick of buses, but suzy cant complain bc these are all things SHE set up for herself!, and, remember– you have free will suzy!!)
NYT, Booze, and Shoes… by alex
YES YES SUZY! I read that article online bout the lack of drunkeness in the NY socialite scene. Would you say it applies to your life? It seems a little strange, but I do get it. I noticed it as well in the Hollywood world. I missed out on the times of martini lunches and after-long-day-parties, etc. It reminds me of a person I met years before starting my time in the TV biz – I was seeing a guy who worked in advertising and we met in Napa where he was on a photo shoot. The guy doing hair for it all happened to have been one of the hair stylists on “Friends”. Of course I was in awe, this mini celeb factor excited me… I asked something about partying on the set and he replied, “No, no, I never have more than one drink at work related things, you just shouldn’t drink like that there.” I thought WHAT!?!?!? But alas, it was somewhat true in my experience. Yes there was some drunken times for most of us, but I did notice the industry itself was fairly sober. Yes, everyone drank but no one got drunk and no body smoked. LAME. Maybe THAT’S why I’m leaving. HAHA.
And, did you know the NYTIMES.com had a blog on alcohol and society anyway? Proof. Hmmm.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST>>>>>>>> THROW MORE SHOES AT W.
Check this site out…. we should ALL throw(send) a pair of shoes to George at the White House before he leaves!….
Send yourshoe to the man who should never havebeen our president. We encourage you to write down YOUR reason, put it in your old dirty shoe, and throw it via mail to:
“President” Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
getting on a bolt bus, to nj…
listening to the white stripes. aw i always forget that i like them a lot!
i am packing WAYYYY too much. they are going to charge me extra to ride the bus or something.
NY>NJ>PA>DC>MD>CA>NV <<<I need to pack for different situations in all of those places! AND bring f’ing xmas gifts w me! what the hell! one suitcase? no sorry. a suitcase and a big tote bag and a brooklyn industries bag (with a gift for leah) (i dont think leah reads this!) stuffed to the gills with others stuff.
ek. and i have to of course bring a few different dresses for new yrs eve to pick from, and a fab photographer i am going to shoot w in LA (sorry alex– something else to add to the list…) want me to bring ‘painter-like’ clothing. and is going to take pics of either me and ryan, or me and YOU!, [or all of us???!] in a loft in LA someone and have me painting. and probably getting undressed at some point. so now some ‘painter clothes’ have to go in the bag.
ugh.
where is my valet? or, my metaphysical abilities to just mentally send these STUPID MATERiAL THINGS over to where they have to be?
anyway::: on a more exciting note than my whining about packing… can YOU ME HEIDI and JILL and maybe JESSE and whoever else! JOHNATHON! JILL! etc etc etc can we all hang out in philly one night? i will be the happiest ever if that can happen. i really wish i had an apt there. i want to throw a party! does anyone want me to throw a party for them in philly?? there are so sosososo many people i want to drink with in the same room. drink dance smile and share. aw. yes. and, zipping my bags up after sitting on them, and, here i come.
LOVELOVE
interesting nyt article
its snowing. im not traveling in this. see you tomorrow loved ones. im catching up on long overdue reading tonight!
“Does fashion trump addiction?”
an article about how people dont get drunk and misbehave at nyc ’society’ parties any longer:
http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/drunkenfreude/?em
nope, not stopping
alex i love the pictures of your hometowne : )
in this age, as soon as we find telecommuting jobs to pay us a bit of money each month, i predict on the go for a very long time. i want to backpack through asia and india w you!! one of my new photographers traveled a lot and was telling me these amazing stories of a train that used to run from picadilly circus london to something circus india and it was $200 and all along the route was parties drugs sex and fun. they had to shut it down though in 1972 when russia took control of afganistan, and also when iran become unsafe to travel through. sad. we were born in the wrong time? or, we just have to find out where these things are now? i can never decided.
but, this, i need no decision-making time for.
it is the best sentence. “Because love is all there is (and love is enough).”
its from a site i just bought expensive underware from. and it made the purchase totally worth it. (hey, its my work clothes, sometimes!) (and actually, at other times, wearing it gets me through a day at the think tank!)
***speaking of: im not that into presents and such myself, and i think the past few xmases i got by w/out spending a great deal, but for some reason this yr i am buying tons of stuff for my family. not sure why but it feels nice! and conversely, it also feels like i def. have to model in reno to recoup some monies so that my bank account is not in a negative when i return!!!
xoxoxo dears. its raining here tons too alex if that makes you feel better.
i am off to an office party with a great ’secret santa’ gift that i got at the moma> 
and then to the dentist! ekk!
Dear Suzy, when will it stop?
IT WILL NEVER STOP!
“What?”
Oh, me; on-the-go-me.
Vagabond of sorts.
1: moving from place to place without a fixed home, wandering
2 a: of, relating to, or characteristic of a wanderer
b: leading an unsettled, irresponsible, or disreputable life
(I’m responsible!)
Anyway, its a very rainy Los Angeles week. Very rare but I just take a deep breathe and realize this is what I AM getting into, isn’t it now!?
Tomorrow morning I’m headed into Philadelphia. I keep having to think, “where and why am I going?” Because of my tendency not to spend much time in stores or watching much tv, in addition to being a single gay man in L.A., in addition to being TOTALLY preoccupied by CHANGE. MOVE. LEAVING HERE, GOING THERE… Well, Christmas has totally slipped of my radar. Which is fine, really. And I wrote my big bah humbug story this time last year, so no need to elaborate. I am not so much bah humbug, just living a pretty quiet life that doesn’t really involve shopping or eating meat and cake. Doesn’t that actually define most Holidays? Buying stuff and eating meat and cake. I think it is actually!
So my beloveds, enjoy the start of the best week of the year! (Because not many people have to work.) I will be in the beautiful Kutztown, PA for the weekend having celebrations that at the homestead in Roseto, PA for Xmasdays.
And you, SUZY, I will see just after that day here in LA. Too bad we couldn’t all drink gin and tonics on the same flight!
Tonight, I’ll be dreaming of airports, once again……..
…………this is my hometown, I’m starting to realize.
………….and this my house.
yes yes yes
ahh i just had a dreaded yearly review. and, it was stellar.
yes yes yes. (>> even a raise!)
i dont know why i worry about such things but i do.
but now the question… how much longer will i live in brooklyn and work in a highrise in busy midtown manhattan on madison avenue? how did this bohemian girl end up in such a weird life situation?
dayrunner accessories. by A
So, there are so many little things of interest that arise when you are packing your life up. Coincedentally, I was at stupid Staples today to get some boxes and I decided to pick up the 2009 refill for my Day Runner Planner.. I have had this same scruffy planner for years and continue to buy the blank monthly refills. When I took out the 2008 pages (I just use the “monthly view”) I bundled them together and wondered what to do with them? Toss em’? I remembered I saved the years before somewhere, and maybe even before that I had saved a “used” year. I started to poke around and found 2007s, then 2006 then 04 and 05. I guess I have been saving those 12 pages of paper each year somewhere different. I put them together and sat flipping through pages of my “monthly life view”, 2004 through now. The different jobs, trips, dates I am reminded of. When I met certain people, when they went away. When a job ended cause I see I set up interviews. And vacations… New Zealand. Mexico. Spain, London, all the trips. And when so many different friends have visited me on my journeys. ”Jill arrives on the 11th.”
With all the new crazy technology, as everything becomes digital, I’m so very glad I am keeping a very simple but REAL HARD testament to my goings on, even if they are just calendars of dates and times and places.
joshua tree and boxes, by alexander
HI SUZY! See you, see you soon! (And Ryan!) I love how you so deeply apologized to me for asking for a loose itinerary for your time here. I know I seem so anti-time/space, when it comes to packing/moving/life change, I’m fairly obsessive compulsive. I spend many hours planning out the most efficient plan of attack. Once your travel info came into my databases, we put together an extensive and detailed schedule…
Well, I happily survived just one night out in the Joshua Tree Desert, 2.5 hours east of Los Angeles. The temperatures were high of 50’s low of 25 degrees. YES, it was fucking COLD, FREEZING, KILLER at night and we survived only by fire, whiskey, and fun. It wasn’t too much warmer at 7am when I got up for the last bit of the sunrise. But walking around gets you warm and hiking through one of the most obscure landscapes I have ever scene is well worth it all. After homemade omelet and LOADS of bacon, we set out to see…. click to enlarge.
These adventures make me so, so, so excited to go be a mountain man in Oregon….
Speaking of ALL THAT… tomorrow night, anyone LAlove, please join me for a final evening in Los Angeles at BIGFOOT LODGE in Atwater Village..! (That’s Tuesday at 8)…
Life just gets stranger and stranger. I’m now back to the house, which doesn’t seem like home, and I’m starting to pack, box, shift, trash, delete, box, pack, carry, box all, all the STUFF. Isn’t it amazing how much STUFF there is, and how much of it really doesn’t matter. You never want to throw something out until you have to ask yourself: Do I like this enough to pack it in a box and pay to move it 1,000 miles. This is the furthest move I’ve made since Philly to Tahoe. And that was just my carfull. I actually enjoy doing this an getting in order. It reminds me of my love for the circus and carnival… my 3 year run in the LA circus has come to an end and now it’s time to pack up the tent and stage and rings and take it all apart and load it on a truck and send it off to a new show in a new city.
