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susan

Rules were made for the obedience of fools

About Me

hedonist with a short attention span
Check out my photography:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/pics.php?id=18793

My Interests

photography, art, soccer, travel, science, intellect, clairvoyance, fitness, healthy living, skiing, food, KCRW, "This American Life," feng shui, music, theatre, dance, voyeurism, rope, spirituality, warm summer nights, big city living.

I'd like to meet:

photographers, brains/nerds/mensa members, artists, athletes, non-smokers, other Capricorns, ppl with unusual hobbies, soccer players/fans, skiers, travelers, those who like food as much as I do, musicians, dreamers, connoisseurs, photogenic ppl who will let me take their picture, psychics, believers of Eastern philosophy
***Please note, that if you are a band or spammer and you spam me, I will click the spam link. It's nothing personal, I just don't like all this spam I've been getting.

Music:

goth, 80's mod, rock en espanol, EDM, dNb, rap, chillout, world, electro, tori amos, joni mitchell, cranes, death in vegas, astor piazolla, george sarah, kruder&dorfmeister, esthero, prince, timo maas, mecano, heroes del silencio, madonna, gershwin, NIN, bowie, beautiful south, mandalay, miss kittin, jill scott, ellen alien, bent, flogging molly.

Movies:

Foreign/Art/Indie films. Wong Kar Wai films. Better Than Chocolate, Kissing Jessica Stein, Loving Annabelle

Television:

TV sux. FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHERS: Andreas Gursky, Starn Twins, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon, James Nachtwey, Bill Brandt, Larry Sultan, Sabastiao Salgado, Irving Penn, Michael Kenna, Joel-Peter Witkin, Mona Kuhn

Books:

Mostly I'm a magazine whore, but books are cool too. Foreign Babes in Beijing, The Game, The Alchemist and Memoirs of a Geisha. Non-fiction books: The Artist's Way, 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Rich Dad Poor Dad, From Good to Great. Favorite Authors:Wharton, Conrad, Steinbeck, London, Garcia Marquez, and Suze Orman.

My Blog

Crossing paths again. His gift.

It hits me that I am the other woman when she kills herself. She hadn't known about me, and only years later had I been given a hint of her existence. So much time has passed that I neither recogniz...
Posted by susan on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:37:00 PST

nuit blanche

After a night of hunting for shit art, we are sitting at a cafe eating crepes with Nutella, banana, and coconut when we hear and see a bunch of riot police down the block. We can hear bottles breakin...
Posted by susan on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:17:00 PST

Do you ever wonder who's reading your blog?

Well, I do.  Sometimes I watch those numbers just soar.  I'll refresh the page to see the number jump and wonder who might be reading.  But I never really know who it is.  I look a...
Posted by susan on Mon, 07 May 2007 01:10:00 PST

Transitions

I am informed of his reappearance days before it happens. We are not friends in the traditional sense. Two years have passed since our last conversation and yet he finds me and wants to meet face to...
Posted by susan on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:58:00 PST

lost in the underworld

I descend into the subway where the dry heat and stench of piss remind me that I'm that much closer to hell. Derek tells me that on hot days the city turns into one big armpit. NYC is the only place I...
Posted by susan on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:55:00 PST

At least she gets to sit, and in the shade, even.

I've been busy following the heat of '06. The Bay Area is 100 when I leave for home. Once there, I experience LA's record-breaking 21 day stretch of 100+ temperatures. As a cooling trend nears, I am...
Posted by susan on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:32:00 PST

busted (a confession of sorts)

the alarm on my dash is going off and still i do nothing. my head is out in space somewhere floating with the Melissa Ethridge song that plays on the radio. I don't even like her that much. The loud...
Posted by susan on Mon, 08 May 2006 10:52:00 PST

a cloud of euphoria

I walk down 22nd street among the many commuters. I am unaffected by the cold city morning while I travel along the edge of perfection. While I breathe in the frigid air, the residual warmth from la...
Posted by susan on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:52:00 PST

i leave behind what no longer exists

our time is up when the cycle ends. i realize our journey together was more about my growth than his. he puts me down and i let him. he is angry that i am unaffected. when i return from the bathroom...
Posted by susan on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:48:00 PST

I am in love with Benny Tudino. Help!

My new favorite pizza place in all of the nyc/jersey area is Benny Tudino's. I went there tonight, last night, and over the weekend some time. It's very addicting. I went last night b/c in the middle ...
Posted by susan on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:46:00 PST