holding champagne courtship at the chateau.

and then she got quite into hollywood classics.

Chateau marmont.
April 19. 2011.

the smoke bombs+laughter made our eyes water hard.

hope y'all had a magical merry holiday + i wish you an explosively awesome new years eve!!

we're ditching the new york new years brouhaha (IN MY NEW CAR!) to hang out in a lake house in the poconos!

what we've got on the agenda: eat loads of yummy marlow+daughters food, light a couple smoke bombs, wear sequins by the fire, take LOADS of fotos, drink this bottle of veuve and just get really fucking groovy.

i promise i will post more fotos soon. i just cleared 3,660 pics from iphoto-i.e. i've finally had a chance to upload all my digi pics from november+december...but i have to go dig my car out from under heaps of snow so my apologies but you'll have to wait a few days more:)

i don't know about you but my new years resolutions are stacking up: eat more fruit, make some more books, back up my digi jazz more frequently, jump rope, get rid of this vintage archive (lemme know if you'd like to make an appointment to go thru it;), +paint more frequently.
what are yours??

xxL

with eyes this salty, it's seemingly hard to get hit by a rainbow

my apologies for being completey absent in the blogland, but life came up.
in an upheaval,.

anyhoo, i'll fill you in after halloween...but in the meantime, here are some new scans from the last week.

p.s.
birthday week is hitting the streets.

santa fe->flagstaff->vegas->death valley?->san luis obispo->big sur->san fran!!!

take care+look forward to TONS of pictures when i return.
xL

take the money and run (who hoo hooo).

diptych by grant hamilton

so, i've got many many many fotos to share from this wild adventure i've been on for the last 2 weeks, from weddingtimes, to runways, to disneyland, to fireworks over the valley and so much space in between.
i've moved residences every 2 days for weeks+it's getting kind of craycray. no scratch that, it's just been a CRAZY couple of weeks.
i'll be back on the right coast as of thursday and will start jamming these fotos up.
sorry for the delay but i sure hope you've had a brilliant star spangled couple of days/weeks.
xL

he made it feel just like home.

now, i'm sorry for the lack of posts-of course i've got a plethora of fotos to share--but have had completely dodgy internet connections, if at all, throughout the entire trip...so hang tight-i promise to barrage you with imagery upon my return.
we say farewell to fes manana y hola madrid, our last stop before heading back home.

southern comfort+fur hats+free love, tweed+cocteau+pearls, gilded feather eyelashes+tomato can brassieres+duchampian dreams

sorry for the lack of blogging but i've been caught up in the land of the libros..

specifically, the MAJORLY awesome+incredibly inspired lives of three radical pre-feminist ladies who were full of unique mischief+singular ideas (janis joplin, gabrielle 'coco' chanel, and baroness elsa freytag-loringhoven- respectively)

so, if you are into fashion, art+the history of women in the past century--these are absolutely must reads!!! i give them all a+'s, in life and in text...i only hope to be half as inspiring to one person one day..seriously, these were some really astoundingly remarkable chicas.

wednesday, a day for conch fritters.

mumsa.

with sand castle (foreground) by favorite sister, beka (bug).

no time for blogging cause i've been busy with:

lala+big sur+ventura expedition'09 pics coming sooooon!

we played the penis game at the dinner table.

in other words-my sister+i had experienced some major regression over the weekend.. on vacay in martha's vineyard....(it really freaked our mother out--given that we are nearly 30+just 37 respectively;)

also, thanks mumsa!!!
we had a great time.
xobz

misty mountain hop.

(i.e. blog hiatus for the week)...
we're going downeast.. to eat lobsters, thrift, kayak, scrabble, foto, look at the stars, drink, eat+generally be merry.
we'll miss you.
xL

dress up+bro down

the purge party was a success, not a smash $uccess-but surely+truely a divine time for all who came...ginger cocktails, banter, trading, bestowing, buying, bowls, + dried cherries...
many more fotos to show you..but not now..now, all you get is this darling foto of my lady bringing the whiteheat of whitelightning to east billyburg..
apologies for the lack of fotos--you'll have to subsist on lots of virtual besos, for now..(you see, this was shot on mi senor's fancy pants camera+not my simple point+shoot, as it's still broken:(.. +well-it takes longer to upload+whatnot..)+i gotta go to bed as i got a wicked pinched nerve in my back 2 days ago+early flight out.
going to georgia manana for my mum's birthday+a visit with my grandfather+relatives+little lucas!..i'll be shooting loads of polaroids. hopefully, i'll show you some when i get back.
xL
p.s. i might shoot some kinda shotgun this weekend--stay tuned.

tinged by flourescents

these are the pics from the last travel day+i'm going to lala in less than an hour+haven't finished packing:)..the enthusiast+i are to see the lovely suzeQ's screening at LACMA+get our palm tree on..get stoked for further fotos to follow.
i think i might leave my laptop here, so apologies in advance for the lack of posts...i hope to get back to more frequent posts upon my return, as i have gotten a few complaints..
have a lovely week y'all.
xL

"tommorrow i will quit procrastinating"

(quote from a turquoise colored tshirt i bought on ebay a few years gone ago.)