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Jul. 5th, 2008 @ 09:04 pm So much in so little time...
Current Mood: Rockn
Shannon we miss you so much. You are so amazing and have touched us all. We are all so proud of you. Your courage will help us move on.

August 2nd I am happy to announce my SUPER DOPE hip hop band Show Me Tiger will be performing at Shannon's benefit. I am honored to be able to perform in her honor www.myspace.com/showmetiger

I am missing the huge women's spoken word event tonight because I am at work and I am very sad about that. I have been calling off sick for cool creative events too often lately and now I have to be a bit responsible which is unfortunate. The good thing is there are lots of things that I want to call off sick for.

On tuesday I will be headed to Seattle. I perform there at the TOST lounge on Wednesday and I have 2 gigs in vancouver on the 14th and 16th. Check out www.myspace.com/suzylafollette if you haven't already become my friend. I am trying to get back on the horse again and I need your help. I haven't done much spoken word in the past 2 and a half years or so and this is awesome! The kids from Vancouver hit me up to perform at their BIG GAY slam and I had to jump on it. Now I have 3 new pieces (only one committed to memory right now) and am rehearsing some good ol favs.

By the time I hit the pacific northwest I will have a demo of 3 songs from Show Me Tiger! and some phat stickers that Dacia designed.



Can't wait! I am ready to spread Tiger love all around.

I am remembering how hard it is to memorize pieces. Plus my new pieces are running over 4 minutes cuz I don't give a FUCK anymore and they are HARD! I may be on page more than I would like. But yes, I did write one about firefighting...well about being a firefighter...well about one of the DRAMATIC aspects of being a firefighter...there is actually no fire involved in it at all...hmmmmm doesn't THAT make you curious?? If I wrote a poem about all the shit that I love about my job it would be all ass jokes, flour bombs to your face while sleeping, singing songs in the headsets on the way back from calls, scaring each other around corners when it's 3am, bad Spanglish jokes, Sonic cherry limeades, and fire...well fire is just fucking cool and always will be. Maybe I should write that poem and do it right next to the dramatic one....yeah...got some ideas.

Thanks for listening.

Oh and check out my sister's live journal page. She is hilarious and she is in Dubai right now! WHAT? Yeah...Dubai... http://mlafollette.livejournal.com

Peace
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Mar. 6th, 2008 @ 03:22 pm FuseBox
Hey does anyone here in Austin have a contact with the festival Fusebox?? my good buddy Logan Phillips that currently lives in Mexico is touring here with his spoken word group Verbobala they do what the called Spoken Video and it's live performance with video/music/poetry/costumes/english/spanish and if you like Logan's poetry this is even better. Anyway they are trying to book a gig at this FuseBox festival and can't get a response from anyone. Does anyone have the hook up to get them a spot?? Let me know. If not they are trying to be here in the first couple weeks of May if anyone has any other gigs that you think they would rock at let me know. You can check out the stuff at his website www.dirtyverbs.com

Thanks Ya'll

-Suzy
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Nov. 27th, 2007 @ 11:38 am The Calendar
I know that every single one of you that reads my journal is dying to have a calendar with my picture in it so you can fantasize about me for the full month of October 2008. Now, really what a better way to spend the month or October anyway.



Here's a little sample. Just think there are 11 more months of hot ladies in this calendar and the money goes to families whose homes have been destroyed due to fire.

Hit up this website and get one for yourself, or a gift...
http://austinfirefighterscalendar.com/
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Nov. 2nd, 2007 @ 09:17 pm Fight Club
Current Location: my ginormous bed
Current Mood: stoked!
Current Music: Brynn chewing who knows what


For the past 5-6 months now I have been studying mixed martial arts or MMA as those in the biz call it. I just got my first black eye from Jujitsu and had to document it to share with the world. Boy did I get some strange looks at Whole Foods today. There was this big guy that smiled at me real big at the check out counter. He was smiling like he knew what I did last night. I almost thought he was a guy that I wrestled so I had to double take...but no...he just looked straight through me and he knew...he must be the member of some elite underground fight club in Austin...
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Oct. 18th, 2007 @ 03:05 pm public entry
Current Location: my couch
Current Mood: Slightly Hungover
Current Music: The Sounds
What's up y'all? I swear, I haven't been posting things publicly for such a long time. When I was in Albuquerque for nationals in 05 I met this girl for the first time and she said, "I have been reading your journal and you seem really down lately." That freaked me out so bad I stopped posting all together. That's a little extreme but it made me realize how public all this is. When you start and no one is reading your journal you can write in it like it's really a diary but all that changes when you end with so many friends. Ah, but there is no need to hide anymore. Really.

I am settling into my job and trying to get along with those that I work with. We are in such close quarters for 24 hours that it can be tough. I also work with a gang of Redneck Republicans that not only have very strong right extremist beliefs but talk loudly about those beliefs constantly. They like to watch US soldiers killing Iraqis on line, which I didn't realize but is very available. Interesting. I have lived so long in my perfect liberal bubble that hearing them has really thrown me for a loop. I don't really care what anyone believes but now I am sick of hearing it. I have never been around people that talk about politics non stop, or maybe I notice it more because I couldn't disagree with them more. Any suggestions on how to handle this?

I think I need to get back on stage. I can't explain how much I miss it.

Andrea and I are getting ready to celebrate our 5 year anniversary and are very excited!

Austin is coming out with it's first all female firefighters calender. They asked me to be in it and we just finished the group shot for the cover yesterday. It's a relief to have it over with. The launch is November 16 at Grand Central Station in Plfugerville. I figure not many of you are going to make that drive so I will let you know when and where the events are gonna happen here in Austin.
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Feb. 20th, 2007 @ 11:44 am Hey Ya'll I'm Back...
Current Mood: energetic
Current Music: Cat Power
I feel as if I have just submerge from the great murky waters of the Austin Fire Dept's training Academy. No, I didn't fuck it up and yes, I graduated recently. No, I am not a for real firefighter yet, I still have to finish 6 months of Probationary training but I am working as a firefighter. I am stationed at station 7 on 2nd and Chicon. I have had about 4 shifts so far and things are going really well. No fire yet but I am getting much better at running medical calls. Our station is really busy and we run calls on all of the great and amazing different characters that walk the streets of the East Side. As you can imagine, it's great fun and there are all sorts of wonderful new scents that I have never before encountered.

I am slowly gaining my life back life a Coma patient waking after a six month stint of nightmares. Soon I will be heading back to the good old Ego's slam. I am excited to see everyone again and hear some new work...I hope. I won't be performing anytime soon, that to I must slowly regain...like a Stroke victim learning to speak again. But I can't wait to sit back, enjoy a Lonestar, see many good friends and hear some poetry. Thanks to all those that have given me encouraging words this past six months, you will never know how much I appreciate it.
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May. 3rd, 2006 @ 07:38 am Strange Request...
Does anyone out there have a land line that I could use on Tuesday evening, May 9th for a couple hours? If so, let me know, I will buy you coffee or lunch or something for a trade...I am in dire need.

-Suzy
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Mar. 25th, 2006 @ 07:01 pm The written is over..
After a few months of study every material and website I could get my hands on, I took the firefighter exam today. There was a gaggle of overworked chest muscles framed by very small T-shirts and flat-tops. It was a sight. I am pretty sure there were a few thousand people there, not sure exactly. I am also pretty sure that at least 90% of the people there like to sleep with women. Although I am sure that there are a few Brokeback types that I am all to unaware of. It would have been a great place to for straight women to hook up, queer women too, now that I think of it. "Hey, wanna try my workout program? Even if you can't pass the physical, I'm guaranteed to get physical, huh huh." I think I was very successful. The majority of the test was situational and ethical problems that are impossible to study for and I hope that my answers gave them what they wanted. I will find out on April 4th what my score was and on April 7th I will find out if I will continue in the process. Thanks for all those that were sending me good vibes.
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Mar. 7th, 2006 @ 02:50 pm Contact me...
This is such bad timing but my e-mail is down due to website complications that no one wants to hear about. (right Big Poppa?) So, e-mail me here until further notice friends. Thanks.

sue082@hotmail.com
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Feb. 6th, 2006 @ 02:47 pm iNDIES
Hey, does anyone have the full scoop on indies...i.e who the hell won? Plus, maybe the list of the top 12 that went to finals? I know it may be old news but hook a sister up.
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Nov. 22nd, 2005 @ 06:54 am Romantic Fall
In Austin the cold fronts are starting to finally take hold. The leaves are turning and falling rapidly, in what seems like one consecutive moment. Most cities cry when the weather turns cold and living things turn brown to die but here there is celebration and fun hats, pumpkin cookies and cuddles. It's about time.
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Nov. 6th, 2005 @ 12:11 am KKK two blocks from my apartment...and Tony Jackson's
So they were here today. They weren't wearing hoods and there were about a dozen of them. They were wearing black T-shirts with Confederate flag bandannas over their mouths. The words that spewed from thier mouths proved that they should hide themselves in shame. They made a showing to support a Texas amendment to make marriage "between a man and a woman." The protesters had no problem showing their faces and some of them their asses...ahem...Christopher Lee. There were 280 protesters for every Klan member that showed up. Their demonstration was going to last two hours and lasted nothing but twenty minutes. There were over three thousand people there protesting non-violently. The press keep digging for the single incident when one person got to close to another person's face and they had to play cop but it was peaceful. They may have fondled their nightsticks in anticipation but nothing happened. The gays and supporters proved to be just another tease and the KKK was rejected, shot out of Austin like an anal bead.

If you live in Texas vote on the 8th. Vote no on Prop #2 it's the best thing you can do. Prop #2 smells like doo. Poo on prop #2. If that helps you remember.


The events are not over. Join the rally at 1:30 at the Capitol tomorrow for music and speakers. Tell all your friends to vote.

And...like...call me.
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Oct. 29th, 2005 @ 12:03 am (no subject)
I just met Bill Clinton, served him guacamole and shook his hand. I JUST MET BILL CLINTON!
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Oct. 24th, 2005 @ 02:54 pm (no subject)
people like you keep people like me from looking bad in a place like this.
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Oct. 18th, 2005 @ 01:05 pm Update..
Current Mood: :)
Current Music: NPR
I know I have been hiding out. I know I haven't posted anything public in a while and that you all are just foaming at the mouth to hear all the heated details of my adventurous life. Okay, here:

I went to the gynecologist today. She was inspirational. I think I want to take up a writing projects on abortion rights. Now is the time. I feel sore...ahem.

Andrea and I are celebrating our three year anniversary! Yeehaw. We are going to The Crossings to have a day of spiritual and physical cleansing. We will hike on their trails, go to a yoga class, have a dual partner massage with aromatherapy, soak in their hot tub, roast in their sauna, maybe splash in the cool dip and come home to sleep in our own bed. That is our anniversary gift to each other. We are both very excited and feel the pampering will be well deserved. Andrea wonders if we can hold hands while we get a massage...how cute is that?

I just had a stroke of financial luck. I was part of a law suit against a company I used to work for that forced us to work overtime with no pay. Well, now they are paying for it and then some. I received two big fat checks just the other day. One for back wages and one for interest and damages. It was like a "get-out-of-debt-free-card." How often do you come across those in this game of life?

No I haven't been at the slams lately. No, I haven't been performing and YES! I am okay! I am working diligently on my portfolio for grad schools. I will be applying for school in January. I am researching programs trying to find the best one for me while writing on a schedule as best I can every day. I want to study creative non-fiction which is a bit of a stretch for me. So, I have been studying and writing and reading as much as I can.

There's your bone ya'll. Bite down.
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Oct. 10th, 2005 @ 03:10 pm (no subject)
Take this day of disaster
power blasted with guitar chords
hum
we all hum
under grey clouds and a cool breeze
today
squeezed tight by the blanket of humidity.
We medicate:
pen
keyboard
Zeigen Bock
chillum
deep breath
PJ Harvey
stretch

We stretch disbelief
to meet at the yellow dash lines
with reality
to admit
that it's happening.
It's happening.

You don't want to see it
keep disbelieving.
It's still happening.

It's happening in flashes
long seconds poised on faces
that tell you how awful it is
silently.
Watch history in glances.
It's happening.

What is it?

Take another sip, baby take another sip,
deep breath and a stretch
turn up the music a bit.
Because between these walls there is yoga
outside is chaos.
Right here there is food
there is water
there is fear
there is television
and history I catch in passing glances
it flashes
through disasters
I wonder how long I can disbelieve
when it's happening.
What was said
is happening.
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Sep. 19th, 2005 @ 09:25 pm the two step...in what direction?
Focus. It's changed entirely. I have found myself turning to writing in prose again. It's a beautiful thing. This year's nationals was exactly what I needed, just like I thought, to place me right where I want to be. Except, I didn't know where I needed to be until now.

I am writing a great deal, reading and researching MFA programs in prose, specifically creative non fiction. By this time next year I hope to be taking classes. It's falling into place and I couldn't be happier. As for the stage...don't really have time. Must focus on the now.
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Sep. 19th, 2005 @ 04:50 pm Of My Soul for Angela
Of My Soul
by Suzy La Follette
(posted for forensics usage)

I wanted to write you a love poem.
A poem that would make your heart pound at a poetry slam
and make everyone else in the room
puke.

They would know I was talking about you
because I would point at you,
search your eyes,
take a deep breath,
touch my chest and say that you are the beauty of my soul,
no you are the throbbing aorta of my soul.

In fact every line of the poem I was going to write you
would end with the phrase “of my soul.”
That is precisely how a perfect love poem is written.

Yes I would include hand holding
and creatively enhanced memories
like our first kiss at sunset
on Valentine’s day
at the top of a picture postcard mountain
when we were drinking vintage wine
and sharing a blanket.
I would read this and you would swoon
like you were the partridge in the pair tree
of my soul.

When the true story is we met at a bar
and I was trashed.
I mean I was so wasted that I leaned up against you for support
and you kissed me,
but I wouldn’t include that in my love poem.

I would tell you that I love you
for the first time
and then pause...
as if the words were tearing the very seam
of my soul.

But love wouldn’t come until the very end of the poem
because I would build an intensity of heart felt words
bled onto paper from the very darkness of my soul
and it would touch your heart so gingerly that you would want to drown
in the ocean of my soul.

Oh pumpkin pudding,
I would tell you that I have never felt this way before
just like I said to someone else a month ago
and that your kiss is like the tip of an eagles wing
and it sets me free to fly amongst the clouds
of my soul.

Your touch, melts in my mouth and in my hand.
Yes, you have penetrated the thin candy shell of my soul.
Oh and angels!
There would have to be angels, right?
Dancing or flying
or curing some venereal disease that I was infected with before I met you.
Before your love enhanced the immune system of my soul.

Yes, dumpling muff I was going to write you a love poem
until I realized that no simple letters
dancing on paper could possibly describe the music that you are
to my soul.
So, I hope you don’t mind I am not a romantic poet
but take me home and maybe I will show you the bedroom of my soul.

**had to edit. posted unedited version on accident**
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Sep. 18th, 2005 @ 09:24 am What I would really like to say to the Parole Board...
Sunday, September 18th, 2005
Dear Parole Board,

I am writing this support letter for your attention to Andrew B. Carroll’s marijuana addiction. I will assume full responsibility in supplying him with the best high grade kind bud available only in Austin, Texas. Mr. Carroll has already accumulated over 15 months of time in prison and has since then I have accumulated over 3 pounds of good shit in my freezer. He has completed all areas of therapy including: Marijuana rehabilitation program, which took three days because it doesn’t fucking exist! Due to short term memory loss he has since forgotten all areas of instruction.

It is apparent Mr. Carroll has assumed full responsibility for smoking, growing, selling and distributing only the finest green herbs available on the planet, which brought him to be incarcerated in the first place. Despite the prison system’s brainwashing tactics Andrew Carroll has held steadfastly to the ideals of substance abuse and the freedom to do so in our great country. God Bless America! Treatment through the prison system has given him the opportunity to meet lots of drug lords, child molesters and the like who will simply help him network upon release. We now have plans to create a Marijuana empire and you have supplied us with the tools to do so.

Mr. Carroll has a greater awareness of Marijuana and is prepared to do what it takes to continue in the success of his new business. Andrew Carroll has an enormous network of addicts who are willing and ready to assist, guide and support him upon his release. His daughter, sister, mother and father all deserve to have good shit available in their daily lives and are all prepared to offer him the use of their paraphernalia including but not limited to: water pipes, papers, vaporizers, brownie mix, bubblers, pipes and the like. This will insure that he will be a more productive business owner in this country.

I thank you for your time and consideration.


Sincerely,

Smiley Face Buds Inc.
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Sep. 14th, 2005 @ 11:33 am Yeehaw Mary Fons!
I got my shift covered tonight so that I can see Mary Fons rock the mike at Ego's and I suggest you do the same, if necessary. You may have seen her in ABQ hosting the women's showcase rockin' it! Or on the Wicker Park team rockn' it! I met her in Chicago when I featured at the Green Mill she was hosting as Marc Smith was away and she was amazing. It was love at first sight. Talk about performance! This woman transcends what you think of performance poetry. I don't care what you have to do tonight, make it to Ego's and bring an extra $5 or so because you are going to want her book! I will see you there! Krissi and I are going to go pick her up and chow some great Mexican food this afternoon. Welcome to Austin Mary!
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