I've been really thinking about moving to Louisiana lately. I love Toronto. But, Lousiana is my family. It's background. It's just personal.
I've always thought about it because thats where my mom comes from. That's where the bulk of my family is. But I had been seduced by all the shinyness that is TO. I thought I wanted to move to Toronto, turns out I just want to go there alot. Shopping wouldn't be as fun without changing US monies to Canadian.
I think being in a city that is physical heritage for me being here is very alluring.
It's like being closer to Brazil, closer to Africa.
Drew wants to move there.
He just loves it down there.
I'm trying to find him cooking schools in NO.
We need out of Detroit.
I'm gonna try to join the SG Louisiana group to see how life is down there by the people who live there.
Basically I just dont care to live in New York or LA.
I don't want to be famous, I just want to go somewhere and do makeup. That's all.
That leaves me to want to be able to live where I want, because it means something to me. Maybe I will live in TO one day. I just don't want to be anchored in one place just because models live there or movies or shot there.
I don't like feeling like, if I don't live here I will have no job.
I don't want to feel trapped. I see people who think they are trapped everyday and it kills me to think that it could happend one day.
Up, up and away.
On a lighter note, me and one of my best friends David relived one of our favorite collage day pastimes: Driving into the middle of nowhere. The michigan folks will get this. He picked me up in the D. On the eastside, by GrossePoint and we hung out in Eastpoint/Roseville at Trixie's. And after we left there we drove a little ways to St. Claire Shores and just kept going til we had gone past the Selfridge base. It started to look like we were in the movie Deliverance, but with water.
Turns out we had drove all the way to Algonac. We got lost and drove and drove. Turned around and ended up in Marine City.
It was fucking creepy up there. There was a factory where you can see the smoke and the pollution connect to the clouds in the sky. It was dark closer to the ground and this erie ass orangey beige where the smoke was. It was like armegedon. We finally found 94. Stopped at a rest stop. Peed. Got some snacks. And drove and dove and drove and finally we were back.
It was fun. Made me feel good that we could still do the things we did when we were 18, and 19 years old.
I've always thought about it because thats where my mom comes from. That's where the bulk of my family is. But I had been seduced by all the shinyness that is TO. I thought I wanted to move to Toronto, turns out I just want to go there alot. Shopping wouldn't be as fun without changing US monies to Canadian.
I think being in a city that is physical heritage for me being here is very alluring.
It's like being closer to Brazil, closer to Africa.
Drew wants to move there.
He just loves it down there.
I'm trying to find him cooking schools in NO.
We need out of Detroit.
I'm gonna try to join the SG Louisiana group to see how life is down there by the people who live there.
Basically I just dont care to live in New York or LA.
I don't want to be famous, I just want to go somewhere and do makeup. That's all.
That leaves me to want to be able to live where I want, because it means something to me. Maybe I will live in TO one day. I just don't want to be anchored in one place just because models live there or movies or shot there.
I don't like feeling like, if I don't live here I will have no job.
I don't want to feel trapped. I see people who think they are trapped everyday and it kills me to think that it could happend one day.
Up, up and away.
On a lighter note, me and one of my best friends David relived one of our favorite collage day pastimes: Driving into the middle of nowhere. The michigan folks will get this. He picked me up in the D. On the eastside, by GrossePoint and we hung out in Eastpoint/Roseville at Trixie's. And after we left there we drove a little ways to St. Claire Shores and just kept going til we had gone past the Selfridge base. It started to look like we were in the movie Deliverance, but with water.
Turns out we had drove all the way to Algonac. We got lost and drove and drove. Turned around and ended up in Marine City.
It was fucking creepy up there. There was a factory where you can see the smoke and the pollution connect to the clouds in the sky. It was dark closer to the ground and this erie ass orangey beige where the smoke was. It was like armegedon. We finally found 94. Stopped at a rest stop. Peed. Got some snacks. And drove and dove and drove and finally we were back.
It was fun. Made me feel good that we could still do the things we did when we were 18, and 19 years old.
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thinking about moving
thing in SG Louisiana
i just got down here about a month ago myself
from Cleveland
and first off
the weather is a whole hell of a lot better
then
everyone ive met have been really nice
there is a lot to do - great restaurants, concerts, clubs, theatre, bars, all that stuff
people seem to work just enough so that they can play down here
and i like that attitude
as for movie stuff
New Orleans is really heating up with films
i mean RAY comes out this month, and that was filmed here
and i was just in a CBS movie filmed here
and a Melanie Griffith movie is coming here
and the city signed a deal with one of the studios and unions saying there would be at least a dozen films here each year for the next couple years
its a pretty city - a little dirty and run down in spots, but everything is
for chef stuff you cant beat the food down here
im working as an editor at a magazine and we are starting to put out a Dining Guide and there is sooo much good stuff
anyway
you get the feeling
i like it
and i didnt mind it
i dont think it sucked
but
i was sick of the cold
and i needed a change of pace
both Detroit and Cleveland are cities that had their prime and are struggling to stay competitive and change their image since theyre past their prime
but
New Orleans really hasnt passed its prime
it is still a viable city that people want to come to and is still exciting and growing in new and different ways
thats kinda how im viewing it
after a month or so of being down here