UNIQUE LOS ANGELES

So I will be the CALIFORNIA MARKET CENTER (Main/Olympic, downtown Los Angeles) all weekend bringing U N H E E to you at prices that are 45%-65% off what you would pay in a store (omg!)
So hustle your cute little buns down here and say hello!
xo

click on the link above for more info.

the everly brothers

i totally get why girls in the 60s went all crazy and crying.
they are so fresh.
after "all i have to do is dream" they play
one of the best sounding songs of all time. "cathy's clown".
they are pretty much the best singing duo of ever. don everly's voice is so cool and he's a total wholesome babe like zac efron.
they are perfect.

but i think this john lenon version is the prettiest.
though, the video is dumb. just look away (i'm heeeedeeous)!





i just saw confessions of a superhero. it is so harsh. kind of hard to watch.

unique unhee

Shop till you pop!
Mark it off on your calender y'alls Dec. 13 & 14.
I will be here at this wonderful shopping event filled with local and independent designers.
Plus!!! all U N H E E clothing at this event will be at least 40% BELOW RETAIL!
yowza!
So stop by booth 2002 (Near the LA Weekly/Pabst booth) and say hi!
Click here for more info.
See you there!
xo,
Suzy

BFFs

These two.
Two peas in a pod.
Clearly, Nugget loves Travis more than me.
I'm dealing with it best I can.




Et tu Papi?





This one, I can't really explain, it was the brown fur for my monkey costume and Nugget just really loved it and growled at Papi when ever he got near. So to properly guard it, she just got in the bag and slept on it.

Tour

Old pictures from tour, since I just recently came back to life (new computer)


Our home for a month:



Solana mammmammma in the production office doing tireless tour manager things, we lived on emergen-Cs and coffee


inside the venue dallas tx:

the faint

outside the venue, dallas tx:

battle cat

i've never been much of a cat person, but this (video) is great.
actually, there is the coolest cat i've ever met in my whole life who lives next door to me.
i call her battlecat, and she is the coolest, man.
she let me pet her once.
i purchased greenies for cats treats so that anytime that i see her, i run back into my house and grab a couple and give them to her.

i also try and remember to take some dog treats when i take the dogs for a walk because just about every other house in my neighborhood has some crazy backyard dog that has never left their yard so they go ape shit anytime anyone walks past.

sometimes it works and sometimes it backfires and the dogs think i am attacking them and they go even crazier, but i'll win them over. i just realized that i may sound like a crazy person, but whatever. geez, whats next? a bag of bread crumbs at echo park lake?

as i was saying,
the coolest thing about battlecat is that i've given her treats twice, and once i fed her some tuna, oh and once i gave her some baby food i had left over from when nugget was sick, anyway, point being, thats probably 4 times in the past 6 months, so she's not one of those cats that you give some food to once and they are at your front step every day. that happened to me once in grade school and i learned my lesson. vagrants.
but not battle cat.
she/he's the best and so unimposing.
that cat's got class!

Babysitters Club

oh my God Laura Branigan!
She is like what you imagined your cool babysitters did at night.
Like THIS is her DREAM! and she babysits on the side for extra cash.
But at night, after your parents come home, after she leaves your house,
she goes out and does THIS.

u n h e e on Americas Next Top Model!

Check out the preview for the ANTM finale!
It's Tyra wearing my romper!!!
I'm so excited!

i LOVE halloween!

ok, i just got my computer up and running again, well i got a new one, so we're gonna have to work backwards, so the dates maybe all jumbled, but still all good.
if you know me, you know i LOVE Halloween and I wish it was 3 days every year instead of just one, but if you luck out and get it on a weekend, you can dress up all weekend!
This year I only had 2 costumes, well 1 1/2 because the old man on vacay, inspired by nick nolte, was just a try on test run.
i didn't get to present him in all his glory, complete with fake bushy eyebrows. Oh well, next year. It's always good to have a good costume on hand, just in case.

But for Halloween night proper Travis and I went to the Jackie Beat Gruesome Twosome show with Jer Ber Jones.


Trav was an organ grinder

and I was his monkey!


I wish I had a full body shot b/c I think this was the finest Halloween costume I have ever made.
I made everything from head to toe, and tail, except for the fez.

Travis made his costume as well. His organ box was amazing!
He also carved this awesome pumpkin!

What detail! Ahhhoooooooooo!


Hello Foxy Lady Colin!



Hello Drill Team Jen!



Hello Ghandi!

Aaron was Shipwreck from G.I. Joe along with his parrot, Sydney!



i LOVE Sydney!
He was so cute and nice and let me pet him for a long time and I could tell he loved me too.
It was then that I saw into the future and saw myself as Crazy Bird Lady, which I was totally fine with.

Freda Payne!

Band of Gold, my new favorite song.
All the covers of it are by women and sound kinda like the original except for the reggae version by Marcia Griffiths, which I love.
But I would love to hear it done by a male motown group, like the Four Tops or something. anyway, the original is the best, yay Funk Brothers, plus Ms. Payne is super foxy.
I've listened to it at least 5x already today.
It was playing at the Trader Joes and everyone, seriously everyone, was snapping their fingers, bobbing their heads, or humming along.
This youtube is great because it's like karaoke and you can sing along.
it's so fun.
trust me, i've done it twice in the past 20 minutes.


p.s. i just got a new macbook so i am forcing everyone i know to video chat with me until i tire of it. sorry

we did it

I have no words that would do what I feel justice. I have never been so proud to be an American and I am grateful. For the first time in my life, more than ever.
I am so proud of my country.
I am so proud of my country.

still crazy after all these years

Ms. White, SO good.
Still got it.

over the top

this is really too much.
come on.
i put little scarves and shit on my dogs from time to time, but this dog looks like a total fucking nerd.
nerd dog.
anyway, i should be making clothes so i should go.
boo.
i'm trying to break my circle of shame. my shame spiral.
where i don't get to making patterns for some reason or another, then i feel like a terrible losery person for not, then feel defeated and avoid making patterns. so now, i'm just going to do it. like nike. once i start, i really enjoy it. so here i go.
xo
suzy

doubledare

gawd, i am dying! dying as i watch these videos of Alexander McQueen runway.
i mean, i always knew he was genius, it's kind of just common knowledge so i never really watched any of his shows or studied his work. i think because it's a given, you know. i wanted to study lesser known brilliant designers, and maybe also because i would feel so infinitely inadequate. i mean can you IMAGINE ever being that good? i dare not even try. watching these, i'm getting a stomach ache. literally. like when i was 12 and heard joy division for the first time.

do you wanna dance?

I listen to this song a minimum of 3x per day and when i'm listening to it, i can not imagine loving anything more.
(the sound on the video is not so good, but i recommend doing yourself a favor and buy the song, if you don't already have it, and play it properly)

This one is the vocals only from a recording session?


i want to feel like this all day everyday my smile is so big

u n h e e gets sex change in the uk

i always thought i'd make one hell of a ladyboy.
despite the gender bending typo, i'm on the (virtual) pages of uk vogue! (dot com).

check it here:

http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/fashion/street-trends/080910-liela-moss--bestival-2008.aspx

or just click on the title of this post.

Rock and Bea

I can't stop eating Fudgesicles and frankley, I don't want to.
I'm also addicted to Dexter and on occasion googling anorexics.
Working on patterns until the sun comes up does weird things to you

tour

salami took this picture while we were all sleeping on the bus.
somewhere between vancouver bc and spokane wa
sorry i've been a bad blogger. blah blogger. blood booger.
i've had something to do every minute i'm awake.
i haven't even had time to get postcards! sad.
the time i did finally get some time to buy a postcard was in pomona and i just can't sent a postcard to california from california.
but now i am better at my job and have somewhat of a system down so it's faster and i can have more free time to look around at places i would never go.
we have a day off soon. in texas.
i'll try and be better.
sleepy time.
i actually get to sleep in my own bed tonight. two nights in a row! i actually love my bunk and think about different ways of organizing it often. it's the showers i miss. long, hot comfortable showers. not these paltry whore's baths i get. handi wipes and fabreez. jk but barely.
i will leave you with the cutest picture ever taken of my dogs.
my brother is so kindly watching them while travis and i are on tour, separately but at the same time, and he took them for a bike ride.
get ready to die.
xo,
s


papi's smiling! like for reals smiling! i've never seen him so happy.
i miss them terribly and am a bit afraid that nugget will forget who i am.
i only got her a month before i left, for a month.
i hope she doesn't forget me because i would just die i'd be so sad.

if anyone wishes to buy my friendship...

This would be the way to do it.
I'm not usually one for the designer dog holder, but this, this I love. this I need. says nugget.

Selma Blair <3!

Selma Blair wearing u n h e e on MTV's TRL yesterday!
I'm so excited because I've always loved Selma Blair.
And she looks so cute in the jumper!

perfect summer music

i'm really feeling moonrats love lately.
their new stuff is flipping my lid. ok!

Solange Knowles

nugget rooney

update on nuggernaut: she is getting much better and eating like a little hog!
papi is also on the up and up and never lost his appetite, he's a trooper. always has been.
i took nugget over to hotdog and kevin's place today and she was awesome.
we watched game 5 of the playoffs and i realized today that i only really enjoy the last ten minutes of a basketball game. it's thrilling and i find myself yelling at the tv. as for the other 3 quarters and whatever minutes...meh
but this is a big deal to someone who has really zero interest in watching sports, ever.
my stupid iphoto will not open. it's been a weeks and i'm bummed. i have no idea what could be wrong. any suggestions?
sorry for no pictures. bo-ring!

Kingdom of Style

This style blog that I am obsessed with , Kingdom of Style" ,
did a piece about me and my line!
Check it here
I am excited because they have great style and am totally flattered that they like my work.

babes

i went to vegas this weekend for jenny cho's bachelorette party. it was the most fun i've ever had in vegas.
contributing to that is the fact that i could not lose on slots. i have never won before but this time i was on fire.
i won $900 my first day, $300 my second day. Then proceeded to lose it all in the last couple hours i was there. ouch.
still. it was totally fun and not a dick straw in sight!
i'll post pictures soon.
on a sad note, both my dogs have kennel cough and poor little nugget is not doing so well.
she hardly eats and is so thin and lethargic and sad.
i'm taking her to the vet again tomorrow. she seemed to be on the up and up a couple days ago, now, i don't know.
see what happens when i'm away?

Nugget Chicken Mc

Ok, so if you know me you might know that I cruise the craigslist "pet" section often and look at all the sad little doggies that need homes after I come home from work and go to bed sad for them. i used to look at la animal services, craigslist is a little bit less sad. So then last week, I came across this picture of this little guy they were calling "shorty".

(she is much smaller and MUCH cuter when i saw her in person)
I bookmarked the post like i've done to many in the past, but for some reason, i knew she was the one. she was in san bernadino so we drove 2 hours to get to the shelter only to find out that they thought we werent coming for her and had just given her to a rescue. she told us to look around , which i didnt want to do b/c i didnt drive out there to peruse the san bernadino city shelter. i did anyway, but i wanted to find "shorty", so i went back in to get that info, but the adoption lady went to lunch and would be back in an hour. ack.
I don't know if you've ever been out there, but killing time in san bernadino is not that fun.
we come back and she calls a few people and no answer and we're just hanging out at the animal shelter for another 2 hours waiting for some kind of response and she finally calls back and tells us that the rescue dropped her off at her foster mom's house in palm springs!
We're driving out there and at this point, already paid for her and basically adopted her sight unseen, but for some reason i never doubted that she was for me. when we finally saw her she came running out and was SO insanely cute and sweet it was all totally worth it.
So... dun da duh dunnnnn.... Here's Nugget! (we changed her name)
She's about 2 yrs old and was an owner surrender, an owner who told the adoption officer that he'd almost rather kill her and bury her himself than pay the $25 fee for surrendering your pet to the shelter. (OMG!)
She is so calm and sweet and cute (I'm hoping this will rub off on Påpi) and we love love love her.

Look at that face!

So cute, and Påpi's showing off for a dog treat, he actually came programmed with that feature b/c i certainly did not teach him that.
anyway, i hope you get to meet her. she's awesome.
And if you're considering getting a pet, please seriously consider rescuing one from a shelter or rescue.
There are tens of thousands of unwanted dogs euthanized each year, and that's in Los Angeles county alone!
After Påpi, I told myself I would not get another full grown dog from the shelter again b/c you don't know what you're getting and he has such bad behavioral problems, but that is not always the case, and I'm SO glad i didn't stick to that, because then i wouldn't have little nugs.

gemini taurus cusp

yesterday was my birthday and it was great!
i got sang to when i woke up then i got mani pedis and sushi and went to the echo and saw moonrats and cave singers. i love moonrats and zollo sang a song with cave singers and it was so beautiful that it made me tear up just a bit. i missed tolsatd but i did get the best shirt ever. it's got a boner on it. it made me feel really good to have such good, talented friends and i felt very proud watching them. i rarely go out and now i really don't know why i don't. it's so fun to socialize outside of work. anyways, i love my friends and they make me feel loved, so thanks for being so nice to me.
today triz

is going to bring over 5 big bags of top soil, oh boy! so we can get our garden started.

spring cleaning

Hi.
My boyfriend is prettier than me. I have no eyebrows.
We put our biore strips on upside down, but it was still as disgustingly satisfying when we pulled them off.
We've been spending most of our free time moving into and setting up our new place and travis has spent a lot of time in the sun getting our backyard in shape so that we can enjoy it this summer and papi's been generally cute and sometimes ornery as usual.
I've been sick for about a week and i'm really tired of it. i'm going to go watch 'the great debaters' now because i have a headache.
xo,
suzy

I got a crush on obama

ok, seriously, for reals, oh my god.
watch this.
amazing.

letter b

i have always hated the beatles, growing up.
i just didn't get it.
why, what's the big deal.
and in the stones vs beatles debate the answer to me was clear.
until a couple years ago.
first nathan let me listen to a couple songs.
and one day opening the bar when no one else was in there, the let it be album was leaning against the record player and i figured, why not, no one's here.
and i nearly cried.
it made me nostalgic for a time that I wasnt even in.
and how lucky for that to be your contemporary, for them to be your compeers.
and now, after hearing this song at least a hundred times in my lifetime.
watching this video breaks my heart.
knowing that it was towards the end, everyone resentful and unhappy,
but making something so beautiful that almost 40 yrs later makes some girl in california cry.
i'm actually glad i've never really listened to the beatles until now
because it's all totally new to me

ooh wah do lang do lang

omygod PLEASE somebody buy this for me.
i need it
it's hard to find a good 60s girl group comp, or even a whole album since back they were released as singles.
but this! this rules.
i'm "reading" the phil spector biography right now.
it's awesome.
can't wait to get back to it.
i just got to "river deep, mountain low"
despite their personal policies, i pretty much flip for anything phil spector or ike turner produced.
xoxo
going crazy in my garage,
suzy

p.s. don't get the dip y'all

Fudgie Weiss

Claire and Jeremy made one cute baby.
I could just stare at him all day.

american beauty

i made this necklace for papi today from some scraps of fabric.
then we got matching dancing bear tattoos around our ankles.

do over

today is a new day filled with new hope.
and usually at the start of each new day, i look at this:
http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/
it's great.
xo
s

white out

oh my god, who cares!
my last post, what a dorky person i am.
i should just delete it, but then what's the point of having a stupid blog, it's all a big "who cares" isn't it?
anyway, it reminds me of the time, years ago in seattle, when jake wanted to break up with me because i was singing along
to a, jeez what's the name of that band with the big fat guy who has a magazine of harmonicas? Popper, Blues Traveler!
We were sitting in the sea wolf and that song came on and i professed my love for it and knew all the words and jake threatened to break up with me.
twice a year i will be bonkers for a couple weeks before market and that will just be that.
so around january and october of every year...grain of salt.
or maybe when you are stressed it's your real self coming out and the rest of the year you are just sucking in.
i'm trying to decide if chewing with your mouth open, though obnoxious, makes your food taste better.
you know, the oxygen mixing with it, you breathing in more. i think it does, but i have more testing to do before i make any conclusions. i eat out quite a bit and this is not something you do in public, so it may take a while, but i'm thinking yes.

in unrelated not really news, here are some blast from the past pictures which are really badly framed and all around bad pictures, but reminds me of a nice time.



it's me and my mom after my gen art show almost 2 years ago. my mom ran up after the show and gave me those flowers. aw cute!
and look in the back, it's cutie face jen! texting or something.
jen helped me out so much and basically managed the whole back stage goings on and took over when i was too stressed to even talk and got all boss of the hotsauce for me.
thanks jen, you're a good friend. (have fun in hawaii!)
also in unrelated kind of news:
SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

aahhh hahahahahahaha
this is hilarious.
and look at his bulge, I'm SO sure.
as embarrassing as it is, i am really excited to see the new rock of love.
and i mean embarrassing as in, you are really embarrassed for the women on the show and for brett.
also in almost news:
i've had this blog for almost 2 years! holy moly. i started it in april 06.
i supposed the number of things that i have kept up for over a year is growing.