Fuck It I'm 50

Artist and filmmaker Lise Swenson's 365 blogging days of being fifty

Month: February, 2010

A Twofer

Or two for one, that is both today’s and yesterday’s posts. Just as I was getting ready to head down to post in the lobby yesterday, (see posting below for reference) Wendy and Faith called me and told me they were picking me up NOW and I needed to be downstairs ASAP. I figured I [...]

goddamn it and thank god

So, I got another godamn grant rejection today, but I am in Sedona, away from home, seeing films, hanging out, seeing new landscape, appreciating my good fortune and thanking both Wendy and Cynthia for their support, while I worry my internal worry beards like a string of tattooed pearls.

Day two in Sedona

It’s 5:42 and I have finished my major obligation here, which was to co-present with my entertainment attorney about how to get your film out there, legally and as efficiently as possible. Given that your odds of getting a feature narrative distributed is less than 5%, this is nothing to be disregarded, even though I [...]

In Sedona

So, what to say. I’m in Sedona in film festival land and it is familiar and new at the same time.

I Did It

I read from this, my dear blog, tonight at Claire’s book launch.

Quiet

Not much to say. Went to my once a week day job and while it freaks my sensibility of who I am out, I always walk away with a sense of a good job done, communion has happened and I earned my 30 odd dollars an hour after taxes.

What Does It Mean To Be 50?

As I accept the fact that I am going to be reading excerpts from my writings on Tuesday evening I am thinking more and more about what I am doing and what it means to be 50 for me. Of course that shifts around on a daily basis in its subtlety, but there are some [...]