Everyone on match.com (a site I do not belong to, and certainly wasn’t perusing last night) starts their profile with “this whole match.com thing is so not me.” And probably everyone with a new blog posts a preemptive “sorry I’m late to the blogparty! is it still cool? are you bored?” But according to my dad (who has taken to wearing an elfin winter cap indoors, so he can’t necessarily be trusted) I’m a regular Frank Sinatra– AKA I do it my way. So I’ll skip the sorries and move directly into the oversharing– it’s my webstyle.

I enjoyed a fullbellied, diverse 2009. This is not a goth girl’s livejournal circa 2001, so I’ll only list the good stuff. It was my first year outta’ college. Naturally I flitted from man2man and job2job, a wanton free spirit. JK– I bunkered down at the ‘rents place in Tribeca and spent nine months as a proud employee of Bu And The Duck, the hottest children’s clothing emporium around. During that time, I premiered my first feature, Creative Nonfiction, at the SXSW Film Festival. Along with some true soul sisters I made two seasons of Delusional Downtown Divas for the web and beyond. In October, us Divas were asked to host Rob Pruitt’s First Annual Art Awards at the Guggenheim Museum. I co-wrote the teleplay and got the chance to be very involved with the development of that surreal shindig. Then I went right into production on Tiny Furniture.

The beginning of 2010 has proved equally rowdy. Well, I guess “rowdy” isn’t a totally fitting adjective for the act of editing a low-budget dramedy (and, in truth, Lance edits while I research how various foods rate on the glycemic index.)

And so I wanted a place to keep you, my dear readers (mom) abreast of what’s happening with this new feature film, Tiny Furniture. Written in October, shot in November/December, Tiny Furniture will premiere in March 2010 in narrative competition at SXSW. I’m thrilled and grateful to be returning to the festival where I met most of the incredible folks with whom I have collaborated on this movie. A movie that is all about the past year of my life. Too meta to handle!

So learn more about the film and its talented cast & crew at the official site, and check back here often for updates on where we’ve been, where we’re going, what I’m watching, eating, and moaning about.

Mad love/respect/thanks,
Lena

p.s. Is signing your blog a faux-pas, similar to when an old person signs a text message?

p.p.s. Just ebayed a VHS copy of hard-to-find Ishtar, the musical comedy in which Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty traverse the Middle East of Elaine May’s mind. In a wildly ignorant move, I will soon throw a viewing party at which I serve thematically-appropriate Ethiopian food.