It’s official, I got the grant! Now, lesse townsfolk complicate things by trying to decide what I should do with the money! BTW, it sucks, because not only 50% of the project funds come out of pocket, but I only get 1/3 of the funds now and the rest on completion! Oh, give me the carefree life if an artist in the! Bacok to beans and tortillas and cabbage, and you who’ve bought the book, know exactly what I’m talking about! So maybe the local library will sponser a first annual Irish Music festival! I can hear it now! “killgerry Mountain,” and all that! It could be fun working these folks! Damn, I’m in a 40 year TIME WARP! HELP!
is confused
Here, have a nice penguin.
Grants are not free money, they are designed to keep artists broke and hungry and to pick an artist’s pocket even more while giving lip service to art and music. To pull this off, I’ll have to get some community support, but you can bet, my pocket will end up empty in the end!
On 2002-11-20 13:16, Anna Martinez wrote:
It’s official, I got the grant! Now, lesse townsfolk complicate things by trying to decide what I should do with the money! BTW, it sucks, because not only 50% of the project funds come out of pocket, but I only get 1/3 of the funds now and the rest on completion! Oh, give me the carefree life if an artist in the! Bacok to beans and tortillas and cabbage, and you who’ve bought the book, know exactly what I’m talking about! So maybe the local library will sponser a first annual Irish Music festival! I can hear it now! “killgerry Mountain,” and all that! It could be fun working these folks! Damn, I’m in a 40 year TIME WARP! HELP!
Well, now I’m confused, too. When you ask for grants (as in produce a mountain of paperwork plus a budget) don’t you you usually tell them how you’re going to spend their money?
And what book?
I enjoy your enthusiasm and stream-of-consciousness style but some details are eluding me 
M
On 2002-11-20 13:55, mvhplank wrote:
On 2002-11-20 13:16, Anna Martinez wrote:
It’s official, I got the grant! Now, lesse townsfolk complicate things by trying to decide what I should do with the money! BTW, it sucks, because not only 50% of the project funds come out of pocket, but I only get 1/3 of the funds now and the rest on completion! Oh, give me the carefree life if an artist in the! Bacok to beans and tortillas and cabbage, and you who’ve bought the book, know exactly what I’m talking about! So maybe the local library will sponser a first annual Irish Music festival! I can hear it now! “killgerry Mountain,” and all that! It could be fun working these folks! Damn, I’m in a 40 year TIME WARP! HELP!Well, now I’m confused, too. When you ask for grants (as in produce a mountain of paperwork plus a budget) don’t you you usually tell them how you’re going to spend their money?
And what book?
I enjoy your enthusiasm and stream-of-consciousness style but some details are eluding me >
M
Yeppers, you produce a mountain of paperwork, submit a budget, plot and plan how you’re gonna break even or even earn some money and hope it balances eventually. The grant was written to buy Irish whistles and give them away, teach a few kids to play and do a thing with Irish music, locally, on the Indian reservation and to send a few more overseas, which I’ve been doing on an informal basis with a lot of help from C&F people. It’s been fun, but a drain on my budget, but I believe that people need the means to make music, if they want it! I’ve given away many of them on the streets of Deadwood, and it’s been fun. How it feels like a fun project will be totally institutionalized and committeized to finance the whole thing. The book I wrote, wherein you can find the reference to beand rice and cabbage is listen on Amazon.com under Anna Martinez. You can also find it on Xlibris.com. Its a collection of poetry that reads like a novel. Believe me, the money they have granted me, isn’t mine. there’s gonna be a lot of pressure by a lot of people I don’t eve like very much telling me what they want me to do with it for the community, which I don’t like very much either! I do get so tired of big frogs in small town ponds puckering their lips up near the my butt because I get a book published and get a great review or two. I’m having tantrums here, because this is a safe palce to do it…Like I’ll be able to produce a Celtic Music Festival here on five hundred bucks with non-Irish musicians who are not familiar with the genre? Maybe somebody’ll buy me lunch? Huh? The last grant I got for $3,000 cost me my state medicaide, not good. Applying for grants is not a good way for a starving artist like me to go. There’s too much out of pocket to begin with. If I get the Bush Fellowship, for all of $44,000, I’ve convinced it’ll ruin my life and I’ll have to get a job as a waitress or something worse! These folks stated therye were afraid I’d backfire on them! Sheesh! But then again, these are the folks that asked me to do a show for them, but they mounted it in a space that had bordello maroon wallpaper and no lights, which was bad enough, but the gal mounting the show had no idea what she was doing, and my work was getting trampled by people stampeding to get bites of cheesecake! I had about $480 damage to my dry mounts, and they think I’m a jerk because I packed up and took my stuff off the walls and took a walk! Upstaged by cheescake, and a whole committe and arts council that wants to tell me what to do with my grant! HA! I have a well-derserved rep as being difficult and tempremental, in other words, I’m not nice! To to the project, to have anything that these people might be receptive to, those old freekin’ chestnuts that we are all so sick of, my and my friends will be picking and singing about ole Col. Pepper, and all that crap! Wanna bet there’s at least three requests for Danny Boy? Small towns in the outback of Dakota! Snerk!
Waiting for the Mothership…
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-11-20 15:03 ]
Anna,
Grants, grants, ugh … I’ll get to that later.
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. You applied for a grant with good ideas (they sound good to me) about what to do with the money. You got the grant but with unexpected strings attached? (Otherwise you wouldn’t be sounding off about it, right?) Now you have to consort and consult with the sub-mammalian village honchos to decide how the money is spent and that wasn’t part of the original plan. Frustrating … to put it mildly.
This grants business really is a business. I had that reconfirmed for me recently at a university faculty planning meeting. We were told that those researchers serious about getting grants should spend one or two days a week preparing for and writing up grant applications and, for serious money, you should expect to work on the application for about 2 years. When I questioned whether this was a good way for researchers to be spending their time, I was told, by a three-piece suit in sneeringly patronising tone, that this is the age of the new free-enterprise entrepreneurial university. Oh, I replied, can you tell me then of any successful company that regards it as an efficient use of resources to ask its R&D people to spend two days a week in sales and marketing. Well they thought that was a very funny joke … ha, ha, John, what a quaint old wag you are. Really … ggrrrhhhh.
Well, Anna, got a spare job lot of those road apples dressed up in their frillies? Don’t worry about refrigeration, I’d prefer them gamey. I’m just finalising my Christmas shopping list and when I got to middle management I was lost until I heard of your enterprising little sideline. Finger-lickin’ good, eh … !
Hi, Wombat! The damn outback’s the same, no matter where it is! I think I figured out why I do this. I can’t do anything else, maybe somewhere, I can squeeze a steak or two (nah, too much to ask for) outta this, but probably not! Yep, got the grant and have to spend my own money first before I get theirs! I hate this starving artist bit, but I would hate waitressing more! You want packaged horse manure, Wombat, you got it! What I can’t get through to these small town big frogs is that just because I got a book pubished and got good reviews doesn’t mean I am as wealthy as freaking Stephen King and never will be, although I probably do write better than he does! Snerk! Did I ever tell you the person that launched me on this whistle trip is from Yarra Junction?
Waiting for the Mothership…
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-11-21 01:44 ]
On 2002-11-21 01:28, Anna Martinez wrote:
Did I ever tell you the person that launched me on this whistle trip is from Yarra Junction?
Waiting for the Mothership…
[ This Message was edited by: Anna Martinez on 2002-11-21 01:44 ]
No you didn’t actually, although we did have an exchange about how frozen you might get if you swam in the streams in YJ and Deadwood, I think. Now who would that person be? I probably wouldn’t be acquainted as I stayed on a farm there as a teenager way back when and didn’t get to meet the locals much.
I heard yesterday on local radio that there is a place in Oregon, I think, called Boring. Is that true? Anybody know it?