So it’s about 4pm on a gorgeous saturday afternoon, the olympic tourists have left and I have the city back to myself. I just picked up Miranda July’s book ‘No one belongs here more than you’ and I can’t wait to read it. For anyone unfamiliar with Miranda’s work she is in a class all to herself. Artist, filmaker, actress and author she wears many hat’s and with a childlike warmth and exuberance few posses. I first fell in love with Miss July after seeing ‘Me and you and everyone we know‘ (one of my all time favorite films), there’s an indefinable quality underling all her work that’s hard to pin down, a sort of childlike innocence mixed with the traveled wisdom of old age.

I haven’t started reading the book yet but at 201 pages I should be done in about 2 weeks or so (I’m a bit of a slow reader). I’ll keep you all posted, but after reading the first chapter I think it’s going to be pretty dam good.

Short story: My friend Alison went to her book signing for ‘Learning to love you more’ a booked based off a web collaboration with another artist. It was a series of challenges that anyone could do and submit to the site; make a constellation out of freckles on your body and take a picture, spend a day with someone who is dying and write about it, make and a child’s outfit in an adult size and take a picture of you wearing it in public. The best were later compiled into the book. Anyway so Alison goes up to get her book signed, and with a smile Miranda crosses out the you and writes Alison. Very cute, but so is Alison (also one of my favorite people).

one of my favorite scenes from ‘Me and you and everyone we know’, amazing… ))<>((

© Miranda July, 2010