Tod Brilliant Has a Secret Crush on Miranda July
Okay. Once in a while I leave all this doom-and-gloom climate catastrophe crap behind and just post about something amazing. Like the time I posted about hip-hop masters, Grand Buffet. Or about my new stories+photos PolaFiction website (I really could dedicate a whole ten gazillion website to Polaroids). Or that one post about my fantasy meeting at a Turkish bath with Dick Cheney and Al Jolson (seriously, paw through the site, you’ll find it.)
This day, I submit to you that I may well have found the first and only PERFECT WEBSITE. Miranda July made it. She also made that one really great, really funny movie with the goldfish scene that was so perfectly beautiful that I still stare off into space when I think about it. What was it called? I can’t remember. No, I can. It IS called “Me and You and Everyone We Know.”
Seriously, the website - it’s flippin’ genius.
CLICK HERE AND FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF.
Oh, yeah . . . you should buy the book. I’m going to.And whatever you do, don’t tell my wife that I now officially have a totally top-secret crush on Miranda July. My secret is safe with you guys, right? No, no. . .Andi never reads this site. She only reads the other one. So shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
(Confession: I really only posted this because I’m hoping that Miranda is the type of person who obsessively checks the links to her website (help me out, click her site already!), notices this, reads it, clicks to the Polafiction site, reads the lame stories there, is drunk enough to think they’re decent, then contacts me to work with her on dozens of world-shattering screenplays. This scenario, unlikely as it seems, will quite likely play out very much as described. You wait and see. What, you’re calling me delusional? Fuck you. Wait and see.)
[tags]miranda-july, polafiction, polaroid, dick-cheney, turkish-bath[/tags]
Tags: books, celebrity, Ruminations
Tod, Moving through Miranda’s dryboard plus onto what appears to be a blog (any old word worked to access it) was a fascinating trip. Her work reminds me of Maira Kalman, who has produced some great art for the New York Times, but, uh, you have to be a member of TimeSelect to access it. So Miranda bests Maira because her webthoughts are free.
I cheated a little on TimeSelect and e-mailed you two of Maira’s pictures, relying on the “fair copy” argument I saw this evening on Josh Rosenau’s website, “Thoughts from Kansas.”
Have you been to one of her shows? I was volunteered to participate (she encourages audience participation) and I layed on a bed with her and she spooned me. She never called me again. It was my brief moment with genius.
this is a great idea. maybe if i link her site to mine, she’ll notice ME too!!!!
from the Salt in the Wound Dept: she’s coming to town in two weeks to read from her new book. I have already taken the day off to attend.
okay, to mitigate the previous comment’s jerkiness, she’ll also be appearing here:
Wednesday, May 16: San Francisco
Modern Times
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
And if you think I’m NOT attending in San Francisco, you’re out of your skull, Louie! Oh,I didn’t know you worked for the government. The Department of Salt Wounds used to be located in the Pentagon before all the madness. . .now they have contractors working from home, eh? WACKY!
outsourcing, my friend. almost 99% of the Dept of Salt Wounds is now independent contractors.
if it’s good enough for Iraq, right?