February 2010
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An 'Ideal Audience' for Two
Something about her resonates with me. The air fills with ease. Although I wouldn’t pin her as a hermit, I’m attracted to her shell – it’s the comfort of a sensible outsider.
Living in the same modest home in Fairfax she shared with her partner, Adair, for decades, she is now a widow. Perhaps it‘s the romanticism of the tragic poet; love lost and alone, she sits a recluse to the world...
Ten-Year-Old Boy Seeks Secretary to Type Wolf...
Me: I basically realized that I have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old boy
Melissa: Yeah?
Me: I mean, I could completely relate to all of his outbursts and abrupt emotional reactions. It was like therapy.
Melissa: And?
Me: And, well…that’s it. I mean, it was a ten dollar ticket so it was ten dollars worth of therapy. I-discovered-I’m-a-ten-year-old-boy, that’s it. That’s all you get with ten dollar therapy.
Melissa: …what now?
Me: Well, I guess I need to call...I should probably…I need to find a wolf suit. First thing.
Melissa: Bingo!
Me: I know!
Melissa: Are you going to find a wolf, gut it and crawl inside it?
Me: No, if you kill it the shelf life of its coat drops down to mere days and where’s the ROI on that? I mean your boyfriend’s in banking just ask him.
Melissa: …yea…
Me: …
Melissa: You could sell its wolf meat.
Me: I could sell some and give some to charity. They’d like that, right?
Melissa: Yeah, I mean people eat turtle soup.
Me: I’ve never eaten turtle soup. I just think its fucked up when a turtle is just sitting on the beach and someone grabs it and pour soup down its shell… and then the person makes the turtle poke its head out to mouth to mouth feed him.
Melissa: But you know what. The turtle does die when you pour soup in it. And it’s actually the turtle’s wife that feeds you.
Me: Hmmf
Melissa: Yeah, I know.
January 2010
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Eggers Called It a Balance of Humor and Pathos
Heartbreak hangs light and naked from the tips of Miranda July’s mossy curls. She’s that young surgeon operating on exposed organs and it’s delightfully frightening how delicate and precise her incisions are.
From award-winning filmmaking, post-modern idiosyncratic performance and visual art, to critically acclaimed short stories, July delivers the romantic simplicity of the human condition to...
WatchInspired by the short film, ARE YOU THE FAVORITE PERSON OF ANYONE written by Miranda July and starring John C. Reily, this piece poses this simple yet poignant question to the afternoon visitors - and one resident - of Lake Eola Park
“When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?”
– America - Ginsberg