May 29, 2009
Miranda July became an indie darling with the 2005 film "Me and You and Everyone We Know." She's also a performance artist, sculptor, and writer. She reads the story "This Person" from her award-winning collection No One Belongs Here More Than You. Produced by Studio 360’s Pejk Malinovski.
(Originally aired: July 13, 2007)
Dear Studio 360 & Miranda:
It's been a long time since I've been transported by a story. Amused, of course. Moved, certainly. Piqued, yes, yes! But I found this wonderful story transporting. I can't tell you quite where I was transported, but it was surely to a better place. Physically, I just sat down in my little, warm kitchen. Yet there I was able to let my attention, toward the end of the story, be fully absorbed in "the delight of...ageless springs...breaking through rocks in worlds before our Earth." (Stephen Spender).
Thank you, Miranda, for sharing of your soul so beautifully, so completely.
"I love you, too."
If you write or better call me, I will e-mail you my my latest draft of a "People's Pledge" for a better world — a world of peace and love abounding, which I hope you would recognize as your own.
And just perhaps, "if two and two and fifty make a million: we'll see that day come 'round — we'll see...that day...come 'round."
Peter Bruce DuMont
"Rock of the Mountain"
Berkeley, California
2009 May 30
510-848-1818
i love this story so much.
i cry every time i listen to it.
Wow. This was captivating from the first second. Her voice, the strangely direct and yet deep choice of words, almost like a mic picking up a string of thoughts in someone's brain... the sound editing, effects... masterful. Yet so very very refreshingly different. Thank you Miranda. You are a truly unique writer. Enthralling. And thank you sound editing folks, AMAZING work.
Namaste.
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