Dear Friends,
A few weeks ago I invited my friend Lindsay over to help me make some promotional videos for the paperback edition of No One Belongs Here More Than You. The sales team tells me that they have had absolutely no impact on sales, and have maybe even confused people out of buying the book. Luckily, we could not have known this at the time we were making them, and thus, we had fun.
mj








And the last one is available here, just for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lybi1f2Gq0

I made this for truck drivers and the blind, but you might enjoy it too. I tried to read it in a way that would make it impossible for you to not get me.

The new MGMT album, Oracular Spectacular, is also pretty enjoyable.



Which is the better album, mine or theirs? Well, if we are judging by length, mine is 5 hours long, so mine wins - but we might not have been judging by length. If judged by yellowness, I also win. But if judging by number of young men in feathers and scarves on the cover, I lose. (Unless you think of the word "Unabridged" as a young man?) I also lose on danceability.

It's a tie. Go to iTunes and get them both.

What was Joanie 4 Jackie? Who was Big Miss Moviola?

These questions answered for the FIRST TIME in a brief, explanatory video and display of related materials, only at:

The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics
Yerba Buena Center for The Arts
Mar 29 – Jun 29, 2008
701 Mission St. at Third
San Francisco, CA

Also on view, work by: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andrea Bowers, Nao Bustamante, Tammy Rae Carland, Vaginal Davis, Eve Fowler with Math Bass, Deborah Grant, MK Guth, Taraneh Hemami, LTTR, Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy, Aleksandra Mir, Laurel Nakadate, Shinique Smith, and more.

I'd like to think all the people who follow my work are radical, political firecrackers. But those of you who are don't need any encouragement from me. Instead I will focus my efforts on the demographic who, like me in 1996, feels completely disconnected from life, nevermind their country. I'm hoping that there aren't very many of you, in this day and age. You people are hard to encourage, because all the political arguments will mean nothing to you. I just spent the last hour typing up my case for Obama, but you won't even read it, you'll skip ahead to something that seems subtler or less cliche, I know you. (And those of you who will read it, who are perhaps torn between Obama and Clinton, are well tended to by better writers.) So nevermind all that.

Here's why you should vote: you are going to really love it, the whole strange procedure. You get to walk right into a building that you would never normally be allowed in, often an elementary school. You can pause in the hallway to look at all the weird school-art and feel the eerie vibe of hundreds of kids living their endless kid lives right nearby. Then you follow the arrows to the voting room and look at the faces of the volunteers - who are these people? There is a hush of secrecy, the voting booth is clunky, the whole thing seems fake somehow. You consider filling in all the bubbles, like you did on the SATs. But you don't. You vote. You walk back outside feeling like you just gave blood or something, lightheaded from citizenry. You are wearing a sticker that says "I Voted" and you wish you could continue to get stickers like this throughout the day: I Ate Dinner, I Went To Sleep, I Got Out Of Bed, I Went To Work.
But alas, it is just this one thing that we all do together, savor it.

I tried to find an easy link for you to locate your polling place, but the best thing to do is just type the name of your city + "where do I vote" into google. If you're not registered, then you might not be able to vote in the primaries, but register right now so you can vote in November.

pps: non-american myspacers: sorry. for everything. we are working on it.

Parisians, our time has come.



Les Éditions Flammarion et colette vous invitent à rencontrer Miranda July à l'occasion de la parution d'"Un bref instant de romantisme", avec la participation d'Audrey Diwan, le 13 décembre de 18 h à 20 heures. Cocktail le 13 décembre 2007 de 18 h à 20 h chez colette 213, rue Saint-Honoré 75001 Paris
www.colette.fr
Réservations : Charlotte Ajame
01 40 51 33 85 - cajame@flammarion.fr

(Everyone else: this is just the same yellow book of stories that maybe you already have. But wouldn't it be cool if i had written a whole new book? In French no less!)

hello,

for those of you who are american, you now have a holiday. there may be times during this holiday where you feel a) not as happy as you had planned on feeling, b) like ripping someone's head off, or c) fat.

this is because it is a holiday celebrating genocide.

there may also be some moments where you feel pretty ok. this is because you don't have to go to work or school. also: the familial bond, it just won't quit.

and then there may be some times when you don't feel anything at all. try to stay with this feeling as long as possible. don't be afraid. and then, when you can't stand it any more, do a Learning To Love You More asssignment. there are three new ones up, no one has done them yet:

Assignment 67
Repair something.

Assignment 66
Make a field guide to your yard.

Assignment 64
Teach us an exercise.

all my best,

miranda

Miranda July invites you to watch this documentary made by her favorite people ever.

If you are on anti-depressants or have ever suffered from depression, or just have a lot of trouble getting out of bed -- this movie will destroy you. In a good way.

It plays on the Independent Film Channel:
Monday, Oct. 22 at 09:00 PM East Coast Time / 6:00 PM West Coast Time
Tue, Oct. 23 at 01:00 AM East Coast Time / 10:00PM West Coast Time

In 1999, American pharmaceutical companies, seeking to expand their markets, helped to create a huge ad campaign to educate Japanese about mild depression. The campaign centered on the slogan "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?" Since then, Japanese awareness of depression has rapidly increased along with rising sales of antidepressants.

"Does Your Soul Have a Cold?" is an intimate and compassionate journey into the lives of five depressed Japanese individuals who decide to take antidepressants. Their personal histories are examined, together with their hopes and fears, ultimately offering an intriguing perspective on the broad socio-cultural issues that are only now being uncovered in Japan.

Please come to our very small celebration of the new book!

Learning To Love You More
Curated by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher
Book Launch and Exhibition
October 6th - 26th

Opening Saturday, October 6th, 6-9pm

the journal Gallery
168 North 1st St.
Brooklyn, NY
11211

www.thejrnl.com
www.learningtoloveyoumore.com



Drawing by Cindy Rehm of Murfreesboro, Tennessee in response to Learning To Love You More assignment 18: Recreate a poster you had as a teenager.