"if it weren't for AIDS, we wouldn't even have email"

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Pretty much the best movie I've seen all year. I'm normally a pretty picky, hard-to-please moviegoer— the kind you'd hate to go to the theater with, because if the movie sucked (*cough* 40-yr Old Virgin, Screaming & Kicking *cough*), you'll hear me whinge about it for the next 2 hours, and you'll probably cringe and look about quickly for the nearest exit, or shot glass, or large heavy object to knock yourself unconscious with, while I ramble on, deconstructing the film's cultural myths and ranting about how dumbed-down, over-simplified, stereotype-perpetuating mainstream pap is constipating & stoopid-ifying (technical term) our culture and bringing about the End of Civilization As We Know It. But yeah, as I was saying— Me and You and Everyone We Know is excellent... I knew I was going to have to watch it again before I was even halfway thru it... darkly humorous, intense, beautiful, suspenseful, delightful, touching (did I just use that word? *cringe*), whimsical, and best of all? the characters are real (albeit fantastically eccentric) people in real (but incredibly bizarre) situations. Not in a gritty, depressing, 'most men lead lives of quiet desperation' kind-of-way, but in an easy-to-beleive (I wanna use the term 'suspension of disbelief' here, but it just seems so English Lit), life is full of random surprises, some good, some not-so-good, some funny, some not-so-funny / life-is-weirder-than-fiction kind-of-way. So, yeah: gorgeous photography, well-synchronized quirky sound-track (I've already ordered it via this Portland distro), and, um, well, I can't remember the third thing... oh, wait-- the kind of dialgoue you'll be reiterating inappropriately in email correspondence and blog posts for weeks, ie; "If it weren't for AIDS, we wouldn't even have email!" Like maybe the best possible mix of Lost in Translation, Punch Drunk Love, and Ghost World. So there. Go watch it already, so I can stop fellating this movie to death. Oh, and go check out Miranda July's other stuff... here's her quietly funny blog:

(referring to the cover of the DVD):
This illustration above does not look like the actual DVD cover. It is a place-holder, on account of the fact that I don't like to look at the actual DVD cover because, unlike the movie, it does not reflect my soul. I know it is not unusual for the director to have no participation in the DVD cover design, but I have these personal standards that, as it turns out, are totally unrelated to the way this business works... I am very relieved because I lost many hours of sleep over the whole thing, especially the tag-line on the back cover: The person you've been waiting to find is waiting to be found. I would lay in bed at night wondering who had come up with this line and how it had ended up on something that was mine. No offense to the person at Sony who thought it up, there is nothing bad about it in and of itself. But for me it is like wearing someone else's hair on my head.