Miranda July’s Future has been announced for German release in cinemas in late October, and our beloved Mrs July has promised that she will introduce it to us in person. In the meantime, the latest newsletter from our beloved friends at McSweeney’s says that they have just published a new book by the same Miranda July, called It Chooses You,which apparently is an indirect result of making up excuses to avoid writing the script for The Future, such as having to find out who exactly would be selling a leather jacket for $10 in Penny Savers. And thus, a new book as a byproduct of procrastination, and we wish our periods of procrastination were as interesting or productive.
Speaking of productivity, in the same mail, McSweeney’s also mentioned not only the second issue of their food magazine Lucky Peach in collaboration with David Chang, the guy I fell in love with in the second season of David Simon’s Treme, where he, Chang, plays the coolest of all chefs. Little did I know that he actually is a chef in real life, and, judging from the first issue of Lucky Peach, just as cool as on TV. But no, they, McSweeneys that is, also announced the launch of Grantland, yet another new magazine, this time about, exactly, sports. And who would have thought the famed issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #33, in form of a newspaper, would bear so many pretty fruit?
Yet on another side note, below are the items Miranda July bought last winter, when she finished the sound for The Future, in Berlin. If you want to know why, then you might or might not be able to find out, and some other useful advice on life in Berlin, here. Presumably it’s meant as a roundabout way of saying that The Future will be released in late October in Germany, in this particularly charming way that only Miranda July knows how.
Oh, and before we forget, there is also A Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted.
