This woman is just so freakin’ awesome and adorable and endearing. If you’ve seen “You and Me and Everyone We Know” you’ve not only seen one of her movies (which she wrote, directed and starred in), you’ve also heard one of my favorite film scores (written by Michael Andrews who did the cover of the Duran Duran song ‘Mad World’ for the Donnie Darko soundtrack with Gary Jules).

In fact, that cover is so freakin’ great I’m going to include the video for it:

Back to Miranda… She’s great. Here’s her website, and here’s a link to the wonderfully whimsical and ingenious website she made for her book ‘No One Belongs Here More Than You’. Be sure to click on “the begining” on the second slide of that stove-writing series if you haven’t already seen it.