DancePartyJulie’s Featured Awesomeness Installation 3: MORTIFIED
If you listen to THIS AMERICAN LIFE you have probably already heard of MORTIFIED. If you don’t listen to THIS AMERICAN LIFE you are a jerkface and should tune into NPR more often, Podcast it, or start watching the show on Showtime. Mortified is a live show that happens around the country, in different cities, once or twice a month where people get on stage and read from their junior high and high school journals. And by journals I mean anything “deep”written during that heavy time of life: songs, poetry, notes, stories, etc. This shit is hilarious. I have yet to get tickets to the show cause it sells out quick. However, there have been two books published:
And:
It struck me while reading the second book that I wrote some pretty atrocious yet hilarious shit when I was about 13 and listening to a lot of the Cure and Depeche Mode. I’ll bet a lot of my friends did too. I propose that we find an afternoon to come together and read aloud some of our deepest thoughts and most creative endeavors from that tender age. Hell if you didn’t write anything, bring pictures, videos, drawings, recordings, or any little thing you just couldn’t ditch when you moved out of your parents. Who’s in?
im very far in
If I could only find the journal I attempted to make when my friend was suicidal. I would be hilarious.
But the true Gem would be Tarasaidthat, she has journal’d her whole life. haha.
ive got a box full of bad poetry, lyrics and journal entries..i am so in.