Too Bad I Torched My Journals…
November 2nd, 2007 by HeywoodMortified is the live show where real people tell their own life stories through the lens of angst injected personal relics. Performers share journal entries, home videos, song lyrics and other souvenirs from their stretch on Hormonal Row with hilarious end results.
With regular performances in major cultural meccas such as New York, San Francisco and L.A. and a companion book (with a second installment due early next year), Mortified proves to be more than just a frivolous jaunt through the annals of pre-adulthood jack-assery. Beyond the knee-slapping, Mortified succeeds by not shying away from the heavy stuff and allowing audiences to share in the catharsis.
Mortified lives in the same brilliant head space as Postsecret.com and Found Magazine; where humor and reality have a happy accident and we all get to take a little comfort in the ubiquity of the human condition.
Enjoy this animated interpretation of William Patrick Nolan Jr.’s excerpt, I Hate Drake.
UPDATE!:
There’s going to be a Portland show! PDXers, let’s hit it up November 17th at the Someday Lounge!
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:25 am
This was great! My sister swears by PostSecret, but I might prefer this- particularly if I could go see it live. Good to have you back, Duane.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Heeeeeywooooood!
Sadly, there don’t appear to be any NYC dates currently scheduled.
Come kick it in the PDX, they’re having their first show here the weekend before Turkey Gobble Day!
November 3rd, 2007 at 4:21 am
Oh man . . . I love it! I nearly peed myself.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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