Are you eager to share your most embarrassing moments to the world? We're not, but we'll gladly listen to yours. And it turns out there's no shortage of people willing to do just that, at least judging by the hugely successful Get Mortified series. To refresh your memory, that's the series of live performances at which childhood and teenage diaries, poems, and letters are read, many years later, by the person who wrote them. It's so popular it's practically a cottage industry now: the upcoming schedule is here, there's a book, just out of some of the best (worst?) of these truly mortifying memoirs, and there's a new short video on YouTube called I Hate Drake. It uses the soundtrack of a diarist reading from one of the shows but it's been animated (and directed) by video artist Bill Barminski. Hilarious, in that Get-Mortified-cringing way. (There's some profanity in it, so it's not work-safe.)
written on Tuesday Jan 16, 2007
shame,
laughter,
video.
