The Today Show, E! Daily 10, Geraldo at Large, This American Life (tv & radio), Fox 25 Morning News (Boston), NBC 11 Nightly News (San Fran), Current TV, New Mornings (Hallmark, Fox Morning News (Detroit)
Mortified's Interests
General
Music
Angst In My Pants, The Sparks
Bastards of Young, The Replacements
Movies
Welcome to the Dollhouse, Election, Dazed and Confused, Sixteen Candles, Mean Girls, Rebel without a Cause, Heathers, American Graffitti, Lucas
Television
Freaks and Geeks, The Young Ones, Degrassi (all incarnations), Square Pegs
About me: Hailed a "cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek and celebrated for years by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, Esquire, The Onion AV Club, Daily Candy, Entertainment Weekly, E!, Talk of the Nation and more, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness adults sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more.
The largest and longest-running project of its kind, Mortified produces comedic content for the stage, he page, and the web. Our latest book, Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield, is in stores everywhere. Visit getmortified.com for more.
Hello. This is G.J. Echternkamp, frequent Mortified performer of the most mortifying variety.
If you've seen Episode 4 of the first This American Life season on Showtime ("The Cameraman") you are familiar with my amazing parents.
The footage from that episode was taken from a feature documentary entitled FRANK & CINDY that has its Chicago premiere in July at the Gene Siskel Film Center .
Please come check it out. I will be there for the first two screenings.
Friday, July 4th at 7:00pm Saturday, July 5th at 7:45pm Tuesday, July 8th at 8:00pm
"Every single thing about FRANK & CINDY is new and fresh and alive. It's rare to see a documentary that's so raw and funny and infuriating, too." -Ira Glass
Well isn't that a coincidence cause I'm in love with mortified! I went through a phase where I really wanted to audition, but everytime I read my high school diaries, I get way depressed. Also, I was really into slam poetry back then, which in itself is a tad mortifying.
For All Of you L.A. Darlings!! Come JOIN US TONIGHT! - And every TUESDAY!
Come Join us TUESDAYS at THE BAR (5851 sunset blvd)... Johnny From Kings performs LIVE!
9pm. no list. no cover. just good times and amazing music!
JohnnyFromKings is singer-guitarist Johnny Moezzi, bassist Dale Jennings, keys-man John Thomas and drummer Jimbo Goodall. On any given night you might see a horn or 4…maybe even a guest vocalist or harmonica…depends on who’s around and feels like making noise. The 4, core members of the band have combined spent considerable time playing American roots music… blues, jazz, country, soul, and rock. JohnnyFromKings finds them in a setting that utilizes this common foundation from which to launch soaring improvisations that always return to the grounded center of this musical tradition. Principal songwriter Moezzi has been lead-guitarist to “living-legend” Los Angeles blues-diva, Miss Mickey Champion for the past 5 years. Time spent in this role has seen him combine his own musical approach with what can only be described as hard-core urban blues yeilding a truly original blend. Some have described it “beatnik-blues”…you may judge for yourself as JohnnyFromKing’s debut album “Angel City Letter” is available now online and in person.
hypercolor was the shit.I had a pink/purple one, but always wanted a green/yellow one...Id play with mine when I dried my hair. While you're at it, bring back pogo balls and that gum that had one flavor inside of another.
thanks for the add! things like mortified, found, post secrect, this american life are just what i need. when i cant understand the actions and behaviors of the people around me, these things help me realize that everyone is just as screwed up and socially desperate as i am! and sometimes you can see that we all just hold our hopes in our hands and want and need just like the next guy! cheers.
And your show has such an awesome concept--I heard about it from This American Life. That clip was amusing, and oddly enough, I could relate it to my own embarrassing writing from way back.
does mortified have a place for the crappy early songs of now-somewhat-semi-crappy songwriters such as myself? i'm talking ukulele songs about my dog... that kind of thing. think about it, morty. and thanks for the video - my "fans" love it.
