Memory Mania #8: O, the awkwardness of the first dance!

My friend and I smell like perfume and fruity chapstick in this photo. We are about to go pick up our dates for W.P.A. (Women Pay All), our high school's "sweetheart" dance. My date's last name is literally pronounced "Funky" and I think this is awesome. My friend's date, having chin-length hair and a vague idea that he should do something special to seem dressed up, will have a shiny hair helmet from all of the gel he decided to use. We will screech and laugh far too loudly at dinner, sweat profusely in the palm area while attempting to slow dance, and completely not know what to do with one another.

Memory Mania #7: (Love, Hair and Swimsuits in 1988)

Memory Mania #6

February 12th, 2003 - My Live Journal Post

Anyways.. it is getting closer to Valentines Day, and I am very sad that it is coming. I am going to dress in all black and boycott. I just wnat someone to hand me flowers, and a box of choclates and be like "Be my valentine". Although I do have a few ppl in mind that I would like to say that to me, anybody would be fine. You know what does make me happy though, David finally seccumbed (is that how you spell that word?)to the fact that he is going to prom with me, and that makes me happy. I know prom is like miles and miles away! But whatever, but yah. Anyways... back to valentines day, I mean how cool would it be to get an anonymous letter that says "I have the biggest crush on you" and flowers. I would cry, and be the happiest person in the world, but no... blah... I cannnot believe that Clay didnt win in American Idol. Blah.. you know I probably should be doing homework. Back to Valentines Day, I guess I am just jealous that everyone has someone, and I dont. Blah... well... I sorta do.. but not really... I dunno.. Life is confusing! Blah.. I just sorta hate life right now, and of course Valentines Day has to fall in the middle of it all.. Eck! Thats how I feel... yah.. anyways.. on other topics.. Hmmm.. Im tired.. so I think that I might go to bed... You know.. sleep.. thats a good thing.. I havent been getting barely any of that lately.. Thats probably why I am sooo grumpy... Anyways.. one more thing.. Elly K. is on crack because we are being tested on 4 chapters! 2 days of tests... blah.. and I have a project for Randy... blah.. tomm is going to be a bad day.. I can already tell.. well.. this is a really long entry.. and I am done now.. Over and out

Memory Mania #5

I was a jock in high school.
But don't tell my artist friends that.

Memory Mania #4

"Stupid in high school"
a poegle by Megan Carney.

Robb was "stuck on stupid" in high school because his main focus was on being a star basketball player.
Sure, he had accepted Jesus into his heart.
The only reason I never did something that stupid was because I was too stupid to think of it.
The parties aren't so bad,
they can be kinda fun actually.
You could act stupid in high school and get away with it.
The only thing worse than looking stupid in high school is looking smart.
I was somehow in danger of doing both at once.
As such, knowing the math and science
that people like you thought was stupid
promised the big bucks.

Memory Mania #3

Memory Mania #2

One really stupid thing about being 13, besides getting gigantic turquoise glasses, my first bra and a huge black eye the summer before 7th grade started, were these "Middle School" dances once a month at the YMCA. It was our big chance for the girls to stand on one side of the room and the boys to stand on the other, as these rituals go.

No one danced to fast songs...ever.

The cool girls, of which I was not one, with their big bangs, stone-washed jeans and Eastland shoes, were always asked to slow dance. I was only asked to slow dance once. Some cool boys dared this other cool boy to ask very uncool, very adolescent me with my turquoise glasses to dance to this song:



And until I found out from the cool girls that he had asked me on a dare, this song was my favorite.

And because this same boy years later asked me out and I said no, it still kind of is my favorite.

The lesson in all this? The magical r&b stylings of Bonny Brown transcend the stupid kids.

Memory Mania #1

One of the perks of being the editor of your high school newspaper is being able to feature yourself on the front page.

About Face staff member: What is NEIRAD anyway?

Artistic Director Bonnie Metzgar: It's Darien spelled backward, duh.

Here's how to enter our Multimedia Art Contest:

Yeah, yeah, we know: it's cold outside and times have been rough. But remember when you were in high school and nothing could thwart your passion or contain your dreams? Now's the time to dig deep and access that inner teenager: Make something! Be fearless! Have fun! Prove to yourself and the world that you can't be stopped by sleet, snow, or cash flow. And tell your friends to vote for your submission. Heck, vote for yourself! Lucky winners will get to present or perform their submissions for Stupid Kids audiences during the final week of our run at Center on Halsted. Submissions are due by February 18, 2009.

Your submission can take whatever form you want (poetry, music, dance, visual art, photography, film, puppetry, performance art, and/or any mash-up of the above!) and must address the perils of high school and young love. It also must include, in some manner, the words "stupid kids."

Most importantly, have fun and be creative.

Guidelines and winning information:

• Submissions must be under 2 pages/2 minutes long
• Submissions may be collaborative
• You must be high school aged or older to enter
  
• Winners receive the opportunity to perform/display work at one of the performances of Stupid Kids during the final week of the run (March 4-8) at Center on Halsted in Chicago. In addition, winners receive 2 free tickets to the Stupid Kids performance the night their work is featured and some sweet swag from Time Out Chicago!

Email submissions to aboutfacetheatre@gmail.com by Wednesday, February 18th. Please put "Stupid Kids contest submission" in the subject line

Submissions can be web links or files (small ones, please)
Text can be in a word doc or in the body of an email
Photos can be jpg, jif, bmp, and png images, no larger than 8MB
Video/Music can be AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media, no larger than 100MB

Here's how to share your Stupid Kid Stuff

It's easy, we swear. Submit stupid and embarrassing stuff from your high school years: photos, anecdotes, old love letters, journal entries…whatever!

Send your stupid stuff, and a caption if you’d like, to aboutfacetheatre@gmail.com. Please make the subject line Stupid Kid Stuff so we know what we're looking at. As long as we deem your stuff appropriate, we'll post it. If you would like to be credited, that’s cool. If you don’t want to, that’s cool too.

Photos can be a file or from the web. They can be jpg, gif, bmp and png images, no larger than 8MB.

Video, if you want to be really fancy, can be AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real & Windows Media, no larger than 100MB.

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