Teen Angst A-Go-Go! Friday, July 3, 2009
Life sucks when you're a teenager, at least according to teenagers. What with all the drama to keep up with on MySpace and the fact that Dad put a GPS tracker on your cell phone (Dad!!!), there's never been a worse time to endure adolescence. So come with me back to a more innocent era, the 20th century, when the daily life of teenagers wasn't documented in real time by Twitter posts about Facebook, but in the pulp-paper pages of comic books. In "Teen Angst A-Go-Go!," Captured Aural Phantasy Theater reads verbatim from mid-century comics, vintage-radio-show-style, to illustrate that, while the pop-culture medium may change, the message is the same: Teenagers are solipsistic idiots. LOL! Alexandria Hotel, Palm Court Ballroom, 501 Spring St., downtown; Fri.-Sat., July 10-11 & 17-18, 8 p.m.; $10. www.myspace.com/capturedauralphantasy. (Originally published in L.A. Weekly, July 10, 2009.)
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