The Control of Teenagers
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
2008 / Michael Hearst / Rick Moody / TCF, USA
The Control of Teenagers dances on the corpse of self-help publishing;
The Control of Teenagers eschews the verb form "to be," at least in all public descriptions; no actual teenagers were harmed in the course of the recording The Control of Teenagers, and at no time was an actual teenager present; The Control of Teenagers cuts things up, assembles them at random, and then breaks for lunch; The Control of Teenagers features the concealed voice of at least one celebrated NPR personality; The Control of Teenagers believes in the transmigration of souls; "The Control of Teenagers" depends on the Orange Vocoder; The Control of Teenagers avoids public nudity and obscenity; The Control of Teenagers, amounts to the last in a series; The Control of Teenagers returns to the negotiating table; The Control of Teenagers once gamboled in open fields; The Control of Teenagers has been there and done that.
The Control of Teenagers was produced for the 2008 ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Ephemera
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Michael Hearst is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer.
Rick Moody is the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a volume of essays On Celestial Music and Other Adventures in Listening.
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