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Easily one of the most hilarious, ridiculous and odd sites on the net, Everything is Terrible has made an artform of turning found footage from the 80′s and 90′s into viral videos. They just recently opened their storefront on Storenvy and are embarking on a 60 day tour to promote their new movie titled, DoggieWoogiez! PoochieWoochiez! We sat down to pick the brain of the man who calls himself Commodore Gilgamesh to see just exactly what Everything is Terrible is all about. Enjoy and beware!

For our readers that have yet to have their mind’s blown by Everything is Terrible!, can you give us a run down of what you do?
What the fuck! You haven’t had your minds blown by Everything Is Terrible!? Well, for starters, in what sort of hobbit-style hole are you dwelling? Secondly, may I come live with you in your underground home? It’s always been a dream of mine. Once we become holemates, then, oh my, I will talk all night long about the wonders of EIT! It might go a lil’ something like this, “We are a group of poochie pals who find VHS tapes. We edit them into short, comedic, psychedelic videos that we post everyday on our website, www.everythingisterrible.com. Once a year we take all of those videos and tear them apart and sew them back together to make a feature. We take that movie on very long tours, where we dress up in large furry costumes and hold the hands of our viewers as we take them on a journey into their own minds – a journey so journey that something changes. You’re never the same after EIT! That’s us!” I guess it won’t take that long to explain… I really hope that we don’t run out of things to talk about. Oh yeah! Everything Is Terrible! is trying to collect every Jerry Maguire VHS in existence!
If you were to pick one video to sum up EIT! which would it be?
Partying with Rux! I like any video that is too weird to be considered mean-spirited, too visually crazy to ever be called boring, and too short for a viewer to even consider not finishing it. Also, the transformation that we performed here from the original to the video we posted is so great! I like it when what we make it unrecognizable from its former self. Those video molecules take a fully transformative journey! I feel that this is what the videos want. This is why they were sent to us! I also believe that VHS tapes are reincarnated saints!
PARTYIN WITH RUX! from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo.
How in the world did EIT! get started and how many people work on the project?
EIT! began on the wings of a dream of a talking dog who had 7-10 pint-sized ninja kid friends. We were those ninja kids! Then we grew up and moved away from each other. We didn’t fit in our ninja robes anymore, the talking dog had passed on to the rainbow bridge, and we had all these damn VHS tapes laying around. So, we started the website to share our finds with each other, ultimately with the goal of making a movie out of them. Then all of our dreams came true!
Your latest DVD project DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! looks absolutely face melting, how long did it take to put together and where/how did you come up with concept?
Thanks! It is truly a labor of lovehate! It is by the far the hardest and dumbest thing that any of us have ever tried. We’ve been working on it for well over a year now. I spent three months living in Ghoul Skool’s closet, which we called the dog house. I slept on a yoga mat for 6 hours a night, then I spent the remaining 18 hours of everyday combing through every dogdamn dog movie and non-dog movie searching for something that was in the least bit interesting. Most people are surprised to hear that 90% of all videos have dogs in them, but they are for the most part the most boring sights that a pair of eyes could possibly process. Just the most uninspired and repetitive garbage that the most over-payed, over-privileged ‘artists’ could muster. So the next logically step for us, as dog lovers, was to use all of that filth to remake our favorite movie of all time, The Holy Mountain! We wanted to turn our culture’s shit into gold!

Tell us about the DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! Tour. What can people expect if they come to one of the tour stops and where can they purchase tickets?
We love to tour. We just love it so much. We are going everywhere, like 70 cities! People should expect the most crime-biting, all bark and all bite, paws to the walls, furtastic, night of their short lives! A tail to share with their friends’ babies! The live show is like going to Showbiz Pizza, while on a vision quest induced by 40 days of fasting, praying, and constantly ingesting peyote. That pizza is gonna taste sooooo good! RRRRUUUFFFFFFF! For information about tickets and all that, check out www.everythingisterrible.com or our facebook page! We’re gonna have so much fun together!
We’ve heard that the EIT! crew is in full costume at each tour stop. What’s the deal with costumes? Undercover mutant aliens in hiding?
Actually you heard wrong. We don’t wear costumes. We are dogs. Like i said, RUFF!
With 60 dates on the road for the DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! what are you guys looking forward to most?
We are so lucky. We get to drive around the country in a van filled with our best friends, go to every thrift store in the country (so many Jerry Maguires to be saved!), meet the nicest and coolest people ever, perform every night, and eat so much delicious pizza! I’m really excited about seeing Spokane for the first time, and returning to Toronto. We like fun!
Let’s talk EIT! merch! We must admit you guys have some hilarious merch available including the one and only Duane tee. What else can customers find in your store and should we expect and new designs in the near future?
Besides all 3 of our DVDs, which will be the best thing you’ve ever seen. We’ve got shirts, posters, stickers, and all that junk! We’ve also got a new item coming in very soon. I’ll give you a hint. It rhymes with ‘hand-sculpted dashboard duanes!’ Oh dear, and we’ve so many big plans, blacklight everything, jumbo buttons, Cousin Duane’s Olde Timey Culture Jam, yapper clappers! Someday soon all of your dreams will come true!

The floor is yours! Any last parting words or EIT! video recommendations?
Stop looking for Everything Is Terrible! It was inside of you all along. GET IT OUT! before infection sets in and then you die and go to the rainbow bridge! Love Always, Commodore Gilgamesh! www.everythingisterrible.com




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