Topic: Everything is Terrible and the Quest for the Magick Crystal Tour

If you've never heard of the incredible experience that is Everything is Terrible, to put it in easily digestible terms, it's a site that turns found footage into viral videos. But that's just how WGN Morning News in Chicago described it to their work-a-day primary demographic. In essence, they take all-natural footage from real VHS tapes - the most ridiculous, terrible, corny, clueless clips - and post it on their website. There's a heavy influence on bad acting, misguided religious programming, creepy puppets, creepy kids, bad public assess programming, outdated technology and unnecessary instructional videos. It ranges from a disturbing show about a man who teaches yoga to kids on a farm with his friend, Rasta the Rastafarian Rooster, to Vincent Price promoting bad 3D technology to a video on how to make out.

What their main projects are, however, are movies. Splicing together bits of clips into something that vaguely resembles a narrative, they end up at the same time being incredibly silly, hilarious and presenting a distorted image of our misguided, takes-itself-too-seriously world. They're touring with new film, 2 Everything 2 Terrible 2: Tokyo Drift, and it's an incredible experience. I caught the first show and it was the best $10 I ever spent. Seriously. It's incredible fun. They do live bits and everything. It's a great time.

At least check out the website, but if you can, if it's at all remotely possible, you should really go see their show. They're an independent art project and they're doing something new, interesting and amazing and putting a ton of hard work (and their souls) into it, so it's really worth supporting.

Here's their tour schedule, including past dates, so you know if you missed out and can feel extra bad about it:

7/1 - Chicago, IL @ Music Box Theatre (after party @ Schubas upstairs)
7/2 - St. Louis, MO @ Antartica
7/3 - Columbia, MO @ Ragtag Cinema
7/5 - Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Cafe
7/7 - Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
7/8 - Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
7/9 - Cincinnati, OH @ Art Damage Lodge
7/10 - Columbus, OH @ Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse
7/11 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel (Underground)
7/12 - Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel (Underground)
7/13 - Detroit, MI @ Burton Theatre
7/15 - Ann Arbor, MI @ The Yellow Barn
7/16 - Cleveland, OH @ Capitol Theatre
7/17 - Pittsburgh, PA @ SouthSide Works Cinema
7/19 - Washington DC @ Solly's U Street Tavern
7/20 - Winchester, VA @ Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
7/22 - New York City, NY @ Public Assembly
7/23 - New York City, NY @ Pianos Lounge (*)
7/23 - New York City, NY @ Magnet Theater (*)
7/24 - Boston, MA @ Coolidge Corner
7/25 - Utica, NY @ The New Uptown Theatre
7/26 - Syracuse, NY @ Spark Contemporary Art Space
7/29 - Baltimore, MD @ Jesus Camp (*)
7/30 - Baltimore, MD @ 2640 Saint Paul Street
7/31 - Philadelphia, PA @ Ibrahim Theater at International House
8/2 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Varsity Theatre
8/3 - North Charleston, SC @ Olde North Charleston Picture House
8/4 - Atlanta, GA @ Plaza Theatre
8/5 - Athens, GA @ Cine
8/6 - Gainesville, FL @ Spin Cycle
8/7 - Miami, FL @ Cosford Cinema
8/9 - Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub
8/10 - Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
8/12 - New Orleans, LA @ Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
8/13 - Austin, TX @ Alamo Lake Creek
8/14 - Houston, TX @ Alamo Wesk Oaks
8/15 - San Antonio, TX @ Alamo Westlakes
8/16 - Austin, TX @ Alamo Ritz (*)
8/19 - Albuquerque, NM @ Guild Cinema
8/21 - Denver, CO @ Starz Film Center
8/24 - Tucson, AZ @ The Loft Cinema
8/26 - Tempe, AZ @ MADCAP Theaters
8/27 - San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
8/28 and 8/29 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Silent Movie Theatre (**)
8/29 - San Francisco, CA @ Red Vic Movie House
8/30 - San Francisco, CA @ Red Vic Movie House
8/31 - Fresno, CA @ The Starline
9/3 - Portland, OR @ The Hollywood Theatre
9/4 - Seattle, WA @ Central Cinema
9/5 - Vancouver, BC @ The Ridge Theater
9/8 - Omaha, NE @ Dundee Theatre
9/9 - Duluth, MN @ Zinema 2
9/10 - Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
9/11 - Madison, WI @ Project Lodge
9/12 - Milwaukee, WI @ Times Cinema

(*) - 'An Intimate Evening with Everything Is Terrible!'- no 2E2T2 screening
(**) - Everything Is Festival! - A two day extravaganza of EIT!, includes a 2E2T2 screening

Preview:
Warning: the following video contains teens necking.
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You are slowly becoming one of my favorite staff members, Zach

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I knew that would excite you.

Withdraws hand
I'm not your monkey! I'm not gonna do your dance!

Ooh, a few Florida dates.

Just maybe...

Do it, Chicken Brutus! You won't regret it! When I say "best $10 I ever spent," I say that with the fullest meaning its words could contain. THE ABSOLUTE FULLEST.

gdi, why is the only NC date in Chapel Hill? i'm nowhere near there

@theblackdragon Road trip!

Come with me, Zach. It's dangerous to go alone.

Closest one to me was 4 hours away and a week ago lol

@Brutus I totally would, but I live in CHICAGO. Home of the wind!

Darn, the closest one to me is going on now. Oh well, I try to stay as far away from UofM students as possible anyway. For the best really.

Thanks for thinking thaeir web-site though. That's good stuff.

Balls. I missed the one in Louisville already. And the one in Cincy.

There's one it Pittsburgh, but none in Philadelphia. Guess I can't attend it

@Dragoon ROAD TRIP!!!!!

Chapel Hill 'eh? Yeeeeeeeah, not happening. Takes too long to get there.

You guys are the least Road Trippin'est people I've ever met and with whom I will clearly never go on a road trip.

obviously, zkaplan, considering you're in Chicago and the rest of us ain't, lol.

Guys, come to Chicago, we can get some deep dish pizza!