// And on the third day… Booyah!

By Jeff Dryer .
03.15.10 // Booyah!

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// INVINCIBLE

By Jordan Childs .
03.15.10 // Best Day Ever

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// The Only Part of Your Body That’s Not Living Has The Ability To Give You Your Best Day Ever

By Jake Dubs .
03.14.10 // Best Day Ever

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// Best Day Ever

By Elektrovideo .
03.13.10 // Best Day Ever

One time, my mother came home with a little baby kitten. She handed him straight over to me and said, “Your father and I have been talking and we think you’re old enough and responsible enough to take care of an animal. She’s yours now.” It was the best day EVER!! “We’ve also decided to get divorced and your father will be moving out of our house – that’s right – our house so he can get an apartment on the outskirts of Reno and be be closer to that damn, godless woman he has impregnated.”

And that, friends, is the real, true story of how I met Mr. Sniffles!

Comments / Mar 13.10 / Best Day Ever / by Elektrovideo

// I want to know what the best day ever smelled like.

By Ben Cheney .
03.13.10 // Best Day Ever

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// Hey Powerglove…

By Jeff Dryer .
03.11.10 // Best Day Ever

Hey Powerglove where the fuck did you come from? 1988? Fred savages 10 year old arm? Alright, well get in this picture were taking right now. A little to the left Power glove…

oh shit Matt, this is the best day ever…

Comments / Mar 11.10 / Best Day Ever / by Jeff Dryer

// The Best Damn Thing!

By Joey Camire .
03.09.10 // Best Day Ever

Some things in life are so good it feels like time slows down.

The Best Damn Thing! from Blommit on Vimeo.

Comments / Mar 09.10 / Best Day Ever / by Joey Camire

// The Little Guys

By Alex Aloise .
03.08.10 // Best Day Ever

I’m watching the Oscars right now as I write this.

For all of the obvious stars in attendance, this show is more or less expected for them.

It’s their job to become famous enough to be seen at the Oscars one day.

For the really big stars, it’s a surprise if they’re NOT at this type of show.

But for the “smaller” folk in the audience, this is as good as it will ever get for them.

The set designers, make-up artists, sound mixers, and the like.

These are the people who work their entire careers to have their name announced.

It’s the only way most people will ever know their name.

Imagine that for a second.

Everything you ever dreamed of, everything you ever worked for…

All boiled down to one brief moment of recognition.

If that were your life would it automatically rank as your best day ever?

It’s hard to think that anything would ever top it.

You’ve reached the pinnacle, the top of your career.

There is nowhere left for you to go, professionally.

You’ve earned your place at the podium.

Just don’t let it get to your head.

Remember your spot on the Hollywood food chain.

And when you pick up your award, don’t forget, you’ve only got 45 seconds.

There are more important things to get to.

Like Taylor Fucking Lautner introducing a tribute to Horror films.

Because that makes sense.

So enjoy it, you little winners.

This is the moment of your life.

Comments / Mar 08.10 / Best Day Ever / by Alex Aloise

// Go Dawgs

By Elektrovideo .
03.06.10 // dogs

“Mommy, tell me the story of how you met daddy.”

“Honey, I’ve told you a million times. Why do you want to hear it again?”

“Because. I like it.”

“Well, alright.”

“It was the fall of 1984 and I was rushing Chi Omega at UGA (go Dawgs!) One of the

funny things  the older girls would do back then is they would blind fold us and drive us

far, far away from campus to a desolate spot in the Appalachian foothills. Then, they’d

give each of us  a pocket  knife, Slim Jim, some lighter fluid and a box of matches before

waving and  driving away! The girl with the least amount of scruples would make it

through the  winter as starvation set in and cannibalism presented itself as the only option

for survival.  Well,  everyone polished off their Slim Jims pretty quick and so it was just a

matter of  time before the weaker girls expired and mommy was left  with no choice but

to use the flesh of their carcasses as nourishment.”

“And then what happened?”

“Well, just as mommy was running out of food, she saw the unmistakably wonderful

sight of a fraternity party bus cresting the hill. As they loaded my frail and considerably

weakened body into the bus, your father introduced himself to me and offered me a glass

of  watermelon punch mixed with Everclear. He tucked my stringy, blood-caked hair

behind my ears and told me it was called, “Hunch Punch” and that it was funny because

he just had a ‘hunch’ about  us. And that, as they say, was history!”

Comments / Mar 06.10 / dogs / by Elektrovideo

// Parental Training Wheels

By Joey Camire .
03.04.10 // dogs

There are a lot of major life stages that we go through as humans. Often the changes during transition periods are huge and can be monumentally stressful or trying. Moving from kindergarten to first grade was a big one, and then middle school to high school was another. In that vein striking out on your own as you head towards college was, albeit awesome in many ways, a very large transition in its own right. As soon as college is finished you’re welcomed with a cold, dripping wet hug from the real world. Heart warming. Not to mention all the major transitions you’ve made in relationships, first kiss, all the other bases, first heart break, long distance, short distance, it’s complicated, friends with benefits, she’s just not that into you, one night stands… You get the point. But through all of these major shifts and transitions you never really get any preparation for what’s to come. The closest thing you get to preparation is John Hughes movies to help ease the transition. The one area of difference, where you can prepare in advance in a sort of intermediary phase, is parenting.

Tatiana, my lovely lady friend, and I have three dogs. They are all sorts of hybrid mutt monsters. Three slovenly little soldiers of fortune who found their way into our lives by exploiting our soft empathetic ways. It’s true, they’re all mutts, rescues of one sort or another, that were not planned for. They are basically the equivalent to “Whoops!” babies and “pill beaters” in the canine form. Now, I don’t pretend they are human, they don’t own any clothes or coats or boots. I don’t take them to dog events or feed them some sort of ridiculously expensive food. But I do think they can be like training wheels for parenting if you take dog ownership seriously.

Don’t confuse what I’m trying to say, I learned WHAT it is to be a parent from my own mother and father, but I’m learning loosely HOW to be a parent from my dogs. I’ve been formulating this opinion for a little while now. It happens in the small day to day interactions when you see you’ve actually learned some things. I’ve made a list of some of the things I’ve learned, a sort of “Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten” list, but with dogs. I encourage you to disagree with me, or call me a creeper, or a nutcase.

Love And Responsibility
I’ve always been a responsible person. Of course I’ve had my lapses of judgement, keg jousting is a great example, but I usually get things done. However, it is a whole new level of responsibility to have someone’s survival, other than your own, resting on your shoulders. It’s not just a matter of feeding them, it’s a matter of adding as much consistency to their lives as possible to keep them balanced. And the love that comes back your way from accomplishing that is a whole new kind of love.

Stability
The dogs have had a stabilizing effect on my life. A sort of grounding if you will. They force me to come home and take care of them, when I might have otherwise not returned to my apartment other than to sleep.

Fundamentals Of Discipline
I don’t pretend that disciplining a dog is anything like disciplining a child, but its a great start. It teaches you to analyze a problem behavior, find the root, and fix it. The lack of verbal communication forces you to be consistent. Whether this will come in handy when my kids get in trouble at school for blowing an entire pouch of fundip up their nose, I’m not sure. But I’d like to think so.

Quality Of Face Time
Dogs aren’t willing to take a call from you as a substitute for spending time with them. You realize the importance of in vivo interactions. I’m sure most children wouldn’t want to make that substitute either. We’re all still animals right?

Remind You Of Your Mortality
There is something about being responsible for someone else that reminds you of your own mortality. I believe, from conversations with friends, that this is one of the biggies in the transition into parenting. While I expect it to get worse, the dogs have already softened that blow for me.

Humility
There is nothing like picking up dog poop every day to really bring you down to earth. Or waking up on Saturday morning at 7 o’clock, hungover and disoriented, to a vomiting dog to really take you down a notch.

Simplicity
For the most part, a nice rawhide aside, dogs don’t really want for much. They would much rather just spend time with you. You can buy them all the most ridiculous toys or treats but more often than not, they’d rather just be in your company. There is something to be said for that.

Forgiveness
Inevitably, you fuck up. And dogs don’t let it slide, they can hold grudges that usually means something gets chewed up, but they always let it go. I’m still learning this one for myself.

Empathy And Affection
Of course I understood this one before getting my dogs, but not fully, not in the way that others can need your affection. That their lives get progressively worse if you don’t give it. And that sometimes, even when you aren’t feeling that way, you need to be, or at least fake it.

I had more one the list, but they were just little things like “Love without judgement” or “Trust is earned” and I think most people already get that, and if they don’t a dog won’t change things.

So do you think I’m on of the crazy ones? The “freaky dog people”? The oddities? Or can you see the merit in what I’m saying? That you can become a better parent when it matters, by loving a dog now. It’s just another example of dogs being man’s best friend. A case of Fido taking all the bruises from falling off the bike while you are learning, so your kids won’t have to. I guess the real way to find out if this is true is to ask my children whenever it is that I have them. I’ll show them this in 20 years, long after all my dogs have passed, and I’ll ask “How do you feel about Ragamuffin, Diablo and Gus now?”  That’ll be the real test.

(I’ve also added a few of the videos I’ve done with the dogs below so you can get a feel for our monsters.)

What Does Your Dog’s Voice Sound Like? from Blommit on Vimeo.

Humans 1 – Dogs 0 from Blommit on Vimeo.

Comments / Mar 04.10 / dogs / by Joey Camire