January 2010
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WEEKEND WATCHIN’ - DEBT BEGINS AT 20 TURNS 30
Things have reached a point where just having to hear someone mention a new documentary about punk makes us want to put our head in a noose and then use that noose to swing-kick them in the chest. How many more times do we need to see Legs McNeil talking about how “visceral” Joey Ramone was? But Debt Begins at 20, Stephanie Beroes’s 1980 film about a bunch of punk kids in Pittsburgh, is a whole...
WatchElectric Independence: Xeno and Oaklander
Meet Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBridge. Together they make up the minimal synth band Xeno and Oaklander. They record in their Brooklyn studio using an arsenal of exclusively analog instruments. They’ve got a thing for electricity which they’ll occasionally express with some chit-chat about different levels of voltage. Did I mention that they’re one of the...
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HOW BONDE DO ROLE PARTIES
Remember that video we posted yesterday that VICE Brazil shot at the most recent Smirnoff Experience party in Sao Paulo? Evidently Pedro from Bonde Do Role was there shooting his OWN secret rival documentary. His is less of a general partylogue and more of a man-on-the-street type thing, but the impudence is galling all the same. We hope this doesn’t end in A VICE-vs-Bonde baille funk...
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HOW ABOUT ANOTHER HAPPY BIRTHDAY: THE BIRTHDAY...
Let’s get this Friday going with some amazing birthdays. Sound good?
Let’s get started! Cliiiiiiick heeeeeeere!
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Vice’s own drug aficionado Hamilton Morris is on... →
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Is this a DO or a DON'T?
Man. We are SO giving this one to you! Because c’mon, it’s almost Friday and we know you’ve already mentally checked out of work and any kind of logic based thinking anyway. Enjoy.
You can check out what we had to say about this baby adult here.
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HOW VICE SAO PAULO PARTIES
It’s no secret that Vice likes to have fun. We work pretty hard and so we’re constantly throwing ridiculous parties all over the globe, often for no good reason at all. Take the fun-havers in our Sao Paulo office, for instance. So often are they not working, we got to wondering what it is they actually do and just how much fun they are having. To find out we requested that they pull together...
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HUFFINGTON POST HAS A HUGE CRUSH ON US!
OK, WE don’t know if you believe in God or space shuttles or voodoo or whatever, but something really spooky just happened. About 30 minutes ago we put up a link to an interview the Huffington Post did with Shane Smith about Liberia and titled it “Huffpo Is On Our Jock.” Meaning, of course, that the Huffington Post likes our content and is promoting us, not literally that we have a boner and...
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THE PORNOGRAPHER’S MANIFESTO
A FRIENDLY VISIT WITH ANDO GILARDI, ITALY’S PREMIER CURATOR OF NAKED PEOPLE
We recently drove up through Piedmont, a couple dozen miles or so beyond Genoa, and into the sleepy northern Italian hamlet of Ponzone to meet Ando Gilardi, an 89-year-old Italian photographer, author, journalist, editor, and the perviest old perv on the peninsula—a man, we’re embarassed to admit, we hadn’t known existed...
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MAGGIE LEE'S VIDEO SALAD
Maggie Lee is one of the most adorable, talented, and enthusiastic tiny balls of joy we’ve ever met. She surrounds herself with weird ideas and even weirder people and music and then sometimes throws it all together into short videos. It’s the kind of stuff that makes you go “Huh?” but “Awwww!” at the same time!!
She sent us six of her videos to watch, and we...
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WatchTHE VICE GUIDE TO LIBERIA
In Chapter 7 of the Vice Guide to Liberia, VBS ventures to a cemetery filled with graves emptied by ex-combatants who used them as sleeping quarters. Joshua, aka Butt Naked, gives us a lesson on the consumption of human flesh before taking us to his Pentecostal church. We watch as Joshua delivers a sermon about his personal transformation from pre-pubescent murderer to...
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Is this a DO or a DON'T?
What do you think???? Tell us! As usual, don’t cheat! That shits for losers…
And then check your answers here.
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GET NAKED, SAVE YOUR LIFE
Some horn ball science writer is trying to convince everyone to get naked. From bottom to top, every article of clothing we humans wear is comes under scrutiny. Were you not wearing shoes right now, you could be taking steps to prevent Alzheimer’s later in life. By directing stimulating the soles of you feet, you excite the brain to make new, more efficient neural connections.
“What about my...
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THE LOUNGE LIZARD KING
THE RETURN OF CHRISTIAN ANDERS, THE ESTRANGED KAISER OF GERMAN POPULAR MUSIC
Of all the absurd figures Germany’s pop music scene has ever produced—and there are loads—Christian Anders is without a doubt the most ridiculous. If you believe only half of what is written in his official biography, he makes other eccentrics seem as fascinating as a paint chip. He is widely regarded as the most...
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Mining Natural Gas, Killing Dogs
A story about the screwy natural gas-drilling situation happening at the Marcellus Shale, which stretches across much of Appalachia, New York, and Pennsylvania, and could fuel the entire nation for a generation or more. If only the gas companies weren’t fucking it up all the time and killing people’s dogs and making the well water un-potable. By Seamus McGraw! Who happens also to be...
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WatchTHE VICE GUIDE TO LIBERIA - PART 1
The first video in the eight part series about our trip to Liberia! In Part 1, Vice’s own Shane Smith provides a brief history lesson and some essential context for understanding what caused Liberia’s civil war and how things got so bad. Liberia was originally planned and founded as a homeland for former slaves back in 1821. But fast forward a bunch of years and...
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WatchTHE VICE GUIDE TO LIBERIA
In The Vice Guide To Liberia, VBS travels to the capital city Monrovia to meet three men who participated in the 14 years of civil war that ravaged the West African country. Former warlords General Rambo, General Bin Laden and General Butt Naked give us guided tours of some of the most dangerous, impoverished areas including jails, brothels, and heroin dens. Despite the...
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If you want to watch a rooster crowing intensely... →
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"A BETTER WORLD"
By Blake Bailey
Blake Bailey is the author of Cheever: A Life, published earlier this year by Knopf. His previous book, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Regarding the following story, Blake tells us, “Like the narrator’s brother, Todd, my own brother took a lot of drugs and eventually killed himself in a jail cell....
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"DUDE, NO"
By Sam McPheeters
Sam McPheeters is a freelance writer living in Pomona, California. He is the former lead singer of Born Against and Wrangler Brutes, a founding member of Men’s Recovery Project, and the owner of the defunct Vermiform Records. Besides Vice, his writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, OC Weekly, the Stranger, and the Village Voice. Sam tells us that this story was inspired by...
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WatchPOWDER & RAILS - CHRIS ROACH
Chris Roach, aka the “Grasser,” feels more like he’s been paid to party than to snowboard professionally. Not bad! With an incomparable style, Chris is as talented on both a skateboard and motorcycle as he is on a snowboard. In this episode of Powder & Rails, VBS roams Roach’s backyard motocross track to talk about the role skating played in his early...
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EILEEN MYLES & JONATHAN GALASSI TALK ABOUT POETRY
Jonathan Galassi is a poet, a translator, an editor, and the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which happens to be our favorite publishing house. He previously served as editor in chief of FSG and senior editor at Random House, and he was the poetry editor of the Paris Review for a decade. When we say that Galassi has dedicated his life to the creation and fostering of...
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Is this a DO or a DON'T?
Tough call, we know. Make a decision, tell us what it is, and no cheating! Then click here to see how so, so wrong (or right) you were!
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WatchBEST OF 2009 ON VBS - DONK!
Since the advent of acid house in the late 80s, British techno music has been in a long, baffling search for some sort of universal lowest common denominator. Breakbeat, digital hardcore, and gabber all made strong efforts in the race for the bottom, but none of them holds a candle to Donk.
Combining the 150bpm madness of happy hardcore with indecipherable North...
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“THE GHOST BUSINESS”
By T. Christopher Gorelick
T. Christopher Gorelick is a mortgage underwriter by day, and by night he’s usually sleeping. He aspires to become a professional writer.
Here are the opening pages of The Ghost Business, his soon-to-be-complete cross-genre sci-fi/humor novel. This is his first time in print.
I didn’t do it. That’s what I told the cops, and it was the truth. Then how did all these...
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MIKA MIKO PLAYED THEIR LAST SHOW :`(
Mika Miko played their last show at the Smell a week ago. Our friend and VICE contributor, Nicholas Gazin, was in attendance and took some pictures. This is what he had to say: “I didn’t like the band’s name very much and so had never listened to their music. It turns out that they sound a little like X Ray Spex and a little like Bikini Kill. I still like them less than X Ray...
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TAKE THIS BLOG TO WORK- NASA GUY
Space rules. It is mysterious and vast and contains so many unknowns and if you’ve ever found yourself thinking what’d it’d be like to get stuck all alone out in that weird universe with the pressure around you sucking your insides dry, it makes you want to barf it’s so terrifying. This guy we know works for NASA, which we like to think is the annoying friend space never wanted but who just...
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"MANKIND THROUGH THE AGES"
By Scott Bradfield
Ever since awakening to this strange and forbidding dream called the 21st century, Og had been feeling crucially displaced and lonesome. One moment he was sneaking a quick nap in an icy cavern—the next he was rousing thickly among drippy stalactites with nothing but a half-eaten mastodon sandwich clutched in his drenched and hairy hands to remind him of home. Then, staggering...
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DOLPHINS: THEY SMART
Next time you’re taking bong rips and feeling incensed about weed’s criminal status, chew on this before you throw your temper tantrum: The world’s second most intelligent creature, a being that even out-does many humans in raw brain power, has literally no rights at all! Go ahead, piss and moan about the government’s shitty disregard for your feelings, but you got it good compared to dolphins....
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WE SIGNED GROWING!
Growing don’t come across as a...
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WatchTHE VICE GUIDE TO ICELANDIC ELF SEX
Iceland is a country where the majority of people believe so firmly in elves extreme measures are taken to avoid upsetting them. Sometimes that means changing a road’s path to avoid elven territory, for Hallgerdur Hallgrímsdóttir, it means boning them. Hallgerdur claims many Icelanders have been doing elves in secret for centuries. There’s even a myth covering...
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"DR. MORTON'S FOLLY"
By Richard Matheson
The term “living legend” gets tossed around without qualification all the time, but we think that the 83-year-old genius who literally wrote the horror classic titled I Am Legend has more than earned it. That book, such a good, taut, scary story in its original form, has been made into three movies. Just about every horror, fantasy, and science-fiction writer since the 1950s...
The holidays are over and it's back to work. We'll... →