VICELAND TODAY

HERB BROWN IS A PAINTER, TALKER

Herb Brown has been desecrating billboards since Neckface’s dad was scribbling his name on the inside of his father’s testes. Back in the early 60s he acquired tons of enormous subway ads and transformed them into raunchy bedroom scenes and hilarious jokes the likes of which would not be out of place on the pages of a well-loved 8th-grade History textbook. Unfortunately, Brown’s work was deemed way too raunchy and hilarious (and also “obscene”) by the shining lights of the New York art-gallery establishment, who refused to exhibit his giant pieces. Read the rest of this entry »

WHO WANTS TO BE AUX RAUS?

Aux Raus are a pair of goofs we know who make their own distinctive brand of irritating dance music that is basically gabber but funnier. Pardon, intentionally funnier. Here’s one of their songs: Read the rest of this entry »

THESE NEW PURITANS AND THEIR MASSIVE GONG

The Vice London office is into a lot of bands we’d charitably describe as “not our thing.” One gaping asshole of an exception is These New Puritans. We are so lodged on those guys’ jock we even ran a bunch of blurry pictures they took when they toured Russia. Read the rest of this entry »

THE SCIENCE OF THE CREATION MUSEUM

The Creation Museum is a huge, fancy structure in Kentucky dedicated to teaching the world about “creation science”. Creation science, in a nutshell, is taking what is written in the book of Genesis literally. Even though what is written in the book of Genesis goes against anthropology, archeology, biology, zoology, geology, astronomy, cosmology, paleontology, and common sense-ology. Which, essentially, makes it a $27 million kid sticking its fingers in its ears and saying, “Nyah-nyah-nyah, I can’t hear you!” Read the rest of this entry »

HEATH LEDGER WAS A SKATER

We’re not used to taking reading suggestions from ESPN, but this book of photos culled from Logan Kincade’s archive looks pretty solid, even if putting a skateboarding Heath Ledger dressed as Gallagher on the cover seems a little gimmicky. Fuck it, we’ll just say Chris Nieratko told us about it. And also that he sent us the link to his interview with Logan about skateboarding with Heath and making Josh Hartnett look like an asshole.

WHY NOT HAPPY BIRTHDAY: THE BIRTHDAY SHOW?

Strange birthfellows on today’s episode of Happy Birthday: the Birthday Show. Click through to hear them…

If you’ve got an upcoming birthday, a musical request, a video request, something to say, a bone to pick with someone, or you’re just relentlessly lonely, please contact Happy Birthday: the Birthday Show at vice@viceland.com and we’ll see what we can do. Happy Birthdays!

TRADITIONAL COMICS

Traditional Comics is a comic imprint that Benjamin Marra made up to put out his comics. This is a commercial they ran last night during the Superbowl (on youtube), and which we estimate will probably help boost their sales by at least 34 copies. So far there they’ve only got two titles, but they are both some of our all-time favorite comics of the last year. Read the rest of this entry »

THE GLASSING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

Drunk British people love smashing things into each other’s face so much that somebody has invented a new pint glass that won’t break even if you plunge it into some poor cunt’s face at 2 AM in the street outside a bar where you can get triple shots of spirits for £5. How much do Brits like me love casual acts of extreme violence? Well here’s something to take into account: There are 87,000 deliberate glassings a year in the UK, which is roughly 4,000 more glassings than America has gunshots, both intentional AND accidental. Read the rest of this entry »

KILLER COKE EXPLAINED

When I was in Boston a few days ago there were guys handing out fliers at the bus station that said “BAD COCAINE ALERT!” warning people to seek medical attention if their coke/crack was making them sick. By now you have probably heard that almost 1/3rd of the cocaine circulating the US, Canada and maybe the world is contaminated with a (potentially) poisonous veterinary deworming agent called levamisole. It has already killed several people and made many more people sick. Levamisole causes a condition called agranulocytosis which means that it kills white blood cells which are a necessary part of your body’s immune system and prevent small things like a sore in the mouth from escalating into deadly infection. In addition to temporarily AIDS-ifying your immune system, levamisole may also make cocaine more cardiotoxic and increase risk of seizures, meaning that it has three potential way of killing you. Read the rest of this entry »