interview



NAKED BEHIND THE WALL

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Reunification, woohoo! About a week ago Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of this wall thing, with Bon Jovi and Domino Stones. But it just made my mind wander back to this epoch-old question: Why the fuck are East Germans really into undressing all the time? (And hey, since we’re mentioning nudity here, that’s a cue that if you still believe in Santa Claus you shouldn’t read any further.)

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I’LL TUMBLR FOR YA

Monday, November 16, 2009

david-karpDavid Karp is 23 and the founder and creator of Tumblr, and probably everyone but my editor (even though Vice has one) knows what that is. He is also a millionaire. Which is hilarious, because when I was 23 I was running around with a rolled-up $20 bill up my nose, stealing day-old bagels from dumpsters, memorizing Nation of Ulysses lyrics, drinking midrange gin, and trying to sleep with art school girls. I was most certainly not flying around the world with my hot girlfriend being a genius. I called David up for an interview the other day to see just exactly how someone got the whole “being young and fucking smart” thing totally right.

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PSYCHOKILLER… QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST?

Friday, November 13, 2009

61870013As a young police student in the early 90s Stephan Harbort became aware of the void in the German serial killer research. Since then he hasn’t let us down when there’s something we’ve wanted to know about people who like to murder lots of other people.

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EXTEMPORANEOUSLY SPEAKING WITH ANNA JANE GROSSMAN

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Anna Jane Grossman is a newspaper journalist lady who’s written a couple books. Her latest, Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By, pretty much explains itself in the title. It’s funny and charming and smart and Anna Jane is cute, all of which tally up to lots of guys having a crush on her. She says she considers herself “someone who’s more on the literary and language appreciation side of things,” but she also is the same person who sent me a text message last night reading, “Sorry sbway took forever to come. Be ther in 2 min.” She is a woman of contradictions! No wonder she likes debates.

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1994 - MUCKING ABOUT WITH THE MEANIES

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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For the past five years The Meanies have been slaughtering audiences on a regular basis with their crazy live shows. If you’re not familiar, they are: the dreadlocked Link Meanie on vocals, Tas Meanie on guitar, Wally Meanie on bass (that’s him with the goatee in the photo up there standing next to Eddy Vedder) and Ringo Meanie on drums. Their new album 10% Weird encapsulates everything great and positive about Australian punk music right now.

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LYNCH NUT GIVEAWAY CONTEST

Friday, November 6, 2009

lynchDid you ever want to know where is the tummy in which all ideas, even thought itself, get big and ready to be born? Or more specifically, what lab David Lynch uses to cultivate perception? Easy answer: It’s called the unified field, which we talked to Lynch about in a recent interview, and if you snicker about it you’re not going to get a chance to win an autographed copy of his book Catching the Big Fish. We have five to give away.

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PLEASANT FIRESIDE CHAT OF THE DEAD

Friday, October 30, 2009

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These are the things I remember about my second year of university: not doing well in school, feigning interest in my pot delivery guy’s upcoming shows, and renting every zombie DVD within a five mile radius of my apartment.  There was a solid month or so when I scrutinized every building I saw for how zombie-proof it was.  So when I found out I could get a cool 15 minutes with the genre-inventing George Romero, not only did my second year suddenly become purposeful, I had earned a crucial connection to the man whose house is probably the most zombie apocalypse-proof building in the world.

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THE KLF BURNED IT ALL

Friday, October 16, 2009

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It’s not too early in the year to start making calls on what may possibly be the most outrageous pop-culture related act that took place this year, although it wouldn’t have mattered if this happened in February–it’d still take the cake. A couple months ago the acid house-damaged KLF burned a million quid, which is approximately all their profits from the past few years of hard work in extravagant stage productions and tedious hours of sitting in a studio popping out hit songs.

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STAN BUSH IS AN INCREDIBLY EASYGOING MAN

Friday, October 9, 2009

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I love stupid action movies– the stupider, the better.  I love needlessly ripped millionaires slurring their way through lines written for children by hacks.  I love weapon-arming montages and questions answered with explosions and painfully tacked-on love side plots and guns that always slide just out of reach.  But most of all, I love the songs in these movies–particularly the uplifting hard rock jams that play during the credits or montages of the really cheesy movies.  Thus, it follows that I love Stan Bush, and worship him as my king.

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BLACK DEATH DESCENDS UPON BERLIN

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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