ARTICLES BY AMY KELLNER
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 OH, SNAP!
Rappin’ With the Rickster is the best thing to watch late at night when you’re stoned and bored. It’s the best nonporn public-access show going (unless you’re on acid and you want to have a terrifying trip, in which case we recommend Mrs. Mouth—which is an upside-down guy’s face with eyes painted below his mouth and a little wig perched on his chin talking about
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  PREPPY IN PINK
If you are a young female person in New York in 1994 and you are not wearing X-Girl, you are not cool. Does that hurt your feelings? Sorry, but it’s just a fact, and facts can hurt...
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 CATHERINE OPIE
One of Catherine Opie’s most famous photographs is Pervert, a self-portrait in which she sits topless, her head encased in a shiny black hood, 46 needles inserted into her skin in neat rows all along her arms, with the word “pervert” freshly carved into her chest in fancy script. That was the...
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 KAI KÜHNE
Every article you read about Kai Kühne these days is called something like "Wild Child Grows Up and Gets Serious!," "Tempestuous Bad Boy Makes Good!," or, as the New York Times titled their profile on him, "Can Fashion Forgive His Past?"
The answer is duh, yes, and people should drop it already. B...
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 JIM KREWSON IS PROBABLY PLAYING BANJO...
Vice: You drew all these for the Frieze Art Fair, right? Isn't it in like a teepee or an igloo or some shit? Tell all!
Jim Krewson: Um, close. It's for Dicksmrs. Gallery and it's in a yurt outside the Frieze Fair with lots of performancy things happening. I'm playing banjo for a couple o...
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 LYNDA BARRY
If you were ever a weird kid or a sad kid, you have to read Lynda Barry's comics and novels immediately because they will freak you out with how much you'll relate. It's embarrassing how many of her comics have made us get all emotional, even the funny ones. They're like repressed memories of childh...
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 A SWEDISH JAZZ-IMPROV SINGER...
Our new favorite singer is Lindha Kallerdahl, a Swedish chanteuse who combines pretty, quiet singing with these improvisational vocal stylings that, honestly, we're having a hard time describing. It's like a little bit of every kind of sound that a person can make. Shrieking, wailing, hiccupping, yo...
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 A GAY, ORTHODOX JEWISH R&B SINGER
I've known Ari Gold since we were ten. We went to an Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva together. He was my first big crush because he sang jingles for TV commercials and we both loved Madonna, which, in the Orthodox community, automatically made us freaks. And which, as I of course didn't realize at the time,...
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 A SCHIZOPHRENIC
My friend Phiiliip (yeah, spelled like that) is schizophrenic. He didn’t used to be, but he is now. It can happen to you too.
So, fine, Phiiliip is a diagnosed schizo-phrenic. He’s also a really talented musician and writer. He just happens to hear voices telling him to kill himself a lot. I as...
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 A GUY WHO PUKED ON HOLLYWOOD STARS
Vice: Why did you do this?
Jamie Taete: I was in LA and I just figured why not. It’s all people I have a fairly large problem with.
Is it real puke?...
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 A MEXICAN IN... NEW YORK
Bernardo Loyola
Vice: Hey, you work for us. What was your first impression of New York?
Bernardo: The first time I came to New York, I came for just a weekend and there was a hurricane. Hurricane Floyd or something. The city was in a state of emergency. I thought, "I'm going to live...
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 CRAZY GLU
Jessica Gysel Knows You're GayYou know that gay people recruit, right? Yeah, well, they do, and Girls Like Us Lesbian Quarterly is the perfect brochure for luring cool young women over to the dark side. It is a way classy magazine full of interviews with iconic lesbians and photos of hot, weird girls, and it's read by sma...
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 WOOOOO TANG
Jason Crombie Is Stupid as a FoxBesides, oh, I don't know, Vice, Wooooo is the coolest magazine out now. Or maybe Wooooo is a zine so we don't even have to worry about it being cooler than us until it gets bigger. Anyway, it's free and the new issue has a photo of Jerry Hsu with a lightbulb in his mouth on the cover ...
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 SUCK ON THIS
Dan Colen Chews Our Ears Off About His Gum Paintings (Get it?)The inspiration for my series of gum paintings first came to me when I was working on my papier-mâché boulders. It originated from me imagining "secret" places-in the woods, by the train tracks, in sewer ditches-where teenagers would congregate to get drunk, smoke weed, talk about the universe, and ...
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 POPPY Z. BRITE IS THE KING/QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS
The Vice InterviewPoppy Z. Brite’s early novels are full of vampires, angsty teenagers, and other beautiful, tortured creatures, often sexually ambiguous and with varying shades of flaxen, crimson, or raven hair, tangled and blowing in the hot wind. Her first two novels, Lost Souls and Drawing Blood, became instant c...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Harvester Of Sorrow IssueIF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER
This book is a bunch of bullshit. I love Belle and Sebastian more than anybody in the world probably, but here’s the thing about them: They are BORING. Beautiful music...
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