ARTICLES BY GAVIN MCINNES
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 LITERARY/I WANT MY DVDS
Book/Movie Reviews - The Kids IssueWINDY CITY HEAT
What is the funniest thing in the world? How about cruelty? How about a 12-year prank funded by Jimmy Kimmel where an innocent boob hell-bent on fame...
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  RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS
Life With the NYPDYou know what it's like to be a cop? It's boring. All you do is drive around all day and occasionally go listen to some shitty liar tell you a cockamamie story about what just happened. Then you get back into the car and drive some more. If you're lucky the monotony is broken up by a meal. If you're...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO AL JAFFEE
Al has been drawing comics for so long his hands wobble. He was there before comics were cool and he'll be there long after they're not. Actually no he won't. He'll be dead. Oh well, his work will live on forever and we were honored to be able to sit in his studio in midtown and pick his brain until...
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 THE END OF THEFT
The Microchip That's Changing the World"I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but the whole thing started when I saw that Tom Cruise movie Minority Report," says the American-born Yushi Sakamoto from his home in downtown Miami. "When they stole his kid, it almost gave me a heart attack because I have a kid that same age. That's e...
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 HEY, DOG OWNERS
Fuck YouLast year we did an article called "All Cats Must Die" where we warned cat owners that their pets' insatiable appetite for birds was about to cause an animal-nerd war. It made girls who work at hipster video stores scream at our employees about "animal cruelty" but we were right. In the past year bi...
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 TIM YO IS DEAD!
But His Magazine Keeps Changing Our LivesHow great is MRR? I grew up reading it in the 80s and I can see a lot of it in this magazine. Remember when Mykel Board said, "Rape is just physical assault, nothing more." Of course he was wrong, but who else was blowing people's minds with controversial ideas like that, in PC punk rock Berkeley no...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Music IssuePRISON STORIES
Seth is our man inside the Federal prison system, serving over 20 years for charges of LSD distribution, and also for doing what any sensible man would do when he was...
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 SPECIAL PULL-OUT POSTER:
The way you get a girl is to say, 'No problem.' Everything, no problem," says a Russian mobster named Peter that's sitting next to me at dinner. "If they late then you just have a drink alone. When they show up you say, 'Hey, don't worry about it.' And you go on with the night. Everything is no prob...
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 TRENCHCOAT MAFIA
The NEA Is Here to Shoot Up Your ClassroomIn Sacramento recently they threatened to destroy anyone who opposed them, even an eight-year-old boy (a lawsuit is pending). In Indiana they hired a tire slasher to become one of their members and he immediately got to work destroying any car owner that stood in the way. In Michigan they killed a p...
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 FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT!
Partying With the Beastie BoysAfter hearing the Beasties' new album, To The 5 Boroughs, we could only think about two things. One: "That sounded a lot like the last album only with better beats and way cornier lyrics ('On the L I'm doin' swell'?)." Two: "LET'S PARTY!" So we went to their studio to see about bringing it on. After...
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 BLACK-MARKET ARTISTS
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Underground EconomyWhere'd all the money go? We know it's still there somewhere, but where'd it go? Economists disagree as to exactly how much of our economy has gone underground, but they do agree on two major points: it is a fuck of a lot, and it's never been more. Back in the 70s only 3-5 percent of the economy was...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO HAPPINESS
Why the bummed-out face lil' guy?HEY, WHY THE BUMMED-OUT FACE LIL' GUY? ARE YOU cold? Do you have the February blues? I'm talking to you there, grumpy Gus. What's the matter? You're not happy? Why? There's no reason to be not happy. C'mon now, we can work it out. I can turn any frown upside down, just try me. You give me a reason y...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Violence IssueEgo Trip's Big Book of Racism, Despite Everything, We’re Desperate: The Punk Rock Photography of Jim Jocoy, Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of Hip Hop Photography, Painful but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge...
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 MONEY WILL MAKE THE DOG DANCE
Mexican Punks Change Art ForeverThe art in Mexico City is shit. Correction - the art in Mexico City WAS shit until a punk painter named Miguel Calderon and his buddy, video artist Yoshua Okon, rebuilt it from the ground up. Now the city is an international player with young artists getting flown up to Paris every week and retainin...
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 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Race IssueColoring the News, The Death of the West, White Riot – The Violent Story of Combat 18, Heeb: The New Jew Review, The Elementary Particles, Ryan McGinley...
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 THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ARE DEAD
Finally ZwanBack in 1990 there was a group of devoted guitarists that existed one tier above Maximumrocknroll's scene reports. They loved metal and punk rock but were combining it with hate and drugs to make sounds that were so far ahead of their time they were doomed to be misunderstood. They were either loved...
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