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Cover photo by Ryan McGinley.
That’s a floral arrangement that looks like a poodle. We saw it on our friend Amy’s website and decided we love it. It is one of our favorite things right now.
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 HERE COME THE REGULARS
Hundreds of Things, Objects, Doodads, and Stuffs
We started a new column called Tidbits back in October of 1996 because the magazine was getting so negative that we needed to balance it out with "A Monthly Look at the Things We Love." Of the 869 we've run since then, 144 have been actual things that we do tr...READ MORE |
  VICE MAIL
Letters - The Tidbits Issue
A Song for 'Tasha, Latino Defense League, Bitter in Belfast, ...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Tidbits Issue
THE TOTO CHLOE BIDET SEAT
"I bought Adam Carolla one of these because he kept saying wiping his ass was 'like getting peanut butter out of a shag carpet.' He swears by it."...READ MORE |
 DOS & DON'TS
The longer Johnny Cash lies dead the more obvious it becomes the Man in Black rules everything around us. As his last days approached, the country-music industry blew him off and told him he was no longer relevant to the modern world. Then he got together with...READ MORE |
 BITS AND BOBS
Chloe Sevigny's Fave Stuff
NAMETAG
I collect the little place settings they put down at dinners and awards shows and stuff. I like this one because it was misspelled. It was at a Whitney Museum gala....READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - WHITE HORSE
Photos by Roe Ethridge
Lizzi Bougatsos is the lead singer for Gang Gang Dance. She has a really cool voice that's sometimes Yoko Ono and sometimes Kate Bush, but then it's weird because when she talks she has the thickest Long Island accent ya evah hoyd. ...READ MORE |
 READING RAINBOW
Ryan McGinley's Bookshelf
CRACKERS
by Ed Ruscha (Heavy Industry: 1969)
Ryan: "This is a rare Ed Ruscha book. It's almost like a photo flipbook. Two men go into a hotel room and make this woman lie down on a bed covered with lettuce. Then they pour a huge thing of oil and v...READ MORE |
 BAD KIDS
David Choe's JD Tools
These first two items pretty much saved my life for a few years back in the day. One's a broken heavy-duty magnet and the other is a dollar bill with some tape on the very tip to stretch it out an extra foot. If you can't figure it out by now, you probably are...READ MORE |
 AMY KELLNER'S TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Tidbits Issue
HAUNTED JEAN JACKET
I think this jacket is really funny, but I have it hanging near my bed and sometimes in the dark it looks like a scary old-man face and it gives me nightmares....READ MORE |
 HOTEL LIFE
Mike Skinner Works In His Room
APOGEE MINI-ME
This is the smallest high-end input channel I can travel with. It has the same components as the big studio I have at home, but it can fit in a suitcase. Look at the knobs on the side. They're bent because Virgin aren't so good with ...READ MORE |
 TECH NERD
Nick Zinner Steps on Pedals
ZOOM RHYTHMTRAK RT-123
This is my favorite cheap drum machine. You can program in your own patterns with not only the many different drum sounds, but also the bass and keyboard sounds. Lots of Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs feature a keyboard sound from thi...READ MORE |
 DRUM-DRUM
Chris Corsano and His Kit
Chris is the best drummer we know. He plays with people like Thurston Moore, Six Organs of Admittance, and Jandek, but he also goes much deeper than that with his combos Flaherty/Corsano and Vampire Belt....READ MORE |
 CHRIS NIERATKO'S TIDBITS
A monthly look at things we love - v12n11
MAMMY LABEL
I don't even know what product this label is from. I just bought it because it reminded me of my friend Clyde's sense of humor. He may be the funniest kid I know. He'll say shit like, "Want to see a funny picture of me?" Then he'll poin...READ MORE |
 HEY, WHAT'S IN YOUR BAG THERE, HUH?
Fred
Postcards: "I'm originally from France. I pick these up to write folks back home."
Journal: "Mostly I just put my ideas in here, but sometimes I write about things that have happened. It's all in French, though, see?"...READ MORE |
 LESLEY ARFIN'S TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Travel Issue
Here are some of the volumes that I mine for "Dear Diary" material. These are all the best-looking ones. Most of the others are just marble notebooks with weird scrawlings on them that even I can't read....READ MORE |
 THESE ARE POLAROIDS OF FUNNY SIGNS
"I've been collecting Polaroids of funny signs since I was 13 years old. The past few years have really helped my collection because I've been touring with my band Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops, and Europe is filled with weird words. Here're some of my faves...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO BRITISH CUISINE
By Billy Bragg
When people come to visit me from America, I often take them to a place where there are these amazing standing stones. It's like Stonehenge, but bigger. This stone circle is so enormous that there's a village in the middle of it. It's called Avebury. I always ...READ MORE |
 A MILLION LITTLE GROSS JARS
A dedicated reader in San Francisco keeps an assortment of gross jars in her house. Here they are...
A few months ago I was keeping a huge, oozy garden slug in a jar along with a few daddy longlegs and some vegetation. One day I noticed the slug was secre...READ MORE |
 IDLE HANDS
Make Cool Shit Like This
Going to jail in Durango, Mexico is easy l.i.v.i.n. It's actually not even really punishment at all, which makes one wonder how a handful of murderers, drugs dealers, rapists, child molesters, and petty thieves can ever get rehabilitated. Guess what? They can'...READ MORE |
 I'M BUSTED
Tidbits Issue Special
In prison there are serious restrictions on prisoners' personal property. In the world, people tend to accumulate things as they get older, but in prison convicts are expected to live decades of their lives and not accumulate any belongings. Not that there's t...READ MORE |
 SEVEN INCHES, HARDCORE
A Piece of One Man's Collection
1. Against The Wall, Identify Me (Nemesis Records, 1989)
2. Assuck, Necro Salvation (Rigid Records, 1989): All those bands in Tampa thought they were on some "real music" shit and looked at Assuck as something funny. What's funny is how Assuck went...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
The top six Electric Independence things of 2005. Break it down...
Vitalic
OK Cowboy
Odd: I played this to death every day up until its April release. Since then I’ve hardly touched OK Cowboy, but I still adore it. What initially a...READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - THE TIDBITS ISSUE
Photos by Taz Darling
Vincent is the lead singer from Vincent Vincent & The Villains. They've got a new single called "I'm Alive" out on Young & Lost Club Records in January...READ MORE |
 GAMES
Shadow The Hedgehog, Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood & Peter Jackson's King Kong
SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG
The doctor told me to stop playing computer games in 1999 because he said a lot of the games brought on my epilepsy and I’d just blackout if the graphics got too freaky. I could always tell if I was going to have a fit, it’s lik...READ MORE |
 WORD NERD
John Safran's Scrabble Paraphernalia
SCRABBLE RUG
I bought this on eBay for a friend's wedding present. It took months and months to arrive so it didn't make it in time. It's a workable board and has a Scrabble Brand sticker of authenticity on the back....READ MORE |
 CHEAP FOR YOU
A Bunch of Crap from the Streets of Vietnam
A friend and I went to Vietnam recently and encountered hundreds of people trying to sell us things we didn't need. We spent most of the time actively avoiding persistent vendors but then decided to play a game one day where we bought every single thing that w...READ MORE |
 SNAKES AND LADDERS
Eva Watson's Stolen Tidbits
MANHUNT
This is a little thing I got from work. There were heaps of them just laying around and no one else knew how to use them. I'm broke so I took them all so I'd never have to buy batteries. It works basically by changing your voice into that o...READ MORE |
 LOST & FOUND
Oren Ambarchi's Flotsam & Jetsam
Oren Ambarchi is a ridiculously prolific musician and sound artist from Sydney (now Melbourne) who has played with everyone from Keith Rowe to 60s psych titans, Parson Sound. In his spare time he plays with his bands Super Stupid and Menstruation Sisters and r...READ MORE |
 TRASH 'N' TREASURE
Darren Cross's Op-Shop Scores
Darren plays in the band Gerling. You can finally see them again at the Big Day Out in Jan...READ MORE |
 HEY SEXY
Cat5 Flirt Back
Cat 5 cables are high-speed Ethernet cables that audiophiles twist into pretty multi-coloured braids to create sound so delicate you or me would never hear the difference. Cat5, the band, are tech nerds, but they're also girls, so they took their name from Han...READ MORE |
 DOOMSDAY METAL
NIFELHEIM
Nifelheim are planning a mini tour through Finland on January 19 to 21, and a live performance in London on February 4. There is also a split with Brazilian Vulcano, which will be "fucking grim," and a full-length album is planned for rel...READ MORE |
 HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS
Fox'n'Wolf Are A Little Bit of Both
If Crass, Michael Jackson, and Leila K had a threesome and gave birth to a kid it would be Fox'n'Wolf. And they get bonus points for turning into a sugar sweet, cutesy version of GWAR live-there are masks, and Fox does things chicks usually only do in crunk vi...READ MORE |
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