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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 REGULARSHundreds of Things, Objects, Doodads, and StuffsWe 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 truly love (like Gold Bond Medicated Powde... | |
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  VICE MAILA Song for 'Tasha, Latino Defense League, Bitter in Belfast, ... | |
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 THE TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v12n11THE 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."
JIMMY KIMMEL... | |
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 DOS & DON'TSThe 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 Rick Rubin and did a four-album deal th... | |
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 BITS AND BOBSChloe Sevigny's Fave StuffNAMETAG
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.... | |
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 VICE FASHION - WHITE HORSELizzi 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. Gang Gang Dance's album, God's Money, is out now on Social Registry.... | |
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 READING RAINBOWRyan McGinley's BookshelfCRACKERS
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 vinegar on her and then they leave. Kind ... | |
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 BAD KIDSDavid Choe's JD ToolsThese 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 aren't criminally inclined.... | |
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 AMY KELLNER'S TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v12n11HAUNTED 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.... | |
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 HOTEL LIFEMike Skinner Works In His RoomAPOGEE 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 luggage handling.... | |
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 TECH NERDNick Zinner Steps on PedalsZOOM 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 this, like "Rich" and "Maps." I like runnin... | |
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 DRUM-DRUMChris Corsano and His KitChris 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.... | |
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 CHRIS NIERATKO'S TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v12n11MAMMY 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 point to a picture of a monkey. The guy at t... | |
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 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?"... | |
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 LESLEY ARFIN'S TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v12n11Here 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.... | |
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 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."... | |
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO BRITISH CUISINEBy Billy BraggWhen 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 take American bands who came over to the... | |
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 IT'S A RACIST, RACIST WORLDA good third of the Tidbits people send us have some kind of racial implications-usually black. Here're the funniest ones.... | |
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 A MILLION LITTLE GROSS JARSA 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 secreting a heavy amount of bubbly slug s... | |
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 IDLE HANDSMake Cool Shit Like ThisGoing 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't. They go to jail for whatever reason, ... | |
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 I'M BUSTEDTidbits Issue SpecialIn 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 that much to accumulate. Most necessities... | |
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 SEVEN INCHES, HARDCOREA Piece of One Man's Collection1. 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 down in history and the others were... | |
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCEThe top six Electric Independence things of 2005. Break it down...
Vitalic
OK Cowboy
PIAS/Citizen
Odd: I played this to death every day up until its April release. Since then ... | |
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 VICE FASHION - THE TIDBITS ISSUEVincent 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.... | |
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 GAMESShadow The Hedgehog, Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood, Peter Jackson's King KongShadow The Hedgehog
Sega
PS2, Xbox
Genre: Platform
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. ... | |
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 WORD NERDJohn Safran's Scrabble ParaphernaliaSCRABBLE 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.... | |
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 CHEAP FOR YOUA Bunch of Crap from the Streets of VietnamA 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 was offered to us at the original asking ... | |
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 SNAKES AND LADDERSEva Watson's Stolen TidbitsMANHUNT
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 of a kidnapper but it doesn't really frea... | |
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 LOST & FOUNDOren Ambarchi's Flotsam & JetsamOren 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 runs the What Is Music? Festival. Oh, thi... | |
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 TRASH 'N' TREASUREDarren Cross's Op-Shop ScoresDarren plays in the band Gerling. You can finally see them again at the Big Day Out in Jan.
The new album GERLING4 is set for release early 2006.... | |
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 HEY SEXYCat5 Flirt BackCat 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 Hanna's cat, who can do a proper high five ... | |
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 DOOM'S DAY METALNIFELHEIM
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 release on June 6, 2006.... | |
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 HUNTERS AND COLLECTORSFox'n'Wolf Are A Little Bit of BothIf 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 videos. Fox'n'Wolf's debut album, In Yr Un... | |
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