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Cover photo by Terry Richardson (it’s his mom).
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A LITTLE “F.Y.I.” TO OUR READERS
Vice isn’t American or Canadian or British or Black or White or Right or Left. With hundreds of employees all over the world, we’re a hodgepodge of a mishmash of a melting pot. The one thing that unites us is the same thing that unites our entire generation: a seething hatred of the generation that came before us. We hate the Baby Boomers.
Your parents and our parents ruined everything and this whole issue is all about why. |
 BOOMERS WE LIKE
Seven Exceptions That Make the RuleThe boomers we like are doers, not talkers. They get up off the couch, turn off the Marvin Gaye CD, get in their Saab, and go do stuff no matter how unpopular it makes them.
Look at Bill Cosby. This giant-balled man sees a nation of black kids excited to drop out of school and pursue rap or...
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  BABY BOOMERS VS ANARCHISTS
Commodifying the outlaw undergoundFAMILY TIED:
MICHAEL GROSS IS NO STEPHEN P. KEATON
So you're like the boomer. When you open a dictionary and look under "boomer," there's a picture of you.
I was not one of those people. I was a very focused, disciplined, nose-to-the-grindstone young man and, by the mid-...
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 GENERATION MESS
Now We Have to Clean It UpWe sat down with Steve Gillon, author of Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America, and insisted he admit baby boomers are worthless piles of pedantic shit.
Vice: Look around you. How can you say the boomers did any good? They're a mess. |
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 DEAR DIARY
Entry: 19911991
Joey Dipollo came to our school to talk about AIDS. He was so cute. Me and Mia got his phone number. I feel so terrible when I really should feel happy. I fooled around with Blake (1st) and Kris H. (2nd). Now I have to choose??? Tragedy and happiness always seem to come to me in the...
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 LOOK BEHIND YOU
Boomer Nostalgia Has Become Life-ThreateningBoomers are so proud of Watergate, they've been crowing about it for 30 years. When W. Mark Felt revealed he was Deep Throat in June of this year, boomers couldn't stop themselves from filling the airwaves with stories about their past glory. Is this just harmless back-patting? Hardly. This media ma...
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 DOS & DON'TS
A lot of guys talk a big feminist game but they "pussy out" when it comes time to really please a woman. If you truly care about the systematic and relentless oppression of women you will satisfy her whenever, WHENEVER she needs it. Even on acid at nine in the morning at Glastonbury in front of doze...
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 ALL YOUR HEROES ARE DYING
Thank GodLENNY BRUCE
He was many things ... a First Amendment warrior, a womanizer, a hipster and a junkie ... but the one thing a comedian is supposed to be–funny–he wasn't. "Take away the right to say 'fuck,' " came one of Lenny Bruce's most famously self-serving lines, "and you take way the ri...
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 PARENT KILLERS
Need to Be Smart About the Next StepThe only thing worse than killing your parents is getting caught with the bodies. Here's a quick how-to on losing their remains. You will need:
1 empty bathroom, 2 dead bodies, 24 hours of uninterrupted solitude, 1 large bathtub, 1 jar Vicks VapoRub, 2 dozen heavy-duty contractor's trash ba...
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 I'M BUSTED
"I worked for Citicorp's institutional currency-trading department," says Mark the baby-boomer con. He's 46 and from Kansas. "My title was associate Vice President of Arbitage for Currency. From 1988 to 1990 I did a two-year internship with Citicorp in New York and received a Series 7 license to tra...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO KILLING YOUR PARENTS
Before we bust out the .50 caliber rifles and start shooting people from a mile away it's important to know exactly who we're talking about. Your parents, the baby boomers, are between 40 and 60 years old. They "stopped a war." They "can't rem...
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 LITERARY
Lunar Park, Roseanne, North Drive PressLunar Park
By Bret Easton Ellis
Knopf
It's been too long since Bret Easton Ellis wrote a book this good. Lunar Park is a total return to form. It might be better than the Rules of Attraction. It isn't as good as Less than Zero or American Psycho, but that's kind of OK ...
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 VICE PICTURES
Grateful Dead By Joshua TousterEven after Jerry Garcia died, the Grateful Dead just kept trundling on. And it paid off. Even without ol' Captain Trips, the average attendance for post-Garcia-death shows was 16,843. That is a lot of either very patient, very deaf, or very fucked-up-on-acid people....
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 MUM'S THE WORD
The Young Knives Leave HomeWhen you start a band, the most important people you have to convince are your parents. No one admits that but it's true. From the start, they're the ones who have to pay for your guitars and beer and ferry you to and from rehearsals. Even worse, they have to constantly make up stories about your "r...
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 SKINEMA
I was an altar boy for many years and sadly I was never molested. I feel cheated. I put in over half a decade of service and I have nothing exciting to show for it....
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 LITTLE ANIMALS
Be Your Own Pet Likes Their ParentsBe Your Own Pet is the youngest band in the world, and we think they are going to get really big. They will probably be burnt-out by the time they are 25, then have huge nervous-breakdown star-fit sort of things at 26.
For now, though, they sound like a bunch of cute young kids who would be...
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 TIDBITS
A monthly look at things we love - v12n8HEZBOLLAH FLAG
I think we're starting to realize that, fuck, America is only 5 percent of the world's population, and Bush's plan to kill every "bad guy" in the world may be a little trickier than he had originally thought. So if we do indeed lose and it comes time to surrender, DO NOT s...
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 BOOM BAP RAP
Prince Whipper Whip ReminiscesWhen you watch a movie like Wild Style, ever ask yourself what those guys are up to now? What happened to the generation of 70s park jams? Let's see, my superintendent claims he was Doug E. Fresh's DJ. Luckily, the career of Prince Whipper Whip took slightly more interesting turns. After helping inv...
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 RIGHTEOUS DAD
Gary Higgins Ain't So Bad for a BoomerGary Higgins is lucky that this whole SIX Organs of Admittance folky psychy thing came into vogue, but all these kids are also lucky that dudes like Gary existed because they wouldn't have ideas without the hip dads like Gary here. It's like the Grandfather Paradox, man. Or like the chicken and the ...
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 HOLE IN MY GENES
Thanks DadI totally trusted the people I grew up with, and never felt the need to do any testing to prove my relations to them. But when I got a new job I had one of those proper, all-round physicals. I had never had one done before, and when I was told I had some sort of cardiovascular disease I was surprise...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
Motiivi:Tuntematon, Finnish Ministry of Culture, Koneisto, Inspectah Deck, DJ Adam Freeland, Annie, Mouse On Mars,Kevin Saunderson, Roisin Murphy, Rättö Ja Lehtisalo, Russell Haswell & Hecker , Voice Crack, Autechre, Earth, Pita, Robert Hood, Whitehouse...
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 SUCK YOUR MUM
Fumin' In The Middle of Another Grime BeefWe had the first of our "HATE IS A STRONG WORD" grime nights at the Old Blue Last this month. The bar takings were down, the bouncers started crying, but at least there were three rival grime crews on stage having a huge fight. It was like the grime equivalent to the Source Awards when Suge Knight t...
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 SMASH THE SYSTEM
Jackson Bends The RulesIs there anything worse than having cool parents when you're growing up? Which ever way you try to rebel against everything they stand for, you can never win because they did it first, did it better, and did it in the 60s and 70s when it was even more shocking. Your only option is to conform and bec...
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 BRINGING IT BACK
Walk The Plank Break And EnterThe death of Liverpool's legendary HARDCORE AND punk club Planet X neartly coinicided with the mid-90s raping and murder of the UK underground by major label A&R men, beady eyes fixed on signing the new Green Day.
Even the hardcore bands from Southport with only six songs were being offered...
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 GAMES
Sid Meier's Pirates, 187 Ride Or Die, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk: Ultimate DestructionSid Meier's Pirates
Take 2 Interactive
XBOX
Genre: Action Strategy
The burning question when playing this game isn't how pretty are the graphics are or how slick the sound is. ...
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 GRIMEWATCH
With the return of REAL football, you'd think the love for grime would die down. NO! What the fuck are you on bitch!?!?!...
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 DADSNEYLAND
Welcome to the Not So Fun ParkOn a recent visit to Wellington, I had the misfortune of encountering a wall mural bearing the slogan 'We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrowed it from our children.' Damned if I didn't almost drop my cancer stick and punch the nearest organic grocer. Here in New Zealand's capita...
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 I WANT MY DVDS
Re-Visiting "Father" and The Source Family, Blood Duster: The Shape of Death to Come, Paradise Lost/Revelations: Paradise Lost 2, Punk: Attitude - A Film By Don Letts, Spend An Evening With Saddle Creek...
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 YOUNG GUNS
Smoosh Are Totally RadJust when we thought we'd found the youngest band in the world with Be Your Own Pet, we were sent an amazing album by two girls who look and sound way younger than those guys. So, we looked into it and it turns out they have BYOP beat by a mile. Asya and Chloe are a lifetime away from being able to ...
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 WILD CHILD
Tom Vek Had It GoodIt seems that UK electro-pop purveyor, Tom Vek, also has a unique angle on inter-generational relationships. See, he also likes his parents. Hmmm, what the fuck is that about? Don't get me wrong, my folks weren't the total pricks they could've been, but like any parents worth their generational salt...
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 DOOMS DAY METAL
For this months parental advisory event we're putting our money on Lords of Chaos the movie. Feral House, who published the gruesome tales of the bloody birth of True Norwegian Black Metal have optioned the filmmaking rights to ZU33. We are looking forward to seeing the results, but apparently not e...
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 THE WITTEN EFFECT
No Boom Boom Boomers in SightBenjamin Theves's love of music was awakened the same way it is for most kids, during a break dance contest to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" when he was eight. 15 years later he's about to seriously blow up with his first official release, the not electro, not techno, not house, dance floor bo...
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 EW, I SAW MY PARENTS DOING IT!
Ellen: When I got my first job I rushed home to tell my parents all about my first day at work. I had never thought of them as sexual beings and was surprised to see them in action. It seemed kind of violent, but I guess I was just stunned. I remember the smell of their bedroom....
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 VICE FASHION - BE COOL TO YOUR GRANDPARENTS
Your grandparents are really cool, and you should be cool back to them. If they are white, then they used to say things like, "Are you telling me that loan was illegal, Stan? Well, the State of Louisiana will have no part in the repayment of an illegal loan." If they are black, they are the only peo...
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