Can you imagine what it feels like to go from the James Dean of Shanxi Province to the laughingstock of Dolores Park in the space of a single plane ride? It's like realizing the whole room knows you're stoned, only instead of six or seven people you thought were your friends, it's an entire culture.Comments/Enlarge |
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Covers by Jim Krewson, David Choe, Milano Chow, and Johnny Ryan. We made four scary
mask covers this month and if you don't collect them all, you don't really love Halloween.
VICE MAIL Letters - The Fear Issue Beam Up, Kimmy!, Pigs Are People Too, Opium, Schmopium, Dept. of Boring Broken Records, Mushroom Rights, A Mason-Dixon Line of the Mind, Delayed Reaction, the Rising Amero, Fisk: God?, Color Us Intrigued...READ MORE
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ARE EVIL TROLLS WHO LIVE ABOVE BRIDGES, UNDER THE SUN They're out there, but not in the darkness. Their lairs are well lit, under the rude, barging glare of fluorescent tube lights. Their skin is pasty gray, almost the same color as their cubicle walls. They've conditioned their bodies to run efficiently on starc...READ MORE
BLOODY, HAIRY, AND HOT No More Sexy Cat Costumes for Girls You can't just slap on some cat ears, eyeliner whiskers, slutty spandex, and call it Halloween. That shit's for pussies (har har). You wanna be like Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls when she shows up as a green-faced, snaggle-toothed witch at the costume par...READ MORE
CONCLUSIVE PROOF That There Is No God and Humans Are Essentially Evil Meet Pony. She is an orangutan from a small village in Borneo, where they cut down the rain forest to render the palm oil that gets sold abroad and made into lip salve, ice cream, chocolates, and cheese crackers...READ MORE
STREET POLL What Is Your Greatest Fear? Zander: Sharks. You don't see it coming. It's so dark and the shark has all the power. The shark has all the cards. You are powerless in the ocean. Kourosh: Monotony. Being the same and doing the same thing every day...READ MORE
A NIGHTMARE ON ME STREET Six Hypnagogic Hallucinations and One Guy Who Peed on His Gran I suffer from sleep terrors. It's a more physical version of nightmares where you act out what you are dreaming. Apparently it's caused by anxiety. There have been cases of people committing stabbings and murders in their sleep. It gets pretty extreme. Persona...READ MORE
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko THE XXXORCIST
Have you ever felt real disappointment in your life? Something so tragic that you thought, “I will never be able to recover from this?” I have. Twice now. Both at the hands of...READ MORE
IT HAPPENED: John Mark Karr Was My Friend I met John Mark Karr one summer in Paris when I was 18. I had a grant from school to write short stories set in France. Never did it, of course, but who cares! I was too busy making friends with a self-professed killer/alleged pedophile and letting him stroke ...READ MORE
HAMAS VS. FATAH Pick A Side! Young Palestinians basically have two choices: Die for Fatah or die for Hamas. It's kind of like the extreme political bipolarity in America, except instead of incessant bitching from armchairs, everyone has AK-47s, hates Israel, and might kidnap your family j...READ MORE
SHREDDED BY WAR British Soldiers Are Coming Home in Pieces Andy Julien was 18 years old and had been serving in Iraq for two months with the Queen’s Royal Lancers when his Challenger tank came under fire south of Basra. Andy and Lance Corporal Daniel Twiddy had been asleep on top of the tank when they were...READ MORE
SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE By Stephen Lea Sheppard This is our new video-game reviews column written by Stephen Lea Sheppard, the actor behind two of our favorite characters of all time. First he was Harris Trinsky, the wise-beyond-his-years, flowing-haired Dungeon Master in Freaks & Geeks, then D...READ MORE
TIDBITS A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Fear Issue RADIOACTIVE TOYS
Ever since that Chinese guy blew his head off after getting caught painting 18 million toys with toxic paint, all the toy makers over there have decided to avoid any confusion...READ MORE
VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S LISTS 15 Strange Stories The Fortean Times: The World of Strange Phenomena is a monthly magazine of news, reviews, and research on all types of unusual experiences. It is named after philosopher Charles Fort (1874-1932), who thought that data that did not fit the scientific n...READ MORE
WAR RESISTANT The Stories of Five Members of the American Military Who Have Chosen to Seek Asylum in Canada Rather Than Continuing to Fight the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan As soon as I started high school, in a small town in Florida called Live Oak, I signed up for the ROTC. I had a pretty big misconception of what the military was really like...READ MORE
DREAM CATCHER EARRINGS Pocahaunted Get Allergies in the Woods Pocahaunted make creepy music that eats away at your ears like a plague-ridden tapeworm. It's all low-level drones and voices from beyond the pale that clunk along in a shambolic, rootsified manner that Devendra and his band of catamite followers could only dr...READ MORE
VICE FASHION - RAELIAN GIRLS Embassy for our Alien Forefathers On December 13, 1973, French journalist, singer, songwriter, and race-car driver Rael was on his way to work. He saw a strong flashing light in the sky. A shiny metal object appeared and floated down. The trapdoor slowly opened, and an alien being greeted Rael...READ MORE
VICE PICTURES Black Antibellum Car Shows by Harmony Korine These pictures are from an upcoming book that will come out later in the year. A lot of the people in these pictures are from a local gang in East Nashville that consists mainly of thugs who are obsessed with the movie "Chucky." They ride around in Caprice whi...READ MORE
WHERE DID OUR WAR GO? A Vet Vets Hollywood's Take on Nam Patrick McAleveay enlisted in the US Army in August 1966, when he was 18. He served until August 1969. His unit (part of the Army’s 9th Division) took part in the fighting in and around Saigon during the Tet Offensive of 1968. He was wounded on Valentine...READ MORE
RECORDS Music Reviews - The Fear Issue 50 CENT
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50’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ is this generation’s The Chronic—let’s put that out there right now. But the Gorilla Unit boss has been falling off ever since...READ MORE
HAPPY FLOWERS Make Fear Disappear So often, people go on about how crap and terrible our society has become that it's a welcome relief to suddenly find something nice to cheer you up.
I was out driving today when I noticed some flowers attached to the railings...READ MORE
HORROR SHOW Surviving Serious Burns With Ipso Facto Southend-On-Sea is a portal to another topsy-turvy dimension where all the kids are these hipper-than-hip, ice cool gothic indie babes, with immaculate style, impeccable taste in music, and intimidatingly refined cultural know-how. It’s said that each ne...READ MORE
AGENT ORANGE'S KIDS The War Photography of Philip Jones Griffiths Philip Jones Griffiths is a Welsh photographer whose book Vietnam Inc. was published in 1971. We think it’s the best book there is about the Vietnam War. Recently, Griffiths released another book about Vietnam, titled Agent Orange: “Co...READ MORE
DRENCHED IN ACID Holy Fuck Come Second in Fucking Contests Holy Fuck is made up of lots of different people but most of the work is done by a couple called Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh. They never practice, hardly ever shave and wear hoodies that smell of wet dogs...READ MORE
DO IT!
We couldn’t make it to the MOBOs this year. We didn’t go last year either. In fact, we’ve never been. The MOBOs are shit. They represent a large chunk of what is wrong with the world today. Okay, that’s not true, but they could have at least chucked somethin...READ MORE
VIDEO GAMES KILLED THE RADIO STAR Games Reviews - The Fear Issue MADDEN 08
This is, not kidding, the 18th installment in the Madden video-game franchise. Doesn’t that make you kind of disgusted? The only thing that’s more disgusting than that...READ MORE
UPSET EVERY SECOND Durrty Goodz is Fresh Out of Jail There is only one MC who has ever beaten Wiley in a clash and that is Waltham Forest’s Durrty Goodz. Three or so years ago when the hunt was on to find out if the success of Dizzee Rascal wasn’t just a fluke, he looked like the most likely candidat...READ MORE
ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE This month’s Electric Independence is dedicated to all the stubborn romantics who spend hours and hours in tiny rooms, slaving over arcane hardware and crunching numbers in a tireless bid to create the music that comes to them in their wildest dreams. For thos...READ MORE
BORING PUNKS FUCK OFF Brutal Knights Bring Cheesecake to the Show Punk gigs have got kind of depressing. You either end up at overly serious beatdown shows where goons in flat caps try and clothes-line you before you get in the door or no one turns up at all and the only people that do are there to get tour-only split seven ...READ MORE
STICK 'N' BURN A Guide to D.I.Y Branding at Home Now that we're confident you all have homemade tattooing down, we thought we'd take the next logical step and explore the fine art of home branding. Essentially this involves using a scalding hot implement - in this case a soldering iron - to burn a pattern or...READ MORE
EXTREME MAGIC Michael Yonkers Isn't Grim Michael Yonkers makes some of the greatest music you will ever hear. Seriously, the guy’s a genius. Since he started playing guitar in 1962, he’s consistently been making some of the strangest and most amazing rock n roll, noise and experimental mu...READ MORE
SOUND AND VISION KTL Take It To The Stage KTL isn't the sort of music you play to children. It's music for nightmares. The German phrase it abbreviates-Kindertotenlieder-translates as 'songs of the death of children', so you see where this thing could lead. As an exploration of the space between light...READ MORE
IN THE LAND OF THE JUGGALOS A Juggalo Is King "What is a Juggalo? A dead body / Well he ain't really dead, but he ain't like anybody that you've ever met before / He'll eat Monopoly and shit out Connect Four." -ICP, "What is a Juggalo?"
With the possible exception of the Jews, no other group...READ MORE
DOOMSDAY METAL Vinterkrig Come Back from the Dead 10 years ago the band Vinterkrig, consisting of five 15-18-year-olds from Stockholm and one girl from Berlin, recorded five tracks in a legendary studio, played one last live show and then broke up forever. The songs were never released, and the members went o...READ MORE
