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VICE MAIL Letters - The Harvester of Sorrow Issue Vice's managing editor gets seduced by a compiler of avant-garde music with a Tibetan thighbone trumpet, some sort of sexual control issues, and an inability jizz in the presence of a lady. All via the ancient art of letter-writing. ...READ MORE
DICK FACE Why Is Jack Walls the Coolest Motherfucker on Earth? I spent two weeks making 500 hand-drawn balloons for Jack Walls’s 50th birthday party. It was my present to him. With a black Sharpie, I drew all of his classic expressions on 500 silver balloons. He’s well known for these sayings and everyone who knows him ha...READ MORE
NOODLE DOODLES David Shrigley and a Bunch of Bands Make Fake Songs Real In 2005, the pretty famous Glaswegian artist David Shrigley released Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve)—a 12-inch record sleeve with no record inside, just a booklet of doodles and lyrics. The doodles were things like a man with a giant bottom holding a...READ MORE
DAVID THEWLIS AND HIS HOPELESS, HILARIOUS FICTION The Vice Interview Even if he hadn’t been the star of maybe our favorite movie of all time, Mike Leigh’s Naked, David Thewlis would still be one of our favorite actors. Not only that, but he’s a great writer. Thewlis deals in funny, observant rhyming poems and hilarious-b...READ MORE
SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE By Stephen Lea Sheppard MEDAL OF HONOR: VANGUARD Medal of Honor: Vanguard fails. The Wii controls are clumsy and badly-executed (especially now that Metroid Prime 3 is out), the graphics are lackluster compared...READ MORE
LIVING, DEAD Manila North Cemetery Houses More Warm Bodies Than Cold Corpses 10,000 Filipino families live in this massive graveyard in Manila. I recently spent five days walking among its residents taking photos and hearing stories of struggle and survival.
Some families ended up here almost accidentally. Some inherited the mau...READ MORE
VICE FASHION - TRAMPS LIKE THEM Springsteen Fans Are Revved Up Like a Deuce Sprung from cages on Highway 9, Hemi-powered drones screamed down the boulevard making tracks through the blazin’ rain from the fire roads to the interstate highways jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive somewhere in the swamps of Jersey (the ...READ MORE
LEEDS GARAGE T2 Likes Terminator 2, Still If you’re a teenager living in a council estate anywhere north of Grimsby, you won’t be spending your weekends at home practicing WCW wrestling moves on your terrified cat, smoking weed, and listening to Ghetto’s new mixtape. No, instead the chances are you’ll...READ MORE
SKINEMA By Chris Nieratko TRIPLE ECSTASY
So I made friends with a porn star. Her name is Kimberly Kane. It’s pretty awesome. She comes over for dinner twice a week and wears nothing but heels. She hangs out with...READ MORE
ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE We aren’t the first to say this, and we surely won’t be the last, but, goodness, that Italians Do It Better label knows what it’s doing. This is the New Jersey/Portland imprint that’s been getting a ridiculous amount of heat online in all the right places—yes,...READ MORE
MYSTERY MAN Cass McCombs Does Not Vouch for His Actions Three years ago I had the worst winter of my life. I was sullen and Walkman-addicted, and I wore the same thing every day. I only listened to music I had liked when I was in high school, since it was the only other time I felt that awful. It was all Dinosaur J...READ MORE
LITERARY Book Reviews - The Harvester Of Sorrow Issue IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER
This book is a bunch of bullshit. I love Belle and Sebastian more than anybody in the world probably, but here’s the thing about them: They are BORING. Beautiful music...READ MORE
HYPED UP THE ASS Black Kids Are Too Busy For Vice Introducing Black Kids, the new “buzz band”. Every couple of months a buzz band pops up, sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re not. What unites them all is an array of attributes, no matter how trivial, that manage to get people inside the music industry—l...READ MORE
RECORDS Music Reviews - The Harvester of Sorrow Issue TWISTA
Adrenaline Rush 2007
Back in 2002, when Vice was basically an electroclash publication, I remember people walking around with T-shirts that said “rap sucks.” And I used to get really annoyed...READ MORE
I WENT UNDERCOVER IN THE WORLD OF SYRIAN WHOREHOUSES While I was in Damascus last summer, my friends from the Serbian Embassy took me to a brothel. It looked like a regular nightclub. It was well lit, music blared, and people hung out. I would not have thought: This is a place to buy sex. I got to talking with a...READ MORE
VIDEO GAMES KILLED THE RADIO STAR Games Reviews - The Harvester of Sorrow Issue CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE
Let’s get one thing straight right from the start here: I am a total, utter, disgusting Call of Duty 3 addict. I slip on that Xbox 360 headset, log on to a multiplayer game...READ MORE
VICE PRESENTS THE PEOPLE'S LISTS The Cat Came Back: 15 Cats Who Traveled Long Distances to Return Home NINJA—850 miles
Brent Todd and his family moved from Farmington, Utah, to Mill Creek, a suburb of Seattle, in April 1996, taking with them their eight-year-old tomcat, Ninja. After a week...READ MORE
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED Rolo Tomassi's Growing Pains Small people playing in bands are cute. They hit you right in the “aw shucks” spot. “Look how big that guitar looks on his little body!”; “Hahaha, he can hardly see over his drum kit!” That sort of thing. Stop and think about it. Prince, Kylie, Dio, Phil Colli...READ MORE
DO IT! I was going through some CDs t’other day and I found a grime compilation that my friend Matthew made for me at the end of 2003. What a great time for music it truly was. The best of times, the worst of times. Oh sorry, we’re talking about grime here. Erm, it w...READ MORE
FAST TIMES Black Lips Won't Be Stopped It’s a bleak perspective, but most bands these days differ from each other about as much as identical twins do: not very much. It’s like, when you know the twins really well, you notice their unique qualities, but for the first couple of months you really stru...READ MORE
CHICK MAGNETS Gallows Go For Total Dischord It’s a shitty, raining Thursday outside of the Sydney Entertainment Centre and a bored crowd is milling around on stained concrete. It’s some four hours before The Gallows are due to play alongside Aiden and The Used in the Taste of Chaos tour and the car park...READ MORE
WHAT A RELIEF! Birth Glow Get Born Adelaide’s got a reputation for a few things (good booze, weird murders) but one of them ain’t music. Touring acts can’t be fucked going there and bands from Adelaide move to Melbourne once they’re sick of playing gigs in their grandma’s lounge room. Birth Glo...READ MORE
VICE FASHION - EIGHT LABELS. EIGHT PHOTOGRAPHERS Photos by Alex Sturrock, David Titlow, Jonnie Craig, Daniel Cramer, Gavin Watson, Alexa Chung, Tara Darby and SIMON
Styling by Steph Stevens, Maike Muller, Aldene Johnson and Roberta Venturini...READ MORE
BOY TOYS Fuck Buttons Enjoys Noise Fuck Buttons isn’t the latest Internet teen-sluts from the American Midwest, but two London based boys who like to make noise and call it music. Using an array of equipment culled from boot sales and kid stores, the duo of Andrew Chung and Benjamin John Power ...READ MORE
