Cover: Marlene McCarty, Group 3 (Tanjung Putting, Borneo. 1971), 2007, ballpoint pen
and graphite on paper, 107.5 x 110 inches. Photo: Douglas Thompson.
 VICE MAIL
Ocean Commotion, Ocean Shmocean, Unique Views and Opinions, Just Deserters, Egoist Seeks Likeminded People, Perfect Vice Emploee Material, I Have a Tremendous Amount of Time on My Hands, Vladimir Snoozin', (I Want To) Fuck You, Schoolgirls...
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 SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
NiGHTS, Kingdom Under Fire: Circle Of DoomNiGHTS: JOURNEY OF DREAMS
Publisher: Sega Platform: Wii
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the original NiGHTS Into Dreams on the Saturn until I played this, which is saying something because I thought I remembered enjoying the original a lot, but it turn...
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 WOOOOO TANG
Jason Crombie Is Stupid as a FoxBesides, oh, I don't know, Vice, Wooooo is the coolest magazine out now. Or maybe Wooooo is a zine so we don't even have to worry about it being cooler than us until it gets bigger. Anyway, it's free and the new issue has a photo of Jerry Hsu with a lightbulb in his mouth on the cover ...
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 WADE IN THE WATER
Marlene McCarty's Drawings of Baptism and MurderLet's keep this simple. Marlene McCarty is one of our favorite artists and has been for years. She has a new show running from April 5 until May 3 at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York City. We asked Marlene about this new work, and this is what she told us:
"Basically, the work is about ...
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 SKINEMA
I was just in LA for a week to host a comedy roast for Adidas that failed miserably. For those of you who think my writing isn't funny, just imagine how disappointing I am in person. Neil Hamburger is a natural compared to me in front of a microphone. I've been drinking heavily to wash the memory aw...
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 HORSE FIGHTS
Let's Take a Look at What Passes for Entertainment in the PhilippinesWe feel like we need to say something about why we're publishing these photographs. There are a couple of reasons and to be honest, one of them is "Holy shit, what's happening in these just looks insane and amazing and disgustingly fascinating." But then again, we are not Bizarre magazine and we don...
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 TAXI DRIVERS ARE WANKERS
This is a story by Aidan Moffat, the big lovable Scottish perv formerly of Arab Strap. He has a new album coming out of spoken-word pieces where he whispers filthy, sometimes funny stories of love in your ear over moody background music. If you listen to it on the subway you will blush and lower the...
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 SALVATION ON TAP
Speaking in Tongues in PeckhamPeckham in South London is full of strange little churches. They're in railway arches, industrial estates, old office blocks and boarded up shops. Peckham has the largest African community in the UK and most of these churches serve them. The churches serve a number of denominations, but most are Eva...
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 THE PEOPLE'S LISTS
7 People Who Were Buried Alive... And Lived!SISTER DELPHINE DE ST. PAUL
(buried 1876, US)
Minnie Keusch was born in Detroit in 1859. At 17 she contracted typhoid fever, was certified dead, and was sealed in her coffin. Minnie's bereaved sister begged for a final look, which she was granted. The sister bent down and kiss...
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
For the second month in a row we're over in New York, in a manner of speaking, talking to a couple of guys who've made an incredible record that perhaps a few hundred people might think about buying. We're talking about the Galaxy Toobin' Gang, of course! Slightly different story to last month's col...
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 CRAZY GLU
Jessica Gysel Knows You're GayYou know that gay people recruit, right? Yeah, well, they do, and Girls Like Us Lesbian Quarterly is the perfect brochure for luring cool young women over to the dark side. It is a way classy magazine full of interviews with iconic lesbians and photos of hot, weird girls, and it's read by sma...
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 FANTASTICAL PORTRAITURE
Female Prisoners in Argentina Escape Through the Magical Magic of COLLAGEOver the last four years, we, the photographers of Grupo Mirada Photo of Córdoba, Argentina, have given a photo workshop in the province's highest-security women's prison. In our experience as photographers, we have never felt such intensity in the value of a photographic image as we have in working...
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 AMYNAL NITRITE
A "Liquid Incense" Taste TestOur friend-let's call him P-loves poppers. P is a 37-year-old radio and voiceover actor, a volunteer at a suicide helpline, and a poppers enthusiast. Originally the term "poppers" referred to tiny glass bulbs of amyl nitrite that old people would pop under their nose (thus the name) to stop angina. ...
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 BELOVED MONSTER
The Strange Odyssey of Alfred ChesterOn a sweltering day in August 1971, Jerusalem police found a partly decomposed-and weirdly hairless-corpse in a two-story suburban house near the YMCA. The floors were covered with boxes, their contents exploded around the rooms amid a startling profusion of pill and liquor bottles. Two starving dog...
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 BRANCHES AND ROOTS AND... PINECONES
Tall Firs Tell Us What They LikeTall Firs are a Brooklyn band that has really calming vibes but also a low-level heaviness sort of thing going on. If I were a really lazy writer who relied on clichés, I would say that Tall Firs' music has a "sense of hushed intensity." I guess I just kind of said that anyway, but I got away with i...
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 RECORDS
Music Reviews - v15n3EXCEPTER
Debt Dept.
Jesus, they should have called this one Pantshitter. Maybe it's got something to do with my listening to the album after driving all night through rural Pennsylvania, but I seriously haven't been this freaked out by music since my best friend's older brot...
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 DO IT!
UK urban music is in the best state it's been in for a decade. Ten-year-old girls are throwing their Bratz dolls out the window and breakdancing in their wheelie shoes when a bassline tune comes on daytime radio....
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 LITERARY
Fight (Everything You Ever Wanted to Know aboFIGHT (EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ASS-KICKING BUT WERE AFRAID YOU'D GET YOUR ASS KICKED FOR ASKING)
How did Eugene get this shit put out by HarperCollins? We've been getting regular visits in print from everybody's favourite radical-thinking former bodybuilder, ultimate fig...
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 CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN
The Ruby Suns Like It Au NaturelRyan McPhun is an American living in New Zealand. He moved there five years ago and as you can imagine, his accent is a bit strange. Along with native kiwis Amee Robinson and Imogen Taylor, Ryan is in a band called the Ruby Suns. They've just released their second album, Sea Lion, which sound...
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 SHITGAZERS UNITED
Introducing... Psychedelic Horseshit!Psychedelic Horseshit coined the turn "shitgaze", formed on a whim at a party and made up their name on the spot because it was the first thing that sprang to mind. From Columbus, Ohio, theirs is an unrefined, unpredictable and chaotic mess of sound which leaps in your face like a drunk old guy at t...
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 NO LOVE LOST
Eking Out the Seamiest BoltholesVisiting a brothel in Slough was never high on my list of things to do, but having looked at these shots by the photojournalist Michael Grieve, I've categorically ruled it out.
Over the last six years, Newcastle native Grieve has lurked in some of the seamiest boltholes the British Isles ...
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 VICE FASHION - STRANGE HOUSE
Strange HousePHOTOGRAPHER: CLAUDIA GRASSL
STYLING & PRODUCTION: SARAH SHARON KARSTEN
MODEL: HANNA FROM SEEDS MANAGEMENT
ASSISTANTS: LISA MILETIC & LUCIA STAMATI...
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 IT'S COMPLICATED
Queen of Swords Slice it NiceLiam Sparkes has played in more London DIY bands than you can shake a whole bushel of fanzines about Huggy Bear at. From Harry Stab and Human Bomb to Drumize with Eye from Boredoms, he's done stuff in them. He's probably best known as the stupidly quick, asthmatic drummer guy in Casio-grindcore pion...
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 LOCKED OFF
Dexplicit is Too PopularPeople still try to make out that grime is based in three highrise blocks in Bow, when in reality other parts of London, particularly north, are home to a lot of the more productive MCs such as Chipmunk, Skepta, JME, Scorcher etc. The same goes for bassline. Journalists would have you believe that a...
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 SOMERSET NIGHTS
Down and Out in Weston-super-MareDen Elliott might never have ended up taking photos had it not been for a previous life as a conservationist. You should hear the way Den talks about his time spent wandering the windswept crags and leafy forests. It's impossible to imagine how anyone wouldn't want to take photos of all the great st...
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 GIANT HAYSTACKS
Let's Wrestle Have a Silly NameIf your band has a stupid name, you need to be able to justify it. So many bands just don't give a shit anymore. There's nothing worse than a pointless group with a wacky moniker who, when asked about the origins of their zany handle, just shrug and mumble something about the bass player's dad menti...
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 DOCUMENTED MIND- WANDERING
The Wonderful World of Tickley FeatherTickley Feather is the nom de plume of a 29-year-old woman named Annie Sachs. She lives with her four-year-old son, Aiden, out in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When she has some time off from doing motherly stuff, she writes and sings these bewitching, primitive songs, a few of which surfa...
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 MOLDOVA
Mental Asylums and Psychedelic GravestonesAt the end of 2007, I went to Moldova to take pictures for a couple of charities. We drove around and visited orphanages and some very impoverished families. It was cold, very depressing and a little scary at times. Considered the runt of Europe, Moldova doesn't really have a lot going for it.
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 UNDER THE FUZZ
Sex Vid are Hard to FindThe internet has made everything too easy. Remember when you used to have to send a cheque off to some PO Box just to get hold of a zine and in the back of it you'd see a list of records by a bunch of bands you knew nothing about? You'd have to sort of guess whether or not you were going to be into ...
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 WHY HEART IRAQ?
Bahaa Mayah Wants Tourists, Not TerroristsHey! We were just partying down in Cartagena, Colombia, and guess who we bumped into? Bahaa Mayah. You don't know Bahaa? He's the Iraqi Minister of Tourism. Yep, Iraq has a Ministry of Tourism. A country in which a good 50,000 people were blown up or shot last year and whose name is more or less syn...
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 RAW CHINA
"These death metal maestros make the four horsemen of the apocalypse sound like My Little Pony and Slayer sound like a Ben Gibbard-fronted Abba cover band. If you haven't heard Swedish death metal, you haven't heard death metal. If you haven't heard Gothenburg melodic metal stalwarts Dark Tranquilit...
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 FINALLY
The Breakthrough Institute Wrests Environmentalism Away from the DumbsI'm generally into the idea of "standing up for nature" and "not turning the planet into an uninhabitable trashball," but the thing that's always kept me at arm's length from environmentalism is how completely selfish the better part of its proponents are. Sure, they're "thinking globally" as they "...
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 FUCK CONFUCIUS
Cui Jian Has the Biggest Balls Under the Red FlagMost countries outside the English-speaking world have some sort of "father of rock" figure. Cui Jian is China's, but unlike the Johnny Hallydays and Tarkans of elsewhere, he's not just another shlubby Elvis clone or closeted Europop singer. His songs served as the soundtrack to the student revoluti...
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