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THE GOAT DEMON ISSUE
On the cover: Arik Roper, Invocation of the Living Shadow,
watercolor and gouache on paper. |
 VICE MAIL
Letters - The Goat Demon Issue
WISH GRANTED
To Whomever May Open This Email,
I think you’re a lucky son of a bitch for getting first look at these pictures. I...READ MORE |
  STREET POLL
What was your most horrifying near-death experience?
CHRIS
Have you ever had a near-death experience?
I caught a stray bullet while I was living in the Mission District in San Fran...READ MORE |
 MISSION SKATEPOSSIBLE
I Gave 200 Skateboards to Cuban Kids
I am a giving person. I don’t know what it is; it’s just in my nature to put other people before myself. Take yesterday, for instance. I was at the White Castle drive-thru when the little lady inside the glass box told me my total was $5.55. I gave...READ MORE |
 MEN AND URINALS
An Investigation
I have been minorly obsessed with urinals for some time now. There are many questions I have pondered for years. Such as: How is it that the males of the species just stand together in groups, with penis in hand, peeing? Is it not awkward to find yourself at t...READ MORE |
 APOCALYPSE PORN
Final Flesh Is Finally Here
Vernon Chatman, from the doomed and beautiful comedic television program Wonder Showzen, has a new thing coming out on DVD this month. It’s called Final Flesh and the deal is this: He located a company, a pornography-production company, tha...READ MORE |
 THE FOG OF ANALOG
Harmony Korine Makes Love to Garbage
When I saw Harmony Korine’s newest film, Trash Humpers, during the New York Film Festival, the theater smelled like farts and stinky feet, which makes sense because I was sitting on the floor and people around me had their shoes off. My neighbor o...READ MORE |
 LIBERIAN GIRLS AND BOYS
Have Better Vintage T-shirts Than You
VBS.TV recently visited Monrovia, Liberia, where we made a film with three former warlords called General Bin Laden, General Rambo and General Butt Naked...READ MORE |
 THE DUCHESS OF YORK
On the Town With Bloody Wounds
Bloody Wounds is a strange person, and she makes strange music that is so undefined by conventional genre, you end up finding yourself in it. I hear a helpless, distorted-thinking, ambitious little person up against a vicious town with nothing but music as a s...READ MORE |
 LEMMY
I thought about trying to make the intro to this interview sound like an impartial journalist wrote it. But fuck that. Lemmy is my hero and I’m not going to try and hide it because that’d be no fun. When I was meeting, photographing, and interviewi...READ MORE |
 A WHISKEY GLASS AND A WOMAN’S ASS
Michael Abramson Is the Unsung Documentarian of South Side R&B
Between 1975 and 1977 some serious boogie-woogieing was happening in the disreputable nightclubs and dive bars on the South Side of Chicago. It was a remarkable time, when the dance floors were slick with bodily fluids and enshrouded in smoke from Kools as pat...READ MORE |
 DON’T SAY CHEESE
Thomas Ruff Is Not Interested in Photography
Thomas Ruff is one of Germany’s best living photographers. He has his roots in the type of sterile, objective photography that loves water towers, silos, and other vertical piles of industrial cement that somehow became a big part of German photography&r...READ MORE |
 THE DESSERT PSYCHO
Punk Drummer Transforms Into World-Class Chef With Alarming Swiftness
I’ve worked in just enough restaurants to recognize an abnormally large pastry station when I see one. It was January, and I was standing in the kitchen below Del Posto, one of New York’s—and thus the world’s—most prestigious restau...READ MORE |
 TOTALITARIAN PLEASANTRIES
I Shook Robert Mugabe’s Hand and Toured His Wife’s Dairy Farm
I’d been on the road with Venerable Master Hui Li for two weeks. Li’s a Buddhist monk from Taiwan who has undertaken the task of building orphanages in each of Africa’s 53 bedeviled countries. My idea was to see what sort of grumpy despots cr...READ MORE |
 FOLLOW THE GPS, ÉSE
The Transborder Immigrant Tool Helps Mexicans Cross Over Safely
Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has been utilizing electronics and the internet to piss off just about every high-level administrative authority in the US. In the late 90s, his performance-art-cum-activist organization the Electronic Disturbance T...READ MORE |
 A POSTCARD FROM WALES
Dear Mum and Dad, I’m Living In a Heroin Epidemic
The small South Wales city of Swansea is in the grip of a heroin epidemic. How do I know? Well, I’ve been living with a group of young Welsh heroin addicts, on and off, for the last three months. The needle exchange where they flock to every day to chang...READ MORE |
 THE WARLORD OF THE HIGHWAY
Matiullah Khan Is the Most Feared Crossing Guard in Afghanistan
Matiullah Khan is the head of the Highway Police, a government agency that was officially dissolved several years ago by Dutch forces in the Uruzgan province of southern Afghanistan. According to Dutch officials stationed in the region, Matiullah is not a gove...READ MORE |
 PAKISTAN’S OTHER INSURGENTS
A Day in the Desert With Baloch Guerrillas
The departure point was in Pakistani Balochistan. Our hosts, a patrol of Baloch guerrillas, requested that we be no more specific than that.
The driver and his passenger had their faces wrapped tightly so that...READ MORE |
 EPICLY LATER’D
By Patrick O'Dell
October 9:
Right now I’m working on the third most exciting thing I have ever worked on (after shooting pictures of Morrissey getting peed on by an infant and the John Cardiel docu...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
LA PINK
If it appears I am unfairly reviewing more Burning Angel videos than other company’s pornos, you would be correct. Joanna Angel is no dummy. She pays me with blowjobs...READ MORE |
 SHEPPARD’S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XII
My problem with The King of Fighters XII is I can’t think of a reason to play it.
We are in the middle of a 2-D fighter renaissance. Street Fighter IV and...READ MORE |
 RECORDS
Music Reviews - The Goat Demon Issue
FACTUMS
Flowers 12" LP
So many echoes. So many goddamn echoes. Was this recorded in a cave? That is actually a good question. I just looked it up and according to Wikipedia, it was recorded in a...READ MORE |
 TOOT! PARP! GGGHHZZZNN MMMSSSCCCK!
Inventor Claims the Eigenharp Is the Future of All Music
The Eigenharp is the ultimate synth-geek fantasy made real. It resembles what Rick Wakeman might’ve ended up playing if JG Ballard had directed one of his Journey to the Centre of the Earth -era promo videos. But in its capabilities, there is no d...READ MORE |
 NOTHING TO DO WITH ROY
Joy Orbison Made the Tune of the Year Without Trying
Back in 2005 when we featured Skream in the Horror Issue of Vice, no one gave a crap about dubstep. If you went to FWD>> at Plastic People on a Thursday there would be 20 people nodding their heads in a corner next to the speakers....READ MORE |
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