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MOMENTS LIKE THIS NEVER LAST
Cover photo of Dash Snow by Ryan McGinley, circa 2001 |
 VICE MAIL
Letters - Moments Like This Never Last
Purrfect to the Letter, Dick Doubt, A Truly Vintage Idea, Cereal Thriller, Guccimania & Bolo Worms...READ MORE |
  REMEMBERING DASH SNOW, JULY 14, 2009
It’s hard to remember exactly when I met Dash. It seems like we were immediately best friends. I guess I met him through Earsnot in the late 90s. Back then he was a graffiti writer known as Sace. He and Earsnot started the graffiti crew IRAK. They were t...READ MORE |
 HUNG LIKE A GASTROPOD
The Rigors of a Snail-Genital Illustrator
Martin Püschel is a German illustrator living in Australia whose cardinal contribution to fine art is a portfolio of intricately detailed snail wieners and vaginas. According to Martin, who is based out of the Australian Museum in Sydney, cameras aren&rsq...READ MORE |
 BALLOONS, ORGIES, AND PRETTY COLORS
New Works by John Copeland
John Copeland is a masterly artist who’s as comfortable scribbling up a few amusing doodles in pencil on a napkin as he is detailing sweeping scenes with brushes and puddles of oils on a 12-foot canvas. Six days a week, year-round, Copeland toils away he...READ MORE |
 THE FRUITY SCULPTOR
Sergio Albani Carves Celebrity Faces Into Watermelons
It’s summer. You look at a watermelon and your first thought is, “Ah, nature’s sugary boob.” You scramble for a knife like a madman and carve that juicy oblong spheroid into morsels of webbed goo that will coat the area in and around yo...READ MORE |
 NEW FRONTIERS OF SOBRIETY
Being Anti-High Feels Anti-Good
Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In particle physics we learn that for all matter there can be antimatter of opposite charge. But what about drugs? Is there an anti-weed, an anti-heroin, o...READ MORE |
 EPICLY MADE OVER
I Tried to Get Marisa del Santos L’d
Girl skateboarders aren’t hot. It’s just how it is. I wish they were but they’re not. It’s a dude’s activity and so they feel they need to act/dress the part of a dude to get accepted. The premier girl skateboarder is and always w...READ MORE |
 INTERNATIONAL LIBATIONS
Which Country Produces the Sloppiest Drunks?
Last October, a nice Chinese doctor named Ting-Kai Li retired from his post as director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. During his tenure, Dr. Li headed up research that explored how and why drinking lots of booze is more likely to t...READ MORE |
 LICK MY PRISON PIT
An Interview That Johnny Ryan Demanded We Do With Him
Johnny Ryan is that guy whose drawings are festooned all over Vice. In addition to being Vice’s drawing mongrel, he’s also a free man with his own hobbies and projects. He started out drawing comics in a minicomic/zine before graduati...READ MORE |
 FRIDAYS WITH FRANK AND SATURDAYS WITH SINATRA
Sid Mark Is One Swinging Cat, Daddy-o
Our photographer friend Stacey Mark’s dad is really famous in Philadelphia. We know, to some of you that’s like saying he’s sexy to blind chicks. But Sid Mark is more than just a Philly radio icon...READ MORE |
 AN EXCERPT FROM THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO
From Nick Cave's Forthcoming Novel
Nick Cave is this guy from Australia who sang in a couple of different bands. The first one was kind of gothy and raucous; the second one was kind of rocky and gothous. He has long black hair and incredible cheekbones...READ MORE |
 WHEN MEN WERE AWESOME
Visiting George Washington’s House With Joe Preston
This May I finally visited Mount Vernon, plantation home of America’s first president, George Washington. Joe Preston escorted me. By this point, the burly bearded bassist (Earth, High on Fire, Melvins, Thrones) had joined me on three and a half tours. W...READ MORE |
 SOMETHING, SOMETHING, SOMETHING, DETROIT
Lazy Journalists Love Pictures of Abandoned Stuff
After suffering through the nation’s worst and most concentrated examples of racial violence, industrial collapse, serial arson, crack war, and municipal bankruptcy following years of municipal kleptocracy, Detroit is being descended on by a plague of re...READ MORE |
 ISLAM SAVES
How an Iranian Holy Man Rescued Me From Jail
The room is full of garish plastic flowers that make it impossible to concentrate on what the man seated in front of me is saying. Not helping matters is the overwhelming heat, which has me fidgeting uncomfortably in my chair. The black chador draped over my h...READ MORE |
 RAW CHINA
The Birdman
For a couple of months I’d been watching the pigeons circling over the rooftops through the window while Mike and I sat at the desk in his bedroom on the 5th floor. This was during his regular hour-and-a-half long English lesson. Their hypnotic synchron...READ MORE |
 REVERSE PROPAGANDA
North Korean Horror Toons Fall From the Sky
Noh Young Sung was born and raised in North Korea. His father was a veteran of the war between the North and South who became a beekeeper. Noh and his family survived on meager means and often ate grass and tree bark to supplement small scrapings of...READ MORE |
 BORDER CZECHS
Inventive Methods Used to Escape the Iron Curtain
After Joseph Stalin and the Red Army drove the Nazis out of Eastern Europe, the continent was left with ill-defined borders and new ideas about who was running shit. Things had to be sorted out, so leaders from the US, USSR, and UK convened at the 1945 Potsdam...READ MORE |
 OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO THE FREEZER
Backhanded Amnesty for Child Soldiers
Recent reports figure that as many as 250,000 child soldiers are being forced to fight in war zones across the globe at this very moment. According to Terre des Hommes, a group of gigantic-hearted folks that acts on behalf of mistreated kids, each year nearly ...READ MORE |
 MEMORIES OF MEDELLÍN
Selections From Pablo Escobar’s Personal Paparazzo
Edgar Jimenez, aka El Chino, was a puny classmate of Pablo Escobar’s at Antioqueño junior high school in Colombia back in the 60s. While Escobar used the ensuing years to become his generation’s greatest murderous narco superstar, El Chino s...READ MORE |
 SHOT BY KERN
Photos by Richard Kern
Zaida is a hyper-intelligent half-Egyptian New York City native with two shrinks for parents. She just got back from Cairo, speaks multiple languages, and is doing hands-on research with monkeys this summer because she wants to learn more about primate interac...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
THIS AIN’T STAR TREK
God, I fucking hate remakes (both porno and mainstream). It says a lot about the intellect of our Hollywood writers when the best they can come up with is to make G.I. Joe...READ MORE |
 SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
INFAMOUS VS. PROTOTYPE
Infamous and Prototype are an interesting pair. Released near-simultaneously, both are sandbox games set in wrecked cities (like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows before them)...READ MORE |
 VICE COMICS
By Chris Onstad
THE ACHEWOOD GUIDE TO: NEGOTIATING TAKE-OUT WHILE IN A SERIOUS ARGUMENT WITH A SIGNIFICANT OTHER...READ MORE |
 RAVING, WE’RE RAVING
What Gavin Watson Did After Skins & Punks
In 1989, Gavin Watson went from being a documenter of skinhead culture to being one of the only people who managed to operate a camera through the ecstasy haze that enveloped England that year. At the time, rave was a revolution, even if it has now been run in...READ MORE |
 RECORDS
Music Reviews - Moments Like This Never Last
LA COKA NOSTRA
A Brand You Can Trust
Uhh, so these guys really like selling coke. Or at least they like talking about it. While listening to this, I couldn’t help but constantly picture these guys as stereotypical...READ MORE |
 CELEBRATING VERMIN
What We Learned At Opossum World
You pass a lot of creepy tourist attractions driving between New Zealand cities. You see depressing hedge mazes, places called “Make Your Own Knives Here,” a million things made of corrugated iron, and many pits of boiling sulphurous mud. Most of t...READ MORE |
 NO ORDINARY LIFE
Kevin Debroux Makes a Difference With Pink Reason
Kevin Debroux is from a small town in northern Wisconsin where he grew up on a brew of self-doubt and hardcore. His old band was called Hatefuck but the album he released in 2007 as Pink Reason, Cleaning the Mirror, is a bum-down classic, which basicall...READ MORE |
 ROCK N ROLL CAMP LEADERS
Those Darlins Are Super Catchy
Those Darlins are three ladies from Tennessee who make free, rollicking country inspired tunes, which sit very comfortably alongside the music of bands like The Black Lips, Heavy Trash and King Khan and the Shrines. The full band is Kelley Darlin, Jessi Darlin...READ MORE |
 MAINE DELAY
Axe-Swinging, Cannon-Shooting, Boat-Building, Naked Flights Of Fancy, and Miscellaneous Horsing Around
City folk typically build country houses to relax. They fill them with soft colors and soft cushions and nothing to do. They paint theses houses in pastels and go out there...READ MORE |
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