WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? The Alluring Allure Of Garbage Art It is perhaps time to re-evaluate the standards of merit applied in the criticism of contemporary visual arts. Take painting, for example. It can be argued that the works of the established pantheon (your Picassos, Van Goghs and Matisses) simply do not harbor ...READ MORE |
 DEAR DIARY Entry: January 15, 1982 DIARY ENTRY:
JANUARY 15, 1982
I finished the book East of Eden and I saw the movie but I think the book will stick with me longer than the movie. But I must say Jane Seymour is so beautiful as Katherine. She had long hair down to her bum and I...READ MORE |
 TOKYO IS A MADHOUSE! A Madhouse When I first met NIGO, the Japanese designer guy that does Bathing Ape I thought to myself "ugh." I may not know that many people in Tokyo but do I really want to hook up with Nigo? The messiah for the balding underground? All the charming has-beens from Futur...READ MORE |
 GAMES Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, D2 & Royal Rumble TONY HAWK''S PRO SKATER 2<>
Since I was one of the reigning champs at the last THPS party we had, I figured the sequel would be more of the same and I would quickly be in need of some human competition after breezing through all the levels. Like a stup...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO EXTREME PUNISHMENT
 After getting grounded by our moms a bunch of times for doing basically nothing (oh, I'm two hours past curfew and now I can't leave the house for a whole week - that's really fair - NICE!) we decided to look into what other people get punished for. We broke i...READ MORE |
 GIVIN' UP FOOD FOR FUNK Tracking Down The Legends Of The 70s And Eating Yams I've spent a lot of time over the past four years traveling throughout America's Southern and Midwestern states searching for seemingly insignificant pieces of funk vinyl and I've learned this much: if you go to a city and take the time to hunt down a bonafide...READ MORE |
 DEEP THROAT PUKING Making a Porn Video With the Smut Peddlers Ever since Tommy Boy act Pimpadelic came out with the upsettingly distasteful video for "Caught It From Me," hip hop porn fans from Watts to Bed-Stuy have been wanting to see something really obscene. Now that snorting coke off strippers' asses and then throwi...READ MORE |
 GIMME SHELTER Sensational Don't Need No Home, Boy Ever since he's been living on the street, things have been going great for rapper Sensational. "Now things is getting incorporated, things is getting upgraded," he says. "From Pumas to Bentleys, from gold to platinum, diamonds. Y'know what I'm saying?" READ MORE |
 LIKE FATHER LIKE SON Homebrew, Ice-Picks and Dirty Old Men in a Canadian Penitentiary It was an hour until the 11 o'clock count and the Newfies were still in the TV room dipping their cups into the bottom of that gutbucket of raisin brew. The noise level was way too high and Radar, an old-line screw, was punching the clock at the end of the tie...READ MORE |
 I WAS A TEENAGE LOT LIZARD Writer JT Leroy On Being A Transvestite Truck-Stop Prostitute By now, everybody knows twenty year-old writer JT Leroy. His recently published autobiographical debut novel, Sarah, is a vivid account of the time Leroy spent blowing truckers and wearing pink miniskirts while hustling and hitchhiking through West Virginia. I...READ MORE |
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