 ANIMAL AUTISM
Narumi Ogawa Cant Stop Playing With Dolls
"I was always obsessive-compulsive," says 29-year-old Narumi Ogawa from her crowded apartment in LA, "especially about animals."
Narumi grew up in Japan where, on her own accord, she would clean all the hallways in her school before opening bell and t...READ MORE |
  ASK THE FARM
VICE: What the fuck is that smell?
Markus and Jen: That's a rotting moose carcass.
That's disgusting.
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 CRAZY OR RIGHTEOUS?
AZ, the Five Percent, and Evil White Men From Outer Space
Most of us got our Five Percenter education when Guru spit, "The Five Percent Nation takes other steps to get through to brothers on the corners with the reps / And in the prisons they give the brothers new visions of how we can gain wealth." Easily invoked in...READ MORE |
 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCE
ESG, Murcof, Akufen, OSCARR, BIS, Sub Club, Squarepusher, Funkstorung, Swayzak, Subculture, Test, Blood, Kinky Afro, Psy Phi, Bughouse, Disco Kings, and Electric Bogey...READ MORE |
 DEATH TO THE NERDS
The Nerds Must Die
Goddammit, nerds. What have you done? You've ruined everything. We tried to give you a hand. We reached out into the creek that runs through the high school and we pulled your drenched pants out of the water. We picked your glasses out of the garbage and hande...READ MORE |
 FUCK MUSIC
Venetian Snares Mix Dance Music With Porn
I remember being 16 or 17, sitting in my high school physics class, and staring at incomprehensible formulas on the chalkboard, when suddenly I confronted one of those decisive milestones. It's not like I discovered some new law or theory or anything even remo...READ MORE |
 VICE FASHION - THE NEW CONSERVATIVES
There is a new political consciousness developing in the West. They say conservatives are cowards and neo-conservatives are "conservatives that have been castrated by the liberals." They call themselves The New Conservatives. They define the West as English Ca...READ MORE |
 HIJAB VS SHORT SHORTS
Are We Really Freer Than Them?
Lately I've started hearing the word feminism being bandied about in the most unlikely of places. The male American politicians waging war on Afghanistan were the most bizarre example. It seems that one of the excuses they came up with to start bombing an alre...READ MORE |
 GAMES
Classic Game: The History of Doom
Big jumps in game technology usually occur when a new generation of consoles or video cards comes out, but the current crop of video games is basically last generation’s games with a slight graphic upgrade. Remember the difference between the SNES and the Play...READ MORE |
 NO SHIT
The Truth About Female Defecation
I have never gone to the bathroom. Sure, I have peed. I've tinkled like an adorable puppy, like a pretty ballerina. But never the other.
I'm just lucky that way. I have never been mad enough to take it out on the bowl. What did it do to ever deserve s...READ MORE |
 MY AMERICA
GOD, LESS AMERICA
Whether they're taped to the window of your local pepper spray boutique, stuck on the bumper of a P.T. Cruiser, or "bedazzled" onto the sweater of every substitute teacher from sea to murky sea, you can find them virtually eve...READ MORE |
 THE ANTI-GOTH
Quix*o*tic Make Gloom Lovely Again
Quix*o*tic's music kind of sounds like it's made by the spooky kids in the back of your high school art class, the ones who wore all black, hid behind their bangs, and were into bands with German names. As we should all know by now, these are also the kids who...READ MORE |
 VICE PICTURES - FOR SKINS
The Iraq Issue
Photos by William Ridgers
I was a skinhead in the late '60s and gave it up when I discovered it involved fighting and that fighting hurts. Then, in the mid- to late '70s, I hung out with them again as a photographer and it was a totally different scene...READ MORE |
 THE BLACK GUERRILLA
Paris Is Still Sicker Than AIDS
While the whole of North America has wrapped itself in the stars and stripes over the last year in some fear-induced angry "U.S.A!" chanting haze, it seems even our once-critical-of-government hip hop nation has joined the (Republican) party. Even Ghostface, s...READ MORE |
 QUEERIES
VICE: What's with the lisp?
Queer: What do you mean?
You have no idea what I mean?
I guess I have a slight lisp. With enough discipline I can fight it....READ MORE |
 THE NOISE HAS ENDED
Black Dice's Tranquil New Life
The debut Black Dice full-length, Beaches and Canyons, is out this month, and it is a full-on psychedelic mindfuck of epic proportions. Which may surprise some, since Black Dice are still known for those aggro powerviolence 30-second bursts of pain they gave u...READ MORE |
 TIDBITS
A Monthly Look At Things We Love - The Iraq Issue
1 BALL GAG
Nothing says "Women's Studies doesn't matter here" like a woman wearing a ball gag. Right after you're done you're like, "Oh my God, my baby, who did this to you!?" and you get it off as fast as possible but then the next night you're bo...READ MORE |
 THE VICE GUIDE TO SURVIVING JUNIOR HIGH
Adidas is cool. It's always cool, but make sure you know that it stands for "All Day I Dream About Sex." If you say "sports" it means you are a gay. It's even cooler if you know the backwards definition: "Sex All Day In Dad's Apartment."...READ MORE |
 YA HEARD?
E-40 Invented Every Rap Word You Ever Heard
The legendary E-40 Fonzarelli will go down in history for three reasons. First, he, along with Too $hort, is one of the first independent rap moguls, scoring a multi-million-dollar major label deal for his Sick-Wid-It imprint way before the No Limits and the C...READ MORE |
 YOU BETTER GET READY TO DIE
Bush and Saddam Can't Hold It Any Longer
It seems World War III is about to go down. America has randomly chosen Iraq as the center of terrorism even though weapons inspectors and embargos left Iraq broke and powerless years ago. They claim the reason is that Iraq is capable of eventually having dead...READ MORE |
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