Vice Today
THESE NEW PURITANS, TALKING THIS TIME
I know you liked the first one, so don't worry, you'll get another live song from the TNP show at Bush Hall tomorrow, but before that, here's a little interview we did with Jack and George backstage at the show. Clicky clicky to see.
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KILLER COKE EXPLAINED
When I was in Boston a few days ago there were guys handing out fliers at the bus station that said “BAD COCAINE ALERT!” warning people to seek medical attention if their coke/crack was making them sick. By now you have probably heard that almost 1/3rd of the cocaine circulating the US, Canada and maybe the world is contaminated with a (potentially) poisonous veterinary deworming agent called levamisole. It has already killed several people and made many more people sick.
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Exploration: Berlin
We heard about these mysterious underground bunkers and rotting hilltop listening stations in Berlin. They were built to intercept radio communications but are now little more than abandoned totems to the days of espionage. They litter the horizon, hidden in plain sight. We put our boots on and went exploring.
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Various people not from England performing at the Old Blue Last tonight
Instead of worrying about it not being Wednesday yet, or trying to block Megan Fox's fucked up thumbs out of your memory again, you should come see a bunch of international musical acts that Red Bull Music Academy is bringing to the pub tonight.
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THE SCIENCE OF THE CREATION MUSEUM
The Creation Museum is a huge, fancy structure in Kentucky dedicated to teaching the world about "creation science". Creation science, in a nutshell, is taking what is written in the book of Genesis literally. Even though what is written in the book of Genesis goes against anthropology, archeology, biology, zoology, geology, astronomy, cosmology, paleontology and common sense-ology. Which, essentially, makes it a $27 million kid sticking its fingers in its ears and saying, "Nyah-nyah-nyah, I can't hear you!"
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NICK GAZIN’S COMIC-BOOK WITCH HUNT #8
Jerry Seinfeld once said something about how childhood is a constant quest for candy. I spent a lot of my time looking for candy, but I was hunting for comics even more. Comics equalled happiness--even bad ones were great. Obsessive wanting has led me to writing comic book reviews. Only now I no longer hunt for the comics. The comics come to me.
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THESE NEW PURITANS, LIVE, DAILY
A couple of weeks ago we were invited to film These New Puritans show at Bush Hall in London. As you know, they're one of our favourite bands, and this was the first time they played their second album Hidden with all the brass, drums, and massive gongs that it was written with, so we were into the idea. The gig was so good we're showing you a different song from it every day this week. This is track one, "Orion", click through to see it.
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BRITISH PEOPLE REALLY LOVE TO GLASS EACH OTHER
How much do British people love smashing things into each other’s face? Well, there are 4,000 more deliberate glassings a year in the UK than America has got gunshots, both intentional AND accidental.
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THIS WEEK’S BEST STUFF
Music
VICE SINGLES CLUB, 9 FEBRUARY, 2010
Whoa there, guys, you can't just bum-rush the party that is the Singles Club. This is an invite-only event. Look, just be cool, go home, get a tie, come back, slip Monty a 20 on the door and we might be able to find you a table.
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Fashion
HELLO MR FASHEMATICS
That's a fashematic up there. I'm assuming you don't need us to explain it. Mr Fashmatic is Jonathan Zawada, an Aussie graphic design guy who works with Tina Kalivas and Ksubi, puts together a seriously bookmarkable design blog, has his own fashion comic, Petit Mal and has now turned the fashematics thing into a zine.
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FILM
KILLING TIME IN LONDON
Do you know what it’s like when all your attempts to connect with people fail, and you’d do anything for just a bit of affection, and you feel so desperately lonely that you resort to murder just so you can have some company in your bed? British director Gerard Johnson’s first feature follows unemployed social reject Tony around London as he attempts to reach out to anybody – junkies, prostitutes, even the Chinese guys selling pirate DVDs – who might give him the time of day.
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Photo Blog
Saam's Video portraits party at Wilkinson Gallery
Our friend and prolific moving image maker Saam made a bunch of 'video portraits' of people dancing to their favourite songs. Then he mixed them together in cool video mash-ups. At a party with Simian Mobile Disco and Matthew Stone.
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Vice Guides
THE VICE GUIDE TO SHAGGING MUSLIMS
The world of Islam is wilder than you thought.
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Tidbits
RADICAL RIMMERS
Check it out: the logo of the guys in the corner looks like two fags. Are they the funniest human beings on earth or the two most incredibly naïve people the world has ever seen? Sent by Z Madsen, London, ON
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DOs & DON’Ts
It’s about fucking time drag queens expanded their palette beyond Joan Crawford and Whitney Houston.
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OK, I know you've got some elaborate justification worked out about “standards of beauty” and how this would look totally normal to the Uighurs of Western China, but do you have any idea how fucking bored they get out there?
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Meteor Sports & Leisure
408-410 Bethnal Green Road, E2
This is the best trainer shop in east London, and perhaps all of London. Meteor's unassuming exterior hides more goodies than the rest of the city's chain stores put together. Unlike poncey central London sneaker boutiques, they don't stock neon pink Dunks made out of Japanese baby hair, but instead offer a shed-load of Air Max 90s and Huaraches. Road-man shoes, basically. No queuing round the block for exclusive nonsense, just some nice BWs that sold out everywhere else six years ago.
Events
Skinema
ASSRAELIS: ISRAELI EROTICA
I’m a big fan of war. What can I say? I’m an asshole. I’m not so big on all the blood and guts and our boys dying over there but I do enjoy the comedic aspect of saying, “We’re at war!” or better yet, “This means war!”
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