Meet our new intern Dragan Sasic. He’s Serbian, so in Croatian it sounds like his name is Dragon Sausage. His family moved from Croatia over a decade ago because they got tired of living in a war zone and like a lot of European kids, he learned English from watching MTV. Now he’s an intern at Vice’s Toronto office. We heard celebrity gossip guy Perez Hilton was in town doing some promo and that he was supposed to show up at some club, so we told Dragan to go and ask him a few questions. Oh, and we asked him to dress up like girl because, well, because we could. This is what happened…
Archive for April, 2007
INTERVIEW WITH PEREZ HILTON
NEW YORK - ZERO-G FALL
After years of dashed hopes and broken promises, NASA finally made good on their word and took Mark E. Smith up for a spin in that anti-gravity plane they use to train astronauts. Watch the unbridled joy as he floats in perfect freedom like a newborn seal pup twirling in its ocean home. Apparently the experience took so much out of him he needed a wheelchair for the press conference afterward and his usual frog-scowl collapsed into a crumpled paper bag with a goiter, but we’re sure he’ll be back up and at ‘em faster than you can say something mumbly. Congrats, Mark!
TODAY ON VBS
In Balls Deep, we come face-to-face with the faceless menace of Colombia’s "social cleansing" death squads.
In VBS Meets, Michel Gondry and Charlotte Gainsbourg go for a walk down the street and wrap up their little chat.
In DOs & DON’Ts & Friends it’s the end of Sarah Silverman Week, but don’t worry, she’ll be back on VBS very soon.
We’ve also got a brand-new episode of Shot By Kern featuring a refreshingly-hirsute young lady named Sativa.
MASHATHON FIRST QUARTER UPDATE
So, it’s been almost eight hours of the Monster Mash and I’m still doing pretty well, I think. I filled my mp3 player with some 30-odd copies of the file so I can move around without having to stop every three minutes and restart the song. My brain feels fine at this point, but there were definitely a couple of weird phases I had to pass through to get back to this base state…
NEW YORK - MEMORIAL MASHATHON
Oh shit. That guy none of us had ever heard of but who wrote "Monster Mash" just died. Baby Balls, our associate editor, is something of a novelty music fan. In deep mourning, he has taken it upon himself to listen to “Monster Mash” over and over for 24 hours straight, both as homage and endurance test…
INTERVIEW - STEPHEN GRAHAM
Stephen Graham is a short man (5′ 5½"), but he can bust out a nutcase face that makes bigger men cower and flee. This wouldn’t-hesistate-to -bite-your-nose-off sneer was flashed in Snatch and Gangs of New York. He scared the Arctic Monkeys so much that they picked him to play "Scummy Man" in the video for that song, and cast him again for their new release. We talked to the Liverpudlian actor about the Monkeys, being buddies with Leo DiCaprio, and his terrifying performance in the new movie This Is England.
INTERVIEW - RATATAT
Ratatat are two guys from New York who play laptop-programmed music with a million layers of guitars and synths. It sounds like sleazy, robotic, oom-pah chamber music and makes girls like Kelly Osbourne go weak at the knees. If you took it all apart and got real human beings to play their music it would be like one of those Glenn Branca shows with 87 people playing guitars…
LONDON - OLD BLUE LAST ON THE TELLY
Last week the Old Blue Last was featured on Channel 4’s Transmission show. The Horrors were asked to give their guide to east London, and they took the film crew to non other than our humble little boozer. You can watch it here. (BTW, the video only works on PCs).
BALLS DEEP IN THE SEWERS OF BOGOTA
Today in Balls Deep, we get a little lesson in tough love from the Colombian authorities, as dished out to the country’s homeless on a nightly basis. That’ll learn ’em for living in shit and fear. In VBS Meets, Michel Gondry and Charlotte Gainsbourg’s continued discussion meanders its way over to the stresses of “heading into the studio.” If you’re just coming in on this, please check out the first two parts before you Huh? yourself into a panic…
SMART TECHNOLOGY MAKES YOU SUPER DUMB
The future is going to suck! Last week we reported that talking on your cell phone causes bees to die, which kills crops, which results in famine. Well, here’s some more not-so-happy-in-the-hereafter news. Apparently the radiation emitted by wireless internet networks kills brain cells, so we’ll all be riddled with brain cancer and senile in our forties. This electronic smog could turn out to be "the cigarette of the 21st century."
TRAVEL SHMAVEL - MORE FLIPPED OUT PRISON
A couple months back we dared Adam Jasper to visit a Filipino prison for our first themeless issue. It turned out the whole thing was kind of like a permanent, second-world slumber party. The prisoners were allowed to do whatever they wanted as long as they didn’t try to bust out of jail. Anyway, here are a few interviews with people associated with the prison not included in the original piece…
LONDON - LAWRENCE WATSON EXHIBITION
He shot the definitive portraits of everyone who mattered in music over the past thirty years and his first major show opens at the Maverik Showroom on April 27. To celebrate the opening of Lawrence Watson’s exhibition, we’re giving away a limited edition t-shirt featuring an iconic image…
COLOMBIA’S CRACKHEAD SEWER KIDS
In Balls Deep, we finally meet some of the Colombian sewers’ cagey denizens as well as a pair of Bogotà’s finest, displaying their customary sense of tact and humanity. Today we’ve also got a new episode of Practice Space featuring Jack Penate, the latest in a long line of Londoners to go down the clever-popsmith-meets-amped-up-latterday-skiffle-jammer route of music-making. In VBS Meets, Michel Gondry and Charlotte Gainsbourg gab demurely about Charlotte’s musical pedigree.
