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.
Archive for April, 2007
COLOMBIA’S CRACKHEAD SEWER KIDS
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.
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.
NEW YORK - WHEN U WERE ZINE
Oh hello. Today we are so, so proud to present “The Vice Obscure-Zines-that Our-Friends-Made-in-the-90s Preservation Project.” We begin with Vice NY’s managing editor and her acclaimed 90s zine, If Prince Was My Girlfriend, which, in 1997, received glowing reviews in Factsheet Five, Queer Zine Explosion, Screw, and every teeny lesbian publication in existence at the time. The zine was about Prince, but more so, it was about love. Haha, no, it was about the author, and her thoughts and dreams and ideas about love and sex and gender (she was a women’s studies major, which explains a lot) and how it all ties in to PRINCE. It was pretty funny. Let’s begin our journey to a time long, long ago, before blogs, before MySpace, when zines told the world, “This is me, world! And I am angst-ridden!” Come with me…
NEW YORK - THE BELIEVERS HEAVEN
Our buddy Jim Krewson sent us this. It’s part of a great lost tradition of mountainside Baptist preaching called “Acid Christianity” in which pastors would attempt to trip-out their congregation into accepting Jesus as the ultimate mindfuck and, incidentally, their savior. It may not seem quite that ethical now, but it did springboard careers of Sam Kinison, David Lynch, and Warwick Davis. (PS: I hope GodTube’s happy to have nothing but boring personal testimonies rather than weird, amazing shit like this or anything that could ever be laughed at. It was like seconds after launching they suddenly realized exactly what they had done.)
BABY BALLS / GONDRY / SILVERMAN
We sent VBS correspondent Baby Balls to spend a couple nights the sewers of Bogota, which the city’s most down-and-out call home - or at least call refuge from the machine-gun-wielding death squads which patrol the city’s streets at night and mow down anything that looks poor. In VBS Meets, we have French director Michel Gondry in a heavily accented discussion with actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg about her behavior on the set of Science of Sleep. And in DOs & DON’Ts & Friends we’re doing bong hits with Sarah Silverman (pictured).
NEW YORK - JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
Michael Travesser used to be a normal, schlubby guy named Wayne Bent until he was inexplicably infused with the spirit of the archangel Michael, aka the true Son of God. This spiritual integration (or as we like to call it “God rape”) just kind of happened one day, and disappointingly, was nothing like the Zuul scene from Ghostbusters. He just woke up the next morning feeling noticeably more God-y. It bears mention though that, according to Travesser, the last time this kind of thing occurred was when it happened to a little beardy guy you may have heard of named Jesus H. Christ.
PLAYTIME IS OVER
Gone are wedgies, dead arms and food fights. Kids behaving badly in school these days are more into racist abuse, sexual assault, booze and drugs. An average of 230 primary school kids are suspended from school each day for an assortment of misdemeanours, according to a new report. And yes, primary school means kids under 11. So, because we like stories, tell us the worst thing you did at school…
WENG WENG
Weng Weng is 84 cm of Filipino sexual energy, extolled in a rap vid doing the rounds now. Something about his cheeky smile, his roundhouse kicks and his razorblade hat has us hooked…
INTERVIEW - CRISPIN GLOVER
Do you know what special day it is today? Or rather whose special day it is? Well?… It’s Crispin Glover’s birthday, aka the day you’re also supposed to smoke pot for some reason! In honor of Cripsy’s b-day, we are bringing you a lengthy sit-down interview with the director of What Is It?, our favorite outrage-baiter of the past decade (more for the offended cineastes than the retard activists).
LOS ANGELES - PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT
You up to anything tonight? No? Well, if you’re into having your mind ripped apart by webs of intricately interlocking and dissociative space-guitar craziness, you should go see the Psychic Paramount play with Earthless tonight at Dave’s Warehouse…
SOCIETY SERVICE
Modern day Casanovas aren’t like the rest of us. Do you think they want to waste countless hours making small talk in bars in the faint hope of getting some tail? Following the tradition of Worthington’s Law, rich playboys have once again proved themselves better than us with a website that caters to their every need. Society Service offers a plethora of options straight out of a 1980s teen comedy dream sequence: ferraris, massages, erotic dinners, expensive tits. You can practically hear the sax solos…
NEW YORK - POP ZITS FOR CASH
Before you get all pissy and point out the fact that we linked to this site in our first post about zit popping back in January, please understand that they’ve really revved things up since then. Now they’re paying actual cash for original photos and videos of pimple eruptions.
