We know we’re already renegging on the New Year’s resolution or Lent promise or whatever we made about devoting blog space to the Black Lips, but here’s three of the four of them playing a set of individual numbers for Blogotech’s Take-Away Show series in Seattle last week. The first one’s a Gaye Blades number, the second we’re pretty sure is not an actual song (although the phrase "I want a fucking a-rab to get a real nice racial dick" has been bouncing around in our head since we first watched this), and the final piece is from the last album. There’s also a full-band version of "Everybody’s Doing It" if you snoop around the site a little. What? Fine, it’s here.
Archive for March, 2008
LONDON - STUDENT GUIDE
Being a student mainly involves getting fucked,
fucking about and fucking. But most students somehow manage to fuck that up. That’s
where our new Student Guide comes in. It’s got first-hand tales of college sex disasters, a photo-story on exchange girls, and a dossier on dossing, The Vice Guide to Taking it Easy at College. Plus, when you wake from your
three-year stupor and realise you’re going to need some cash to pay off
your student loan, we’ve included instructions on How to Get
the Job You Want.
LONDON - THE OBSERVER ♥ VICE
The Observer Magazine did a big feature on us this weekend. They talk about how our “streetwise teen-zine finally grew up,” and how, with our online TV network VBS, we’re “aiming to shock in a different way.” They also drool over the images we’ve collected in our coffee table tome, the VICE Photo Book. In fact, the piece is so damn flattering that we take back those jibes we made about The Observer a while back and we’re calling it evens.
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NEW YORK - JAPANTHER TONITE AND TOMORROW
If you can’t make it to the house party Japanther’s playing at tonight in Dover, a) sucks, but b) they are playing tomorrow night at the Market Hotel out on Broadway and whatever that other street is in Brooklyn. Whoever made this video, by the way, is a certified genius in our books.
LONDON - ONE UNDERS
I once saw a woman throw herself under a train. I noticed her sitting on a bench at the platform. As a train approached and the wind picked up, she jumped down to the rails and ran towards the tunnel. People screamed and the train braked hard, but nothing could prevent two hundred tons of metal from mashing her into track pizza. Over 100 people die this way every year. Tube drivers refer to them as "one unders." With the whole hullabaloo brewing about a new film that pokes fun at subway suicides, we talked to a London Underground tube driver about one unders. Here’s what he had to say…
LITERARY - A CHILD CALLED IT
If you were to tally up the amount of time my eyes have spent looking at the cover of this book it would probably be something like 37 hours. Give or take. For over a decade this same pudgy, bowl-cut little face having his chin lifted by the same cloud-hand has stared me down from countless grocery store checkout counters and the "inspiration" shelves of countless bookstores—it even occupied a place of honor on the end table next to my grandma’s sitting-chair, sandwiched between her dog-eared copy of Christine and completely untouched bible. But it wasn’t until yesterday, when some girl fucking beaned me with a copy of the book from her apartment window while I was walking home, that I finally got around to reading it.
POP VOX - HEY, TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE FIGHT
Since it’s finally getting warm enough to do anything outside other than push your hands into your pockets as far as they can go and scream "Jesus Christ! Are you fucking serious! Come On!" we decided to hit the streets and ask a small sampling of New York folks about the best/worst fight they’ve been in. We weeded out the most BS-y of them, and still, this is what we got.
LOS ANGELES - HOPE GALLERY
Hope Gallery is a new looking-at-things space set up by Family and Teenage Teardrops, LA’s best new bookstore and extremely tiny vinyl imprint, respectively. Tonight at 7:30 they are throwing an opening party full of stuff by Sumi Ink Club, a drawing collective created by some of the folks from Glaciers of Nice. This is like the confluence of everything good that southern California has going for it at the moment that doesn’t include a member of Abe Vigoda, and who knows? It could end up including a member of Abe Vigoda. You wouldn’t be smart for missing this. Come for the wearable zoetrope, stay for the crafts table.
NEW YORK - NEW SSION VIDEO
Oh good, I’d thought the advent of “Whoop De Doo” had spelled the end of all Cody Critcheloe’s weirdly flat, hand-drawn looking videos. This one’s sort of a slow-burner, but things really pick up after the nail wipe at 1:25. By the way, can anybody tell what the woman’s saying at the beginning though? Is it “platinum”?
LONDON - BE YOUR OWN PET
So, in case you missed it, the whole hubbub this week is that Be Your Own Pet’s label made them pull three songs from their new album because they are "too violent." Evidently, the lyrics that caused Universal’s lawyers to shit their pants revolved around killing their classmates over a slice of pizza and generally wanting to "destroy." Granted this all is gay, but considering that the band dropped out of 10th grade and is living out the the teenage dream, where’s all this high-school rage even coming from? Luckily this was the first thing we asked the band when they were in London last week.
SYDNEY - VICE & MOOKS PRESENT ANDY UPROCK “CUPROCKING” EXHIBITION
Andy Uprock is an all-round creative guy from Sydney who has invented a crazy thing he calls “Cuprocking”. Essentially this involves him taking plastic cups to mesh wire fences to create gigantic, unique, floating pieces of art. As much as we know you’d like us to spend a bit more time trying to describe what this looks like, it’s really much more of a visual thing and the pictures really do a much better job. Along with MOOKS, we recently threw an exhibition of Andy’s work and took photos of him doing his thing which you can see on our Photo Blog.
