TV Books is the book imprint version of Tiny Vices which is the website version of the inside of former Vice photo editor Tim Barber’s brain. Tim’s only been running it for a little while, but they’ve already put out a lot of classy pictorial shit, like that Death Pits book we were telling you about last week and good-looking new things by Jason Nocito and Gordon Hull of Surface 2 Air. Anyways, why we’re telling you all this is TV Books is having an exhibition at Partners and Spade this weekend featuring even newer book stuff as well as art and photography by the likes of Aurel Schmidt and Michael Schmeling and all the other folks we mentioned a second ago. You should go there and see it. That’s all.
Archive for June, 2008
NEW YORK - TV BOOKS AT P&S
GLASTONBURY - HOVA, MUDAFUCKAZ!
Hey people at Glastonbury (not that anyone at Glastonbury will be reading this). Are you guys looking forward to watching Jay-Z in the unforgiving rain with lots of people who hate him? I really hope it rains. Please rain.
Anyway, we were just Googling to see if anyone has erected a burning effigy of Jay-Z yet when we came across this parodic piece entitled "99 problems but my pitch ain’t one". If you didn’t guess, it’s a list of close to a hundred predicaments the rapper might face at everyone’s fave festival…
GLASTONBURY - BLACK LIPS
See that thing there in the photo? That’s gonna come into play somehow at the Black Lips show on the John Peel stage at 6 PM on Saturday.
Here’s a cover of "Bad Kids" by Chicago’s Blue Ribbon Glee Band. We aren’t really sure what’s going on with it, but we like it.
Listen: Blue Ribbon Glee Band - "Bad Kids"
LONDON - WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT SHIT!
Guess what? One of the most expensive coffee brands in the world is called Civet. It
sells for an insane £183 a pound. What makes it so special, so desirable? Well, the
beans are passed through an Indonesian wild cat called a civet. By “passed through” we
mean eaten, digested, then shat out whole. Then they’re put in a fancy package and sold to
pretentious coffee drinkers with far too much money. According to Ben Fowler, senior buyer at Civet’s UK
distributors: “The average consumer is
someone looking for a rare and unique gift, wanting to
obtain a luxury product, or someone who loves
exploring interesting and unusual types of coffee.
Someone bored by Starbucks.” We were pretty bored by Starbucks so we dispatched
the intern to Selfridges and spent a day drinking catcrapped
cawfee. This is what went down.
LONDON - EVERY LAST BIT
What’s with the way this guy has to get every last morsel from his stupid little trifle? And is it just me, or does the final 30 seconds of this video — the bit with the fingers — remind anyone else of a woman masturbating?
JON BROWN
MELBOURNE - EDDY CURRENT AT THE ESPY
Melbourne’s golden boys, Eddy current Suppression Ring are going to play to the people for money at the Esplanade Hotel tonight. They have just released an album full of songs you can listen to with your ears while you have sex with your boyfriend. It’s called Primary Colors. It’s not bad if you like the Fall and other white music with an incessant sloppy sex beat running through it’s veins. Two-note diddies for the drooling, lo-fi-worshiping hate-mongers. A perfect marriage between Velvets and The Victims. Tonight’s happy get-together is almost sold out so get there early, children, or you will be outside with a frown on your face contemplating whether or not to take a cheese-grater to your special private parts. Plus, if you get inside tonight you can see Melbourne ragers, Cut Sick, and dream-weavers, St. Helens, prepare or bore the crowd. It could go either way, you’ve been to a show before! Shit starts at 9pm.
NEW YORK - WHAT WE DO IS SHITTY
OK, we know, via Lesley, we agreed not to get worked up over the terrible-looking Germs movie that’s finally coming out, but have you seen this new trailer? Why did they make Pat Smear sound like he’s Mexican?
NEW YORK - DEAD FACES
There are certain faces that are so linked to a specific period in time that when that period ends they basically go extinct. I’m not sure if it’s because the faces become so common during that time that people get sick of them and push them to the margins or the facial genes just don’t get passed on, but once their era has passed spotting them onscreen or in the wild is like catching the Loch Ness monster making out with a Frankenstein. The other night I saw a woman with normal hair dressed totally in contemporary clothes, but her face was one of those ultra-chiseled Katherine Hepburn sort of numbers where the chin juts out like a cattle catcher. It looked like she was a time traveler trying to disguise herself.
LONDON - BRIGHT EYES LOSES IT
It’s taken us a year to put this up, but better late than never. Here’s the scene: backstage at Glastonbury last year VBS correspondent Jaimie Hodgson sits down with that Bright Eyes guy Conor Oberst. The interview starts off badly but gets worse when Jaimie asks about the incident when Conor mocked the memory of the late John Peel.
LONDON - SECRET GENOCIDE
In the closing stages of the World War II thousands of Nazi sympathizers and their extended families fled central Europe for the safety of allied Italy. Sadly the British army turned them all back and over a hundred thousand people were liquidated in the woods and towns of Slovenia. Their bodies were dumped in hundreds of mass graves. Under the rule of communism even mentioning the slaughter was illegal. Our friend Ben Freeman has produced a book that shines a light on this largely forgotten phase in European history. It contains previously unreleased classified archive information, chilling letters, harrowing interviews with survivors and executioners as well as some beautiful photographs. Get more info here.
MELBOURNE - TELEPATHE LAY IT DOWN AGAIN
Tonight at the Toff In Town, Telepathe will be performing once again. If you came to the Vice 5th B-day bash last Saturday you probably saw these young rapping, vibrant dressers on stage. If you attend tonight you probably will witness; stage diving, gang fights, a drug overdose and maybe a half dozen stabbings. Just kidding. Come snort some weird stuff that a stranger offers you and have a good time! Shit gets started at 8:30 in the Pee Em. Pets with Pets and Barrage are supporting.
LONDON - DARIO GILLESPIE
The new Primal Scream video is really great. It’s a homage to to our favourite Italian horror movie director Dario Argento and has Bobby Gillespie drowning Ben Rayner’s best new friend Alice Dellal and beheading Lily Cole with a chandelier.
NEW YORK - DO WE LOOK SLUTTY?
Wuh, woah. Did you hear that 40% of New Yorkers are fucking with no protection? Oh wait, kind of misread that, 40% of New Yorkers with multiple partners don’t use condoms. But evidently 11% of New Yorkers have multiple partners, so let’s see.. two-fifths times 11 over one hundred… solve for x… OK, 4% of New Yorkers don’t use condoms. Uhp, shit, just caught this part—"didn’t use a condom the last time they had sex." So 4% of New Yorkers had unsafe sex at least once this year. Still, that’s pretty bad right? Oh shit, sorry, just got to the end—this whole thing’s based on a survey of 10,000 of the city’s 8 million residents. So, 400 people told someone that they fucked someone without a condom. Now that’s some fucking news.
