JIHAD MILKSHAKES
November 20, 2009
by VICE UK
Anjem Choudary, the man behind Islam4uk, wants to turn Buckingham Palace into a mosque, impose sharia law in the UK, and destroy Britain’s porn industry. We took him for a milkshake (his favorite is chocolate). Watch the movie here
RAIDERS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
October 22, 2009
by JASON MOJICA
Americana
Jeff Krulik has been making the kind of videos the Internet was made for long before Al Gore got around to inventing it. Best known for his iconic short film, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Krulik has spent much of the past 20-odd years digging up some of the most awkward and/or dynamic people in America: King of Porn documents the after-hours hobby of a long-time Library of Congress employee; Ernest Borgnine on the Bus documents the star of The Poseidon Adventure driving his luxury coach, the “Sunbum,” around the country; and Hitler’s Hat tells the tale of how the Führer’s top-hat became the centerpiece of a Jewish GI’s magic routine.
JAPANESE PENIS SHRINE
September 01, 2009
by TOMOKAZU KOSUGA
Japan is the place where ridiculous things are easily accepted by everyone. For instance, this ancient penis-worship shrine built out of grave stones. No one knows exactly when it was made, but it clearly came before 1364 since there was a book written about it in that year. We do, however, know it was made “for couples hoping to have the healthy children,” which is a great thing to support with our tax money.
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MOON TUNES
August 31, 2009
by VBS Staff
Motherboard
One thing uneducated people like to say about famous works of art they don’t understand is that they/their kids/arbitrary beast suffering from arbitrary neural affliction could make that. While this statement is generally a gross overestimation of their own creative faculties, exceptions abound, with a major one being the serialist works of Pierre Boulez where the beast/child/dunce in question is the Moon.
THE DEATH OF MARVEL COMICS
August 31, 2009
by NICHOLAS GAZIN
It’s come to my attention that Disney just bought Marvel Comics, the whole company and the characters and everything. I am sure that many folks are freaking out because they think Marvel will change. “Oh no”, dumbasses everywhere are probably crying, “Oh no, they’re going to dumb down the Punisher. There’s a sophistication to a psycho with a skull on his shirt, running around and killing people who he doesn’t like! And Wolverine, oh Wolverine, he’s an unstoppable rage-filled asshole who murders people with razors that pop out of his hands. There’s a delicate poetry to him. On the one hand he wants to kill people and on the other hand he does kill people.”
MY DATE WITH LEDUFF
August 28, 2009
by BABY BALLS
VBS Meets
Have you ever been to Michigan in the middle of the summer? It’s retarded. I grew up in the pollen-choked flatlands of the Bible Belt so I thought I knew from heat and humidity, but Detroit, a city widely believed to reside in “the North,” completely put me through the wringer. If you’ve ever spent a full day working(/talking to people while some poor asshole points a 20-pound camera at your greasy mug) outside in 95-degree direct sunlight, it does this thing to your body that basically turns beer into gatorade. Anyways, not to put too fine a point on it, but it might add to the viewing experience of “today’s chat”: if you shotgunned a couple Millers before hitting play and maybe hung out in a gas station parking lot with the Nation of Islam’s mayoral candidate for the afternoon or something.
THIS MOVIE WILL MAKE YOU CUM
August 27, 2009
by JUAN CARLOS & VICTOR PIÑEIRO ESCORIAZA
Motherboard
This week marks the release of Second Skin, a documentary about virtual worlds and the gamers who live in them and probably the single best movie of this year. It’s gotten a bunch of rave reviews and a lot of press so far, but I think the public at large are blind to the colossal, Brobdingnagian implications this movie brings to the table.
I'M CRAZY FOR EXCEPTER
August 25, 2009
by BABY BALLS
Music World
Excepter are responsible for two or three of the best shows I’ve ever seen, one of the absolute worst shows, and possibly the most embarrassing thing I did at the last apartment I lived in. A few years ago they put out a 12" that ends with one of those “locked grooves” where the last few seconds of the record keeps on playing forever or until you finally remember to lift the needle. In this case, instead of music or feedback or some pithy joke-statement, the groove contained a single muted car-honk that sounded exactly like someone’s alarm going off down the block. After putting on the record slightly hungover one morning and spending half an hour shouting out the window at the asshole who left his car alarm on, I finally stormed outside swearing like a spazzed-out Rick Moranis and realized I’d been screaming profanities at a bunch of 5-year-old Puerto Rican kids playing in front of their grandmother on a completely quiet street. Oh, and I was literally in a bathrobe and socks.
LANCE BANGS MEETS FAMILY LA'S EXTENDED LA FAMILY
August 17, 2009
by VBS Staff
Bangs
Hey, starting tomorrow “Lance Bangs”: returns to the VBS fold with a two-part series on the Family bookstore in LA.
We agree that watching a documentary about a store sounds only a tad more captivating than shaving your balls on muscle relaxants, but what Lance does is he uses Family as a launchpad to talk with all the artists and musicians who like to hang out there and play in-stores, then he follows them to their spaces (like the Smell and Ooga Booga and Sam Harkham’s silent theater) and talks to all the people hanging out there and before you know it you’ve sat through an epic Fassbinder-esque account of the entire Los Angeles scene at this specific moment of time.
Anyways, even if it was strictly about Family, we bet it would still be a better watch than most of the crap coming out these days. Far be it from us to tell you what’s awesome, but where else are you going to find a copy of Soiled Matress & the Springs first album, a Harmony Korine zine anthology, and an oversized print by comics insaniac Victor Cayro while watching a show while hanging out with all your best buds and a bunch of Southern Californian creative types? Oh, the internet? I’ll internet you, you damn wiseass.
VBS ON ANDY CAPPER ON VBS
August 17, 2009
by VBS Staff
Rule Britannia
Andy Capper is a mysterious ginger who edits Vice UK, shoots all of the Britishy things you see on VBS, and moonlights as a “journo” or “bloggo” or some other ridiculous anglic term for “guy who does word stuff.” We sometimes forget about the semi-regular pieces he writes for the Guardian on account of them usually assigning him reviews of sub-awful pap like Glasvegas, which is in fact the very reason why we missed out on his dispatch from Liberia last week. Well that and the seemingly inhuman sense of mystery which permanently envelopes his every act and has led certain theorists to the conclusion that he is not actually a real person, but rather the constructed public face for a secret confederation of this generation’s greatest literary talents and media critics. Anyways, we’ll let you get on with reading his “Postcard from the edge” (we guarantee you they picked that corny title for him) without a whole bunch of spoilers and innuendo. OK fine, just a couple. Frozen strippers. General Butt Naked. General Bin Laden. Handwash. Now git ’r read.
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