Let's talk about Vice Magazine

He might present himself as a tattooed hustler — the type of ageless slacker who fires off an e-mail to a reporter with the salutation, “Hey, Cap’n Poopy Pants.”

hustler and slacker are opposite types of doods jus fyi style section

someone offered to "pitch me" to Vice ppl I met a few months ago. but who the hell am I gonna interview?

Werner Herzog? JERRY LEWIS?

Pauly
shore

you could interview a fire hydrant as long as you mention at least 3 of the following: an obscure NY or LA band/coke/trendy hipster vests/masturbation/gay sex/trendy hipster sneakers/minorities/hipster puppies.

I've never read Vice Magazine

All I know about it is from this classick thread!

actually, I got an email about viewing Herzog (not for Vice) last night but was laughably unready!

As absurd as I realize it is, I really do enjoy reading VICE and have discovered a lot of film/music through it.

ive always liked vice. even though ive always imagined the people working for it to be complete cunts. also had to turn a blind eye to all the racist shit they used to spew in their pages too. funny how theyve cleaned their act up now, though i kinda prefer it.

I think the cleanup of racist shit might be because they booted Gavin McInnes who is a Republican?

they booted Gavin McInnes

wow really?

im pretty amazed to read how rich that guy has gotten off vice though. they must be the ultimate freesheet/freemag success story.

mcinnes now runs some other site that's trying way too hard

the hipster market had been heretofore underserved with tits n racism offerings tailored to it

oh right that street boners thing. i figured it was all still related.

who or what did the booting?

ha okay I had no idea, maybe I should look at Vice and see if I still find it disgusting and repellent

vice is much much less repellent since mcinnes departure but

regardless of the rest of the mag, dos and donts will always be classic

So McInnes left in 2007? I never really read it before then

mcannus

his m.o. is basically found in this, which is probably linked upthread

http://www.nypress.com/article-6472-vice-rising-corporate-media-woos-magazine-worlds-punks.html

oh, lol, it's in the first post from JBR

I guess what's most amazing to me his how little has seemed to change since 2002

I mean, granted, I was 14 in 2002 and had no idea that any of this was going on.

raucous party boat on the Hudson

sequel to

http://videoexpresslane.com/manage/images/smmovies/moscow-on-the-hudson.jpg

I mean, granted, I was 14 in 2002 and had no idea that any of this was going on.

yeah, weird. i remember talking to some girl in 2005 who was almost a decade younger than me, and she was going on about how cool vice magazine was, and at the time i was kind of scratching my head thinking, isn't that kind of played out by now? and she also talked about nirvana in reverent tones, as much as ascribing them the status of the beatles of her generation. but she was also really excited about that pbs scorcese dylan thing that was airing at the time. ah youth. insert hey 19 joke here.

imagine how weird it is for us poor montrealers

you poor Montrealers.

i knew some guy from ontario who was friends with some of the founders. he said they were cool guys, though i think he was simultaneously kind of baffled by how the whole thing blew up

iirc s1ocki used to date gavin mcinnes

poor s1ocki

and she also talked about nirvana in reverent tones, as much as ascribing them the status of the beatles of her generation.

no we can't mosh together
we can't talk at all

lol arthur magazine is so mad abt the vice article on twitter right now

I will say that it's become very, very difficult to actually get Vice for free these days. I pop in AA every time I walk buy to see if they have any and I don't think I've actually gotten one once; they all tell me they get them in sporadically and they're all gone within a day or two.

arthur still exists?

it still tweets

I live in fucking Brooklyn and haven't seen a Vice magazine with my own eyes in two years

http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/08/17/attention-current-arthur-magazine-subscribers/

doesnt look good

guys the article goes to great lengths to explain how vice magazine is now an ad agency not a magazine

I live in fucking Brooklyn and haven't seen a Vice magazine with my own eyes in two years

― Perry-Louise Markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 3:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

DR. WHINEY PHD CULTURAL STUDY #002: Vice Magazine-- does it exist?

I liked Arthur from what I read, is that bad

no, youre doin fine champ

i feel like vice and arthur are two sides of the same coin that each emphasized and are equally responsible for egging on trends in the previous decade that bugged the heck out of me. except that at this point i would sooner put faith in some coked-up vice strawman than devendritus

this is too challenging an opinion for me

really liked the joanna newsom piece erik davis wrote for arthur circa 2006

didnt really read the rag much beyond that

is that the one where she talked about staring at the river for three days and not eating or whatever? yeah, was good

but i remember reading some interview with brightblack morning light that made me almost livid in reaction to how saturated with the worst hippie-ish bullshit of the most fatuous sort it read. and to my mind, that exemplified the way that magazine erred in a big way-- did a total disservice to whatever countercultural pretensions it had, by reaffirming the most naive, facile elements of sixties counterculture. i mean i'm sure that band and the people contributing to the magazine are great folks and all, but ugh i found it maddening.

yep, thats the jn article

haha, i LOVED what arthur stood for and wish it was still here, but I remember reading some article where Marissa Nadler or someone was goin on and on about how awesome it is to roll something in sesame seeds and I was like, "I am clearly not the demo for this."

what was she rolling in sesame seeds?