Vice Student guide

I don't mind what people like. If you enjoy early Genesis, enjoy it. My objection is to people who feign enjoyment of music or other culture, whether it be opera or Pink Floyd simply because they feel they ought to and in so doing close their ears and their minds to other things that wuld actually inspire them.

I have to admit i thought i liked the Floyd when i was a yoot, just to fit in. The rest were the same - one mans hippy parents had a strong grip. But being exposed to it back then has helped me love it more.
when i watched Crystal Voyager a few years after that i was blown sideways. it still comes on my CD player now. music of that scale is a love affair that changes.

Those that feign their passion will grow up and forget that music was there because there is no strong link. Their kids will be told of a scene whilst their parents check wikipedia on their 5th genreation iphones to find out what the music of the day was.

Pfff! Ageing hipsters... Worse than the young 'uns! And The Stooges beat The Velvets in a fight, any day of the week... Pfff! (again, just for emphasis)

And who produced "The Stooges" album including "I Wanna Be Your Dog" ? John Cale. Velvets for the win.

Clive, I am 43!

All that riding and being a thoroughly likeable person must keep you youthful ;o)

yup, that and the pig-placenta extract I inject very morning.
For the more literal minded readers: I do not inject pig-placenta extract every morning.

No, it's lamb on Tuesdays and Saturdays isn't it?

Aside from “sneaker culture” one of the most homo and expensive trends you can align yourself with while at uni is the trendy fixed-gear bike cult. You spend hours on forums, and eBay searching for the parts to make your dream bike. Then you lock it up outside a pub full of other bike pervs so they can dribble at it while everybody else in the world laughs and kicks it.

ohhhhh that cuts deep! :D

i'd never seen Nathan Barley ('cos I'm a foreigner) so i had no idea what the fuck half of this thread was about, so i jumped on bittorrent and grabbed some episodes.

haaaahahahaha fucking awesome.

Well I feel like I'm going off topic by going back to topic....

I used to work for Vice and although I don't always have the best things to say about them the writing is often surprisingly good. Especially surprising as it is so irony filled but written mainly by Americans (The content is shared around the various Vice countries but the main writers are in the US). Some of their pieces although shocking are very thought provoking and often have core message, although it's not always obvious. It is a taste maker and barometer of trends, fashion and music.

Other times it just wants to shock.

But always it's done for the money. It's more capitalist than you would expect. Different from the other mags ID, Dazed etc in it's set-up but it is still about the cash.

Vice US turns out some good shit, Epically Latered for one, and their peice on the biggest rave in Russia in a disused nuclear powerstation is brilliant.

http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=662538693

pretty sure i know that kid on page 1 of this thread.

i'd never seen Nathan Barley ('cos I'm a foreigner) so i had no idea what the fuck half of this thread was about, so i jumped on bittorrent and grabbed some episodes.

haaaahahahaha fucking awesome.

It's great ain't it ! :)

"Then you lock it up outside a pub full of other bike pervs so they can dribble at it while everybody else in the world laughs and kicks it."

I kick my own bike.

"Then you lock it up outside a pub full of other bike pervs so they can dribble at it while everybody else in the world laughs and kicks it."

I also do my own dribbling.

I kick my own bike.

Isn't your bike a 'self-kicker' ?

Isn't your bike a 'self-kicker' ?

be nice to the cuntster, it was abused as a youngster.

i'd never seen Nathan Barley ('cos I'm a foreigner) so i had no idea what the fuck half of this thread was about, so i jumped on bittorrent and grabbed some episodes. haaaahahahaha fucking awesome.

Really? Should I? It's a pisstake comedy yeah. I guess it would edumacate me a little more.

be nice to the cuntster, it was abused as a youngster.

That's certainly true. The abuser has a new victim.. I hear it's into "chroming"..

Really? Should I? It's a pisstake comedy yeah. I guess it would edumacate me a little more.

pisstake comedy? nah mate, it's a documentary!

pisstake comedy? nah mate, it's a documentary!

An urbumentary.

An urbumentary.

about a guy who wants to make a shockumentry.

about a guy who wants to make a shockumentry.

about a rockumentary.

It's fucking Mexico

be nice to the cuntster, it was abused as a youngster.

It's still being abused to this day

And who produced "The Stooges" album including "I Wanna Be Your Dog" ? John Cale. Velvets for the win.

'Produced'?! Have you heard his original mixes on that LP?!?! The man should be shot... The Velvets did make some great records but I still hate them, Da Stooches have been my fave band since I was 16 when everyone was into the Velvets but no-one gave a toss about my lil' darlin' Detroit boys... It's a completely irrational stance on my part, but hey, whatcha gonna do?