"I ain't gonna lie, some have got better / Dizzee got worse but he still got cheddar"

The grime scene gongs of 2007 have been handed out by Do It! columnist Prancehall. Afrikan Boy (pictured here iPod battling with MIA) picked up a 'Top slogan T-shirt' award. Other categories include 'Top 5 people / things / animals Skepta has been photographed with this year', 'Top 3 screwfaces' and much more.

NEW YORK - THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Man, I could stare at Daniel Day Lewis's crazy face for hours. Not in a "What would it be like to kiss him" way, more in a wallpaper-on-acid kind of way. All his expressions and facial tics have this weird manneristic thing where it's like he's pushing his features just past the point where they should be physically able to go. Actually it's a lot like when you're tripping and people smile too hard, just he does it with every emotion. Then there's his accent which peaks through a couple times in the movie, like in how he inflects things like "Well then" and "Let's go," and makes him seem even more creepy and disjointed. I read in an interview with someone who's buddies with him that all that deep-method-acting business has left him more or less a permanent composite of all the characters he's ever played. Not sure exactly how true it is, but with all respect to his family and the folks who have to put up with him on a daily basis, that's pretty awesome.

SKINS - A NEW SHOW THAT'S NOT ABOUT SKINS

Skins is a new TV series by the people who made that other wacky English show Shameless. It revolves around a bunch of dissimilar friends who share a love for spliff, losing their virginity and partying and is essentially the new Degrassi for the generation that couldn't get enough of Snake and his pals.

This is one of the most addictive things we've watched all year and it starts in Australia on Thursday January 7th at 10pm on SBS. Ok, wow, cool.

VICELAND HIGHLIGHTS

We've dug out some of the most popular stuff published on Viceland this year. Readers were drawn to a mixed bag: from rogue soldiers and crazy cults to the familiar cluster of douchebags and creeps. Being a sophisticated bunch, you also tuned into the more profound issues of the day, such as racial politics, sexual prowess, animal rights, misbehaviour in school and the latest dance-floor moves...

THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY CONQUERED ALL

The Black Lips have just released the video for "Veni Vidi Vici," that woozy jam about holy world war on Good Bad Not Evil. Shot on a Super 8 camera they found in a thrift store, it follows the band shaking maracas in a cemetery and busting shapes in infinity mirrors. We asked Cole a couple of questions about the video...

 

NUEVO RAVE

Klaxons were on tour in Mexico City recently and dropped into a cosy little cantina for beers and burritos. Several tequilas later, they harangued a Mariachi band into lending them an accordion, a tololoche, a cuatro and a tambora. The boys then delighted locals with an impromptu Norteña version of their hit "Golden Skans" that left the bar begging for "Otra! Otra!"

DOM TUNON

STIFF DICKS & CANCER STICKS

Girls! Do you smoke? Maybe you're a little embarrassed about that nasty habit of yours. You probably think that people find it gross and dumb, and you'd be right, they totally do! But don't worry, there are smoking fetishists out there just dying to meet a girl like you. We tracked one down and asked him to explain...

REVIEWS - SUN CITY GIRLS REISSUE PARADE

Oh hey. The Sun City Girls have finally started rereleasing some of their old, completely-fucking- impossible-to-find 90s stuff on CD. I'd assumed that I'd have to hand off my battered old bootleg tape of Torch of the Mystics to my grandchildren from my deathbed, but this is going to make things a hell of a lot easier (if less romantic/dorky). Let's see what'all we got...

THE VICE PHOTO BOOK

The VICE Photo Book just came out and it is a fucking tome. The thing is 11x14, weighs a good eight pounds, and is filled with all of our favorite pictures and fashion spreads and photo stories from the past ten years of the magazine. It's also got new stuff like long, in-depth interviews with the photographers who made us like pictures and helped shape our aesthetic, three separate histories of photography in Vice, and probably even more. In short we have put together a huge, glossy monolith of eye-food that will suck away hours of your life as it constricts the blood vessels in your lap. We shouldn't even have to mention how good it looks on a coffee table with crap strewn all over it. Buy the book here. Pretty big coincidence this coming out right before Christmas, isn't it? [cough]

THE VICE PHOTO BOOK

The VICE Photo Book just came out and it is a fucking tome. The thing is 11x14, weighs a good eight pounds, and is filled with all of our favorite pictures and fashion spreads and photo stories from the past ten years of the magazine. It's also got new stuff like long, in-depth interviews with the photographers who made us like pictures and helped shape our aesthetic, three separate histories of photography in Vice, and probably even more. In short we have put together a huge, glossy monolith of eye-food that will suck away hours of your life as it constricts the blood vessels in your lap. We shouldn't even have to mention how good it looks on a coffee table with crap strewn all over it. Buy the book here. Pretty big coincidence this coming out right before Christmas, isn't it? [cough]