It’s two weeks exactly until John Safran’s new series Race Relations goes to air and it’s already been labeled by someone from the Australian Family Association as “the lowest point in Australia's television history.” Are you fucking serious? Have you turned the television on recently? Programming here is hideous, almost without exception. Anyway, we have a feeling that John’s new show is going to set a new benchmark for Australian television and we can’t wait to see him try to determine, via a series of excruciating experiments, whether he should marry a Jew or a Eurasian.
Not to suggest that they're mutually exclusive, but if you have pay television and nothing better better to do this weekend, fuck it. Stay home and watch the broadcast debut of two of VBS.TV's most popular shows. Starting this Saturday, our skate programme Epicly Later'd and our surf culture show Hi Shred-Ability will be airing on Fuel TV.
Hey, did you catch what was on MTV this afternoon? The Hills' Stephanie Pratt chats with Ryan Duffy about her Parisian learning experience, Heidi's "shocking" Miss Universe performance, growing up with bro Spencer, and what she thinks about Kristin Cavallari's confrontational attitude? Then you also missed his super hip outfit, centered around a Marc By Marc Jacobs "Off The Deep End" t-shirt--the same Marc By Marc Jacobs t-shirt Demi Lovato's been spotted wearing. Keep up the cool 'n' trendy stuff, Duffy!
Jerry Seinfeld is known to be a very neurotic guy. But is he really? Or is he just a regular guy being exposed to inhumane conditions? To find out the answer I tried a couple of his hang-ups on a bunch of unsuspecting, regular, un-neurotic people in my presence.
A beast RV known as Bad Brains chugs down to pick me up at the VICE office. The door swings open and a man with braids named Keith Cecere tells me to come on in. I do and I start having a very nice time immediately, even though he is not wearing a shirt and has a tramp stamp. There are only three out of the five dashing young men of the new IFC internet series Funnel of Darkness, but in retrospect I think that was more than enough. Rich Ruggiero and Brian Sachson who sincerely loves his girlfriend and is considering dual-euthanizing if one of them gets sick were also present. I quickly begin to understand why Keith is shirtless: it is 90 degrees outside and the RV doesn’t have air conditioning. The entire thing is carpeted in heinous shades of brown and tan, making it a mobile desert. They no doubt use this vehicle for picking up ladies but their PR guy told me I would probably be the only girl to ever step foot inside. It was an honor.
Instead of Take Your Kid to Work Day once a year, it’s now Take Your Kid Begging on the Train with You Day every single day. Tons of our friends have formed these unemployment gangs where they’ve just been hanging out in the park and finding free shit to do all summer long. But guess what? Jobs still exist! And there are some good ones too. They are out there and people work them everyday. We talked to one of these nice job-havers, because we’re tired of feeling jealous of our unemployed buddies who’re just messing around, having a blast all day, and we’re also tired of hearing people with jobs whine about how “stressed” they are all the time.
By now, if you haven’t watched The Wire or read Homicide and The Corner, the two astonishing books that acted as source material for the HBO series, something’s seriously lacking from your life. If you have, you’ll know that Omar Little, the incredibly violent but still strongly moral stick-up artist, is one of the most compelling fictional creations ever to slam a shotgun into a dealer’s face.
Except he’s not wholly a fictional creation–his life and modus operandi was inspired by Donnie Andrews, a former stick-up artist, convicted murderer, and all-round Baltimore bad-ass. After spending 18 years in jail he’s been working with his local communities back in Maryland and there’s currently a film being made of his life. I recently had a chat with Donnie.
Sitting at my day job wishing I was a kid again so I could be a contestant on a new show on the Cartoon Network is a new high for me in the wasting-my-life stakes. Fuck you Andrew W.K.
Look who was on Normal People Who Have Jobs TV this morning? Our own boss guy Shane Smith got up early to discuss current events and his adventures in journalism with the scaries and the scared in North Korea, where he and the rest of the crew snuck a camera in for the Vice Guide to North Korea. He says they were "really terrified of getting caught. And it's not like getting caught in Iraq or Afghanistan, or taking a stray bullet. You know you're gonna go away and go away for a long time." If you click down there you can watch him say that last quote (and more).
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