Volume 16 Τεύχος 10
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
Eight years ago, when Elizabeth Wurtzel began writing her memoir about being depressed at Harvard University, she wasn’t trying to be the poster child for glumness in America. But in the few months since her book has been out, that’s...
Scene Report
Hey everyone reading Vice. I’m excited I get to do a column this issue. I still think Vice is kind of a Big Brother rip-off but beggars can’t be choosers.
Lisa Lisa And Cult Loeb
We look to pop icons to find our opposite, to break us out of our identity shells. I listen to Iggy Stooge and am transformed into a tofu-and-heroin-driven insanity gymnast. In real life, I am none of those things. Through Iggy, for a few minutes or...
Date-rape Me, My Friend
This is a touchy subject, I know. Largely because everybody seems to think that at some point they have been given an adulterated drug.
Girl Germs
I used to feel so lucky whenever I would spot a hair extension lying haphazardly on the sidewalk. It was better than a penny or a four-leaf clover.
Lighten Up!
“There’s not any cruising in here at all!” my friend Alphonse complains, looking around. He’s right. The predominantly queer crowd of ACT UP members stuffed into Revolution Books on Avenue B in New York’s East Village is rigid, alert, and crisp with...
I Accidentally Made A Popular Zine
Last year, in the summer of 1993, I read a quote from Evan Dando, lead singer of the band the Lemonheads. It was about how he’d rather be more like a woman because “men have proved that they really can’t get it together, they can’t be cool.”
Zine Scene
WAFFLE #4The Love & Hate Issue is full of, you guessed it, the stuff we all love and hate (love: Jesus Lizard; hate: Barney the Dinosaur—ooh, take that, Barney!). Those Waffle kids sure know how to get good interviews. In...
Hang The O.j.
Recently, on June 12, 1994, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson was stabbed to death in the stony Los Angeles enclave of Brentwood, California, along with 25-year-old waiter Ronald Goldman.