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Elevating the Penis

Finally, Mike Haliechuk is giving dicks the respect they deserve.

Mike Haliechuk (right)

Once labelled "dudecore" by Thurston and Kim, despite releasing about ten one-off records where all the proceeds went to rape crisis centres, Fucked Up have finally caved in to Sonic Youth's shit-talking and their lead guitarist/ founder Mike Haliechuk has decided to dedicate all his spare time to a new blog about the glory of the male member.

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Dressingroomdicks.blogspot.com is out there now on the internet, and as an exploration of the importance of the male form in art/ politics/ society and feminist rants, it's undoubtedly peerless. Here we talk to Mike about this new pursuit.

VICE: What inspired you to do this? Being on tour all the time? Or are these all from your house?
Mike Haliechuk: Mostly, I think dicks are important. In today's culture no one is thinking about the dick. There are all these movies like Knocked Up and 40 Year Old Virgin where the male characters are just these composite man-children, and every guy you see at a concert is this thin guy wearing a backpack. There are no dicks in the common discourse any more Look at Bridesmaids. There was zero mention of dicks anywhere. Justin Timberlake is an actor now, and you would think that in his movies there would be a LOT of talk about dicks, but no, no dicks.
I thought to myself – there must be dicks somewhere. This blog is about trying to find them. Talking about them in a non-sexual way is something that I like about it, too.
You know that Herzog movie about the cave paintings? Yeah.
I'm like the Herzog of dicks. The thing about dicks is that they can only get bigger.
Ultimately that's the only place it can go. Bigger, stronger, harder – you can't keep a dick in its pants. Finally, somewhere to talk about dicks in a way that we can all relate to.
I'm hoping that this will encourage people to send in pictures of their own dicks. From all over the world?
Yeah, all kinds of dicks just doing whatever. No big deal, I just want dicks. You're not kidding.
It's a serious thing. It's like the UN of dicks.
If you put a bunch of dicks in one room – a lot of good could come out of it. Yeah, I'm looking around me now and I can totally relate to that.
I'm alone in a hotel room right now actually, so this blog is kind of my respite from that. It's weird not to be surrounded by dicks all the time.

You can see Mike Haliechuk's penis collection here. Fucked Up are playing at the Scala in London on Monday night. It's Halloween that night. You should go.