Volume 12 Issue 11

  • Reading Rainbow

    CRACKERSby Ed Ruscha (Heavy Industry: 1969)Ryan: "This is a rare Ed Ruscha book. It's almost like a photo flipbook. Two men go into a hotel room and make this woman lie down

  • Vice Fashion - The Tidbits Issue

    Photos by Roe EthridgeLizzi Bougatsos is the lead singer for Gang Gang Dance. She has a really cool voice that's sometimes Yoko Ono and sometimes Kate Bush, but then it's weird

  • Vice Fashion - Stuff I Love

    Photos by Fredrik SkogkvistStyling by Kattis LindofBRITA My first stuffed animals was a frame with butterflies and insects and

  • Cheap For You

    A friend and I went to Vietnam recently and encountered hundreds of people trying to sell us things we didn't need. We spent most of the time actively avoiding persistent vendors but then decided to play a game one day where we bought every single...

  • Lost & Found

    Oren Ambarchi is a ridiculously prolific musician and sound artist from Sydney (now Melbourne) who has played with everyone from Keith Rowe to 60s psych titans, Parson Sound. In his spare time he plays with his bands Super Stupid and Menstruation

  • Chris Nieratko's Tidbits

    I don’t even know what product this label is from. I just bought it because it reminded me of my friend Clyde’s sense of humor.

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  • Here Come The Regulars

    We started a new column called Tidbits back in October of 1996 because the magazine was getting so negative that we needed to balance it out with "A Monthly Look at the Things We Love." Of the 869 we've run since then, 144 have been actual things

  • Idle Hands

    Going to jail in Durango, Mexico is easy l.i.v.i.n. It's actually not even really punishment at all, which makes one wonder how a handful of murderers, drugs dealers, rapists, child molesters, and petty thieves can ever get rehabilitated. Guess what...

  • Amy Kellner's Tidbits

    HAUNTED JEAN JACKETI think this jacket is really funny, but I have it hanging near my bed and sometimes in the dark it looks like a scary old-man face and it gives me nightmares.

  • These Are Polaroids Of Funny Signs

    "I've been collecting Polaroids of funny signs since I was 13 years old. The past few years have really helped my collection because I've been touring with my band Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops, and Europe is filled with weird words. Here're some of...

  • Games

    SHADOW THE HEDGEHOGThe doctor told me to stop playing computer games in 1999 because he said a lot of the games brought on my epilepsy and I’d just blackout if the graphics got too freaky

  • Trash 'n' Treasure

    Darren plays in the band Gerling. You can finally see them again at the Big Day Out in Jan