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Art. Sex. Music. Culture. Fashion. Words. Drugs. Graffitti. Rebellion. Miscreants. Degenerates.

Erotica. Grime. Curiosities. Design. Lips. Canvas. Raw. Messy. Glamor. Fucks. Sweat. Blood.

Trance. Electric. Pleasure. Cigarettes. Hedonists. Misdirection. Truth. Vanity. Derelict. Fiends.

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Table of Contents Music .....Louis XIV Fashion .....WildFang .....Rant Culture .....Kratom Art .....PPP Words .....Coffee Table

Letter From the Editor

I wanted a magazine that explored the content of my life. The art I liked, the clothing I wore, music I listened to, words I read and culture I lived. My explorations, like me, are often messy and unscripted, as life should be.

This first issue explores the glamorous, lascivious music of Louis XIV, the messy artwork of Mirf, and female fashion rebellion.

Our Culture section spotlights one young woman’s experimentation with neurotropic drugs, and Words educates little derelicts on coffee table book collections.

Rank and Vile will always be about the dirt, the grime, ostentatious glamor, and haphazard habits. Truth is beauty and truth is messy. Happy reading, fiends.

Louis XIV changed my life.

Needless to say, the dull years were dull and unrecognizable. It felt like someone had Broad sweeping statement out of the way, closed off the portals to the counter-cultural Louis XIV, the 2003-07 rock band, reached beautiful+mess I always imagined life had the underground fame and mainstream infamy potential to be. during their short, four year career. Banned Ah little Stacy Q from Alabama (seriously) and famiWhen she doesn’t have a thing to do ly-friendly mini-marts for their provocative She comes to my house lyrics and risque album art (a woman’s Well, let’s keep that between me and you backside, God forbid), the band was one of the first in the conservative mid-2000s I was always trying to spice up my life, but I to successfully and outwardly challenge America’s mainstream c u l t u r e o f s e x - started to think that my high school sexual awakening peaked during freshman year, ual repression. when I seduced Trey, the curly-haired I was unfortunate enough to enter my teen- senior, during a summer fling. Nothing else held promise. I didn’t relate to most people I age years in the midst of this nationwide knew (though an observer would be none the cultural fracking, and let me tell wiser). you, teen life in the bonsai jar was a true fucking travesty. It seemed like the United Jason Hill and his band, Louis XIV woke me States was of the “teen drinking is very bad” up.

She takes off her clothes mindset or copycatting the mind-numbShe likes to tell this boy what ingly unoriginal antics of Laguna Beach to do But let’s keep that between costars. me and you

God has music ever inspired such uninhibited yet coquettish behavior? Hill’s naughty, playful lyrics grabbed my wrist and pushed me against a grimy, glittered stage wall. Stacy Q’s lifestyle was one I finally aspired to: glamorous, raw and messy.

She said oh come on boy aren’t you tired of talking about sex

I said little girl what do you really expect

And then she pledges her allegiance

To the united states of me She says you’re such a little bitch In particular, Hill’s and my own favorite album, “The Best Little Secrets Are Kept,” threw drugs, sex, arrogance, fetish, and

Milkshake milkshake I love to feel narcissistic witticisms into one convenient package for unsuspecting young you sweat flowers (moi) to ingest.

We don’t During a time when popular music had long been for have to go years full of the angst-ridden cries of emo bands or the pool conversely, stale, parent approved party hits, Louis XIV to fucking spearheaded a return to making FUN, If you want imaginative music. Jason Hill’s sharp, sultry breaths, me to make cocky attitude and glam rock swagger inspired derelict, wet colorful cravings that, in listeners, had previously laid you either dormant or undiscovered.

The absolute scandal that Louis XIV’s music caused is comically representative of the time. Can you imagine Sid Vicious, Debbie Harry or any of their punkcounterparts batting a fucking eye at these lyrics? But get explicit in the O’Reilly Factored family value culture of post 9-11 and you could make the music industry shit their collective pants.

Can you keep a secret Because the best little s e c r e t s are kept

Louis XIV was different because they legitimately did not give a FUCK. They cut the bullshit out of an emoting society obsessed with pushing everyone into a neat, nationwide box and ostracizing those degenerates whose individuality made the box feel uncomfortable.

And you’re my best little secret yet

Although they were decidedly out of the box, Louis XIV remained accessible, by not making their music about broad, sweeping cultural statements. Instead, they produced something digestible and fun, a Pied Piper album to open And bang me like the girls our eyes and start leading us down the rabbit in Hong Kong I know I know I ain’t cor- hole. rect Translation: They don’t give a fuck about what But politics are so much you have to say. But don’t think they don’t better when there’s sex care about fucking you. Making you feel good, showing you what feels good, and leading you down their dirty path to hedonistic wisdom.

I said sing, sing me a song

The band’s smirking sexuality may have seemed shallow and gilded at times, a paper mache collage of bathroom graffiti, cigarette packs and pouty paper dolls slapped on a white wash, but break through the self-righteous shock-wall and one could crawl into their hidey hole, and emerge as a party guest of mad hatter hedonists.

That’s who Louis XIV was for me; a teaser to realizing how fucking bored I was inside and a reminder of my inner vi v a c ity. I started being selfish in the right ways, trading in paper white particle board for wet, bright pleasure, from plaster-cast social cues to midnight blue skinny-dipping. Louis made me believe again that life could one day be vibrant.

I said sing, sing me a song she said well touch me like the boys that did me wrong

Be your fucking self. Put some fucking pleasure in your life.

And FUCK those people that dare pass their judgment.

They don’t matter. We do.

yo u kn ow it’s ok , it’s alr igh t If yo u wa nt cle an fun go fly a kit e.

Fashion

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Why am I obsessed with Wild Fang?

It’s an area of women’s fashion yet to be fully owned by one brand.

Certain designers release collections

inspired by or centered around tomboy style, but no one has taken the leap to say “we own this. This is the one thing we do.”

Why? Because, in commerce, taking a stand on a singular position is scary. It feels limiting. Traditionally, a brand takes a stand for one season and then shifts, so that the un-wooed consumer can be given the chance to buy-in next time around.

Wild Fang is assertive. With their black and white TOMBOY emblems, it’s clear that their mission is to deliver clothes for the modern tomboy. It is for the girl who’s always been one of the boys, who went on adventures, got dirty and played rough, not because she was enamored with the boys, but because she was in love with their rebellious lifestyle, a lifestyle often reserved for and catered to boys.

The strategist in me thinks this is brilliant; comparative brands like Urban Outfitters or H&M may feature muscle tees and ripped jeans, but inevitably, those items are catered to a different lifestyle, where next season’s buyers will drift to the next trend, tomboy or not.

This instability has left a sect of unsatisfied women who yearn for their clothes to match their lifestyle as the playful bandit, disrupter of the status quo and challenge-starved adventurer.

She’s cute one minute and has you pinned on your back or losing a debate in worl d politics the next. She loves the unexpected and gets off on surprising those who expect her to simply be a “nice, pretty girl.”

She’s a goddamn force of nature and brings the high energy that let her keep up with the boys growing up everywhere she goes. She is a damn Wild Thing with an edge to her, a Fang.

Wild Fang’s position is as powerful as it is distinctive; their outspoken commitment easily inspires creativity for advertising, marketing, and partnership opportunities.

I hope they continue to walk the line of remaining a viable business dedicated to both quality and their target audience, and avoid diluting the brand’s image with thoughtless design for the temptation of a larger market share. They shouldn’t go after Urban Outfitters and H&M customers. They should go after the Wild Fang future loyalists who’ve been forced to shop at those stores for lack of an alternative.

For every article of clothing they sell and every partner company they feature, Wild Fang need to assess whether the band of thieves they designed for would really wear it, that it would fulfill their needs, or if it’s something that provides short term gain but is destined for the clearance rack at Urban Outfitters.

A u t h e n t i c i t y a n d p l a y f u l n e s s should be imbued in every facet of their digital, social and lifestyle presence. I’m certainly banking on it.

I’ve been waiting for you, Wild Fang. The tomboys are here to stay.

I hate women’s clothing.

I was in Urban Outfitters trying to help my boss buy some crazy weird last minute Coachella clothing and was completely blindsided by the lack of diversity in the women’s clothing area. It was all flowy, girly bland clothing, appealing to the lowest common denominator rather than heeding to what the brand used to stand for, an edgy, alternative clothing company.

Seriously, do you remember how weird some of the things sold at Urban used to be? They had insane graphic tees and crop-tops, as well as truly bizarre patterns, textures, and detailing. I remember the first time I went on Urban Outfitter’s website. I must have filled my cart with 25 different items (dead serious) because everything they sold was exceptionally different. I had a post-punk/gothic t-shirt

that read “This is the End,” a black tank with multicolored ribbons criss-crossing in the back, a wild tee I wore to my first EDM concert and even a bright teal romper, back when that trend was just beginning to eke into mainstream wear. Their clothes were dope!

Urban was supposed to stand for fun, spontaneity and weirdness. At some point, they went from authentically alternative to...curated alternative. It really shows. I swear, I used to walk in and there would be whole sections of funky festival wear and out-there graphic tees. Today, NOT A SINGLE ONE. How insane is that? I was almost embarrassed for even suggesting to my boss we stop by. Everything fringe had been “feminized.” Supplicating, lovely pieces. Fuck that!

The worst part of this whole discovery was going downstairs and discovering that the MEN’S section was fantastically NASTY. ARGH! My rage was palatable. Why does women’s clothing have to feature daisies and fucking sprinkles? Guess what! A lot of chicks like punk too. We like au courant and offensive and provocative and artistic and weird. Not all of us want to look like woodland fucking fairies.

I will say that we women definitely have the advantage when it comes to polished outfits for work, dresses for events, and other nicer clothing. The options are endless, and are often beautiful. However, this trend also makes me uncomfortable. It implies that designers are associating skating, streetwear, edgy/alternative living, extreme sports and other similar countercultural activities, only with men. Conversely, their women’s lines implicitly pigeonhole women into nice, acceptable, coquetteish roles. The lovely office worker. The charming debutante. The well-behaved party princess.

Guess what? I smoke, I spit and I fuck . I break shit, I get kicked out of bars, I create, I write, I run in the woods, make dirty jokes and live and breathe intensely. Don’t fucking typecast me and my kind. Recognize that I am a multi-dimensional human being, and that by day I may look nice for work (because I have to) but at night, when I’m free to be myself, I am a giddy derelict. Why does men’s wear vacillate between these extremes so effortlessly while I have to fight for it?

Let me give credit where credit is due. There are some brands that are killing it right now, because they recognize this need. Wild Fang is filling the gap of everyday tomboy wear, Dolls Kill is murdering the weird/provocative/punk girl scene, proving that you can make sexy, feminine clothing without sacrificing grunge, and retailers like Need Supply repeatedly offer minimalist women’s fashion that is authentic to the trend rather than pandering to an overfeminized version of a trend.

These are the stores of the future, or at least my future. Our self-expression should not be limited and aggresively forced to say something we don’t believe in. Now get outraged, and let’s go burn some polyester bullshit.

Peeling layers of clotted neon spatter encode the artists’ identity, indecipherable to most, a vast network of influences, accomplices and personal history to others. Stiffening canvas, audible brick and concrete playgrounds hold haven to the graffiti artist’s identity. Vandal.

Miscreant. The street light’s 3 a.m. shadow. They leave behind tags, pseudonyms and alleys echoed with adrenaline.

Head against the cab window, I break my bleary-eyed stare to catch the black paint against a bleak white Chinatown façade. One letter repeated three times. PPP. My lips curl into a grin. Peter Pan and the Lost Boys have struck again.

The Peter Pan Posse is a group centered in large part around graffiti artists Mirf, or Mint & Serf (Mikhail Sokovikov & Jason Aaron Wall). I became a purveyor of the artistic activities of the Peter Pan Posse because I was interested in the encoded meaning behind this simple tag. I wanted to peel back the layers and alight the shadows these artists hid behind.

The core of their influence may have come from graffiti, but the extended network of the self-described Peter Pan Posse encompasses photographers, gallery regulars, nightlife personalities, art directors, designers and hooligans.

My first stumble down the proverbial rabbit hole was tripped by an interest in the writings of Cat Marnell, former XOJane beauty editor turned VICE columnist. She caught my attention as an unprecedented, raw female writer at VICE and I devoured her “Amphetamine Logic” columns. Of course there are a number of controversies surrounding Marnell glamourizing drug use, but the main takeaway for me was interest in this unique, rebellious woman and where her writing would go next.

As I frequently do with people who interest me, I followed Cat on Instagram and noticed how often she posted works of street art and graffiti. My mind made little connections from her column’s stories of a crew of graffiti artists she traveled with, so with curiosity piqued, I followed some tags and found one of my new favorite artists.

These particular artists caught my eye because of their grungy approach to a genre that is now inundated with commissioned, lovely pieces. Street art was becoming less of Discovering Pablo Power’s upcoming opena rebellion, andmore of a curated museum ing was like a fated launch point. My notes item. on his work thus far linked him to the hub of my research, the None of Us Is Greater From my initial discovery to my move to Than All of Us exhibit, as well as the Miami New York, I would experience a slow yet steady rise in PPP interest. I would be hang- inkheads, and a few featured exhibits, such as Detroitus and Strange Attraction. ing with my silly North Carolina Daniel Boone climber friends, imagining our granite boulders were the old brick buildings and stone facades of NYC, never before tagged or touched. After quitting my job, I abandoned the mossy cliffs of North Carolina for Brooklyn’s smooth brownstone. Here, I began what would be the first among a series of digs into the PPP derelicts (derels, as Cat would say).

Power’s online portfolio is not only an impressive print CV, it also gives you a peek into his photo-collaged graffiti and chaotic bubblegum art installations. Within the spectral PPP map of my imagination, he fell towards the derelict segment, yet pushing towards daylight credibility, much like Mint and Serf themselves. His work is still tinged with the grimy glamour of the street, After a few weeks in the city, I finally as graffiti literally underlays and peeks tweaked out of the doldrum rhythm of job out from under his photography. He is an applications and tumbled farther down the artist who plays with the lines separating rabbit hole. Some addled research, midnight-walker from gallery sophisticate. night coffee and cigarette meals later, I had mapped out my artists of interest with a plan Power’s exhibit, “A Circle Unbroken: Tributes in Pattern,” would prove to be an apt to explore the collective. reflection of these tangential identities.

On Friday, February 20th I arrived at No Romance Galleries for the 7:00 opening.

After the arty interns got their obligatory photos, me and my oversized Rag & Bone bag, stuffed with no less than four chicken-scratch moleskins and an endless supply of chewed pen caps, were ready to fucking browse.

There was chaos amidst the symmetry of Powers’ work. A large, tiled piece of a laughing woman was reflected four times, 360 degrees around, to form a lovely, patterned design. However, look again, and you’d see Powers’ cheeky gumball pink and blue graffiti, the photo acting like a thin silkscreen to yellowed fading tags.

In truth, I would have been disappointed if Power had completely abandoned this bit of dirty rawness for daylight photography.

The spectrum within Power’s work, from cubical grime, to cheeky bubblegum tags, to pristine symmetry, is what gave viewers the head-high to stay longer than anticipated.

I finally left to meet my own derel friends in W-burg, and reveled in a quick ciggy outside the gallery entrance. I was about to leave when suddenly, like a specter, there she was. Right across the street from me in leather pants, what I assume were Chloe moto boots, and signature platinum blonde Additionally, like someone let a mischiehair sticking out of an XXL ZOO York vous child into the art studio, there were hoodie—Cat Marnell. A cheery, meek hello tiny magic marker scribbles of indiscernescaped a shock of hot red lipstick as she ible patterns, lines and dots. The effect was walked in and I took the last drag of my impressionistic; inches from the work I was cigarette. We crossed, one in, one out. mesmerized by the small strokes, lost in chaotic details, but from a distance, I was I left, and I’d never been fucking happier to absorbing a holistic and distinct piece of live in this city. art.

All of Power’s pieces were entrancing, cohesive yet unique. I enjoyed trying to pick out the tags on some tissue box-sized, lit-up cubes. Covered in tags and photos of junky mattresses, these cubes more than any other pieces reflected Power’s grimy street-artist inclinations.

I continued to follow the work of other members, though one artistic endeavor stood out to me as something I’d like to check out. La Petite Mort is a vintage clothing store owned in part by Osvaldo Chance Jimenez, better known as OJ or SlutLust. Off Orchard, from Canal street, one could easily miss the shop’s narrow entrance if not for the neon red LPM sign that lives in the front window.

The inside is eclectically decorated, though thematically streamlined; various posters and artwork covering the walls, with the wall adjacent the cash register completely covered in a floor to ceiling, black and white Hektad collage. It is spring, and Moschino printed dandelions, slinky floral overalls and loud crop tops breeze the racks. I spot a number of items emblazoned with the black script of posse member Baron Von Fancy, whose playful wit is memorialized in Barbara Krugeresque textbased works.

Co-owner Kara Mullins worked the register.

Soft-spoken and friendly, she flicked back long chestnut bangs and smiled when I asked if there happened to be and PPP merch to complement my newly purchased BVF lighter and artwork.

She disappeared in the back, and returned with three black tees.

The graphics on each were black and white newspaper cut outs, post 9/11 headlines, with “I love New York” scripted in red ink. The t-shirt was a limited edition run, of work by Mirf and photographer Curtis Kulig. (Yeah I bought the shit out of that limited edition PPProduct, you had to fucking ask?)

I’m approaching what looks like a shuttered parking shelter underneath a nondescript brick apartment building. A vibrant Roberto Cavalli billboard stretches from the rooftop to the shelter’s opening, and wide concrete pillars are set far enough apart for a truck to drive up a concrete ramp to a wide-set garage door.

“Nice shirt,” someone yells. I know they’re referring to me. I know, because I am wearing an “I love New York” shirt designed and stocked by the very people hosting the illegal pop-up art show in this abandoned shelter. A DJ is set up on the concrete ramp in front of the garage door, men and women, with cameras mill about (though most of the women seem to be surrounding Mint), and large, graffiti-covered canvases hang against the dirty white concrete walls.

I am at Gimme Shelter, an exhibition by Mint&Serf. The location was distributed just three hours earlier by request only. Public broadcast may have invited law enforcement (i.e. killjoy cops).

“Nice shirt,” he says again as I enter the shelter. I had to leave at one point to fix an issue with my camera. OJ let me know that they would “Yeah, I got it at an alright store,” I say and grin. try to stay there as long as they could, but ran “Oh and what store was that?” the risk of getting shut down. When I came back not even an hour later, the flaking neon I laugh, “Your store, right?” paint had been blown away with concrete OJ, or SlutLust, owner of LPM smiles and introduces himself. Like Kara Mullins, he has dust, the people were gone, and the ramp a soft, light voice and a friendly disposition. was abandoned. The shelter had flatlined. A He is welcoming, all doe eyes and smiles, as he wet, hot breeze from the city streets broke my shakes my hand and takes another drag of a half-ashed cigarette. The atmosphere was open, trance. The shelter was again an inconsequential part of the city’s subscape, a jaundiced electric, and relaxed, yet under the parking shelter, I felt enclosed from the buzz of Varick haze filling its empty space. street.

Kratom “We’ve been doing all kinds of drugs lately and I just can’t take it anymore.”

I’m half buried by my fluffy white comforter. It’s a temporary safehaven from the rippling tremors of crazy coming from my kitchen, where Chef is whipping up a concoction of orange juice, champagne, and what looks like mowed grass trimmings. I look through the French doors, across our living room and to the small, wooden kitchen block where the preparation is taking place. “Blehh.”

“I mean I think it’ll be fine. Like if Chef is cool with it, it’s probably okay,” says my roommate. My blonde Bunny leans on my bed and looks at me like a patient nanny. I flip my computer screen to face her.

“Look, right here, people say it’s either one extreme or the other. You’re either having the best sex of your life, or feel like your genitals are broken. You feel energetic, or too weak to sit up. Euphoric, or panicky. This one guy shit his pants.

Look! This guy says he shit his pants!”

“Woaah now, what?” says Wrecker, sliding into the room. He hadn’t bet on this bit of information.

We argued about the statistical relevance of one review out of hundreds detailing spontaneousdefecation, and though we rationally agreed that it was extremely unlikely, emotionally, we were distraught.

“Listen, you could have thousands of people say it’s the best drug they’ve ever taken and it made them shoot rainbows out their tits, but if there’s one guy who shit his pants, I reconsider,” says Wrecker, throwing up his hands, our prosecutor against this potentially bowel-shifting opiate.

Anecdotal stories, continued research and poop jokes flew and crashed around the room. Suddenly it was down to me. I was the last one with reservations.

“Goddamnit, okay let’s do it.” Fucking Musketeers style, I thought to myself. We gathered around the kitchen island and raised glasses stained green with herbal residue.

“Wait,” said Wrecker, “can we all just agree, that if one of us does shit their pants, we keep a code of silence.”

We agreed.

It was fucking awful.

The taste, I mean, not the drug’s effects. Like drinking dry grass, but with fucking orange juice. God. I had to keep adding water to mine to break up the grassy texture. I immediately had to pee, at which point I also made sure to poop out any last solid waste in my body, just in case.

Smoking a cig on my fire escape, feet swinging over the gap, I felt unfulfilled.

Not spiritually, though maybe these things relate, but oral fixation wise, I needed to drink or smoke or get baked or run or lie down or fuck. Needy. Something was tilted in my universe.

Maybe it was the fact that I had only slept five hours the night before, crashing at 5 am after an Icky Blossoms concert led to more drinks led to late night Crif Dogs, to watching rap battles in my apartment until everyone passed out with everyone, Roshi in my bed, Wrecker in Bunnys. Beet Salad and Chef hadn’t come out the night before, and that day Beet Salad never showed up.

But then the kratom kicked in and the worries about completing my creative projects, being healthy and mindful, keeping promises, breathing life viciously, being mine and another’s and anyone’s beloved, inspiration, support, confidant, friend, caregiver, caretaker, artist, writer, muse, partner, bedwarmer, became so small, like someone sucked the air out of a balloon. And what it left behind was this pure, free space to trollop in. Where I’d normally bump into these balloons, squished from pressure, I could now dance, and deftly avoid these hot-aired troubles.

“I’ll always feel like this,” I thought, “like a little girl again.” But in a few hours the blind euphoria was gone and it felt like Novocain. The balloons hadn’t inflated back up yet, but I wasn’t dancing in the free space anymore either. I was floating in ectoplasm, receiving brief pleasure waves that reminded me of my nice surroundings, with an undertow that dragged me back from reveling in them. I couldn’t participate. I was just stoned. Frozen. High/low, swaying, like walking on land after being on a boat all day.

The next day I was full of cloth, dense, soft cloth that adhered to gravity’s principles with blanket servitude. Sitting in a chair was too much at times, I kept needing a more solid, level foundation to catch my wet blanket body. So chair, to bed, to chair, to bed, over and over until it was time to eat, then it was chair, then bed.

Then my deflated balloons sucked out all the air from my chest and suffocated me as all the tilted worries in my universe came rushing, hot, back into focus.

Pop.

Coffee Table

STREET ART TRAVELS FOUND: Book Marc

From Beirut to Berlin to Brooklyn, this is a collection of street art from around the world. Having a mostly visual book on the table is essential. It is also guaranteed to absorb the highest person in the room for no less than 56 minutes.

PURPLE FASHION

RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME 1 FOUND: BookCourt

Russia’s prison tattoo culture is complex and fascinating. Spend a rainy day curled up with this ethnographic study, or more likely, giggle over the especially raunchy tattoo pictures with your friends

FOUND: East Village Bodega

If the purple pages don’t suck you in, just buy the latest issue for the Kim Gordon cover. Check out other really excellent interviews, such as a joint conversation with Rick Owens and Shayne Oliver (Hood By Air) as well.

They bond over doing death drops, Paris’ and New York’s best trans clubs, and being design geniuses. Also, Kim Gordon.

DOG FOOD

FOUND: Printed Matter

Every table needs a random, short and sweet KENNEDY BIANNUAL zine. Mike Krim’s collecJOURNAL OF tion of city photography is CURIOSITIES perfect. It’s cheeky, a little FOUND: Unknown, Paris dirty, and playful. It’s also Curious? taught me a new game, You should be. called “I spy Mister Softee,” This biannual mag in which the only rule is contains a number of to snap pictures of chubby interviews with persons cops doing chubster things. of interests, artists, and Thanks, Mike! photographers.

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