FIRE SAFETY FETISH

This Korean guy is a one-man mission to make fire safety a sexier place. Known as 'Korea Fire Fighting Corporation', he sells porno fire extinguishers and designs art collages to promote them. The guy also makes instructional how-to videos for creating DIY underwear, or as he puts it: "With scarf for lady I can make panty." Look homie up on MySpace, or check out his blog, or don't.

TODAY ON VBS

We’ve posted a new installment of VBS Meets today. The guests are Nick Cave and his drummer Jim Sclavunos. They sit there in their perfect suits in a fancy hotel and talk to us while we just think to ourselves, “Please let us be as cool as you when we’re your age. Please.” Also, Soft Focus featuring Genesis P. Orridge continues today, covering such diverse topics as shopping for ladies clothing, the war in Iraq, cults, and her problems with the queen of England.

NEW YORK - THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT

The Psychic Paramount is one of those bands whose music is supposed to “do” something. What sets them apart from all the other chodes who claim the same thing to make themselves mysterious and artsy is that their tunes really do do something, like make you want to claw your face in disbelief at the sounds that are hitting you. It could probably be described as good trip-out music, but honestly if I was on acid I would want to be nowhere near the degree of intensity they manage to eke out. They do a fair amount of touring outside New York, but if you live in the city you’ve got a better chance of spotting a unicorn during a solar eclipse then seeing them live.

COMANECHI LISTENING PARTY

This Japanese girl called Akiko came into our office carrying a 7-inch of her new record and a plastic toy record player to play it on. She also had a little book of illustrations to accompany the single, "My Pussy." Cute, right? We thought so. Isn't it the best song you've ever heard? Doesn't it blow your mind? Radio stations across the world take note: this shit is gonna be huuuuuge.

TODAY ON VBS

Soft Focus with Genesis P. Orridge continues today, along with a new episode of Live at the Old Blue Last featuring the band Shy Child and two new DOs & DON'Ts & Friends clips with Mark Cohen and Zach Galifiankis.

NEW YORK - GOOD WATCHIN'

My VCR just broke last week, so of course what had to happen Friday night? Something went wrong with the General Christian Network's feed and glitched out their late-night children's programming, making everybody jerk around erratically and sound like they're speaking backwards Polish.

BLACK LIPS ARE HERE

Pucker up! The Black Lips kick off their first ever UK tour today. Expect group kissing, bloodshed, nudity, sword-swallowing, bearded ladies, fireworks and scuzzy, flower-punk fun. Watch the most exciting band in the world at the dates listed after the jump and grab their UK single "Not A Problem" right here.

TODAY ON VBS

This week’s Soft Focus guest is the iconic, totemic, pandrogynous godhead named Genesis P. Orridge. Formerly a he, now a she, Genesis invented industrial music with her first band Throbbing Gristle. Then she invented acid house with her second band Psychic TV. S/he is a true art-thought-punk hero and to see he/r and Ian Svenonius pass the old talking stick back and forth is to watch history go down before your eyes...

DEBATE - 300

If you love watching brutal violence and don't care if it looks like a computer-game trailer starring people who've had plastic surgery, your eyes will slap you high-five if you take them to see 300. The film is based on Frank Miller's retelling of the classic myth where 300 muscleheaded Spartans fight a one-million-strong army of Persian pansies. Like in Sin City, digitally-enhanced people and backdrops are mixed in with live action. But all the visual effects somehow dilute the on-screen carnage - graphic blood is less believable than fake blood used in real films. Do you agree? Watch the trailer after the jump.

NEW YORK - FEBRU-UCKUARY

Jesus, what's going on with this month? Nidge dies, Charles Gocher from the Sun City Girls dies, some dipshit at Quiznos burns down Terrence McKenna's crazy rare book library, AND it's fucking Kurt Cobain's 40th birthday. Is God trying to punish people who are into awesome shit? Fuuuuuuuck.