To help get the boys excited about their gig at McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn, Sunday the 27th, MGMT gave us a couple of their 7″ singles. We only have two, so if you want one (along with a 7″ from The Ting Tings, also playing on Sunday), be the first two people to send us a pic of your 7″ with “MGMT” written on it, and we’ll send you one of ours.

Send your pic to EDITOR@EASTVILLAGEBOYS.COM

Twink Life is a new zine by young London artists Simon Leahy and Richard John Jones, for twinks and the men that love them, shoved into my hands outside a late night gallery opening. I got in touch with Richard and found out a bit more - sort of.

Elias Redstone: What is Twink Life all about?

Richard John Jones: Twink power!

What is the true power and beauty of a twink?

When you’re a twink you can do anything, you’re the brightest jewel in the crown of gay life. Twink is kinda derogatory but it’s up to twinks to claim their sovereignty.

Why did you start the zine?

Babes, because being a twink is hard, all the time.

What’s so hard about it?

It’s a gift given by time, which often seems like a hard fuck up the ass, bad and good. It’s turbulent, and your hormones are totally fucked up, but you so frsh.

What’s in a typical twink’s life?

Partying, getting drunk, having fun, meeting people, passing the time and learning how to take hella cock.

Where did the term twink come from - do you know?

Hostess Twinkies, commonly regarded as the quintessential junk food - “little nutritional value, sweet to the taste and cream-filled.” A twink is memorable for his outer packaging, not his inner depth.

What’s the future for Twink Life?

The future is so awsome and beautiful. When I grow up I want to look back at my time as a twink as a time of discovery and power. Not as a time of confusion and objectification. We want Twink Life to grow all over the world, uniting twinks, forever, in this moment of time. Empowering them to realize the true power and beauty of twink.

Hey boys, our first t-shirt is almost sold out! We’re sold out of large (thank you Germany, Sweden, Australia, London, LA, San Francisco and of course New York - everywhere really, xox), and extra small (thank you twinks all over the country, Tokyo, and the rest of the Pacific rim, extra special xox), but we have a few mediums and smalls left. Get one - when they’re gone they’re gone, but NOBODY PANIC we have a new design coming for the summer - though maybe not as cum-rag friendly.

And hey, nothing says love like a load on your chest.

EVB has never before had to issue an apology, but apologies in advance for the multiple equestrian references you’re about to endure.

Riding into town on their super-hung stallion James and Jim from London’s Horsemeat Disco bring their wonderful nosebag of disco delights to Club 205 on Tuesday night.

This will be the boys’ final gig in NYC (they were support DJs for Hercules and Love Affair on Saturday night at Studio B) before jumping back into the saddle and galloping (or should that be cantering) back to London.

Here at the EVB stud ranch we are all waxing our chaps and slipping on our stirrups for a right royal hoedown.

Come join us and the wonderful Horsemeat boys tomorrow night, May 20 at Club 205, 205 Chrystie St (at Stanton), NYC. If you bring a sugar lump, wear a rosette and impersonate a horny stallion at the door, who knows what might happen…

Our crazy hot, super trashy, East Village Boys t-shirts are finally available!
Go to our online store to get one.

We’re not usually in the habit of making event announcements, but here’s a few things we think you should check out.

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Stephen Petronio Company, April 1-6

Choreography: Stephen Petronio

Dancers: Michael Badger, Julian DeLeon, Elena Demyanenko, Davalois Fearon, Jonathan Jaffe, Mandy Kirschner, Shila Tirabassi, Amanda Wells

Music: Fischerspooner, Antony and the Johnsons, Lou Reed, Nico Muhly and Rufus Wainwright

Costumes: Ben Cho, Rachel Roy, Michael Angel, Tony Cohen, Tara Subkoff

The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave, NYC

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Ari Marcopoulos, book signing for The Chance is Higher, Thursday April 3, 6-8 PM

Dashwood Books, 33 Bond St, NYC

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Ryan McGinley, “I Know Where the summer Goes”, opening reception Thursday April 3, 6 PM

named from the Belle & Sebastian song of the same name:

Team (Gallery, Inc), 83 Grand St, NYC

People send us some weird shit, but for some reason we felt like this had to be shared. Apparently it’s an interpretive foot dance between two Filipino boys in love. Foot fetish anyone? Maybe it’s one of those traditional dances - who knows. We have more if you want to see them. Click here to watch the video - and watch for the ring exchange.

So here I am in Buenos Aires, I arrived last week, OMG its too much, I mean what more does a scruffy village boy need than mullet rocking scruffy boys, polo players and the tastiest meat I’ve ever had my chops around. Anyhow I’ll fill you in on the meat treats another day but I wanted to share this pic with you from a party I was at Saturday. It says something about doing your coke in the living room, not the bathroom. No selfish stashes in Buenos Aires, get it out and share… How civilised.

One of our boys abroad in Singapore just sent us this. Yes it’s real, and yes its amazing! Apparently it’s the number one seller in China - I had no idea so many Chinese boys want Becks on their cock. Go figure.

So, I wake up this morning and peer into my little “news box” (which is essentially an RSS feed, but I prefer to call it a “news box” because it sounds more appealing to me this Wednesday morning. Whatevs.) and read some nonsensical bullyshit about a mural in the ever popular (but rather style-deficient) Abercrombie & Fitch being yanked down in one of their Virginia Beach store locations by local police. The mural is a picture of some shirtless boys running in a field, and one of them is pulling his strategically ill-fitted jeans up to meet his waist. Pretty standard for A&F.

So, you wanna know the really mind-melting, future-ruining, pornographic element that caused a moral breakdown for one Virginia Beach police officer? OMG, you are soooo not ready for how sick and filthy this is, are you? It’s really bad, you sure you wanna read on?

Ok, here you go . . .
Dude is showing ass crack.

Actually . . . fuck I dunno, a 1/8 inch of ass crack.

YEP! That’s the depraved image that turned this police officer into a witch-hunting lunatic on a mission to wipe out the indecency of this mural (pictured above) in a beach town famous for drug trafficking and frat boy date-rapists. Nice to see our tax dollars hard at work.

Heres what USA Today had to say: “One depicts three shirtless young men from the back, walking through a field. The man in the lead appears to be about to pull up his jeans, which have slipped down enough to reveal his upper buttocks.” The other image features a topless woman whose “breast is displayed with her hand covering just the nipple portion,” Virginia Beach police spokesman Adam Bernstein tells the paper. Earlier in the week, Bernstein says an officer asked the manager to take down the photos. “We strive for voluntary compliance, but when they weren’t taken down we had to issue a summons,” he tells the Newport News Daily Press. “This is steps [sic] our city takes, because we have a reputation of being a very family-friendly city.” The Associated Press says it couldn’t reach the company. The manager faces up to a year in jail if convicted of violating the city code that makes it a misdemeanor to display “obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles.”

Now, we all know the manager isn’t going to serve time, but c’mon, “obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles”? Puh-lease! You wanna know what has “obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles”? Google.