Andrew W. K
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An Honest Attempt to Explain the New Andrew W.K. Album, by Andrew W.K.
The Party God pens a heartfelt explanation of his new record, how he fell in love with the piano as a 5-year-old, and why music is truly worth living for. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Life, Love, and Pushing the Limits
The Party King has covered a lot of ground in his VICE column. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Working Out
There is something undeniably magical about taking a negative feeling and literally pushing it out of yourself and into a weight, and having that action result in a positive development for your body and overall health. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Doing Whippits
Read all of Andrew W.K.'s columns here. I heard about them, as many did, in middle school. Whippits: little canisters of nitrous gas that you could... well—there was a proper use for them, which was to charge a can of whipped cream. But the kids in my school weren't interested in using them the proper way. Instead, they'd empty the gas from the tiny canister into a balloon, then inhale that… → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Finding (and Following) Your Passion
It is thrust on you whether you particularly like it or not. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on the Glory of Tacos
Hot take alert: They're great! → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Believing in the Paranormal
The only thing to fear is how little we actually know. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Comics
Nothing can really do what they can. No other art form. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Death Metal
It makes me feel better about being alive. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Psychedelics
As I've mentioned here before, I grew up in southeast Michigan's lovely Ann Arbor, the wonderful, beating, countercultural heart of the Midwest (no disrespect to Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, or Madison). The radical spirit in Ann Arbor was robust in the 1960s and lingered on into the early 90s, when I was in my teenage years. This made for a confusing and oftentimes contradictory… → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Rock Bottom
Only those who have fallen down can truly perceive what it means to be up. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Rock Bottom
Only those who have fallen down can truly perceive what it means to be up. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Growth
In ways both real and imagined, how you see the world colors what you see in the world. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Encouragement
And how faking it can be just as good. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Life's Ups and Downs
Very intense, uncomfortably strange inner sensations can be experienced as joyous and delightful. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Keeping Your Cool
In the times you feel like lashing out, don't. There may be a reward in store. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Loving Your Enemy
How an unspeakable act of kindness changed my life forever. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Overcoming Hurt and Anger
These raw emotions inside us are real power and real energy. They are not to be wasted or numbed out or squashed, but channeled and harnessed and used for good. → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Autumn
"There seems to be no room in the summer for the melancholy feelings of despair inside us, and in fall, I find an outer recognition of my inner experience." → Read More
Andrew W.K. on Gambling
We've already won an incredible jackpot called "being alive." → Read More