I heard him in Australia when I was seventeen and didn't know who he was for another year or so. His music is just so unique that when I heard it again I knew exactly who it was.

What can we really say about MINK. No, really, what can we say and get away with it on a public forum? Little it seems

Some say that MINK is a self-obsessed, egotistical, mean spirited bitchy little twirp. *shuffles around his papers* I guess I forgot the find something to counter that statement *looks at his papers again* Oh wait, now I see why. How'd I get some of your floor droppings is anyones guess.

Now moving on, I have come to find out some interesting facts recently about MINK.

- MINK cannot have children; Despite all the equipment working, should he ever manage to produce a fetus, scientists have all agreed that said fetus would in fact abort itself in shame.

- He has specially designed toilet paper that comes printed with diagrams instructing him on how to wipe his own ass.

-Despite being Lithuania , he has flown in to audition for American Idol,... twice. Neither audition has been televised, as the first consisted of a seventeen minute air-guitar solo, after which MINK whipped out his penis and yelled "Eel!" at Simon Cowell. In the second, he tried and failed to spell the word "apple."

That's enough for today, I'll leave him be. Not for pity, but because I have to go back to work now

Eric, did you wait until about 3 minutes after Christmas ended to post this?
Good for you.

The title of this song reminds me of a story. In the early '90s I used to work for a company called Neodata (now called Kable Media Sevices), and they're in the business of subscription fulfillment. They handle all databases and subscription information for scores of magazines, such as US News & World Report, Better Homes & Gardens, Cat Fancy, etc. They're the biggest company at what they do, and when I worked there they were responsible for 2% of all the mail going out in the US. US mail volume is around 150 - 200 billion pieces per year, so you do the math.

Anyway, it is customary for many people to buy friends or family members magazine subscriptions for gifts, and when people did this we'd send out a little card stating that so-and-so bought you a gift subscription to this magazine, and then end it with 'Merry Christmas'. All this was done through an automated computerized process, of course. WELL, there was a disgruntled employee in the employ of Neodata at the time, and so to vent his spleen at the man he decided to insert a special word between 'Merry' and 'Christmas' on some of these little gift cards. Seventeen THOUSAND of them, to be precise. Can you guess that special word?

Needless to say our call center had to field irate calls for weeks after that, with the poor customer service reps (CSRs) having to explain countless times a day that they were sorry, and that it happened because of a disgruntled employee, yadda, yadda, yadda. Still, even some of the CSRs had a good laugh about it. It WAS funny, after all. I know that if I got a gift card with a computer printout that said 'Merry Fucking Christmas' I'd be laughing my ass off.

The guy who did it got fired, of course, but it's safe to say that he had the last laugh.

Colin Quinn looks like he's seventeen.

Each night father fills me with dread
When he sits on the foot of my bed;
I don't mind that he speaks
In gibbers and squeaks
But for seventeen years he's been dead.


An incautious woman called Venn
Was seen with the wrong sort of men;
She vanished one day
But the folloing May
Her legs were retrieved from a fen.

-Edward Gorey

^I mean, who holds coke in their hair?

Amy Winehouse, that's who. She probably has coke, heroin, crack, crank, mescaline, mushrooms, ecstasy, ether, and horse tranquilizers stashed in seventeen other places on her body as well.

Anton Corbijn directed about seventeen of Depeche Mode's music videos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Corbijn


Other Corbijn music videos on the Sift:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Henry-Rollins-Band-Liar-directed-by-Anton-Corbijn

http://www.videosift.com/video/Joy-Division-Atmosphere-by-Anton-Corbijn

http://www.videosift.com/video/Nirvana-Heart-Shaped-Box-by-Anton-Corbijn


He likes film grain, blurry imagery and sometimes hooded people.

Hey is Maher gay? (not that theres anything wrong with that ) he holds his hip a lot and some of his sentences sound like something a seventeen year old girl would say.
Just wondering...

Yeah, and in the third part he says something about jubrovnick, jewbrawnick

I presume he's talking about Dubrovnik. with a do - as in "I Do."
And it's not a shitty vacation destination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik

Westy is a good guy. Maybe we should post a video in honor of pudgy seventeen year-old pricks?

Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) ("Семнадцать мгновений весны" in Russian), also Seventeen Instants of Spring is a Soviet TV miniseries. It was filmed at Gorky Film Studio, directed by Tatiana Lioznova and based on the series of books by the novelist Yulian Semyonov. It is divided into 12 episodes, with each part being 70 minutes and the whole series being 840 minutes long.

The series is about the life of Soviet spy Maksim Isaev operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stirlitz, played by the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Other leading roles were played by Leonid Bronevoy, Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Vizbor, Evgeni Evstigneev, Rostislav Plyatt, Vasily Lanovoy, and Mikhail Zharkovsky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring

One of the best series I have ever seen.

There is a bit with a bike going through sand, it is a HUGE portrait painted on the entrance to the downtown subway for the streetcar lines N and J, I spent the first seventeen years of my life there and though I haven't even been gone half a decade seeing some of those images made me well up a bit.

Quite a bit of it looks like it's around schools.

The incident highlighted the growing divergence between the means available to the police and the offensive and defensive technologies employed by criminals. Video footage of the incident clearly shows police pistol bullets striking the suspects with little or no effect, largely due to the body armor worn by the suspects. Their body armor was able to stop the .38 caliber and 9 mm projectiles fired by the officers' service handguns.

The ineffectiveness of the pistol rounds in penetrating the suspects' body armor led to a trend in the United States towards arming selected police patrol officers with .223 caliber/5.56 mm AR-15s semiautomatic rifles. This provided first responders with greater ability to effectively confront and neutralize heavily armed and armored criminals.

Advocates of gun control in the United States cited the incident as evidence that U.S. gun control laws were inadequate to prevent military-class weaponry ending up in the hands of prior felons. Opponents of gun control counter that as the weapons had been obtained illegally, the incident did not indicate that criminal use of legally registered fully automatic firearms was a problem.

The LAPD patrol officers were not adequately armed or protected to deal with such criminals. The gunmen were firing rifle rounds from illegally-modified fully automatic assault rifles while being protected by full body armor. The officers' handguns and shotguns could not penetrate the suspects' armor, while the suspects' weapons were capable of severely wounding officers and bystanders through cement walls and automobiles.

The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers (Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Dechebal Matasareanu) and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on February 28, 1997, at a Bank of America teller-office.

The shootout resulted in the wounding of fourteen people (twelve police officers and two civilians) and the deaths of both bank robbers. Although only the suspects were killed, the sheer number of injuries made this one of the bloodiest single cases of violent crime in the 1990s, and one of the most significant single bank robberies of the 20th century.

The Weapons
Larry Phillips and Emil Matasareanu had a large array of firearms, which included:

o HK91: Used by Phillips as he fired at officers on the left side of the bank, the rifle itself took a hit to the bolt guide rails, which caused little damage.

o Type 56 Assault Rifle: Used by Phillips after discarding the HK91, as he started the escape. The rifle jammed.

o AK47s: Both Phillips and Matasareanu used these rifles during the robbery.

o Bushmaster AR15: Matasareanu retrieved this rifle from the trunk of their getaway car after sustaining a leg wound. He then waited in the car for Phillips, while shooting through the windows. This was also the rifle used by Matasareanu as he was engaged in his last shootout with SWAT officers.

o Beretta 92 9mm pistol: Phillips committed suicide with this weapon after sustaining several gunshot wounds.

Facts
* Approximately 370 LAPD officers were called to the scene.

* Other than the LAPD, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and units of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) responded to the scene. In the MVP documentary film, the LAPD sergeant being interviewed discusses the roles of those agencies as well as LA Airport PD, Burbank PD and LA School PD. Off-duty LAPD officers came in prior to the announcement of city-wide TAC-ALERT, which activates all personnel on duty. Members of the LAPD training at the Valley area police academy as well as the main LA police academy located in Elysian Park also responded. SWAT officers also responded from the police academy. One response was from Chief Willie Williams, who came from Parker Center, the LAPD's headquarters, located downtown.

* The following year, seventeen LAPD officers were awarded Medals of Valor from the department for their actions and bravery during the shootout.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_hollywood_shootout


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i34fbTMEius The video is from the film adaptation 44 minutes : North Hollywood Shootout - "Based on a shocking true story, 44 MINUTES recounts a fateful day in the life of several LAPD officers. In the summer of 1997 in North Hollywood, two wild gunmen with AK-47's began an assault on dozens of defenseless policemen. The results were tragic, but in the midst of the madness several well-trained and heroic individuals rose to the challenge, saving innumerable lives in the process."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362389/

A seventeen feet long crack? So only a minor blemish then.