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Timewarp: Cornershop

Lately, I’ve been listening to the classic tunes of yesteryear and really enjoying the good old days. Remember 2002? Wasn’t that a crazy year? Remember the hairstyles? What were we thinking?

In 2002, Cornershop may well have robbed us all of our innocence when they released cornershoptheir long-awaited album Handcream for a Generation. Tjinder Singh, who basically is Cornershop, mixed funk, soul, disco, reggae, electronica, and rock into the tasty masala that is this album. Don’t let the reggae scare you off (it almost had that effect on me). It bears its ugly head in the song Motion the 11, but even I got captivated. Well, maybe I just got sucked in by the person dying in the background and blubbering like a perfect idiot. But really, for me the centerpieces of the album are the single Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III and the sitar/guitar psych-out Spectral Mornings.

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Harrison Ford: There Can Be Only One

Having vanquished both the Kurgan and General Katana, Harrison Ford has absorbed the energy from the Quickening to finally become the Last Immortal. Thankfully he's taking his many wives and daughters and returning to Zeist where he'll never ever (fingers…

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Hapless, Hapless, Hapless.

Baby, can you hear me now? The chains are locked and tied across the door. Baby, sing with me somehow. Blue, blue windows behind the stars. Yellow moon on the rise. Big birds flying across the sky, throwing shadows on…

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What’s on Jack Bauer’s iPod

How does Jack Bauer do it? How does he stay so alert yet so calm in the face of danger? Shots of Kopi Luwak? Cold showers? Foxy? Volcanic bong hits?!! Nah, man. It's the Kleptones. That earpiece he's always got…

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