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though "A Little Hex For You" is like a doo-wop girl-group version of "Die 5times Times5" (9m ago)
The album version of Slow Down Tallahassee's "Tallahassee Bop" sounds a bit overproduced. (28m ago)
apparently my next LoveFilm rental will be "The Counterfeiters". (6h ago)
just got spam (in German) from an "Immaculata Stumpf" (!) (8h ago)
just blocked about 6 marketing scumbags on twitter (9h ago)
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2007/5/21
Melbourne bedroom pop outfit The Motifs has a new CD out; titled "Away", it contains 25 songs, both old and new, and each undoubtedly a masterpiece of pocket-sized pop perfection. It's only available through a Japanese2006/5/21
Finland's metal monsters ran away with Eurovision, winning it with 292 points; a lead of 44. The runners-up were: Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania and Sweden. The bottom 3 were: France, Israel and Malta, with Malta being the h2>Five years ago:2003/5/22
North Korean defectors testify about weapons programme, government-run heroin export industry , suggesting that North Korea gets a big chunk of its funds from its heroin and methamphetamines industry, and that the government thereof is