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Second Chance Sunday: The Stories You Might Have Missed This Week

Cheech & Chong on their drug escapades, Governor's Ball photos, Jurassic World review and more

We forgive you for not clicking through to enough of our stories this week. No really, we do. But you know… it couldn't hurt to look at some of the great music, arts and entertainment stories you missed now, while sipping your Sunday morning hangover Gatorade. 


a fan got fined $US20 for downloading a 20 year old episode of 'Friends'

Warner Bros. has sought after damages for a fan downloading the Friends episode The One With Five Steaks & An Eggplant which aired in 1995. According to TorrentFreak, this is the first time someone's been fined for something that was aired so long ago.

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watch Mammut cover themselves in sheep blood in their new video

The Icelandic band's video for Blood Burst was about "the animalistic nature of man", according to the clip's director, Sunneva Asa Weisshappel. Slightly NSFW, depending on how you and those around you feel about a group of sticky people blood-wrestling. It sounds gross because it kind of is.

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Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong tells us about the war on drugs

Tommy Chong talks us through the law regarding marijuana, smoking marijuana with John Lennon and Rod Stewart and going to jail for having marijuana-related paraphernalia. So, lots of drug talk, basically. 

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check out photos of our Aussies playing Governor's Ball in NYC

Photographer Andrew Boyle took some rad photos of Angus & Julia Stone, Hermitude, Tame Impala and more playing the three-day festival in New York City last week. Live vicariously through these photos of the bands and some fashionable punters.

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Read Film Carew on Jurassic World being a "pure popcorn-movie spectacle"

Anthony Carew dissected Jurassic World and thought it had "the smarts to mock blockbuster bloat, product placement, and escalating corporate ambition, but its franchised status means that eventually, inevitably, the film becomes an active proponent of all that it’s critiquing".

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read our review of come together fest last weekend

Ecca Vandal, Ball Park Music and Thundamentals ruled the roost over two jam-packed days at Sydney's Luna Park. Check out photos of day one and day two here.

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