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Jim Strzalkowski Simply Must Tell You The Irrelevant News!!

What's the word on the street these days? "Word on the street is that Brian Anthony is also fighting hard to open for Madonna on her upcoming "Hard Candy" tour." This Brian Anthony, who is some type of music maker, did a mashup of his music with Madonna's and put it on his Myspace page. Now, "The 'Worked Up!' mash-up is being passed around the Madonna camp and the buzz is BIG on it." How can we be so sure? Because we got the information firsthand, in a hilariously inept press release from Jim Strzalkowski, fantabulous PR man—and fan—to the D-list stars! More »

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Epic Battles: Miranda July vs. Cat

So a lot of people don't like Miranda July and all her whimsical shtick. I adored No One Belongs Here More Than You for all its sad weirdness. But I know some of you don't go for that kind of thing, so I'm not mad. I'm actually happy that some people don't like Miranda July because otherwise we'd never have this duel. See, Miranda made a Blonde Redheads music video in which she strikes a new pose every second. It's weird and kind of mesmerizing. Well, because the internet loves cats, someone recreated the video (sort of) using a funny little black and white Mr. Meowington. Watch the July version above, the cat version after the jump. (I have no idea what's going on right now.) More »