It's been a stressful couple of weeks for that part of your brain where Motown memories still reside poignantly and powerfully.

The most-publicized blow to the mind was Jermaine Jackson's misbegotten announcement of a Jackson 5 reunion -- replete with PDA embarrassment Janet -- which was quickly scotched by Michael.

1. A giddy sidewalk gossip girl runs up to you grinning ear-to-ear with the night's big celebrity sighting and it's…drum roll…(conspiratorial lean and whisper)…TODD BRIDGES! Huh? Whuuu…. Why? Where?

Ever since Freelance Hellraiser got the Internet's nutz in a twist with 2001's "A Stroke of Genius" -- a seamless mash-up of the Strokes' "Hard to Explain" and Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" -- the ultimate, 21st Century tribute to the It rock band of the year has been an endless barrage of (mostly) unauthorized mash-ups, remixes, covers, and alternate ve

UPDATE: Read part two of "I Started a Joke (or Careful: MGMT at Play)" here.

There may be people who only attended the third session of the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, but as a wise man once observed about his questionably unclothed behavior on a famed bathroom floor, "It Wasn't Me." So the remains of Days 1 and 2 -- The French Fry Diet, crap sleep, SPF 45 caked on like Steven Tyler's mascara, temperatures reportedly reaching a singeing 112 degrees, fee