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Hello again. It's Wednesday, and you all know what that means: two and a half days' worth of titillating items from the pop-culture-o-sphere. That's like a lifetime, in internet years. Let's begin.

1.) Selena Gomez met Shia LaBeouf backstage at "Live With Regis And Kelly" and reacted, well, like any 18-year-old girl would: with nervous squeals and breathless whispers of "he's so handsome." Stars: They're just like us! (Crushable)

2.) Kim Kardashian is so paranoid about info on her wedding dresses -- yes, that's plural, as in two wedding dresses -- getting out that she made everyone at Vera Wang sign confidentiality agreements. I had no idea she was so superstitious. (New York Post)

3.) Beyoncé told CNN's Piers Morgan that she originally wanted to have a baby by the age of 30. She's currently 29. Get ready for an insane amount of media speculation each time she eats a big lunch. (PopEater)

4.) Our friends at Crushable condensed every "Toddlers & Tiaras" episode into a minute-long video. It is truly terrifying. (Crushable)

5.) James Franco, multi-talented individual, has released a music video with his new band with Kalup Linzy, and it's every bit as trippy as you'd expect from the sexy stoner. (BuzzFeed)

6.) Our bros at BuzzFeed cut together a video for Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" using the gazillions of YouTube videos people have made of themselves singing the party anthem. Get ready for some serious air saxophone. (BuzzFeed)

7.) Do you want to see what Elvis Presley's grandson looks like? Of course you do. (Lainey Gossip)

8.) In an interview on "The Today Show," LaToya Jackson said she's sure that her brother was murdered, and that the prescription-happy doctor was merely the "fall guy" for a much larger plot. Want to know whodunnit? Buy her book and "read between the lines." (Huffington Post)

9.) Shot for shot,Friends With Benefits and No Strings Attached are the exact same movie, and now there's a trailer mashup to prove it. (The High Definite)

10.) This Boston terrier gives the weirdest snort-laugh ever when it gets tickled. Dying of cuteness over here! (BuzzFeed)

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Tags 10 Things To Know Now, Beyonce, Elvis Presley, James Franco, Kalup Linzy, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, LOL, Selena Gomez, Shia LaBeouf

We are all a happier species with Weezer in our lives. It's a proven fact: Weezer is the gift that keeps on giving. And the fact that they just came out with their own line of celebratory Raditude Weezer Snuggies is even more joyful! Anyway, Rivers and co. stopped by It's On With Alexa Chung yesterday to rip through their new single, "(If You're Wondering If I Want To) I Want You To."

Particularly in full effect was Rivers Cuomo, untethered from his restrictive guitar, doing his best young Elvis Presley meets Ed Grimley dance moves.

Props also need to parceled out to guitarist Brian Bell who opted for the rarely seen tuxedo-with-Flying-V-guitar combo. Brian, we see you, and we salute you.

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Tags Alexa Chung, Brian Bell, Elvis Presley, It's On With Alexa Chung, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer

May 1 is finally here (happy May Day!), and that means that the world premiere of Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer's new series, $5 Cover, is only hours away! All week I've been putting you on to the Memphis-based music mini-series' many characters and performances. But the time for metaphors and flowery language has passed. Here's a straight-up description of what you can expect to see on MTV.com tonight.

$5 Cover is a series of vignettes starring Memphis-based musicians as themselves. Not only do they grace you with exclusive live performances of their best songs, but they also invite you into their lives, dirty laundry and all, so you can see exactly what it means to be a creative force in the city where American music was born.

Among the bands featured are Lucero (an epic, Springsteen-esque Americana rock band lead by gravelly-voiced bad boy Ben Nichols), Amy LaVere (a bluesy chanteuse who sings dark ballads about loves gone wrong), Al Kapone (a rhythm-conscious rapper who made a name for himself on the Hustle & Flow soundtrack), Two Way Radio (a quirky pop group lead by squeaky Kate Crowder) and many others (Snowglobe, Jack Oblivian, Muck Sticky, Valerie June, River City Tanlines, etc).

Much of the action centers around Clare Grant, a sexy A-bomb of potential energy. The tough blonde in short-shorts breaks up relationships, friendships and more, all in an effort to solidify a love of her own. The drama drags you all over Memphis, from juke joints to recording studios, to Roller Derby arenas.

$5 Cover throbs with the living pulse of the dichotomous and sometimes sinister Southern city that took away our Martin Luther King and gave us the King of Rock'N'Roll.

Watch as musical forces of good and evil collide in tonight's world premiere of Craig Brewer's $5 Cover.

+ $5 Cover Premieres Tonight at Midnight EST (11PM Memphis Time) on MTV.com

+ An introduction to the $5 Cover bands that make Memphis sweat!

Tags $5 Cover, Al Kapone, Amy LaVere, Elvis Presley, Jack Oblivian, Lucero, Muck Sticky, River City Tanlines, Snowglobe, Two Way Radio, Valerie June

As they'll tell you in the $5 Cover trailer (embedded below), every city has a story. Well, this one's about Memphis, Tennessee, that capital of American music where landmarks like Graceland and Sun Records share a zip code with the Beale Street BBQs and grown-over backyard bandshells that hosted the humble beginnings of Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Carl Perkins and countless others.

These days, the pomade and blue suede that kept those rhythm and blues pilgrims slick are in shorter supply, but the music has only gotten louder and more diverse. Between Lucero's whiskey growl, Amy LaVere's musky seductions, Al Kapone's blues-driven rap rants and Two Way Radio's saccharine squeal, Memphis has enough homegrown talent to nightly light up every old marquee in Tennessee.

That's where Craig Brewer comes in. The same visionary exporter who turned the world on to the ho-slapping Memphis rap circuit with Hustle & Flow picks up where he left off, delivering new windows into Southern music's subcultures. As he did last time around, Brewer casts local musicians as themselves. And while they do go by a script, it's all drawn from their lives and peppered with plenty of improvisation.

Show-stopping musical performances mingle with tricky marriages, dead end jobs and heated inter-roommate love triangles. Basically $5 Cover exists to document the everyday dramas of the Delta's foremost flavor-purveyors, the mundane details of this town's least boring characters. Watch them in bite-sized installments and get yourself hooked on that same old electricity that set the King of Rock'n'Roll's thighs flying and made all the girls scream. Meet the players here, get familiar, and do yourself a favor: watch $5 Cover. Trust me.

Tags $5 Cover, Al Kapone, Amy LaVere, B.B. King, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Lucero, Two Way Radio

+ Miley Cyrus really, really, really wants her driver's license. But first, she'll need to learn how to parallel park. And, more importantly, to ace her (mandatory) DMV photo sesh. "I don't really want to go get my picture taken," admits the red carpet veteran. "It's, like, really hard to pick out your outfit." (MTV News)

+ Elvis Presley may have left the building --  but he hasn't gone too far. Last year the no-longer-living legend still managed to rake in a whopping $52 million. Which, incidentally, is approximately $10 million more than Madonna OR Justin Timberlake. (CMT)

+ And speaking of Madonna, did she and A-Rod really have a supa secret rendez-vous at Jerry Seinfeld's Hampton McMansion? And if so, why weren't we invited?? (Usmagazine.com)

+ Apparently, Jennifer Aniston is angry at Pink for yelling at John Mayer for dating stupid women. Or something. (Showbiz Spy)

+ Amy Winehouse is officially out of the hospital -- and back to leading a life of healthy livin'. Well, you know, sort of. (E! Online)

+ FYI, that wasn't Beyonce who jumped on stage, flashed her giant rock and danced to "Single Ladies" during Jay-Z's set the other night. It was her imaginary alter-ego, Sasha. Phew, glad we cleared that up! (EurWEB)

+ 16-year-old Disney phenom Selena Gomez to star in two major motion pictures that will be produced by...Selena Gomez's brand new production company. (Hollyscoop)

+ 50 Cent says the inspiration for his new video, "Get Up" came from Will Smith's apocalyptic thriller, I Am Legend. (MTV News)

Tags Alex Rodriguez, Amy Winehouse, Beyonce, Elvis Presley, Jay-Z, Jennifer Aniston, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mayer, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Pink, Selena Gomez