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Watch The Dead Weather's "Treat Me Like Your Mother" video, but please keep in mind, this is NOT how real-life bullets work. It's also NOT how you settle the dispute that may arise when you show up in the desert wearing the same leather jacket as someone else. It's also not the best way to handle relationship issues -- this is how you handle relationship issues, right Kanye? Also, I really hate gratuitously violent videos, but I am intrigued by the concept of a modern-day spaghetti Western with a possible Electra complex.

Watch "Treat Me Like Your Mother," the latest video by superband The Dead Weather -- The White Stripes/ The Raconteurs' Jack White, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age, Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes, and The Raconteurs and Alison Mosshart of The Kills. Super-cinematic directorial brushstrokes courtesy of filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, who directed the movie Sexy Beast, countless TV commercials, Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity" and Radiohead's "Karma Police."

Little did Billy Idol know, when he opened his 1982 career-maker, "White Wedding," with the lines, "Hey little sister, look what you've done," he was sending a message to future sister-band, Meg & Dia.

"Hey little sister, who's the one you want?" He sang. "Hey little sister, who's your superman?" Billy Idol himself is the obvious answer to that question, when asked of two '80s babies with a DJ dad. And when Idol follows up with, "There's nothin' pure in this world/ Look for something left in this world," it's obvious what Meg & Dia have to do: "Start again."

And that's what they did. Their brand-new video, "Black Wedding," is a loose adaptation of Billy Idol's vintage punk anthem, complete with screaming chorus, snarling lips and haunting gothic imagery. Like Idol, Meg & Dia's vision of the perfect wedding looks a whole lot more like a funeral (the wedding dresses are wooden boxes!) than anything you'd see on Bridezillas.

But the Aaron Platt (One Republic, Queens Of The Stone Age)-directed video takes the darkness further than Idol ever did. "Black Wedding" is a full-on weeping funeral march, with vultures hovering and ashes falling like snow. A major, major amazing creep-out. Very Tim Burton.

Watch "Black Wedding," the first single from Meg & Dia's upcoming album, Here, Here and Here, right... here? Go!

+ Don't believe what that prankster Joel Madden wrote on his Good Charlotte blog -- he and baby mama Nicole Richie are still happily unmarried. Those so-called wedding photos? That was just Joel "monkeying around." (Joel's Good Charlotte blog profile)

+ 50 Cent apologizes for calling Shawty Lo (of D4L) a one-hit wonder. Judging by the success of Lo's new record, "Dey Know," the term "two-hit wonder" is, perhaps, more appropriate. (MTV)

+ Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA shows non-believers that chess and hip-hop go together in da hood. Checkmate, yo! (Sydney Morning Herald)

+ Outkast-turned-solo artist Big Boi hypes up his upcoming new album be equating it to...yard work? "Right now, we're just putting the sod in the front of the house. We almost done." Presumably, all that's left is for Big Boi and Raekwon to get rid of all the weed(s). (MTV)

+ A word to the wise: if you throw a bottle at the Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, be prepared to duck. (NME)

+ Forbes' 35th-most-powerful celeb Miley Cyrus still needs to learn not to bring her camera to bed with her. (Think Fashion)

+ The Jonas Brothers try to convince British teens to keep it in their knickers. (Telegraph.co.uk)

Typically, music videos take quite a bit of work to make. But for Queens of the Stone Age's latest clip, frontman Josh Homme and his bandmates didn't even have to show up for it.

In "3's & 7's," the neo-psychedelic rockers go virtual with a video completely made up of the avatars from Rock Band, the video game where you can be a member of Fall Out Boy, Beastie Boys or Blue Öyster Cult without the talent or band practice. (But you also probably won't get groupies either.)

Take a look at "3's & 7's," and see how the video game version of QOTSA compares to the real thing:

+ Plus: check out QOTSA's last animated video "Go With the Flow," Buzzworthy's first look at Rock Band at the VMAs last year, and Cartel's first Rock Band experience.

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Why yes, Josh Homme. We DO see you playing poker next to our office at The Palms! Guess he still had some chips left after the Rolling Stone celebrity poker tournament earlier today. Find out more about his poker strategy here. Stack 'em high, buddy!