Thereby further cementing his place in the annals of weirdness.

Someone should give Walken the treatment Chuck Klosterman gave Val Kilmer. By which I mean a nice thinky profile that makes you love him more than you already do.

Compared to the utter preposterousness that was Lady Gaga at the VMAs, last night’s show in Richmond was surprisingly tame. Still, if you’ve got tickets for Gaga’s show tonight at DAR Constitution Hall, you’re in for a pretty bizarre spectacle. Lots of photos after the jump and at the full gallery.

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In July,  Rohin Guha, a writer for the pop culture site Black Book, noticed that the music tastes of America’s top gossip blogger closely mirrored those of a UK music site: Perez Hilton had endorsed six different bands, none of them yet familiar to American listeners, immediately following endorsements by Peter Robinson, editor of  PopJustice. A Black Book commenter found that Perez embraced Britain’s Frankmusik, who Robinson has written about extensively since 2007, in the same timely manner.

Perez’s self-proclaimed “good ear” and subsequent blog endorsements helped him score a record imprint under Warner Bros.*

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