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When you make it to the big dance, you dance with the girl that brought ya. That's the philosophy adopted by Blink-182 and Papa Roach as those bands plan to continue their creative partnerships with director Marcos Siega.

A hard-rock fan and musician himself, Siega has handled clips for Anthrax, 311, Sevendust, Eve 6, CIV, Quicksand, and others, and has become the go-to guy for P.O.D. ("Southtown," "Rock The Party"), Blink-182 ("What's My Age Again?," "All The Small Things"), and Papa Roach ("Last Resort").

Now Siega is drumming up more repeat business as Blink-182 has tapped the director to helm its next video, "Man Overboard." The song is a new studio track tucked away on Blink's upcoming live album, "The Mark, Tom And Travis Show

Siega had also planned to shoot a feature film with Blink, but the director said that plans for that project have stalled.

"It's in development right now," Siega explained. "The script is done. It's really funny. I think it would be great for them. We were supposed to start shooting in a couple of weeks, but it's not happening because the band... I think they got cold feet.

"They have an incredibly busy schedule," he added, "and we were trying to fit six weeks of shooting into their five weeks off. I think that added to the anxiety of getting it done, and they felt a little rushed.... I think it would have been a great, great, funny film. It may still happen in the future. We're not sure."

With the movie on hold, Siega is instead charging full speed ahead on Blink's video for "Man Overboard." The director heads into the Blink project after reteaming with Papa Roach on that band's new video for "Broken Home," which Siega describes as "the best thing I've ever done."

The final hour of the 2000 Video Music Awards was all about the performers reaching out to those in the audience, with some in the crowd deciding to reach back.

While his performance didn't exactly fill up the stage, Nelly more than admirably filled the slot originally intended for DMX as he took his St. Lou-loving rhymes out into the orchestra pit of the Radio City Music Hall.

Nelly's baggy pants threatened to drop around his ankles during the call-and-response rhymes of "Country Grammar," but the rapper managed to keep his wits (and waistband) about him, all while flashing a virtual mine of bling-bling diamonds likely paid for by royalties from his number one LP.

If Nelly kept it simple, then Christina Aguilera was seeking the sublime with her rendition of "Come On Over Baby," a performance that was set in decidedly "Arabian Nights"-inspired surroundings, complete with belly dancers and fire-eaters.

Aguilera's voice showed little signs of the strain that forced her to cancel a show in Syracuse, New York, over the weekend, and she demonstrably belted out the tune in a manner that left little doubt which of the evening's VMA performers were live singers and which were lip-syncers.

At the tail end of Aguilera's set, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst rose from his seat in the house and walked up onstage in the middle of the song. After circling the singer, Durst proceeded to lead Aguilera and her backing band through an impromptu hardcore thrash that brought the stunned crowd to its feet.

Considering Blink-182's off-key performance of "All The Small Things" during last year's VMA pre-show at the Metropolitan Opera House, the band, at first, seemed like an odd choice to close out the 2000 ceremony with the same song.

But in keeping with the overall outré nature of the live performances at this year's event, Blink-182 easily fit in, although more than a few eyebrows were raised in the audience when the band launched into a surprisingly straightforward rendition of the "TRL" fave.

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