We bundled up all nice and warm-like last night and hit the red carpet at the mtvU Woodie Awards, where we pelted Fall Out Boy (dudes, Joe Trohman is looking like an emo Jesus these days), Gym Class Heroes -- who'd just finished shooting a video with Kelly Rowland -- Spank Rock, The Academy Is…, Peter and Bjorn of Peter, Bjorn & John (duh) and more celebs with enough questions to make 'em wish they'd entered Roseland Ballroom through the side door.
For the record, the show was amazing; seeing Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis play cowbell live, catching Patrick Stump back up Lupe Fiasco and Matthew Santos on "Superstar," witnessing the Show Me Action guy's hair in person (that stuff's like an extra band member), and watching busty dancers in glow-in-the-dark fluorescent '80s bikinis gyrating to "Rick Rubin" (the song, not the man) while Spank Rock got practically pornographic lookin' like a cross between Rainbow Brite and Carlton Banks, all in ONE effing night was seriously an unparalleled experience.
The only thing missing, really, was Amy Winehouse. We caught up with Pete Wentz on the Woodie carpet, and he had this to say about Amy's recent string of cancelled appearances due to brushes with the law and an intense love of the wizard: "If you're supposed to go somewhere you should go to it," and then added "and you have a really good singing voice." To which we say: fair enough, and word.
Check out all the Woodie nominees and winners, and watch the whole show on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 8p.m. on mtvU and mtvU.com. And check out Best Week Ever blog's very hilarious now-not-live liveblog coverage of the Woodies. (That's sorta meta-post-modern in a way that hurts our head too much to think about at this point on a Friday.)
We've got more celeb red carpet run-ins to tell you about, so look for those next week. But right now, we've gotta go draw on some Super Walls.