Sure, you can meet them on the equinox. But before you head over there, can you pick up some clippers on the way? Death Cab For Cutie, pictured above, were just some of the bearded boys marauding last night's mtvU Woodie Awards. Seriously, Jason McGerr and Ben Gibbard had the Death Cab Starter Beard, but Nick Harmer was rocking the straight-up new-school Colonel Sanders.

As if a don't-shave mandate went out two months prior to last night's Woodies, we saw everything from the "Captain Ahab"/"Robert Shaw from Jaws" (rocked by David Cross) to the "late-period, drugged-out Brian Wilson" -- demonstrated on the face of 3Oh!3's Sean Foreman, who later dressed up like Lady Gaga -- to the awesome evil beard, which Tech N9ne wore so right.

Behold the beauty and the beards of the 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards below.

David Cross

Sean Foreman (3Oh!3)

Tech N9ne

+ Check out all of the Woodie Awards 2009: Bearded And Beautiful Photos here. And watch the 2009 mtvU Woodies Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, and Palladia.

Though Lady Gaga herself wasn't at the 2009 mtvU Woodies, she did receive a picture-perfect homage when 30h!3's Nat and Sean, who presented a Woodie Award while dressed up like Lady Gaga at the VMAs.

Nat wore Gaga's red lace outfit, completely with red lace mask and red crown (maybe he watched the make-your-own Lady Gaga red outfit video and DIY'ed it?), while Sean got the frilly, feathery white birds nest. Nat shouted out something about wearing soiled panties on your face, and then hilariously teetered off the stage in wobbly Gaga heels.

+ Check out more photos from the 2009 mtvU Woodies, and relive Lady Gaga in the original outfits at the 2009 VMAs after the jump. And don't miss the 2009 mtvU Woodies on Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, and Palladia.

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The 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards are happening now in New York City -- a mash-up of music's famous faces, and on-point performances. And we're liveblogging it all on the MTV Buzzworthy blog. Stay here for the backstage, birdseye, and middle-of-it-all 2009 mtvU Woodies report. And watch the 2009 mtvU Woodies Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, and Palladia.

10:51pm -- We're off to the after party, see ya, it's been a blast! For more Woodies gossip, party reports and general madness check in with Buzzworthy tomorrow or check out highlights from the show on the Woodies site right now. We have tons of photos, red-carpet looks, rehearsal performances (some of which you saw here earlier today) and more. PEACE!

10:23pm -- Matt & Kim can't go anywhere without throngs of admirers following them. They're pretty much the Brangelina of the Woodies. Except they don't own several kids and possibly hate each other.

10:14pm -- Alexa Chung is swaying along to "Treat Me Like Your Mother." Jack White looks like a cross between a pissed-off vampire and The Crow. In a way that works, though.

10:09pm -- The Dead Weather is taking the Woodies to the church of bad news on all-white instruments. Allison Mosshart's on a square guitar, and I'm pretty sure it's got the devil inside.

10:04pm --Mary-Louise Parker drops an eff-bomb while intro-ing the Dead Weather! RAWK!!!!!!

10:02pm -- Kid Sister and Kim (of Matt & Kim) are exchanging phone numbers on the floor, David Cross is catching up with Matt Pinfield, and Leighton Meester and Cyndi Lauper, present, and they're each dressed totally future-forward. They're dropping Woodie of the Year.

9:51pm -- Jamie Tworkowski wins the Good Woodie for To Write Love On Her Arms, and dedicates the award to people battling depression and drug addiction.

9:43pm -- Cam'ron drops some knowledge on the Clipse. The vibe is straight-up old-school -- no tricks, no autotune, no stunts. Just hype hip-hop. And RICK ROSS , bossin' behind shades, centerstage. Appropriately the crowd is dancing on barstools.

9:37pm -- The men of Passion Pit are launching tiny burgers into each other's mouths and ordering extra whiskey shots. A saucer-eyed, autotuned Janelle Monae intros the Clipse as the crowd yells out "You're beautiful!"

9:33pm -- Matt & Kim win Video Of The Year, and as their friends in the crowd toss their drink about 40 feet in the air, M&K bypass the stairs, crawl on top of the crowd, and rush the stage. They accept the award, thank pretty much everyone in one swoop, and Kim takes another dive off the stage.

9:27pm -- Death Cab just performed meet "Meet Me On The Equinox" to a mesmerized crowd but pretty much got the U2 reception when they did "Sound of Settling"

9:23pm -- MTV alumni Jon Norris and Matt Pinfield are catching up on the floor.

9:18pm -- David Cross has crown shoved into his pocket, and he's telling a Tom Cruise Scientology joke, for those of you who don't know what Dianetics is.

9:12pm -- Overheard, P.O.S telling someone "I just hope I looked cool," after someone congratulated him on his performance.

9:10pm -- P.O.S.just rapped over live flipcup percussion.

9:06pm -- Asher Roth gives out the Best Performing Woodie to Green Day. They're not here to accept so Asher stagedives instead.

9:04pm -- I'm down on the floor where all of the talent's seated, not at tables but at dozens of narrow glittery bars. There's a 1:2 ratio of kegs to celeb bar, and Oh The Story has their own personal shot waiter. Wisely, one member of Oh The Story cut himself off and ordered a diet coke.

9:00pm -- A production assistant carrying the next Woodie just rushed the award backstage.

8:59pm -- David Cross and the Clipse are having a heart-to-heart. Intense!

8:57pm -- Just walked by David Cross, who's dressed like he's going to a Superbowl party.

8:55pm --  Alexa Chung gives out the Best Music On Campus Woodie -- an award she promises will lead to getting laid more -- to an ecstatic Hotel Of The Laughing Tree whose friends are freaking out on the floor behind me.

8:46pm -- Amber Tamblyn intros Passion Pit via Twitter. Passion Pit is clearly a crowd favorite -- we've got people on top of people's shoulders, air drumming (like the Rush scene in "I Love You, Man," but far far cooler...)

8:42pm -- 3Oh3! is presenting the Left Field Woodie... DRESSED AS LADY GAGA AT THE VMAS!!!! The red dress and the white bird's nest mask thing! Reference was made to soiled panties! :O  Tech N9ne wins it and makes a Woodie joke and drops a KRS-One lyric!!!

8:28pm -- Never Shout Never has the shortest acceptance speech ever: "Power to the people!" Talks least, says most!

8:26pm -- Zooey Deschanel, darling as always in a darling dress, cracked a joke about not taking off her clothes as they swept up Matt & Kim's castoffs. She's presenting the Breaking Woodie Award, which goes to Never Shout Never!

8:23pm -- Pete Wentz, red solo cup in hand, is going rogue. Give that guy a mic and he'll take a mile. He just cracked a swine flu joke and dropped the "douchebag" bomb as he kicked off the 2009 Woodies!

8:21pm -- How'd do you get to college parties? BIKE there! Matt & Kim just biked here from Brooklyn straight into the lobby of the Woodies. They brought some friends who aren't just singing backup, they're stripping down to their skivvies for lessons learned. Undies party!!! Extra points to Kim -- she jumped up onto the drumkit and WALKED ON TOP of the crowd!!!!

8:15pm -- Jack White and the Dead Weather didn't walk the red carpet -- they basically ran it. Jack White needs a role in "Eclipse." Dude is whiter than a natural-born Cullen.

8:10pm -- Never Shout Never's Christofer Drew wins Best Dressed at the Woodies. Hands down. That Mickey Mouse sweater deserves its own award.

8:03pm -- Woah... Nick Cannon just ran down the red carpet! No sign of Mariah Carey...

8:01pm -- What's a college party without flipcup! The mtvU Woodies have their very own flipcup game going on at one of the bars. Kenna, just took aim. Isn't that how you get swine flu?

6:58pm -- The red carpet is under way, and I just caught up with breaking band Sparks The Rescue, who informed me that votes aliens are the new vampires.

P.O.S. is staying positive about his shot at the Best Performance Woodie, but if he doesn't go home with the wood, Animal Collective's got his co-sign. And 3Oh3!. Don't sleep on either he says, noting that Animal Collective, "blew my mind off." And 3Oh3!? "Everybody thinks they got silly jams, but they put on a good show too," he said.

Describing his performance at the Woodies he said it would, "contain some raps." Gee, thanks! But seriously, he also said they'll be some "some cups and clapping." Huh? Well, for that explanation, you'll have to see a teaser of his performance in this clip. You only get a small taste, but it looks kind of inventive and interesting (peep the red cup in the picture above)

Check out this interview w the Twin Cities Rhymesayer to see why he can't stop reading sci-fi godhead novelist, Philip Dick and why the sweet Swedish sounds of Refused are blowing his mind.

Watch the 2009 mtvU Woodies Friday, December 4, at 10 p.m. ET on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, and Palladia.

We hipped you to 3Oh!3's "Starstukk" video, featuring Katy Perry a little while back, so you should know the deal already: 3Oh!3 score a Katy Perry feature for this jam about a love that knows no name (because these dudes are not trying to know your name, they are trying to keep it real. Real casual, you know?).

"Starstrukk" is a whirlwind of imagery and emotion. Like a suburban version of LMFAO, 3Oh!3 get dumb by a magical wishing well, taking advantage of its power to draw women to those men with the foresight to pull said gals' pennies out of the water.

There's also some hysterical/stoopit sequences involving the boys eating sushi while mountain climbing and skeet shooting their own records. Also: Katy Perry singing in a fountain. All hail the genius of 3Oh!3.

Wait, you're thinking electro-poppers 3OH!3 already have a video for their infectious track, "Starstrukk," right? Yes, we showed you the clip in the summer, but that one didn't have a little lass named Katy Perry. Well this is the "Starstrukk" reeeeeeeemix, featuring Ms. Perry, that first hit on their MySpace and then was released as an ITunes single in September.

So yes, now they've done a full, brand-new video for the new video/song that we'll be debuting right here on MTV.com on Monday, October 26.

We've got two goodies for you. A 30-second teaser clip of the video itself and a cool behind-the-scenes piece with director Steve Jocz at Laurel Canyon studios where the duo and Perry shot some of the green-screen fantasy sequences in the video. You'll see. The track is also featured in the Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel film, "When In Rome," and the video is apparently a riff on what goes down in that movie. It comes out in January so we don't know yet other than it's a romantic comedy. Katy, who is buds from their days on the 2008 Warped Tour says, "It's a pretty cool idea," so we'll trust her. It's a bit "sultry and sexier than I typically am," she says. Hey, we're sold. Check out the clips and come back Monday on MTV.com to see the entire video.

Earlier today at Radio City Music Hall, while rehearsals for the 2009 MTV VMAs were going on upstairs, I caught up with All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat outside of the "gentlemen's lounge," which is just a fancy way of saying bathroom. I like to interview celebrities outside of bathrooms because I like to keep things classy. And All Time Low always keeps things classy,  so we pretty much went straight into talking about puking.

Watch Jack and Alex predict the future and in this case, how they wanna see 3OH!3 win Best New Artist at the 2009 VMAs. Plus, how they might end their night -- with some drinking and barfing.

+ Watch All Time Low's Six Flags Interview after the jump.

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Think dream catchers, feathery roach clips, tie-dye parachute pants, and other New Agey apparel isn't VMA red carpet worthy? THINK AGAIN.

Watch as 3OH!3 takes you shopping with them to find something to wear to the VMAs. First stop? An out-of-the-way mom-and-pop shop, where they stock up on stuff to wear to the VMAs in New York City, where they COULD win a VMA for Best New Artist.

+ See the dumbest/ best thing anyone ever wore on the VMA red carpet, and don't miss the 2009 VMAs live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, September 13 at 9pm!

I love the New York Times, but they've been kinda weirding me out lately. Have you seen this paranoid anti-kid campaign they've been running for the past couple of months? Every week a new article pops up warning parents about the unseen dangers associated with Twitter, Facebook (apparently the sites contribute to sleep deprivation?) and -- I wish I was joking -- hugging.

Anyway, confident as I am that Twitter is no more a threat to the youth of America today than the "S" volume of the encyclopedia was 50 years ago, I sorta hope the NY Times doesn't get their hands on this new Millionaires single ... The name of the song is "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid," and the video really lives up to its title. What an easy target for the anti-hug brigade!

But there's a whole lot more to this story than three half-naked California girls popping corks and throwing piles of cash around the club. The story of Millionaires is actually pretty incredible (NY Times take note!). The super-abridged version is that one day, sisters Melissa and Allison Green were screwing around on GarageBand with their girl Dani Artaud. The next day they were MySpace superstars. (Their whole story is here!)

Since then, Millionaires have toured the States, played the Bamboozle and shared a stage with Shwayze and 3OH!3. AND! "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid" is now the official theme song of MTV's Teen Cribs! At this rate, Millionaires are gonna outgrow their name before the year is out. Watch their "Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid" video before they become Billionaires.

The chorus of 3OH!3's manic, pulsating new single, "Starstrukk," goes "L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce." Sean and Nat set out to prove that sentiment in their overstimulating orgy of a new video.

The boys are visible only as faces in a pit of writhing bodies. And while there's ample evidence of the nice legs, daisy dukes, tight jeans and double-Ds referenced in the lyrics, there are also ravers, Halloween skeletons, b-boys, middle-aged men and punk chicks gnawing at each other's fishnets, giving new meaning to the phrase, "put your foot in your mouth."

The "Starstrukk" video, shot in reverse, eventually gets around to explaining how 3OH!3 got themselves into such a fleshy mess. But don't get too hung up on explanations. Enjoy the orgy while it lasts.

"Starstrukk" is the second single to be released form 3OH!3's Want album. Watch the video, a frenzied, foot-fetishist's dream, right here.

+ Dated reference point: U2's "Numb" meets the cast of Daria.