MTVu's Woodies Awards 2006
We left the dorms behind a little while back, so we've never even seen MTVu, but when invited to Roseland Ballroom for the station's annual Woodie Awards and told that TV On The Radio and Beck would perform, we said "Yes." And then when they said that Catalano and 30 Seconds To Mars would be there, we said "YES!" (Sorry, if this hurts your eyes, look to the right for Eugene from Gogol Bordello.)
The show was reverent to gloth acts like AFI and Panic!, but along the way they played vids from Tapes 'N' Tapes and Silversun Pickups, so the bloggies were at least marginally appeased. The first award of the night, the "Breaking Woodie," went to the Plain White Ts (or as they're known here the "Who White What?s"), beating the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Imogen Heap, and Lupe Fiasco.
And this was after Imogen sang, dressed like a psychadelic '80s parakeet! She should've won on our pity points alone.
And folks, we have confirmation: Jared Leto is indeed a total douchebag!
We saw him accost Elijah Wood, totally unprovoked, toward the end of the show. Just a good from-behind hand-on-neck jerk around with some heated words and a storm off, leaving Wood's friends to console. Just before that, Elijah was the most serene dude, rapping with us about The Apples In Stereo. Pick your sides in that beef, people. But here Catalano is in friendly conversation with Tom DeLonge of Woodie Of The Year winning Angels & Airwaves.
And for the acts that you care about: Lady Sov was rocking her "Biggest Midget" tee and was proud to be plastered at the podium, shirking her script entirely in favor of some incoherent (yet always charming) babble while trying to get the young'ns to cheer for beers. Ghostface Killah was in the house, with props for Norah Jones (huh? Maybe he meant El Mad Mo?) and Beck gave us "Nausea" (a dish better seved in a synangogue) followed by a little "E-Pro."
Personally, the night's salvation came in the form of the Fred Armisen-introduced TV On The Radio. Tunde doing his best to make "Province" move the kids, but the show closing "Wolf Like Me" was much better suited to the ADHD-addled minds of generation tomorrow. Even then, the best review we heard for TVOTR while on the way out was "Dude had a massive 'fro!" Guess you can't argue with that. And who had the most fun that we saw? Two words: The Subways.
Posted at 12:33 PM
Tags: 30 Seconds To Mars | Beck | Jared Leto | TV On The Radio
haha, I was there too, and saw Jared Leto mess around with Elijah Wood. That guy bothers me.
The event was fun, and TVOTR rocked the hell out. The funny thing was that very few people in the crowd knew anything about the acts and presenters. I made a video of the pre-show crowd waiting to get into Roseland. It'll be up on FreeIndie tomorrow.
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no...no...no...no...no creating new genres. stop using the term gloth NOW. these acts don't deserve to be labelled within a new genre since their already part of the "shit pile/sometimes amusingly fun to bop head to"
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Jared Leto is such a loser. Take his violent outbursts for what they are--his only way of dealing iwth the fact that he's in a band nobody gives a toss about.
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http://dlisted.com/10/26/2006/the-hobbit-vs-jordan-catalano/
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what's leto's beef with wood?
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Why did you leave out the part where Jared Leto injures your blogging finger? Does it contain too many S, W, and Xs?
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Man, just do us all bloggers a favour and sue this guy. Such an unhappy piece of man.
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Dude, Best Week Ever said some mess went down :
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/10/26/breaking-exclusive-letos-blog-hatred-escalates-to-violence-stereogum-attacked/
Is this for real???
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who the fuck does this guy think he is? you should have roughed him up a bit.
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Leto is a Forum guy. Like Scientology but without Beck.
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Jared Leto is a bully? What kind of a guy feels like he can wear eyeliner and pick on other people? Was he pissed that Wood was chosen to play Iggy Pop? Does Leto even know who Iggy Pop is?
I remember reading a behind the scenes article on American Psycho in '99 or earlier, and the whole article basically turned into how much of a dick Jared Leto is -- dude refused to even read his lines with Bale if he was off camera.
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Maybe this is the issue:
"Movies, it seems, are only Wood’s second-favorite subject – when he talks about music, his blue eyes blaze: “I love music so much. But I would never try to be like other actors and attempt to make some myself. I mean, have you heard 30 Seconds to Mars?” Upon learning that Jared Leto’s nü-metal act has somehow managed to evade Blender’s ears, Wood nearly shouts: “Fucking awful, man! I love music too much to ever do it any harm.”
http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=909
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Time for a Catalano vs Ryan "Bryan" Adams Douchebag-off.
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forget looking at the guy from gogol bordello - look at the girl in the hat behind him!
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i guess your blogging finger is ok??
fuck jared leto and that shitty band.
30 suckonds or jada pinkett smith's group... they both blow so bad i can't decide which is worse.
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leto's just pissed because elijah has the balls to say how much 30stm FUCKING BLOWS. what a pansy. i always figured that guy was a douche.
heard you got assaulted too, scott! what was wrong with that guy???
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Jared Leto assaulted Scott, what? I hope you sue his ass, man. What a fucking loser.
Is it pronounced Lee-toe or Let-o? Either way, I hope you pronounced it wrong, Scott, so he had a hissy fit about that too.
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That piece of shit grabbed and threatened you Scott? WTF? Sue his flaming ass to hell dude.
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Eugene looks so damn cool, definitely great after seeing 30StM in the picture, blech.
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jared didn't assault scott. read the post again, its a fucking joke. internet sarcasm does not transfer well...
notice how they said his 'blogging finger' was injured? notice how it says he was foricbly removed from the venue, and when we read this post he clearly wasn't?
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ooohhhhh scott hasn't said a word about it yet... that might mean he's consulting a lawyer about possible legal action.
FUCK. YES.
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i think jared leto's idea of being "punk" is to be annoying. therefore making people angry. but that isnt punk. that is just stupid. jared leto is stupid. my anus.
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Hey guys -- sorry I didn't fill you in about the Leto threatening me thing. I was getting X-rays today. And the pics from the event we posted are from Amrit's camera. The security guards erased everything on MY camera. Anyway, I'm not suing anybody. But I am looking into camera data recovery services! How sweet would that be?
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haha evan's a dummy and cant tell the difference between a blogger making fun of a real event and a blogger making something up haha
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About that sarcasm, Evan...
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Evan - I guess apologies over the internet don't come through well either?
That's ok. I know you're sorry :p
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There's a fairly cheap program you can buy on-line called ImageRecall that can restore wiped memory cards. It worked well for me (with a Lexar card), restoring about 70 images in a couple minutes.
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did that s pamela racine attend the event? from GB. just wondering.scott that was pretty messed up of jared to do that to you though. he seems to think he can rough everyone up now. I personally feel she should pay a bit for what hes done.
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be nice to jordan, he never learnt to read....
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To follow up with Scott's comment, Leto didn't threaten me, so I was able to report on the event unfettered by his douchebaggery.
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be nice to scott, he never learnt to read.
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Jared Leto and Tom DeLonge? If ever two douches deserved each other, it's these two. How does one become that much of a tool?
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Love it!
Wood shouldn't talk shit about people for years and expect them to forget about it....what a lil bitch. I hoped he cried himself to sleep.
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Maybe Jared does not like Elijah because he got the part of Frodo Baggins. Who knows, men with no self-esteem act out just like Jared has. Go run to mommy.
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Ok, all I have to say is Jared is a nice guy. I met him after a concert last night and he was really sweet.
And no, 30 seconds to mars does not SUCK at all... elijah deserved what he got for saying what he said, he's just a goody two shoes.
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i love 30stm ....i just saw them in concert & leto was amazing!
too bad he's such a douch.
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leto played prefontaine therefore hes cooler than elijah
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If Elijah Wood had said the music my band and I made for the past 5 years sucked balls, I would be pretty pissed too. Jared Leto went easy on him, imo.
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Umm, if you people would leave him alone, leave ANY "star" alone for that matter, they would not have so much built up rage to your stupid asses. Get an effing life. He is right about bloggers, and was right to be angry with you.
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Anyone who makes music can expect to be criticised at some point. Fuck him, dominant alpha male monkey motherfucker.
I hope his band gag on their own inanity.
He's probably on crack.
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Does anybody here think its kind of stupid EVEN for jared leto to be mad at somebody to not like his band. I'm sure abosolutely POSITIVE that theres something more to it. I heard Elijah is quite a pussy, and a hypocrite aswell.
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Jared Leto is actually fucking lovely.
I went to see his band last night (on their SOLD OUT tour - can't be that shitty, can they?), and despite the fact 2k+ people turned up to see them, he suggested the band did an unorganised signing afterwards, and they sat for possibly more than an hour just signing tickets, offering hugs and such like.
Not really my idea of an asshole, sorry.
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jared is not stupip,his just a retared moran that want to get atention because maybe his fucking parents didnt give it to him.now we have to suck up every fucking problem that he does and laugh about it.thats bullshit.that guy need a dog or something.he thinks that the world is a lolly pop that he can eat,but what he doesnt know is that the pop has venom.he is not cute.only because he has blue eyes and a rock star does not mean his is cute.he looks like a monkey.and now im wasting my time talking about this dumass who suck ass from his mom.i feel sorry for the rest of the band because jared leto is making them look fuck up,oh i get it since there all asswholes there friends.there band should call 30 asswholes from mars.
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I used to be a Jared Leto mainly because he is easy on the eyes. But the crap with him going after Elijah Wood completely turned me off. Elijah is entitled to say what he wants. I brought that issue of Blender when it came out. Elijah said things both good and bad about alot of bands. Blender had him reviewing albums so that was the point. Elijah wasn't just picking on poor Jared Leto. Jared was an ass to take it that way and start with Elijah at an awards show. No one is hot enough to be that much of a prick. And I agree with Elijah , Jared should stick to acting and stop trying to pretend that screaming he does is singing.
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