Instead of making it nine (maybe 10?) straight years of attending SXSW (uh…we’re not that old, we went to college in TX and that was spring break) we’ve decided to boycott attending this year. It is simply too douchey and for the last two years we spent more time in hotels drinking than seeing shows so we’ve deemed it useless. Reading the coverage so far from MTV New’s James Montgomery hasn’t made us regret our decision.

However, this blog won’t be totally devoid of SXSW coverage - we sent our digital camera down with the mtvU crew so they could send us daily images from their shoot and we asked our #1 Fan (perhaps you remember his Woodies blogging) to blog all the douchey goodness he could capture in a few editions of And Now This.

We’re almost sad to miss R.E.M. except that seeing them at SXSW is so ridic that we think we’ll twiddle our thumbs until they come to NYC instead. Check out the MTV News interview clip with our dudes.