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On that Awl piece about Rivers Cuomo and Pinkerton

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The piece starts out with this: Before we begin, let us be clear: We speak not of the Rivers Cuomo that was, nor of the Rivers Cuomo that is, nor yet of the Rivers that shall be. We speak, now, of the Platonic ideal of a Rivers Cuomo: The Rivers Cuomo you have never met, [...]

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I am testing that dream.

Seeing Weezer for me is probably like seeing My Bloody Valentine for a lot of other people–or maybe not. Maybe it’s really like seeing Liz Phair, where you know there’s something great there that got sorta misplaced or deferred or scared out of the person, or maybe that something great was the flash so there’s [...]

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Is anyone else weirded out about this?

It’s odd to me that the girl from the Weezer video for “The Good Life”: and from the Beck video for “The New Polution”: is that one girl from 24 and Magnolia and Little Miss Sunshine. Oh, and from this: Mary Lynn Rajskub, why you are kissing Rush Limbaugh? (Apologies if you already knew about [...]

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