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rivers cuomo: imperialist?

it appears that rivers cuomo of weezer has a blog on myspace. i'm guessing it's legitimate because i learned of it in an article on pitchforkmedia.com about weezer scrapping all the songs for their 5th album because rivers had a fucking stroke of genius and wanted to start over. in one of his blog entries, rivers has posted his harvard readmission essay and all i can say is, why the hell does rivers cuomo want to rule the world? is it just every geek's dream?

back in the day, i loved rivers. he was this talented, totally insecure geek and wrote these awesome songs. he then become some kind of militant songwriter in search of perfection and ended up only learning how to write little clean catchy tunes. this is not the first time this has been done. hundreds of people write catchy tunes - there would be no MIX stations without them. you are not unique for this, rivers. the thing that makes me so sad is that the green album did well and rivers felt validated in his silly pursuit of becoming a song-writing machine and because of that, we have no more songs like "Tired of Sex" or "Only in Dreams." now what do i think of rivers? i am unimpressed with his philosophical and world pursuits and inflated ego and think that he's squandered his talent. nothing is worse than wasted talent.

posted by amanda @ 11:01 AM