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While Weezer didn't get any love from the Grammys this year, let's give it up for someone in our extended family who did. So hats off to Shawn Everett, who's been nominated in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category for his work on Alabama Shakes' Sound & Color.Shawn's been involved in various capacities with many of Weezer's recording projects since Raditude, including "Everybody Needs Salvation". It's great to know that someone who's done a lot of work behind the scenes for Weezer is getting the recognition he deserves.

Here is my video tour of Shawn’s amazing studio downtown.

https://www.periscope.tv/riverscuomo/1djGXjmDoqkxZ

Hair analysis: Possibly too long on top right now. The look yesterday was how conan does his, funnily enough. VERY slanted and flat on the parted side, and poofed back. The IWYT look is different. She gave me some kind of hipster/conan look. I’m looking for 50's/retro. I think it might be safer to go shorter on top and then I have less chance of variation. This image has kind of an optimal haircut for me- looks fantastic, fashionable, and will stay looking good during a show. And yes I did just spend the morning looking at all the google image results for my various hairstyles. wink emoticon

I’m sad and bummed and aimless, rudderless. Maybe I shouldn’t even write?

No, that’s crazy.

Maybe it’s the word “cuddle” that bums people out.

Do you want to go to Fuddruckers?

I just wanted to love you

To cry in your face

To tell you I care

To help if I can

I’m so sorry this happened to you

You can make it

Let me share my good fortune

Let me cheer you up

Let me touch you

Put my arm around you

Why was that lady so mean?

Was she suspicious? Protective?

I just wanted to help

I love you

I’ll come back every day at 5:11

To see if you’re there

I live in the area

Hi, my name is Rivers

I turned off Rihanna so I could concentrate on you

Every step a giant struggle

That’s what you get for encouraging me to be a weirdo.

Man it’s hard to get anyone’s attention these days.

Maybe if I wore Google Glass.

I didn’t know teenagers knew words like that.

What the hell am I going to work on today? Learn some of Hamlet’s speech? We’ve replace the old metrics with new metrics but they’re still just numbers. Charts, algorithms, art, vibrations. 0s and 1s.

More zeros than ones.

The bathroom is a no phone zone.

Meet me down at Blick and we’ll pick up some new fountain pens.

Cue crickets.

I started going to massage parlors again. But I don’t let them…you know. (She was so surprised.) I actually may not even run into him. He’s like a billionaire. He’s just doing this for fun.

What the hell was that? It sounded like a mosquito.

Write neatly. That’s your one concession. And that’s not even a concession. But keep a light grip on the shaft.

I’m creating River Cuomo. In my mind. I am the River Cuomo in your mind.

Gotta say I’m stoked for birdwatching. I’ll tell you why—because it makes me laugh. That’s reason enough.

Hmm. And then what does a human write about?

When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions!

I’ve got a few tickets left for HAMLET. Hit me!

Thursday 10/15 at 7p, Playa Vista, CA

Join Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch for an extraordinary one-night cinema event on Thursday, October 15. Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Hamlet tells the story of a son who is forced to avenge his father’s death but rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

Please note: Looks like this is about 4 hours long

Nerd Night XII (The Scottish Play)

You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.

Friday 10/2 at 8p, Santa Monica, CA

hey guys, let’s meet @ griffith park for free Romeo & Juliet, 7p friday

* at the Old Zoo in Griffith Park.

* Everyone is welcome! (but please leave your dog at home)

* They suggest packing a picnic, a blanket and dressing in layers because it gets chilly in the evening

* parking is free!

* Directions and information can be found on their website: iscla.org

* The performance begins at 7pm (come early to find parking and to enjoy your picnic. They recommend arriving around 6pm)

* The event is free but donations are gratefully accepted

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I cried under the pier

Fed up with all the rejection

Ate the sand that was infected

With piss and hypos

Tore off my wig

Told my friends to fuck off

Left my board

And ran across the beach

Almost got hit by a cop

Who stopped me and said,

“Did you just jump off the pier?”

“No”

“Why are you running?”

“I just felt like it”

“Why are you in a wet suit”

“We were doing a shoot over there”

The cop let me go.

I changed into my street clothes

In a pop-up tent

If DeTour runs long enough they’ll get to the part where the Rivers-character makes a TV show about his life.

And he’ll have to find an actor to play him.

And he’ll be there on the set watching the actor play him.

And I, of course, will be on the set watching him play me watching another actor play him playing me.

So I substitute teach part time, and today I'm teaching 6th grade language arts. We're watching YouTube lyric videos of songs about friendship, and analyzing literary devices. It wasn't exactly on the list, but I may have thrown in a certain weezer song from Make Believe. :)

Broken People

The regular preacher wasn’t there

We had a sub

A lady who moved from Germany

When she was 11

She still had a little German accent

mixed with her British accent

For a few years after arriving in England she had a wonderful social life

But then her friends stopped talking to her

~~~~~

I resisted the urge to cry

The lady in front of me was wiping tears from her face with her hands

And I was worried that we would be asked to hold hands later in the service

I didn’t want to catch a cold from her tear-and-snot-encrusted hands

Jake says JD doesn’t like to be touched either

-- Handshakes or hugs--

I like that and I find it not surprising

It’s sensible really

“I like how the Japanese do it,” I told Jake

“Bowing and no physical contact”

She said she was bullied horrifically

But she didn't give us many details

And now I wonder how she moved me so

We ended up at a biker rally in Venice

I met a man who plays the villains on TV

So handsome

He gave me a sparkling mineral water from Italy

~~~~

An old man at the bottom of the stairs

Thumping his cane as he talked

The bodies would be carried out through the tunnel

And to the ocean

Under the pier

And I was recognised at random by the man who put my wife in a wheelchair

when she hyperventilated

On the way to Catalina

~~~~

She had marks on her neck

From years of playing the viola

I wanted her to come with me

to the drum circle

But she was afraid to walk on the sand in her Rag and Bone heels

So she stayed behind with her friend

and did who-knows-what as I marched forward

to see the writhing bodies

pounding hands, sticks, drums

Shaking asses

I recorded a voice note

into Jake’s phone, called “People Watcher”

There was an American Flag

with a horse-borne indian superimposed

Jake went home to take some pot chocolate

With his high school buddy

And I was left to think about

all these things

Ahoy Weezer brothers and sisters! I mentioned a while back that I would be owning a bar and that day has finally come, so anyone who comes into the Fort Apache (soon to be called Stosh's) in fair lawn NJ with their Weezer fan club card will get a Polaroid photo with me in front of my EWBAITE poster(framing it this week), and a drink on the house.

We heard bits of randomstatic and explosions from the speakers

as if something had gonewrong

a 30-piece orchestra performing to a click track

we hadn’t been able to find our seats

so we sat in the seats reserved for BMI

You shifted in your seat.

It’s not what you thought it was

You looked at the program by the light of your phone.

“I need to eat,” you said.

“I screwed up.”

We split and got pizza across the street.

I went back to get the headphones I left on the seat of your car

and then the uber driver was really nice and normal.

But I forgot to do my meditation on the ride home to see my wife.

It was 11pm, but I still had to practice the piano and write in my journal.

And you texted to make sure I was OK.

~~~~

Lips stained purple red

Dressed in black, black boots

Brought your favorite bottle of whiskey to Jake’s to show it to him.

But it fell out the bottom of the paper bag and smashed on the sidewalk in front of his house

~~~~

Getting back on the horse again after all these years

To find my muse

~~~~

Weird and Cool

That was a thrill having you gun me around in your Chevelle

After a few PBRs

Poor girl didn’t have a seat belt

The Amazonian Queens

Bodies like storks, blonde flamingos

Blasting the Scorpions

You said they’re playing the Forum soon

Do I want to go?

I said I saw them on my 14th birthday

You said, “You are so lucky

You got to see them when they were weird and cool.”

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