Mental Slipping!

Rivers Cuomo “My Brain Is Working Overtime”Rivers Cuomo was a guest on Fresh Air with Terry Gross last week. It’s a very interesting interview. He’s very candid, and as strange as he can be, he comes off as being mostly quite unaffected and clear-headed. One thing that is apparent upon listening to him talk about all these different phases of his life and career is that he’s the kind of dude who feels compelled to take his every pursuit to a logical extreme — he seems to fundamentally reject the notion of doing anything halfway, and I greatly admire that about him, even when it leads to either creepy extremes in his personal life, or over-embracing the notion of democracy and collaboration to the point that it sidelines his own worthwhile efforts from Weezer albums in favor of less compositions by his band mates. [Buy it from Amazon.]

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- Matthew Perpetua