February 18, 2006
CRIMSON WEEZER
The New York Times has an interesting article online today, visiting Rivers Cuomo, the frontman for Weezer, at his Harvard dorm room. Rivers is a semester away from completing his degree in literature after a multi-year on-and-off-again stint in Cambridge.
In the video for the song "Beverly Hills," which was nominated for a Grammy Award and ranked as the second most downloaded song from iTunes last year, Mr. Cuomo plays power-pop chords on the lawn of the Playboy Mansion surrounded by shimmying Playboy bunnies. By comparison, his life as a student is almost comically austere. He lives alone, in a modest 14-by-9-foot room with the standard-issue desk, bureau and bed, to which he has added only a map of the world, taped to the wall, and a small Oriental rug bought for less than $200 by Sarah Kim, his personal assistant. "Most people wouldn't expect a rock star to be happy living in a dorm room," said Ms. Kim, "but he is."
According to the article, returning to Harvard necessitated Cuomo giving up the closest thing he'd had to a conventional adult home: a converted one-car garage he'd been renting in Hollywood. It's an interesting piece about an interesting guy.
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Cool story but where did you get the photograph? I dig it and am somewhat concerned about the rights associated with publishing it on lexiphane.
Posted by: Tom at February 22, 2006 12:55 PM