Rivers Cuomo's Harvard Application Essay

This made me giggle for some reason.

I'm glad there has been three threads on this.

ABBA, am Radio, Bach, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bee Gees, Beethoven, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Chet Baker, Chopin, Dusty Springfield, Fate's Warning, France Gall, Francoise Hardy, Joao Gilberto, Kate Bush, KISS, Metallica, Mozart, Neil Diamond, Nirvana, Oasis, Ozma, Prince, Puccini, Schubert, Schumann's "Dichterliebe", Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, The Cure, Van Morrison

In Rivers' defense, he probably just cut-and-pasted a playlist out of a stupid mp3 player that doesn't alphabetize intelligently. Like, I dunno, every single one of them (except for the most recent version(s) of iTunes which are smart enough to disregard articles like "the").

Although, for a 34 year old, he seems incredibly immature.

-- CeCe Peniston (anthonymicci...) (webmail), August 4th, 2004 3:07 PM. (Anthony Miccio) (later) (link)

i don't think i've heard anything aside from "buddy holly" and "the sweater song"--or are those the same song? oh, now i sound like chuck eddy.

I don't agree w/ Ned on the Pinkerton to Catcher in the Rye comparison, though I think I see what he's getting at.

At any rate, Weezer's never been particularly ironic. Not any more than any 30-something who somewhat self-mockingly talks about time spent reading comics, playing D&D or listening to Kiss in the garage when they were young.

What's next? "I walked by a McDonalds, and from that point on I ate only McNuggets, wore yellow and red, slept by the dumpster..."

-- VengaDan Perry (djperr...)

What, is this guy not allowed to be roasted here like every other musician? Or is your Harvard pride rearing its head?

I'm also deeply amused that people think that going to Harvard automatically means you have perfect grammar and are super-eloquent but that's a completely seperate thing.

"Ooh-eee-ooh, I look just like Krishnamurti..."

-- VengaDan Perry (djperr...), August 6th, 2004.

OTM.

-- ||amateur!st|| (||...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 12:28 AM. (amateurist) (later) (link)

There's an interesting chapter on Heidegger's concept of vorhanden followed by a smoking cover of "Proud Mary."

I mean, fuck.

1) High test scores & good grades
2) A large number of diverse extracurricular activities, particular if you hold leadership positions in them.
3) Great rapport with your interviewer.
4) Legacy.
5) Fame.
6) $$$$$.
7) Sports recruitment.

Why bring it up in this thread and not the Black Eyed Peas one, which is just as brutal.

The funny thing is I was about to!

Not knowing... or not caring about something that fucking trivial?

(for real)

(ow)

Now I now my QREs
Next time won't you type with me?

I don't know why that's the funniest thing I've read all day, but it totally is.

upon re-reading this I actually see you point and agree. before I read this essay/thread I really had no negative or positive connotations associated with this guy.

still a crappy essay though. D+

"Why bring it up in this thread and not the Black Eyed Peas one, which is just as brutal."

The funny thing is I was about to!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *deep breath* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/sites/default/files/Copy%20of%20DSC_0022.JPG

hipster fashion preview for 2k9?

I could not tell if my current predicament was just a classic case of an audience lagging behind the development of an artist (as in the case of Bob Dylan when he went electric)

he's a classic case all right

Yeah, "Beverly Hills" was too far ahead of its time for us to fully grasp

I can't believe no one caught my hilarious addition to his essay. I guess it's a testament to the absurdity of some of his sentences that the bogus ones don't really stand out that much.

I can see the absurdity and pomposity, but it's basically a noble, honest-seeming essay. He doesn't elevate himself so much as examine the manner in which he knows he elevates himself (while also elevating himself, but that seems inevitable). I find it hard to "create" without struggling with a conflicted sense of my own greatness/failure, so I can accept his descriptions of the process at face value. I guess I only mean that I can relate, though I'm not a Celebrity Rock Artist.

4 sentences, 3 beginning with "I", 6 uses of the word "I".

I volunteered six days a week at Project Angel Food in Hollywood, preparing meals for people with HIV.

ive volunteered here, place is dope

1P3 volunteering thread

ladies and gentlemen...Rivers....ROMO

http://deadspin.com/tony-romo-spawns-future-frontman-of-weezer-cover-band-1547395027

I studied other writers’ methods. I took hundreds of pages of notes on the creative process, mostly from Nietzsche, but also from Goethe and Stravinsky.

Stravinsky influence really shows in "Hash Pipe".

"Island in the Sun" lyrics could be ripped straight from the pages of "Faust".

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Goethe_%28Stieler_1828%29.jpg/486px-Goethe_%28Stieler_1828%29.jpg

You can't find the words to say
All the things that come to you