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-{{Featured article headline|[[Deliverance at Hand!]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[What I've Been Up To Since I Left School]]}}
-[[Image:Deliverance at Hand cover.png|150px|right]]
+[[Image:Rivers Harvard ID.JPG|200px|thumb|Cuomo's [[Harvard]] ID.|right]]
-'''''Deliverance At Hand!''''' is an 18-track CD-R compilation of demos recorded in 2007 by [[Rivers Cuomo]]. It was presented to the rest of [[Weezer]] as potential songs for what would ultimately become ''[[The Red Album]]''. "[[Pig]]," the first demo leaked that was known to be from this compilation, [http://www.mtv.com/news/1563415/weezer-arent-done-yet-online-post-promises-sixth-album/ began circulating online] in April of [[2007]]. The demo generated considerable excitement among fans and music critics, and alongside the [[Tout Ensemble|hoax surrounding Weezer's sixth album]], contributed to a growing buzz online.
+'''What I've Been Up to Since I Left School''' is an essay that [[Rivers Cuomo]] wrote when applying for readmission to [[Harvard]] in [[2004]]. It touches upon his efforts to develop a formula for pop songwriting, his first forays into [[Vipassana]] meditation, and more. The text below is an excerpt - see the [[What I've Been Up To Since I Left School|full article]] for the full essay.
-The unofficial album art for the compilation would later be used for Weezer's ''[[Death to False Metal]]'' compilation.
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+''After the initial failure of my band’s second album, ''[[Pinkerton]]'', I decided not to return to [[Harvard|school]] in the fall of [[1997]], instead setting out on a mission to develop creative methods which would allow me to be more consistent as an artist. Above all, I wanted to cure myself of the Romanticism which I believed was to blame for my failure.''
-Several of its songs were eventually recorded by Weezer and released on studio albums, including "[[Pig]]," "[[King]]," and "[[Miss Sweeney]]." Others, including "[[My Day is Coming]]" and "[[I Don't Want to Let You Go]]" were released on Cuomo's [[Alone series|Alone album series]]. "Piece of the Pie" has appeared as a leaked demo, and a number of songs have never been heard by fans in any form.
+''Throughout [[1998]] and [[1999]] I engaged in hundreds of [[Incipit-Melody-Guitar-Develop-Tea|song]]-[[Intellectually acquired emotionally volatile concept|experiments]]. I filled [[The Encyclopedia of Pop|notebooks]] and cassette tapes. I drew graphs, tables, and charts. I studied other songwriters’ methods. I took hundreds of pages of notes on the creative process, mostly from Nietzsche, but also from Goethe and Stravinsky.''
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+''At first, I maintained a relatively normal social life, playing and coaching soccer and continuing my classical piano studies with Bruce Sutherland. Eventually, however, I became more and more isolated. I unplugged my phone. I painted the walls and ceiling of my bedroom black and covered the windows with fiberglass insulation. I disciplined myself to the extreme. My goal was to purge myself of all weakness so that I could write “perfect” songs as reliably as a machine.''
+{{Featured article links|What I've Been Up To Since I Left School}}
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