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-{{Featured article headline|[[What I've Been Up To Since I Left School]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Wannabeezer]]}}
-[[Image:Rivers Harvard ID.JPG|200px|thumb|Cuomo's [[Harvard]] ID.|right]]
+[[Image:2015 Mar 29 Rivers Jake Sinclair.jpg|250px|thumb|Sinclair with [[Rivers Cuomo]] at the beach, March 2015.|right]]
-'''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.
+'''"wannabeezer"''' was the username used by [[Jake Sinclair]] on [[allthingsweezer.com]] forums in January of [[2016]]. Sinclair posted intermittently leading up to the release of ''[[The White Album]]'', which he produced, sharing updates and insights about the upcoming record. The username was an homage to the [[Weezer]] cover band that Sinclair was a part of in high school. His interactions with fans are part of [[Rivers Correspondence Board|somewhat lengthy history]] of [[Weezer]] band members interacting with fans through online message boards. Below is Sinclair's first post - see the full article for all of his correspondences with fans.
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+<small>'''January 15, 2016 - Thread: "Producer(s)?"'''</small>
+"hi ATW,
+i've been watching things unfold on these forums for a few months now. the confusion of [[Thank God for Girls|TigFag]], the delight of [[Do You Wanna Get High?|DYWGH]]. the incredible gifs! (i particularly loved "Rivers' face when he realizes we've hacked his dropbox and have all 235 songs he sent to [[Crush Music|Crush]]").
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+as far as i know (and without giving too much away) [[Alex Goose]] will receive an additional production credit. we kept the organ part from his instrumental demo that Rivers used to write TGFG (lyrics/melodies are 100% "Cuomonly").
-''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.''
-''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.''
+i'm definitely looking forward to seeing your reactions to the rest of the album, it leans more DYWGH than it does TGFG (although in context of the album, TGFG will make a lot more sense). believe it or not, [[L.A. Girlz]] will definitely be a forum favorite. i think it'll draw a lot of [[Suzanne]] comparisons (which was a favorite of mine during that era).
-''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.''
+cue the feedback,
+jake sinclair
+p.s.
+i imagine i'll be ripped to shreds on here because of my other recent production credits. just know that my taste is much more in line with yours than you'd think. Andrew McMahon and I actually bonded over the fact that we both had Weezer cover bands in high school (mine was called Wannabeezer)."
-{{Featured article links|What I've Been Up To Since I Left School}}
+{{Featured article links|Wannabeezer}}
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