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In a Facebook Q&A held for members of the [[Weezer Fan Club]] on [[August 2]], [[2020]], [[Karl Koch]] briefly discussed Veggiterrorists, explaining that "Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos" was Cuomo's attempt at a vegetarian-themed rap song in the style of Public Enemy (the title being a riff on the Public Enemy song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_6js19eM Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos]"). Said Koch:<blockquote>"[Rivers had] grown up vegetarian. One of my earliest memories of him was, he had this VHS tape called ''Diet for a New America''. It was a big deal at the time...If you were thinking about vegetarianism it definitely converted you at the time. He was super into that, he'd watch that tape all the time, and he decided he'd make a band called the Veggiterrorists and it would be a rap band, and their song would be "Black Fur and the Hour of Chaos"."</blockquote> | In a Facebook Q&A held for members of the [[Weezer Fan Club]] on [[August 2]], [[2020]], [[Karl Koch]] briefly discussed Veggiterrorists, explaining that "Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos" was Cuomo's attempt at a vegetarian-themed rap song in the style of Public Enemy (the title being a riff on the Public Enemy song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_6js19eM Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos]"). Said Koch:<blockquote>"[Rivers had] grown up vegetarian. One of my earliest memories of him was, he had this VHS tape called ''Diet for a New America''. It was a big deal at the time...If you were thinking about vegetarianism it definitely converted you at the time. He was super into that, he'd watch that tape all the time, and he decided he'd make a band called the Veggiterrorists and it would be a rap band, and their song would be "Black Fur and the Hour of Chaos"."</blockquote> | ||
In [[2020]], as part of an assignment for a web programming course, Cuomo created a wiki titled [[Riverpedia]], which included an entry for a person named [[Roger Marinelli]] (one of Cuomo's roommates at [[Poinsettia Place|Poinsettia Place | In [[2020]], as part of an assignment for a web programming course, Cuomo created a wiki titled [[Riverpedia]], which included an entry for a person named [[Roger Marinelli]] (one of Cuomo's roommates at [[Poinsettia Place|Poinsettia Place]] in Los Angeles), who Cuomo described as "his partner in the Vegeterrorists" and, as Cuomo added, "Generally thought to be the better rapper of the two." | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] | ||
*"[[The Bomb]]" | *"[[The Bomb]]" | ||
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo]] | [[Category:Rivers Cuomo]] | ||