i interviewed rivers cuomo.
What are the benefits, for you and for the band, of doing extensive amounts of Rivers-only demo work before an album?
—J. Alexander Vance
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
It gives me an opportunity to come up with a lot of cool background parts, hooks, harmonies, etc. and a more experimental arrangement. Compare Beverly Hills, Pity, and Freak Me Out to the rest of MB. The drawback is that sometimes these songs feel less natural for the band to play.
oh yeah.
i’ve now corresponded with mr. cuomo twice in my life.
let’s go for three!
-jav
Eeeeeee. I heart him. He’s such an asshole.
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Why is it that I, as a heterosexual male, find Brian Bell so sexy? —Tim AndersonOttawa, Ontario, Canada Well, Tim, its because Brian Bell is always giving the sex. He cant control it, but you’ll be happy to know he’s looking into surgery to get this problem fixed. I talked to him to so there.
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Honey, take me dancing. Maybe we’ll end up by sleeping in a doorway, by the bodegas and the lights on upper broadway, wearing diamonds on the soles of our shoes. And I could say Oo oo oo, and everybody here would know what I was talking about. I mean everybody here would know *exactly* what I was talking about…talking about diamonds.
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