If we’ve learned one thing since blogging about Rivers Cuomo’s solo home recordings, it’s that Weezer fans know their trivia frighteningly well. And, hey, speaking of frightening, the video for Alone single “Blast Off!” is pretty eerie, especially considering Cuomo’s fascination with Japan … and his mustache. In it, an often somber (but sometimes smiley) Rivers is looking to regain the eye of the tiger. Cast against a wintry gray landscape, he heads to some YMCA-kinda place, strips down to his workout gear, stretches, gets to bouncing on a trampoline with his workout friends, mostly older Japanese ladies (some trickier in their trampoline tricks than others). From there, it gets even more Zen.
What’s he trying to master amid all that silence, Weezer buffs? Nice to see he gets home safely at the end. Looks like nobody was harmed.
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo 1992-2007 is out on Geffen.
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shit’s weird
This song is great…the fast beginning, lyrics, and that weird synth part in the middle are all awesome. It’s strange to see a video for it after all these years though.
It reminds me of Lost in Translation, especially the end, but it’s not that good. I still can’t get over the shitay mess of their last album though…
“What’s he trying to master amid all that silence, Weezer buffs?”
I’m no buff, but you mean the calligraphy part at the end?
- or – where’d he find footage of the moustachio’d backstreet boy -and- why did he play a Microphones song over found footage?
WTF was that? Rivers?………..Um………yeah…..yeah.
weird ass video but the song is amazing. if weezer can make songs like that, and sing about half japanese girls again. i will be a very happy man.
i think that is calligraphy as some one else stated.
he looks liks a mentally-challenged brandon flowers with that ‘stache…
God if there was ever one person who should be banned from growing facial hair, its definitely Rivers.
Good heavens, that was the most fantastic thing I’ve ever seen. Especially the ending. I love that man. That weird-ass little hippy shit. Love him.
And OMG, it’s Rich Kuta!
Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaat the fuck!
that’s not a microphones song, it’s “Ooh” off of the Rivers Cuomo album.
I think he was snarkly trying to say that rivers ripped that song off of the microphones. Pretty funny considering this song was written in 95, long before they were writing…
SHAVE RIVES!!!!! i liked his beard in that one video… i think it was dope nose