Rolling Stone: Weezer’s\nweird world<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone knows that all real musicians hit the ashram at some point in their existence. They also hit rehab, but that’s totally unrelated to the following passage from Rolling Stone’s cover story about Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo: Radical extremes are what … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/rollingStoneWeezer100x120.jpg\")
<\/a>Radical extremes are what Cuomo has made his life from, and in the context\nof his history, the Either Way I’m Fine era isn’t all that outrageous.\nIt even makes some sense given his childhood, which was spent on ashrams — first\nat the Zen Center in upstate New York and, after his father left the family when\nhe was five (he eventually settled in Germany for a while as a suffragan bishop\nin a Pentecostal church), at “Woodstock guru” Swami Satchidananda’s\nYogaville commune in Connecticut. Everyone was a vegetarian, and no one raised\nhis voice or cursed. Cuomo didn’t like it much. He declared himself a metalhead\nat eleven and started playing Kiss covers with the neighborhood kids. “I\nwas only interested in Slayer and Metallica then,” says Cuomo. “I\nstill love that music, but now I have so much appreciation for what my parents’ generation\ndid for opening up our country to Eastern philosophy and raising me like that.\nI feel so lucky.” [Rolling\nStone<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n