Weezer named their latest album Hurley after the Lost character played by Jorge Garcia and they put a big picture of his face on it. Well yesterday everybody’s favorite guy from Lost joined them on stage and sang the Perfect Situation with them. Rivers Cuomo Tweeted, “Hurley can SING!” and you know what, he is so right!
This isn’t the first time the lovable guy has sung has stage he has also performed with Band From TV that includes ER’s Scott Grimes, Desperate Housewives James Denton, Heroes’ Grerg Grunberg, House’s Hugh Laurie and Jesse Spencer and Bachelor’s Bob Guiney.
BTW Michael Ausiello is reporting that Jorge will be returning to ABC in my favorite comedy of the new season…Matthew Perry’s Mr Sunshine. Is it wrong for me to want a show to get cancelled just so the show will be on the air sooner?
Last week Weezer announced that their next album Hurley would be out on September 14th. Yesterday they revealed the cover of the CD and it had Lost’s Hurley aka Jorge Garcia on the cover. Today they released the first single Memories from Hurley and I can’t wait until next month so I can get it! Seriously doesn’t that song stuck in your head like a good memory?
Rives Cuomo told Spinner magazine why he chose that picture of Jorge Garcia for the cover of Weezer’s upcoming CD, “I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if we left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.” Who doesn’t love that face? And who doesn’t love this picture of Rivers with Jorge in Spinner magazine!
Rivers Cuomo is known for performing covers with his band Weezer and the lead singer Tweeted this video of him singing I Think We’re Alone Now. Now I know that the song was originally sung by Tommy James & the Shondells in 1967, but you know he was doing Tiffany’s version that came out 20 years later. Which ever version they were doing, I really hope they release it as single because I loved what they did to it. Who knows maybe Rivers Couomo and Weezer will do a mall tour just like Tiffany did when that song made her a household name? I would go to see them live at my local mall, wouldn’t you?
Rivers Cuomo and his assistant suffered minor injuries early this morning when the Weezer tour bus skidded on some ice and lost control according to WSYR.
State Police say the tour bus, registered to Night Train Coach, was about 40 miles west of Albany and traveling to Boston when it slid on some ice on the roadway. The bus skidded into the median and then back across the east bound lanes, through the guardrail, and came to a rest in a ditch along the right shoulder of the thruway.
The lead singer and his assistant were transported to a hospital in Amsterdam, NY. Rivers wife and 2 year old daughter were also on the bus, and they are both uninjured.
The band is suppose to play Boston tomorrow, no word yet if that gig was cancelled.
BTW is wrong for me to wonder if he was wearing a Weezer Snuggie at the time of the crash?
xoxo Den!!!
UPDATE: Karl just posted an update on Weezer.com that Rivers suffered 3 cracked ribs and sustained some mostly minor but very painful internal damage, as well as hurting his lower leg somehow. He also added that the tour has been cancelled because of the accident. Hopefully Rivers will be better soon.
Remember when Weezer was groundbreaking and rad? After what I have been reading about them in the last few weeks, it’s been getting harder and harder for me to remember that.
First it was bad when I read that they recorded a song with American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. Then I heard (see below) they were spotted performing with Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester at a show in NYC over the weekend. But the straw that broke camel’s back for me came today when I saw that Weezer is selling personalized Snuggies to sell their latest CD Raditude that is out tomorrow. Seriously when did they get so lame that they are selling blankets with sleeves to promote their music. I mean even The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Tom Jones wouldn’t do something so geriatric. I want to know when Weezer became such big sell outs to do all of the above? It happened so rapidly, I don’t think any of us saw it coming. Did you?
BTW now having said all of that I so want a Weezer Snuggie and Raditude! It’s only $30 maybe I will splurge for the blue one!
