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Meanstreet interview with Ozma - April 2001

==Interview==
Ozma
Idol worship. "It's kind of weird getting to tour with a band we idolized for so long." By Chris Whyte
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"I remember back in the day joking. 'When we open for Weezer ...' and here we are," said Ozma's bewildered drummer Patrick Edwards during a phone interview from the Denver date of the Yahoo! Outloud Tour. "It's a dream for us. It's total luck that got us here."
The young Los Angeles band's luck began when they handed their CD to Weezer guitarist Brian Bell after a surprise gig at Spaceland. Soon after, they got a call from Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo asking Ozma to open a concert in Sacramento.
Cuomo was so impressed by Ozma, calling them his favorite new band, that he offered to give them the opening slot on Weezer's month-long Yahoo! tour with The Get Up Kids.
"We've all been big Weezer fans all our lives," bassist/singer Daniel Brummel added. "It's been kind of weird getting to tour with a band we've idolized for so long."
Ozma's strike of good fortune is even more amazing considering the band had never even toured for more than a weekend before, is unsigned and each band member is between the ages of 19 and 22.
However, Ozma is kind of the undervalued second cousins of the tour. They are the only band traversing the country in a small van, instead of a large tour bus, they haven't really been able to hang out with Weezer all that much and the crowds are, for the most part, wondering, 'Ozma who?'
"We're totally the peons of this tour," Brummel said, "but there's always a few people up front shouting out song titles. To not have any records in stores but still have people on the East Coast sing along is pretty cool."
Brummel says the few fans that have shown up are exposed to the band from the internet. Ozma's website is their main source of publicity and a big reason why the band has garnered a respectable local following.
Ozma's finished their newest release, The Double Donkey Disc, just in time for the Yahoo! tour. Brummel explains that the disc is a split personality album with the first five songs being centered on a Russian Theme (subtitled "The Russian Coldfusion EP") and the second five songs being centered around the idea of each member having a hip-hop booty alias (subtitled "The Bootytraps EP"). Of course a lot of the music on the Double Donkey Disc is very reminiscent of Weezer, but Ozma (who recently was asked to perform at this summer's This Aint No Picnic) also displays adept touches of Oingo Boingo eclecticism and They Might Be Giants geekiness.
"A lot of hardcore/rap rock is a little harsh," Brummel said, "There's a need for something more mellow."
On the web: www.ozmaonline.com
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==See also==
*Ozma
Category:OzmaCategory:InterviewsCategory:Transcripts
Media Life

"Media Life" is the fifth track from AM Radio's debut album "Radioactive."
===Appearances===
*"Radioactive" - (2003)
==Overview==
==Personnel==
*Kevin Ridel - Lead vocals
*Joe Higgins - Drums
*Jason Moore - Guitar
*Rowan Robertson - Guitar
*Bryce Soderberg - Bass guitar, background vocals
==Lyrics==
Do you ever come outside
Or will you always stay and hide
And never get anything done
But you say you're comfortable
In your shell but it's more like your own private hell
You can call it anything you want to, but I can tell
You're miserable with your own life
And unless you change you're gonna die
Old and alone still waiting by the phone
With your magazines, television, and a radio
I bet you'll never know life till it passes you by
Are you ever satisfied
With the way you live your life
Stuck inside the house all day
Watching time just tick away
In your shell but it's more like your own private hell
You can call it anything you you want to, but I can tell
You're miserable with with your own life
And unless you change you're gonna die
Media life, media life
Why don't you open your eyes
See what it's like, see what it's like
To not be desensitized
Media life
==See also==
*List of AM Radio songs
Category: AM Radio songs
Category:Songs on Radioactive
Category:AM Radio songs produced by Howard Benson
Medicine

"Medicine" (formerly titled "Do You Wanna Get High?") is a song by Rivers Cuomo, written with Daniel Brummel and Ryen Slegr.
===Appearances===
*Alone XII: The White Year (2020)
*Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers (2020)
==Overview==
Originally titled "Do You Wanna Get High?" (though unrelated the later song of the same name), "Medicine" was co-written by Cuomo with musicians Daniel Brummel and Ryen Slegr (of the band Ozma) and demoed at some point between 2012 and 2014. Demos of the song were initially included on the compilation album Alone XII: The White Year, before being removed shortly thereafter (due to the inclusion of songwriters other than Cuomo). Cuomo later released the demos as part of the digital compilation Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers on December 11, 2020.
==Lyrics==
<tabber>
|-|Medicine (ver. 8)=
Malicious aliens
Struck me in the neck with their poison
Writing code in my brain
Making me go blind, deaf, and dumb
Give me some medicine, medicine, medicine
Give me some medicine, so I can get well
It's difficult to take
A flavour like a lemon in Valvoline
But take it, mom, take it, dad
Life isn't just about eating donuts
Give me some medicine, medicine, medicine
Give me some medicine, so I can get well
Drink up the medicine, medicine, medicine
I'll be as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
As I was then
Give me some medicine, medicine, medicine
Give me some medicine, so I can get well
Drink up the medicine, medicine, medicine (Ooh)
I'll be as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (Ooh)
As I was then
|-|Do You Wanna Get High? (ver. 2)=
This is kinda weird
We've been sitting here
In our street clothes
Scared of ???
Before we make a move
I have to ask you
Girl, do you wanna get
Wanna get, wanna get
Girl, do you wanna get
Wanna get high?
We won't need to think
Or fuss around with
Credit card statements
Ugliness melts away
I normally abstain but
You've got something
Girl, do you wanna get
Wanna get, wanna get
Girl, do you wanna get
Wanna get high?
Girl, do you wanna get
Wanna get, wanna get
Girl, do you wanna get
Wanna get high?
</tabber>
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
*Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers
Category:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Songs on Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers
Category:Ozma
Category:Known recordings table
Category:Ryen Slegr songs
Category:Daniel Brummel songs
Category:Co-writing credit
Meet Up with Our Maker

"Meet Up with Our Maker" (formerly "Losing Battle"Master Session: Meet Up with Our Maker, "Meeting with Our Maker," and "Meet Up with My Maker") is a song by Rivers Cuomo, originally demoed in consideration for what would eventually become Weezer's ninth album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. Various demos were released as part of the digital compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years in 2020.
===Appearances===
*Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years (2020)
==Overview==
"Meet Up with Our Maker" is first known to have been demoed by Rivers Cuomo in late October/early November of 2011 and first released to fans in 2020 as part of the digital demo compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years. Although Cuomo has not commented on the specific impetus for the song, he cited several difficult life events that inspired his songwriting from 2011 to 2014 on the digital storefront description for Alone XI, among them the death of former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh, who passed away from a (suspected) drug overdose less than a month prior to the recording of "Meet Up with Our Maker."
==Lyrics==
===Meet Up with Our Maker (ver. 10)===
I wake up at dawn and drink eagle eggs
Swim in the ocean, work out my legs
Asclepius binds up what I have torn
And Venus smiles on my mended form
But, hey, I'm losing ground
I have to rest before too long
'Cause sooner or later, one of these days
We all gotta meet up with our maker
People ask how I stay the same
But we all gotta meet up with our maker
I see the lines and I feel the pain
We all gotta meet up with our maker
I visit the rain man once per year
Slaughter a lamb and sit in his chair
The magic books make a lot more sense
Now that I'm older with no defenses
Hey, I'm losing ground
I have to rest before too long
'Cause sooner or later, one of these days
We all gotta meet up with our maker
People ask how I stay the same
But we all gotta meet up with our maker
I see the lines and I feel the pain
We all gotta meet up with our maker
Hey, I'm losing ground
I have to rest before too long
Sooner or later, or one of these days
We all gotta meet up with our maker
People ask how I stay the same
But we all gotta meet up with our maker
I see the lines and I feel the pain
We all gotta meet up
We all gotta meet up
We all gotta meet up
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
==References==
Category:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Songs on Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
Meet the Deedles: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Meet the Deedles: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in conjunction with the eponymous film from 1998.
==Overview==
The soundtrack notably includes the song "American Girls", the only officially-released song by Homie, Rivers Cuomo's short-lived side project. In Weezine issue #13, Karl Koch said of the soundtrack appearance:
==Track listing==
==See also==
*Homie
*"American Girls"
Category:Homie compilation/soundtrack appearances
Category:Homie
Category:1998 releases
Mega Man

"Mega Man" (or "Megaman") is a song written by Pat Wilson. It does not currently exist in fan-circulation.
==Overview==
Named after the Nintendo characterKoch, Karl. Weezine Issue 17: Tales of Weezer. 2021., and initially conceived as an instrumental, the song received lyrics later when recorded as a song for 60 Wrong Sausages. It appeared on the band's demo Cholesterol EP. Karl Koch briefly described the song in a 2008 interviewOhjonas. "Weezerpedia Karl Koch Interview, 10/7/08 in SLC, Utah" weezerpedia on 11 October 2008. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weezerpedia/id293550938Weezer B-Sides "Weezerpedia interview with Karl Koch [2008-10-07]" YouTube. 23 May 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHXQW0u1bYs:
[...]Pat's song "Megaman", I've always loved. He originally did an instrumental of it at our apartment on Stoner; he did it on a 4-track, and I remember him emerging from a bedroom, one of our two bedrooms, with this big smile on his face and he was like "You gotta check this out." It was just this distorted drumbeat from an HR16 drum machine, and a little, quick bass line and these two guitar parts that had these crazy, like, rotary flange effects on them, and it was the coolest song ever. We were all like "Yeah! What's it called?" and he was like "Megaman!" But there was no lyrics at that time. Later, 60 Wrong Sausages did a demo with lyrics, which was also good, but I remember being super stoked on that.
According to the Recording History, the song was demoed during Weezer's initial rehearsal, with Pat on vocals. The song may have been performed live (also with Wilson on lead vocals) at Weezer's first show at the Hollywood club Raji's on March 19, 1992, but this cannot be confirmed as no recording exists.
==See also==
*List of Weezer songs
*List of Pat Wilson songs
==References==
Category:Weezer songs
Category:60 Wrong Sausages
Category:Patrick Wilson
Category:Weezer songs featuring Patrick Wilson on lead vocals
Melodikerton

Melodikerton is an album by Billy Cobb. A follow-up to Cobb's previous tribute album, The Melodica Album, Melodikerton is a track-for-track re-creation of Pinkerton utilizing only melodicas. The album was released on YouTube on June 22, 2019.
==Track listing==
== Audio ==
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== See also ==
* The Melodica Album
* List of tribute albums
Category:Weezer tribute albums
Category:Tribute albums
Category:Billy Cobb
Category:2019 releases
Melvin Jones Total Soul Attack Orchestra

The Melvin Jones Total Soul Attack Orchestra (abbreviated as MJTSAO) was a musical trio between Karl Koch, Pat Finn, and Finn's little brother Brendan active during 1998.
==Overview==
In 1998, following the remarriage of step-grandmother—whose new husband (described by Karl Koch as a "crazy horse trainer/church singer/weed smoker longhair guy") had built a music studio east of Sacramento, California—he, Koch, and his little brother Brendan secured studio recording time and created a number of demos together under the Melvin Jones Total Soul Attack Orchestra name. Pat played guitar and bass, Brendan performed vocals, and Koch sampled audio from various artists and films (similar to how he would later produce music under his Karlophone moniker).
While numerous demos were recorded in the studio, only a single song, "Can't Justify", would eventually be made public. It was added to the "other" section inside the website of Finn and Koch's record label, Amorphous Records, in 2002.Amorphous Records. (2002). "...From 1998, its a rare demo track from the now-defunct Melvin Jones Total Soul Attack Orchestra. Download and enjoy "Can't Justify"". Archived from the original at https://web.archive.org/web/20021020015711/http://www.karlophone.com/amorphous/other.html. Of the song (and broadly, of the trio), Koch has said:
Pat and Koch had previously worked together on the similarly obscure duo Skuraiipeare, and would continue collaborating on music together in Southern Fried Swing.
==See also==
*Skuraiipeare
*Southern Fried Swing
*Karlophone
*Organic Mechanic
*Amorphous Records
==References==
Category:Karl Koch
Category:Pat Finn
Category:Weezer-related bands
Memories Rolling Stone track review

It's odd how Rivers Cuomo and Eminem always seem to drop new records at the same time. They both represent a lost golden era to their fanboy cult, and they get knee-jerk hostility from the same Stans who wildly overrated them 10 years ago. But the rest of the world still likes them as much as ever. "Memories," the first single from the forthcoming Hurley, is a clever goof that skewers the Weezer cult by making fun of Nineties nostalgia. Over a chugging groove built on synths and power chords, Cuomo (who turned 40 in June) recalls "Pissin' in plastic cups before we went onstage/Playin' Hacky Sack back when Audioslave was still Rage." Now that Cuomo is a full-fledged adult charged with changing diapers and buying the family groceries, he's dreaming of the old days when people liked techno music, and he delivers the singalong chorus ("Memories make me want to go back there") with enough passion to make you think he's not entirely joking.
— Rob Sheffield, August 13, 2010
==See also==
*Hurley song reviews
*Hurley album reviews
*Rolling Stone
*Song reviews
==External links==
*Original review
Category:Weezer song reviews
Category:Rolling Stone
Category:Hurley song reviews
Category:Review
Category:Hurley reviews
Memphis

"Memphis" is a demo by Rivers Cuomo.
===Appearances===
*Alone VI: The Black Room (2020)
==Overview==
"Memphis" was recorded sometime between the spring and winter of 1999.Weezer Recording History - Page 11 The song was among hundreds of Cuomo's demos leaked online in November of 2020, and was later released as part of the digital compilation Alone VI: The Black Room in 2020.
==Lyrics==
Take the train out of Memphis
Hit the booty by nine
Looking for something special
And you're so fine, oh-so fine
Gonna take a big cleaver
And drop off all of the beef
Spread it all amongst the fishes
Along the reef, along the reef
So long, sugar, but he won't go
So long, sugar, but you don't know
So long, and I, but you don't know
Why
Wasted time
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
*Alone VI: The Black Room
==References==
Category:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Catalog o' Riffs
Mergatroid

"Mergatroid" (also known as "Stop, Drop") is a demo by Rivers Cuomo.
===Appearances===
*Alone VI: The Black Room (2020)
==Overview==
"Mergatroid" was recorded in 1999. The song was among hundreds of Cuomo's demos leaked online in November of 2020, and was later released as part of the digital compilation Alone VI: The Black Room in 2020.
==Lyrics==
Stop (?) to everyone
Sleeptime is never done
Don't face Mergatroid
You hate that I'm annoyed
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Songs on Alone VI: The Black RoomCategory:Catalog o' Riffs
Category:Known recordings table
Meri Kuri

"Meri Kuri" is the thirteenth track on Weezer (The Red Album) (Japanese (Standard & Deluxe Edition)).
===Appearances===
* Weezer (The Red Album) (Japanese (Standard & Deluxe Edition))
==Overview==
"Meri Kuri" (メリクリ), also known as "Merry-Chri" (메리-크리) in Korea, is a cover of a Japanese Christmas-themed song co-written by Kazuhiro Hara and originally performed by . The song is performed by Rivers Cuomo, and the majority of the lyrics are in Japanese. Kazuhiro Hara later co-wrote the Raditude bonus track "The Underdogs" with Cuomo.
==Personnel==
*Rivers Cuomo – piano, vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar, bass, drum machine programming
==Lyrics==
Futari no kyori ga sugoku
chijimatta kimochi ga shita
Shizen ni ude ga kumete
mieta sora miageta toki ni
KONBINI de ocha erande
atari mae ni wake atte
Kimi no mune ni kurumarete iru
Zutto zutto soba ni ite
Daisuki na kimi wo mitsumetetai
Snowflakes kimi no nukumori wa
Fuyu no okurimono hora yuki dayo
Doko ka de tsurai koto ya
sabishisa ni butsukatte mo
Kimi omou kono kimochi ni
shoujiki de iru to chikau yo
MEGEru to kore kike yotte
kashite kureta CD wa
Kimi ga kureta uta no LOVE LETTER
Zutto zutto iitekute
Tsuki atte kurete nee arigatou
Motto suki na HITO tsuyoku
Dakishime nasai to yuki wa furu no
Okuri mono wo sagashi nagara
musubu hazu no nai kimochi ga
Musubi aeta koto no fushigi kanjiteta
Zutto zutto soba ni ite
Onaji yume sagasu tabi wo shitai
Snowflakes sora ga machikado ni
Shiroi iki wo haku hora yuki dayo
The white white snow?s coming tonight
Make a wish upon your kiss...
===English translation===
I felt that the distance between us had been greatly shortened
Suddenly our arms linked together, when we looked up to the cold sky
Picking out tea at a convenience store, we usually share it
I'm enveloped in your heart
I always, always
Want to look upon you who I love, at my side
Snowflakes, your warmth
Winter's present, look, it's snow
Even if painful things and lonely things collide somewhere
I swear that I'll be honest about the feelings I feel for you
"When you get frustrated, listen to this", the CD you lent me
Is your love letter in song form, to me
I always, always want to say
Hey, thanks for being together with me
The falling snow says
"Please hold the person that you love more tightly"
While searching for a present, I felt
The wonder of our feelings that were linked together, when they shouldn't have been
I always, always
Want to go on journeys in search of the same dreams with you
Snowflakes, from the sky, on the corner
Our breath is white, look, it's snow
The white white snow's coming tonight,
Make a wish upon your kiss.
== See also ==
*List of Weezer songs
*List of Weezer cover songs
Category: Weezer songs
Category:Bonus tracks
Category: Songs on Weezer (The Red Album)
Category:Cover songs
Category:Songs in languages other than English
Category:Christmas songs
Message Board

"Message Board" is a song by Rivers Cuomo. A demo of the song was released as part of the digital compilation Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years in 2020.
===Appearances===
*Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years (2020)
==Overview==
"Message Board" was written by Rivers Cuomo, likely in late 2001 (or possibly early 2002). The songs lyrics suggest that it was written in response to fan criticism on internet bulletin boards of the time, specifically those criticizing post-Pinkerton output. Cuomo's demo, recorded to an Olympus handheld digital recorder,Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, liner notes"Maladroit Preview 2021-12-27 14.38.mp3" Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years was released in 2020 as part of the demo compilation Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years. The song's melody bears a resemblance to the demos "I'll Study You," and "Give Me Your Blessings" though it is unknown if this similarity is a coincidence. 
==Lyrics==
Woo-woo, message board
Is this what you waited for?
All those lonely nights
Waiting for the songs I write
You'll never be as satisfied
As on the day I finally die
I'll give what you want
Even though it makes me gag
Quirky, personal
Songs sung by an emo fag
You'll never be as satisfied
As on the day I finally die
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
*Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years
==References==
Category:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Songs on Alone VIII: The Maladroit YearsCategory:Catalog o' Riffs
Metal Fume Fever

"Metal Fume Fever" is the second track from the album Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure by Juliana Hatfield.
==Overview==
Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh wrote the bass lines for "Metal Fume Fever," initially offering them to Rivers Cuomo before ultimately giving them Juliana Hatfield.Weezer Recording History - Page 11
==Lyrics==
I was passed out on the factory floor
I couldn't feel my legs, I couldn't swallow
I'm burning metal for motherfuckers
I'm making weapons for southern lovers
I got the fever
I got metal fume fever
You might as well do dope
You're gonna get sick of something nasty
Out in the modern world, doubled over
What kind of cancer did you ask for?
It came out of the plant and into the sky
Into your eyes, into your bones
Into your homes, into your skin
You can't wash it off your hands
I got the fever
I got metal fume fever
==See also==
*Juliana Hatfield
*Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure
*List of Mikey Welsh songs
==References==
Category:Mikey WelshCategory:Juliana HatfieldCategory:Songs on Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure
Metro Boston article - February 14, 2003

:Note: This article was included in the weekend edition of Metro Boston for the weekend of February 14-16, 2003. It has been shortened to February 14 in the title of this page for simplicity.
Welsh Works Out His Inner Demons
by Selene Angier
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Dark, twisted, and downright scary are just a few words one could use to describe the paintings in Mikey Welsh's one-man show "Infections" at the Paradise Lounge last fall.
Following his much-publicized departure from the rock band Weezer a couple of years back, Welsh returned home to Boston to mend after a nervous breakdown. Therapy took form in painting.
There was a little trepidation in sharing his works, said Welsh, "but I used my friends, people I respect intellectually, as a barometer."
The Paradise show was well received and several write-ups appeared in local and national magazines. An article in Boston magazine by Ted Drozdowski, then lead to Welsh being a part of "Between Art and a Rock Place," an exhibit of local musicians' works now showing at the Zeitgest Gallery in Cambridge.
"It's overwhelming to be put on display like that. ...it's very personal. There's nothing to hide behind," admits Welsh. But he goes on to say he "wasn't nervous about what [people] would think." Artists are driven by something beyond themselves to "exorcise the demons." Adds Welsh, "It's like a psychological catharsis."
"I like to feel as insane as possible when I'm painting," Welsh said. Counting such tortured artists as Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock among his influences, it's no surprise Welsh produces paintings that are so haunting and, above all, compelling. His works are emotionally naked and bravely reveal the demons that darken the corners of his mind.
"I don't think art is supposed to be pleasant and happy. It's a free-for-all," Welsh said.
Category:TranscriptsCategory:InterviewsCategory:Mikey Welsh Interviews
Michael Jordan

"Michael Jordan" is the twelfth track on that dog.'s second album, "Totally Crushed Out!."
==Audio==
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==Lyrics==
Why does he give up so easily?
==See also==
*List of that dog. songs
Category: that dog. songs
Category:Songs on Totally Crushed Out!
Category:that dog. songs produced by Tom Grimley
Category:Self-produced that dog. songs