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From the literary agent of Nicholas Perricone, M.D.’s The Perricone Promise: Look Younger, Live Longer in Three Easy Steps comes another potential self-help guide stemming from Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo’s personal diaries, according to Gawker. As if the lyrics from “Tired of Sex” failed to describe his Harvard celibacy in enough detail, or “El Scorcho” his penchant for Japanese ladies, now those who still hang onto their middle school sweater-geek idolization may (we assume) wade freely alongside Cuomo through the sources of his inspiration.

“I am working on an amazingly cool creative project that is just as much musical in nature as it is literary,” Cuomo recently clarified on a MySpace blog. “It is not a ‘memoir.’” Everybody, keep your fingers crossed for a choose-your-own-adventure where the end of each college-years chapter forces you to pick “D. Stay at home.”

Meanwhile, longtime Weezer webmaster Karl Koch reports on the official site that “the vibe is healthy” during current work on the band’s sixth album, possibly completed by October. “It sounds as if the band has grown into a new land that they had previously only skirted around the edges of,” he writes. “A land where arrangements are getting adventurous, where song structures, lengths and feels are given plenty of sunlight and fresh water and allowed to grow into what the songs demand .. Like an excellent music farm.”

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