Rivers Cuomo and Vipassana Meditation

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo discusses meditation with Dan Harris.

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Alt Rocker Finds Inner Peace

Take Weezer's frontman, send him to Harvard, and have him meditate for two hours a day. What do you get? One calm Rivers.

Meet Rivers Cuomo, the famously self-tortured lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Grammy-nominated band Weezer. They're the alternative-rock band who sing "Beverly Hills" and who made that great Spike Jonze-directed video "Buddy Holly." In the last few years Cuomo has been practicing Vipassana meditation , whose goal is, according to the Vipassana Mediation website, "the total eradication of mental impurities and the resultant highest happiness of full liberation.

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Weezer: Distraction Subtraction

"It's funny, I was just talking to the president of our record company, and he was concerned that our younger fans were going to be freaked out because I was meditating or whatever," he laughs. "Like, they might think I'm some kind of hippie or something. But honestly, it's all perfectly normal. People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy."

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