If you want to destroy my sweater...

Still feeling a bit of leftover vibe from the big Weezer show a few days ago, I cleaned my apartment while starting the Weezer DVD: Video Capture Device playing. Unlike a lot of band or music DVDs, this one is actually very good, informative and entertaining. It contains every Weezer video, assorted behind the scenes footage in the recording studio and on tour, live concert footage, live television performances and all sorts of other interviews and nuggest of Weezer goodness. It all has an option commentary featuring Brian, Pat, Karl and Scott (who interesting wasn't in the band for 80 percent of the stuff on the DVD) which is very enlightening even without Rivers being present. The DVD has a cool play all feature which goes through everythign in chronological order, so the whole thing plays out like a complete history of the band, from a scratchy sequence of pre-Weezer 60 Wrong Sausages rocking out Answer Man in 1991, through recording the classic Blue Album in 1993 all the way up to demo session for a later re-tooled album 5 in summer 2002.

Amy came over to my place during the late Blue-Say It Ain't So period, just in time for the Pinkerton Sessions and for me to cook dinner. A few hours later after dinner and dessert and more Weezer than you can shake a stick at, we're still wondering why Beverly Hils went to #1 on the charts but none of these other songs could make it over the top despite good runs into the top 5. Maybe music in general was just better back in 1994 and 1995.