‘Igor’ saved me from suicide when someone gave me a copy on my 25th birthday. (May 2nd, 2019) I was planning to off myself after the party, that a friend had organized to ‘cheer me up’ luckily, as I was making my preparations and writing the note, I put ‘Igor’ on the CD player.’Tired of sex’ stopped me in my tracks, as I was getting about 3 different girls a week in my bed, but soon realized that I was simply a ‘notch on their barrel’ as I was a popular improv comic at the time (This is when living in South Africa) By the end of the album, which I had restarted and read the lyrics along with, my suicide note was tear-drenched and I went to bed instead. I never wrote that note again, booted the drugs and girls, and refocused my life. I had started my career as a serious actor and while not kicking comedy (Improv is very cathartic) I decided to tell my agent that she could only consider serious roles, or she was gone too! Around 16 months later, I was playing Macbeth, at the age of 26 to packed houses nightly. The newspaper reviews were good, but for me, the kicker was being approached by an elderly man, who introduced himself and told me that he was the head of the South African Shakespeare Appreciation society, he told me that what he had just witnessed was the best interpretation of any Shakespeare character that he had ever seen, in over sixty years of membership, he was actually in tears as he shook my hand and I soon was too! I kicked acting in the early 2000’s with the industry destroying advent of reality television. But Weezer saved my life on that hot summers night (Southern Hemisphere) and I always give ‘Igor’ a weekly listen for luck!