Your Awesome Sunday Vegetarian of Awesomeicity this evening is Rivers Cuomo, frontman of Weezer, the band that told us, “If it’s too loud, turn it down.”  Sage advice, friends.  Weezer, now, by my count, has released three self-titled albums, which is only semi-confusing.  The best video (possibly ever) came off of the first one, which is known as the Blue Album.  You know it, you love it: it’s “Buddy Holly.”

The next record is called Pinkerton, and it took a while for people to find its genius.  In it, Cuomo is a lot rawer, a lot angrier, and, really, a lot awesomer.  There are so many good songs off this album, and though my favorite is “Falling for You,” I think we’ll show you the video for “El Scorcho,” because it’s one of the catchier songs, oh, ever.

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The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Check out our most popular articles of the week on a variety of subjects, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites.

Katie:

Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan Surfaces 120 Years Later

Hallelujah For American Idol, Jeff Buckley and Leonard Cohen

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Nicole:

Google Gives Free Voicemail to San Francisco Homeless

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Turnes 80

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Giulia:

Patrick Swayze’s Cancer Battle

Koby Bryant’s PSA for ASR

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Gina:

Reese’s Empowering Bracelet

“Chop Shop” - Dreams In a Place of Despair

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Kerry:

Bamboo Laptop: Will Apple Be Green with Envy?

The Explosive Truth About Twinkies

Helen Keller was 8 years old, holding the hand of her teacher Anne Sullivan, and cradling a doll in the 1888 photograph was discovered 120 years after it was taken in Cape Cod. The photograph is especially significant because it may be the first photograph taken of Keller and Sullivan, and is the only photograph of Keller with a doll, which is the first word Sullivan taught Keller to sign. In June, Thaxter Spencer, an 87-year-old man whose mother spent her summers in Cape Cod and knew Keller, donated photo albums, letters, diaries and other heirlooms to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The staff recently realized the significance of the photo.

Helen Keller had been left blind and deaf after an illness, most likely Scarlet Fever, when she was 19 months. On, what Keller describes as “the most important day I can remember in my life,” Sullivan came to the Kellers’ home, where she was hired to teach Helen. Sullivan was 20 years old and had graduated from the Perkins School for the Blind. Sullivan, who had been blind but regained her site after several operations, taught Helen language by spelling words manually into her hand.

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