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Rivers Cuomo finally made it across the sea. According to an MTV.com interview with the Weezer frontman yesterday, not only is he married and hanging at his in-laws' place in Japan (ahh, it all falls into place), he may be saying goodbye to his band for good.

It's no surprise that Weezer are, at the very least, on hiatus right now. Not much has happened with the band since they dropped Make Believe back in 2005, including regular conversation.

"Well, the band is all back in Los Angeles, and I sometimes I speak with Patrick, and I occasionally e-mail with Brian and Scott, but we've never mentioned getting together," Cuomo told MTV. "Really, for the moment, we are done. And I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one."

There you have it. Not that the dudes are fighting or anything dramatic like that (they all served as groomsmen at Cuomo's wedding last month); it may, in Weezer's collective mind, simply be time to move on. We couldn't agree more.

Weezer plan to hold off from hopping the greatest-hits bandwagon, but fans in need of Cuomo's crooning may get their fix. He hasn't expressed any desire whatsoever to stray from the music biz. In fact, he's spent much of his honeymoon recording in studios on the third floor of a Japanese mega-mall for $5 an hour.

"All this year, I've been feeling pretty creative and excited, so I've been writing a lot," Cuomo explained. "I don't know what'll happen with these songs - if anything - I just sort of write them and I can't stop. I certainly don't see them becoming Weezer songs, and I don't really see the point of a solo career. So we'll just have to see."

Two song titles include "Heart Songs" (about the artists and records that have been influential to Cuomo's life, including Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and Nirvana's Nevermind) and "Our Time Will Come" (about the U.S. men's soccer team, eek).

Keep an eye on Cuomo's MySpace for some of those new tracks. We're not guaranteeing anything, but it's clear that he keeps up with the website; the 2006 Harvard grad recently changed his student status to "Alumni" and his relationship status to "Married". =w=