Meiko's Boyfriend Left Her for a Hooters' Girl. It Was the Best Possible Thing

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Reid Rolls
Meiko
Singer-songwriter Meiko moved to Los Angeles from a small Georgia town outside Macon in 2001. Her career has since taken off; she signed a major label deal with Universal imprint Concord Records, licensed a bazillion of her songs to TV and film, and got big in Japan (seriously, she's on the radio there -- her one-quarter Japanese heritage may help). You can see her perform at Hotel Cafe tomorrow.

What's the secret to her success? To hear her tell it, it's because her old boyfriend cheated on her with a Hooters' girl. We'll let her tell you the story, a version of which originally appeared on her site.

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Chris Stroffolino Lives and Plays In His Van. Is He the Next Daniel Johnston?

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Jeff Feuerzeig
Recently, filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig, the director of indie smash The Devil and Daniel Johnston, was riding his bike on Sunset near Maltman. He heard somebody playing piano and singing his heart out.

"I'm looking around, I don't see anybody," says Feuerzeig. "I'm thinking, man, that sounds like Daniel Johnston, it's so weird." He kept riding but, his curiosity piqued, he circled back. "Inside this van there's this guy playing piano to no one, and wow! It sounds so great. I took out my iPhone with that Super 8mm app and started rolling. I was like, man, this is crazy, what is going on here?"

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