Dear Louie,
I feel that old pull again. I’ve felt it seven times over the last 16 years and I like it, a lot. The first time was my junior year in high school and I remember relying on some kid’s article in the school paper for more background and information. The last two decades have seen me feel it in different cities and with different people—remember that time we ditched work for an hour and listened to Binaural?—but every time the symptoms are the same. A little rapid jumping up and down, a little stimming, and some very repetitive playing of a favorite initial track.
With The Fixer’s release last week, that feeling started again. Now tour dates are popping up—nothing in DC yet—and this week I stumbled across some other maniac’s plunge into the Pearl Jam catalog. The feeling is back full force now. Coping with two months of this will be difficult thanks to the age of hyper-information that we live in, but September 20th and the release of Backspacer will get here soon enough, I promise you.
If you will remember, you and I had a fierce debate last spring about the band’s greatest efforts of all time. And while I took that debate to a confrontational place, I assure you it was only for the sake of art and readership. So I ask you, Lou, would you like to blog with me about Pearl Jam again? They are the single biggest unifying experience of our two lives. Through thousands of arguments, and only slightly fewer beatings, they have been a constant.
I don’t want to review every track that Pearl Jam has issued—we can leave that for the childless—but I would like to share our love with the world in a reader accessible way. You may have noticed my obsession with So You Think You Can Dance lately, it isn’t pretty. So let’s spare the public and keep it simple. We can post once a week about anything PJ relevant and as long as we commit to over sharing and informing with brevity I think we’ll be okay.
Let me know what you think,
Joey
P.S. At some point we will revisit your epic mathematical ranking of every single Pearl Jam song, we just have to.


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