| Tuesday, September
5th, 2000
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It's been nearly a full month since my last update. I hardly know how to sum these last four weeks up in a single entry...at this point, really, i'm barely even going to try. I won't even touch on work except to say, what with all my coming and going for PJ, work has been a trifle nerve wracking. I'm back for the long haul now though, so things are settling back in. PJ was...simple incredible. Up until this tour, I had only dreamed of such a twelve show stint. Even now I can't believe it all happened--it's like a dream I'm slowly awakening from. Twelve shows in one months time...amazing. Each and every show was awesome. There were so many highlights, and it seemed each great show was topped by an even greater show. Two front row tickets, several more good fan club tickets. Mankind, Red Mosquito, Tremor Christ, RVM, BREATH!, Crazy Mary!, Smile, Footsteps, Habit, Lukin, STBC, Last Exit, Rockin in the Free World, Fuckin' Up, Baba O'Reilly, Parting Ways, Dead Man, GARDEN!...the list just goes on and on...so many unbelievable performances and so many dream only songs...all reality. On one hand I can count the number of songs I have yet to see and die for now...To go into each and every show would take me days. As it is I'm working on a comprehensive PJ Shrine, much like I did for Tori Amos, covering every tour since 1995. Over twenty shows in these last five years, one secret warm up show, two shows in paradise. Crossed one ocean and innumerable states...4000 miles or so on my car. Scores of full gas tanks bled dry on the road. My car is truly filthy now and my pocketbook is truly hurting...Hmmm...seems a lot like my situation last year when I toured around to see Tori ;) And yet, if I could afford it, I'd see a dozen more in a heartbeat. This band has meant more than life itself to me at times in my life, and this past month has resolidified my love as if it could ever be extinguished to begin with. All the people I have met and stayed with. All the old friends I have become reaquainted with, all the places I have seen, including Gettysburg...all of it is just boggling my mind. Their is simply no understanding my feelings about Pearl Jam outside this circle of friends. My parents, my co-workers, my army friends...none understand...yet my love has no bounds. I sit here, wondering what else I could possibly say. Everything else past Tampa that I'd like to spew about will be covered in the shrine, The Midwest and Bob's place. Three nights at Jones Beach. Two nights in Philladelphia. I have so many images and stories to incorporate i am having trouble beginning. It may yet be an entire month before the shrine is completed, and I cannot bring myself to put it online peacemeal... For once in a great while, I have TOO much to say, so instead, I will say nothing more except this...I am wonderfully refreshed and invigorated on life. There is a new outlook on just about everything around me. I feel healthy and strong and full of vigor. and I leave it at that. perhaps I'll go back into details about daily life next time. There ARE issues to be raised...I'm just not to it right now.
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