Pearl Jam for Lent
davidronn
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So:
While I'm not overly religious, I do still have a spiritual side. I was brought up Catholic and the one thing that I still try and do every year to "prove" my Catholicism is to sacrifice something for Lent. Usually it's something like TV or candy. A few years ago I gave up hitting the snooze button. I once attempted no swearing but that fell through really quickly.
Anyway...
This year I've made it my decision to give up listening to Pearl Jam. Lent is supposed to be a sacrifice. You're supposed to abstain from something you love and feel you couldn't live without. With the exception of my dog and my nephew, there's nothing I love more than Pearl Jam so I feel it's fitting to give them up.
Like most of you, I'm sure, I listen to Pearl Jam every day. Sometimes it's only one song, other times it's full studio albums or bootlegs. I just need to hear the boys at least once a day.
I feel like sacrificing PJ is going to be just that: an actual sacrifice. It's going to be very difficult to achieve but it's a challenge I feel I'm up for.
Now the parameters are as follows: It's a sacrifice if I'm the one who is avoiding it, meaning I can't listen to them on my iPod, I can't listen to them on the computer, I can't wake up to them as I've been doing the past 3 months and if they come on the radio while I'm driving, I must change the station. However: if I happen to be at a pub or visiting a friend or in a store where they're listening to Pearl Jam, there's not much I can do about that. I'm not going to ask them to change the station for my religious beliefs - it's out of my control. If, however, I can avoid listening to them, I will.
I feel this will be good for 2 reasons:
1) When the 40 days are over, when I put "Ten" in for the first time, it will be almost like being re-born. I'll be hearing them for the first time in over a month (I don't know the last time I went a month without PJ.) It will be like an eargasm.
2) This is an opportunity to reacquaint myself with music that I know I love, yet forget because of the amount of time spent listening to Eddie et al.
I'm both excited and terrified. It could be a test of my will-power and at the end, I'll actually feel like I've achieved something...
Anyway, it's just listening to them. I'll still be here and still be following any tour updates and things of that nature. I can't completely cut them out!
...I just know that if they announce a sudden Calgary stop in the next 40 days I'm going to be very, very depressed.
While I'm not overly religious, I do still have a spiritual side. I was brought up Catholic and the one thing that I still try and do every year to "prove" my Catholicism is to sacrifice something for Lent. Usually it's something like TV or candy. A few years ago I gave up hitting the snooze button. I once attempted no swearing but that fell through really quickly.
Anyway...
This year I've made it my decision to give up listening to Pearl Jam. Lent is supposed to be a sacrifice. You're supposed to abstain from something you love and feel you couldn't live without. With the exception of my dog and my nephew, there's nothing I love more than Pearl Jam so I feel it's fitting to give them up.
Like most of you, I'm sure, I listen to Pearl Jam every day. Sometimes it's only one song, other times it's full studio albums or bootlegs. I just need to hear the boys at least once a day.
I feel like sacrificing PJ is going to be just that: an actual sacrifice. It's going to be very difficult to achieve but it's a challenge I feel I'm up for.
Now the parameters are as follows: It's a sacrifice if I'm the one who is avoiding it, meaning I can't listen to them on my iPod, I can't listen to them on the computer, I can't wake up to them as I've been doing the past 3 months and if they come on the radio while I'm driving, I must change the station. However: if I happen to be at a pub or visiting a friend or in a store where they're listening to Pearl Jam, there's not much I can do about that. I'm not going to ask them to change the station for my religious beliefs - it's out of my control. If, however, I can avoid listening to them, I will.
I feel this will be good for 2 reasons:
1) When the 40 days are over, when I put "Ten" in for the first time, it will be almost like being re-born. I'll be hearing them for the first time in over a month (I don't know the last time I went a month without PJ.) It will be like an eargasm.
2) This is an opportunity to reacquaint myself with music that I know I love, yet forget because of the amount of time spent listening to Eddie et al.
I'm both excited and terrified. It could be a test of my will-power and at the end, I'll actually feel like I've achieved something...
Anyway, it's just listening to them. I'll still be here and still be following any tour updates and things of that nature. I can't completely cut them out!
...I just know that if they announce a sudden Calgary stop in the next 40 days I'm going to be very, very depressed.
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