Jamily

milarso
milarso Posts: 1,280
edited April 2009 in The Porch
Does anyone else hate this term for Pearl Jam fans?
It sounds so cheesy...
"The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    milarso wrote:
    Does anyone else hate this term for Pearl Jam fans?
    It sounds so cheesy...

    yeah..it annoys me a bit for some reason.
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  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    i like it. it brings me closer to all of you. We're all Jamily!!!!


    hahahah jk, it's a bit corny.
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  • I really don't care either way, but you won't catch me saying it. ;)
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    cmon changeinways, just say it once... we're all in this jamily together...
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • It is cheesy.......I am not sure what I think about the term....I am getting used to it...I kinda like cheesy things
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,646
    Mmmmmmmmmmm.......cheesy. :mrgreen:
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  • funnygirl wrote:
    It is cheesy.......I am not sure what I think about the term....I am getting used to it...I kinda like cheesy things
    I like cheese... now if the word came cut out of cheese... i'd at least eat it! :mrgreen:
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Gardenparty
    Gardenparty Posts: 1,910
    I think i preffered being a pearl jam fan before the whole "jamily" thing but whatever.
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Damnit! Now you got her started on cheese again.

    As for me, I hate the term!
  • Thorns2010 wrote:
    Damnit! Now you got her started on cheese again.
    :mrgreen:
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    funnygirl wrote:
    It is cheesy.......I am not sure what I think about the term....I am getting used to it...I kinda like cheesy things
    I like cheese... now if the word came cut out of cheese... i'd at least eat it! :mrgreen:

    Maybe I'm immature, but I find it impossible to read that sentence and see anything other than "cut" and "the" and "cheese."

    As to Jamily, I think it's lame, but I also don't really know anyone that uses it.

    Cheddar is better.

  • Maybe I'm immature, but I find it impossible to read that sentence and see anything other than "cut" and "the" and "cheese."



    Cheddar is better.
    i think I like you.... :oops: ;):lol:
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  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    We're just like a bunch of kids who share a real bad last name, like Bong. I had a college ta freshman year named, Pak Bong. Swear to God. What class? Plant Bio!! I digress, Jamily is what were stuck with and I've become proud of it. Cmon Chageinwaves, SAY IT! :)
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    fanch, where are you??
  • Gmoney wrote:
    We're just like a bunch of kids who share a real bad last name, like Bong. I had a college ta freshman year named, Pak Bong. Swear to God. What class? Plant Bio!! I digress, Jamily is what were stuck with and I've become proud of it. Cmon Chageinwaves, SAY IT! :)
    my maiden name was Reiffer... pronounced Reefer.... maybe I shoulda married Mr.Bong :mrgreen:
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • Jamily, as a word, said out loud... sounds so horrible... I mean I get it... Jamily/Family but like it reminds me of that show Family Matters.... ya know... like Jamily Matters, which bothers me... not that I didn't like that show but I keep thinking that we'll be at a show and ol' Urkel will show up and start asking us all if he "did that".
  • drsluggo
    drsluggo Posts: 4,742
    milarso wrote:
    Does anyone else hate this term for Pearl Jam fans?
    It sounds so cheesy...
    Yeah, I'll just say ditto to this post.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,322
    Jamily + Wikipedia .. info on Jamily!!!

    http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1191033,00.html

    It's a Pearl Jamily Affair
    The long, strange story of how obsessive fans turned Pearl Jam into the new Grateful Dead.

    By Whitney Pastorek

    On a balmy September afternoon at Washington State's Gorge Amphitheatre, tailgaters mill around on a lawn overlooking the Columbia River. As tonight's headliner warms up inside the venue, concert bootlegs blast out of cars, and a woman writes ''100'' on her arm in celebration of the number of times she's seen the band live. Old friends reunite, Hacky Sacks fly, and the occasional puff of something other than tobacco floats through the air. But despite all appearances, this is not a Grateful Dead show. It's a Pearl Jam concert. America, meet the Jamily.

    Admit it: You sort of thought Pearl Jam broke up. After 1998's Yield, the onetime alt-rock superstars slowly faded from public view, releasing two lackluster studio discs 2000's Binaural and 2002's Riot Act — that sold poorly compared with the band's early successes. But even as their mainstream profile diminished, Pearl Jam were quietly developing a fanatical cult following. The band now packs arenas for two, sometimes three nights in a row, thanks to thousands of intensely dedicated fans who call themselves the Jamily and travel hundreds of miles to sing along with every word. Sixteen years into their career, Pearl Jam have unexpectedly morphed into a modern Grateful Dead, and it just might be their saving grace. ''You don't really set out for that to happen,'' says frontman Eddie Vedder. ''But I think it's kind of the ultimate compliment.''

    Pearl Jam's journey from megastardom to cultdom has been an unusual one — more often it works the other way. Formed from the ashes of grunge forerunners Mother Love Bone in 1990, the band released its first album, Ten, in 1991, and it has since gone 12 times platinum, thanks to hits like ''Alive,'' ''Even Flow,'' and ''Jeremy.'' Multiplatinum follow-ups Vs.(1993) and Vitalogy (1994) solidified their status as rock icons. But the band's provocative liberal politics and high-profile confrontation with Ticketmaster alienated some of their fans, and Vedder was never really comfortable with fame. By the mid-'90s, Pearl Jam had pretty much stopped promoting themselves, refusing to shoot videos or do most interviews. ''We had to take it back,'' says guitarist Mike McCready, ''because we were all gonna lose our minds.''

    Six months after the Gorge show, Vedder is sitting in a rehearsal studio inside Pearl Jam's Seattle headquarters, a large converted warehouse that's home to the band's management, publicity, and merchandising operations. It's six weeks before the May 2 release of the band's eighth album, Pearl Jam, and the place is abuzz with tour and CD-release preparations. The album's first single, the gritty antiwar track ''World Wide Suicide,'' has hit No. 1 on the rock charts faster than any Pearl Jam song before it, and in his notoriously taciturn way, even Vedder is excited. ''It's great to hear that people like the song, and especially a song with a certain amount of context,'' he says. ''I don't think it's adding to the negativity, and it's a release because you've found a way to process what you're thinking about every f---ing day.''
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Gmoney wrote:
    We're just like a bunch of kids who share a real bad last name, like Bong. I had a college ta freshman year named, Pak Bong. Swear to God. What class? Plant Bio!! I digress, Jamily is what were stuck with and I've become proud of it. Cmon Chageinwaves, SAY IT! :)
    my maiden name was Reiffer... pronounced Reefer.... maybe I shoulda married Mr.Bong :mrgreen:


    :shock:
    So you are a pot head then? ;)
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    I think it sounds dumb as fuck, but nobody else is thinkin of anything.