You know you're a PJ Fanatic when...

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  • State of Mind
    State of Mind Posts: 283
    you apologize to the band if you have to get out of the car before a song is over!

    your spouse says, " so what is it that you do on that site, anyway?"

    your son will dig in the hamper to wear a PJ shirt to school even if there are clean shirts in the closet!
  • idrapr
    idrapr Posts: 66
    ....you took most of 1998 of to follow them around the world. Never did get tired of seeing them perform night after night
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,806
    ...when you decide, on the spur of the moment, to book a flight from Sydney to Chicago just to see them at The Vic and Lollapalooza on your own. And you know being on your own doesn't matter anyway because you're never alone at a PJ show, you'll always meet some cool people!
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • Staceb10
    Staceb10 Posts: 675
    When are watching the Big Bang Theory and see what to you could only be the Binaural album cover but since its a show about science geniuses its probably not the actual album cover.

    Or in the 10th anniversary of your first PJ show (WPB 98) you go to your 10th show (Columbia08) with a new tattoo of a roman number 10 on your back :)
  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    You start plotting the demise of your friend because they have tix to all Australian concerts and you don't, and you know in the event of an 'accident', they would want you to have them. 8-)
  • tattooedinblack
    tattooedinblack Posts: 42
    This is the most awesome thread EVER!!! :D

    You know you're a PJ Fanatic when... you worked for Tower Records and EVERY day you managed to get a Pearl Jam album (or 2) on the playlist.

    And because after working at Tower for 2 weeks you've already become the Pearl Jam guy and now handle all the customers PJ questions.

    I've also had the asking for a day off and my manager askin "Where's Pearl Jam playin?" :D

    I've also only worn Pearl Jam shirts for weeks at a time ;)

    Best one for me, You know you're a PJ Fanatic when... You change your whole schedule at work and take the opening shift (HATE opening, I'm a closer) so that you can get out early to get to NYC to stand ouside of the NYC Village Tower Records for over 8 hours to get free tix to a PJ secret show at Irving Plaza :D
    Oh, if I knew where it was, I would take you there, but there's much more than this.
    Ooooh. Whoooa, much more than this. Woooh see the world. Much more than... Oooh, much more than.. Why?
  • RGarabed21
    RGarabed21 Posts: 467
    tattooedinblack wrote:
    This is the most awesome thread EVER!!! :D

    Thanks!! :D:D
    Glad everyones enjoying it! Im loving everybodys posts..Lets keep it going!!

    You know you're a PJ Fanatic when you go to see a PJ cover band (No Code you guys f****n rock!) and you go just as crazy as you would at a real PJ show!!
    MSG - 6/25/08 EV Solo Tower Theatre - 06/11/09
    Philly 2 - 10/28/09 Philly 3 - 10/30/09
    Philly 4 - 10/31/09
    Boston 1 - 05/17/10
    PruCenter - 05/18/10
    MSG 1 - 05/20/10
    MSG 2 - 05/21/10
    Alpine1 - 09/03/11 Alpine2 - 09/04/11
  • damen
    damen Posts: 104
    ...you listen to Backspacer in its entirety on the way to work and on the way home from work EVERYDAY!!!
  • hollyster70
    hollyster70 Posts: 228
    When you spend 15 minutes on your knees after the show in Portland trying to pry the pick Mike threw at you from where its stuck under the barricade while trying not to use the hand that Eddie shook...

    :oops:
    Be Kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle
  • mikep
    mikep Posts: 290
    This thread is great....i once worked in a lab in summers and they made a funny ''you know you're a lab nerd/biochemistry nerd/ etcetc when...'' Tshirt and it was great. It might not work that easily with PJ, but i'm sure we could summarize some of these great 'things' that we all do and formulate a tshirt! wishlist foundation perhaps has the means? not sure...but i'd sure buy it!

    you know you're a pj fanatic when...
    - you save all your vacation allotment in anticipation of some pj/ev tour so u can make a road trip to see them!
    - you text 20-30 people in your phone list (some who u dont often speak to) in excitment about briefly meeting eddie before a solo show, then a month later, think back fondly in spite of the $100 extra you're paying in roaming charges cause you drove down from canada. haha
    - you try to tell your non-pj friends that you've dragged to the show anything interesting about a song but quickly realize they won't care that it hasn't been played in 10 years etc.
    - you listen to 20 second snippets of new songs all day long b/c it's all you have!:)
    96-11-Tor; 03-Mont; 05,13-London;05-Kitchnr, Hamltn; 06-Deroit;08-Mont(EV); 09-Albany(EV), Philly3&4; 10,13-Buff;10-NYC, Mt View; 11-(EV) Boston,Hart,Det,PJ20,Ott,Hamltn,Winnpg,Sask,Cal,Edmntn,Van; 12-Missoula; 13-Wrigley,Pitts,Port,Spok,Cal,Van,Sea.
  • brainofe
    brainofe Posts: 264
    When you take it upon yourself to make a PJ mix CD for your friends and the next day you ask them if they heard it and they say something like "not yet" or "it's pretty cool" but give you no details about what was so "cool" about it.
    Down in the hole, Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load.
  • Aaron 23
    Aaron 23 Allen, TX Posts: 543
    I fall under so many of these it is comforting to know I am not alone. :lol:
  • mrshock13
    mrshock13 Posts: 472
    RGarabed21 wrote:

    You know you're a PJ Fanatic when..
    You go through other people's iPods and the first thing you look for is IF they have any PJ on it and how much. Then silently judge them when they have only 2 SONGS!

    I do this ALL THE TIME! It's my way of deciding if this person is even worth talking music with. If they like Pearl Jam, then they usually have a lot of the same musical tastes as me, and it's awesome friendship, here we come!
  • pjamaholic
    pjamaholic Posts: 1,225
    You roll up to your local music store and head straight to the "P" section of popular or alternative, just to see what Pearl Jam cds they have in stock. A habit of mine.
  • tattooedinblack
    tattooedinblack Posts: 42
    pjamaholic wrote:
    You roll up to your local music store and head straight to the "P" section of popular or alternative, just to see what Pearl Jam cds they have in stock. A habit of mine.

    I do that EVERYTIME! :p
    Oh, if I knew where it was, I would take you there, but there's much more than this.
    Ooooh. Whoooa, much more than this. Woooh see the world. Much more than... Oooh, much more than.. Why?
  • mikep
    mikep Posts: 290
    me too! and probably me too for about 90% of the things on here. haha. what a group
    96-11-Tor; 03-Mont; 05,13-London;05-Kitchnr, Hamltn; 06-Deroit;08-Mont(EV); 09-Albany(EV), Philly3&4; 10,13-Buff;10-NYC, Mt View; 11-(EV) Boston,Hart,Det,PJ20,Ott,Hamltn,Winnpg,Sask,Cal,Edmntn,Van; 12-Missoula; 13-Wrigley,Pitts,Port,Spok,Cal,Van,Sea.
  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    Gremmie03 wrote:
    Jo wrote:
    You sit here on the forums while your kids need bath/dinner/bed

    and the voice behind you says "turn that shit off"...hahahahaha

    just kiddin', the voice doesnt say, shit, but I'm sure it wants to

    When the voice behind me does say " turn that shit off" and I consider that grounds for divorce.
  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    When you buy the album on the day of release in your local record shop just in case the 10club version doesn't arrive quite on time. (I have two copies of Self-titled and Backspacer because of this).
    And when a friend asks if they can buy the spare you refuse :P
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • tschoess10
    tschoess10 Posts: 14
    ...you drive home from work and the car in front of you has a leatherman-sticker on the bumper which is from this company http://www.leatherman.at/j-lm/ and it put's a smile on your face.

    I was acutally listening to Smile from Athens 2006 at this moment - would it have been Leatherman I think I would have thought it's a sign from God (although I'm not very religious) :roll:
    Salzburg (00) Prague (06) Berlin (06) Vienna (06) Munich (07) Nova Rock (07) London (07) Berlin (09) Dublin (10) Belfast (10) Berlin (10) Berlin 2x (12)
  • pj.uw.laura
    pj.uw.laura Posts: 553
    I know I'm a PJ fanatic when I go to Yahoo, and one of the headlines mentiones the IOC (International Olympic Committee), and I have to remember that those are letters- not 10C.

    This happened to me yesterday.

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