Red Mosquito

Lightning Bolt is the experimenting, declarative passion project we’ve been waiting for from Pearl Jam since 2002′s Riot Act.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:while the bolt of lightning Vedder ed having to let go in Nothingman is in full flesh on the title track, love in fifth gear.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:while the bolt of lightning Vedder ed having to let go in Nothingman is in full flesh on the title track, love in fifth gear.

harmless wrote:Love in Fifth Gear = the title of the 11th album.

Kevin Davis wrote:Does this mean we can expect "Igobaine bath of the soul" to become the new "loss of agency" in twenty-fourteen?

Lament wrote:

harmless wrote:Love in Fifth Gear = the title of the 11th album.

You must mean 12th. We already know the 11th album is called Riding the Tides to Eternity.

harmless wrote:Oh shit, yeah. Love in Fifth Gear will be the grind-to-a-halt disappointment that fans never expected after the musical monolith that was Riding the Tides to Eternity.

Lament wrote:

harmless wrote:Oh shit, yeah. Love in Fifth Gear will be the grind-to-a-halt disappointment that fans never expected after the musical monolith that was Riding the Tides to Eternity.

If I ever encounter 2025 Lament, I will ask him about Love in Fifth Gear.

Lament wrote:Yeah, but now that you've said it, do you really think there's any way that's NOT the name of album #12?

Lament wrote:"It's like. You've got love, right? And it's, umm, there's like, different kinds. And as you, umm, grow up, umm, they get more intense. Like how when you're driving you shift gears, right? And like, maybe the first gear is how you love your parents when you're like a kid. And then when you get older it's your friends, that's second gear. And then you get, like, married, and that's like third gear, and you think that's the highest gear of love, right, umm, till you have kids, and that's fourth gear. And umm, fourth gear is like really intense, and you think that's the highest gear, or at least I did. But then I found a fifth gear. And that fifth gear is the love of surfing naked on a board made of endangered animals in a private body of water owned by the Oracle Corporation and filled with the tears of starving third world children while you're completely fucked out of your mind on a drug that the US government secretly designed for only the richest human beings on the plant. And it's amazing."

-Ed, 2025

stip wrote:i don't want to judge. that sounds like exactly the kind of shit I would write.

Firecloud wrote:I feed, educate and clothe my kids with what I do on the internet - and I don't have to punch a fucking clock to do it, either. Actually, I'm typing this right now while sitting in an airport in Taiwan, waiting for my connecting flight, where I'll be headed for a weeklong coral reef monitoring trip to the Philippine islands. All expenses paid - all for my "internet job".

As for the joint, that sounds like a wonderful plan - but I hear the prisons out here suck. So I'll wait till I'm back on the mainland.

Pearl Jam has been my uncontested favorite band on Earth since 1991. They've worked hard enough to deserve the benefit of the doubt. That's all I'm saying - I just chose to say it in a highly sarcastic, backhanded way, because after all, it's the internet, right? What good is this shit for besides porn and free music?

Ok back to the fire - I've got a plane to catch.

Firecloud wrote:

windedsailor wrote:

Firecloud wrote:Yes, welcome to networking in one of the coolest fucking jobs anyone could ever want. Don't be scared...dig around in there, I bet you'll be entertained.

what job?

One that allows me to listen to unreleased music all day, get paid to interview my heroes, go to shows & movie screenings (Terminator tonight, hell yes), as well as fly to the Philippines on a scuba/snorkel expedition with MalibuRum/ReefCheck, which is happening at the end of the month. On top of all that, half a million people read what I write every single day.

I busted my ass to get here, and I'd say it's a pretty fuckin' awesome job.

Strat wrote:Theyre doing another Terminator movie?