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September 24, 2018: Up Here In My Tree/Avocado

Hi Brad and Brad,

Last week I had a friend of mine suggest I start my own weekly blog on Pearl Jam topics.  Given that I love talking about this band and really don't have many people in my immediate circles to nerd out on PJ, it could serve as a nice platform to have more interaction with the PJ Community.  What I decided to do was re-purpose the weekly emails I write into your podcast and post them on a blog, which I have called "Up Here In My Tree: A Pearl Jam Blog."  I'm also hoping that this will bring more attention to Single Podcast Theory.  The narrative of this blog is to tie in how your podcast has helped me find an outlet and a new interaction with you both and the SPT listeners.  I hope I'm not intruding by doing this and most of all hope that it brings more listeners to your podcast.  


The other reason why I wanted to write in this week is in regards to the self-titled album or Avocado.  Over the past week I have been finding myself wanting to listen to Avocado.  This was actually the first of their albums I had purchased the day it was released in May 2006.  I remember going over to Best Buy that morning and immediately putting it into the CD player of my Civic.  That album completely rocked for me from Life Wasted down to Parachutes, then picked up again until the four-track slow burn of Wasted Reprise, Army Reserve, Come Back and Inside Job.  If I were to have ranked my favorite albums before listening to SPT, I may have put Avocado at #5, because I had thought of it so highly.  When I ranked it about a month ago, I put it at #9.  Now I have myself rethinking my position on it again.  This is one of the many things I love about this band.  I constantly second-guess my favorite albums and tracks, because it can change almost week-to-week.  Going back and listening to any their albums takes me back to that time in my life and sometimes I feel as if I'm listening to that album for the first time again.  The other reason why Avocado stands out for me, is because I met my wife less than 3 months before it's release.  Our relationship is just about as old as Avocado, and just as our relationship does, this album continues to stand the test of time. 


Forced to endure, what I could not forgive,

Chris

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