Friday, February 2, 2007

Pearl Jam for Real?

I mentioned to Jon the other day that I was too ignorant to make links to relevant sites in my blogs for Ishmael. It turns out, when I joked that all I could knowledgeably link to were Pearl Jam lyrics I wasn't being as stupid as I had thought. In a Wikipeadia page I read today about Ishmael it mentions that Eddie Vedder, the lead singer for Pearl Jam, was inspired to write their album Yield by the book Ishmael. I didn't know this until today, but the very Pearl Jam song I was thinking about when I joked with Jon is on that album! It's called Do the Evolution. The lyrics are pretty relevant to our topic and are somewhat responsible for my feelings, impressionable young chap and music lover that I be. The video is amazing as are the lyrics. Take a look at them. Won't you?

2 comments:

Heather said...

Thanks for posting those, Matt. Somehow I'd never heard that song before. That video was amazing.

It's crazy how much human beings will do to one another, rationalizing it by saying "Well, at least I'm not as bad as [fill in the blank]." If we're not as good as we can be, at least we're not murderers. If we're murderers, at least we didn't kill innocents. If we killed innocents, well, at least we're better than animals...

mlinden said...

It's Evolution Baby!