Why would she be sleeping at 4pm ??

That version on TB2K is really great. The tag is fantastic.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that he wrote betterman when he was 17. Or is that porch? Or am I making this up?

You're right, he was in his teens when he wrote Betterman...

Yeah Betterman was played with Bad Radio (Vedder active 88-90) when he was 23. Maybe he did write it when he was 17. Maybe not. The whole my daddy/my mummy crap just seems a little forced and he definitely could have manipulated events to support his stage persona. We have to remember that he was in his late twenties during the Ten/Vs/Vitalogy period.

See, I just read this, and I still can't really get with the theory that Eddie played up his angst/life for a stage persona that much. The telling bullshit stories and playing drunk to fuck with people I can see, and even talking about it on stage to i dunno bond with/rile up the angry youth crowd or whatever. But every interview I've read gives me the impression that he's the kind of rambley oversharing person that would tell you this shit for no reason, plus while all that stuff comes off as melodramatic it doesn't contradict the other version of events other people in the book give. It gives quotes from interviews and says maybe he's just trying to invent a good story, but then gives an account of his childhood wherein it looks clear he didn't deal with things well. And that's not even his version of events. It even came up in interviews years after the whole spokesman for a generation grunge crap ended. It might be naive but I think it just took him ages to get over all that stuff, you mention he was in his late 20s then, I always forget cause he acted pretty young. Basically i find it easier to believe he was melodramatic and kind of egocentric in general than calculating about his image.