Eddie Vedder hates my cufflinks

I was a big fan of Pearl Jam in the early 1990s and frankly forgot they existed, but apparently they have just put out their ninth album.

I have just been informed, though, that if I am ever to interview Eddie Vedder (not likely) I should make sure I do not wear the cufflinks I wore on my wedding day (not that I would given the aforementioned unlikely circumstance).

I have vintage typewriter key cufflinks of a P and an H, which I love. Well, Vedder loves vintage typewriters too. In a recent Billboard Magazine story he explains the name of the band's new album, Backspacer, is an homage to typewriters. In fact, he likes them so much that he uses typewriters for lyric writing and personal correspondence and he gets very upset when he sees keys used in jewelry.

"For me it was like shark fin soup: 'You're killing typewriters for a bracelet!'" he said.

Come on. Shark fin soup! That's one melodramatic neo-Luddite.

I'll probably go buy Backspacer now.