We already thought actor Aaron Paul was cool because he played Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad and he generally seems like a pretty chill dude, but his latest Instagram post just made him the Number 1 Hollywood celebrity we’d most like to have a drink with.
Why? Because we could spend the whole time talking about Pearl Jam and all of our favourite grunge bands. Paul recently took to social media to share a photo of himself with PJ frontman Eddie Vedder, along with a very heartfelt letter about his relationship with their debut album.
“The very first album I bought was Ten. Pearl Jam’s first album,” Paul writes. “I bought it with loose change I collected around the house and it was the only record I owned. Well at least until the Nevermind album came out one month later but that’s besides the point.”
“That month I will never forget. That was the one time I owned only one album and I cherished that damn thing. It was mine. It was my 12th birthday and I showed up to this small record store inside of our local mall with a sock full of change that I collected specifically to buy this album.”
“I came home with my new birthday gift I had just bought myself and I was beaming. Could not wait to listen to it. I opened the door to my home and I could feel the silence in my bones. My house was empty.”
“Now you need to know that I come from a very large family and to walk inside of our home with nobody there was extremely rare,” Paul continues. “I mean it was my birthday after all and nobody was home. I was alone. Where was everyone?”
“So then of course I took advantage of the situation and put the record on and turned it up. For hours and hours just listening to this record over and over again. But where was everyone? Seriously.”
“Eventually the house phone rang with this music blaring in the background and I ran to pick it up hoping it was my mother singing happy birthday to me. It was my mother but she wasn’t singing. She said, “Honey, we’re at the hospital.”
“My heart sank and time stood still and all I could hear was Eddie singing in the background. My mother then explained to me that my sister had just given birth. She had given birth to a little girl the same day Pearl Jam’s first album came out. On my birthday.”
Check out Paul’s entire post via Instagram below.
