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Five Against the World There are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, Calif., it's easy to see which Eddie Vedder is shooting baskets outside the Site, the recording studio where …

…f---ing gas-station attendant you ever saw." Best of all, Pearl Jam are no longer a band with only one very, very big album. "There's no school to go to for some of the weird shit that happens," says Vedder. "The f---ing weirdness of it all. But some of these guys, they can help out a bit. Bob Dylan's advice was 'Go to Dublin.' I wrote him a postcard today." "It said, 'Made it.' "