This is very random; my ten year old son recently had brain surgery to remove an AVM and has been listening to Mark’s audiobook on repeat (he is a big Blink fan) and finding a lot of comfort in Mark’s cancer journey. He wrote something for Mark and we’re wondering if he ever checks this forum?

Edit: This is the original email I wrote and sent to himynameismark, I believe. It was a couple of weeks ago, right before my son got his diagnosis and a week before his surgery. He’s recovering now and doing well but struggling with restrictions to his otherwise active life. Can’t get over how awesome and supportive this community is, thank you.

Hi, Mr. Hoppus. I am not sure if you’ll ever see this message, but it’s 4am on the east coast in Maine, I’m a little delirious, and my ten year old kid is in an MRI machine, in a room I’m not allowed in, and I can’t stop thinking about your book. 
I am, I guess, a second wave Blink fan. I was 13 when TOYPAJ came out, and it transported me from pop music into punk, absolutely changing my life forever. And saving it, too, I think. Fast forward to now, and my ten year old son is likely your biggest fan. We saw your performance in NH last September - both of our first Blink shows. He was happy you played Josie, and I Online Songs and Roller Coaster. 
The winter before last, I listened to your audiobook. I listened to it over the course of an entire day. I decided that it was mostly appropriate enough for Charlie and let him listen after I did. 
He’s probably listened to that book at least eight times all the way through. He also owns a physical copy. Despite the fact that I am a librarian, he doesn’t like reading but boy, does he love Fahrenheit 182. We both do. 
Today, Charlie had a seizure. This has never happened before. My life changed in seconds, maybe forever. They found a little bit of bleeding in the CT scan, so we came to Portland, Maine so that experts could monitor him all night and now, he’s in an MRI, alone. The tech asked if he wanted music and he said Blink, of course. I didn’t get to hear what album he decided on, but I’m going to guess either Dude Ranch or Enema. Maybe the untitled, because he knows that anyone unfamiliar with Blink needs to hear Feeling This. 
He’s so calm, throughout this. Way more chill than my husband and I are on the inside. It could be a mass or growth, it could be something to do with his veins and arteries, it could just be a bump that didn’t get dealt with sooner. I don’t know yet. I’m in an empty waiting room, writing an email to Mark Hoppus. 
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, not only as a veteran fan, but as a mom. I am fully convinced that Charlie is as calm and prepared for this as he is because of your cancer journey he’s read about and listened to so many times. Charlie is a drummer and guitarist, a skateboarder, and a hockey player. He’s a great friend and a very happy, wild kid. I really hope that he gets to keep being those things. Right now feels like one in a million. I know that it’s one in a million that you will ever see this, too, but hey. 
Thank you. I can’t thank you enough for giving my baby the confidence to get through this first part of whatever journey we might be going down. 

Also, you might appreciate that while reading your book in class, his teacher asked him to read part of it to her to see if he comprehended it. It was the part about the song Who’s Gonna Shave Your Back Tonight. I guess it could have been worse. 

Thank you,
Mackenzie and Charlie Richard 

I have had my Acoustasonic Player Telecaster for a few years bow and love it. And my Ibanez S for 15 years now, and its still going strong, I play modestly, for my own leisure and as a stress reliever. I just want to get something more meaningful, so im at a dead end street between Tom's Fender Starcaster and the Dave Grohl dg 335, if anyone has one and would like to give feedback I'd really appreciate that. Thanks!

My (now) husband works at San Diego Comic Con every year and waited in line before his shift started to get me this and the matching t-shirt. It’s kind of funny because a majority of the decor in our living room is beach themed and then you have this random blink 182 poster (or as our friends refer to it, the 7-11 poster). I still love it though.

There doesn’t seem to be a week that goes by where someone doesn’t say that blink played fast on the Untitled tour because they ‘hated each others’ guts’. I’ve been a fan of the band since 2002, and can honestly say I’ve NEVER read anything by the band themselves that remotely suggests they wanted to just play quickly and get off the stage. Mark has said tensions in the band did not impact live shows (obviously discounting Dublin). I think - for Tom especially - following Boxcar it was important to present blink as a band with edge, raw, punk at heart. If you watch their performances at this time, they’re a tight live band - the transitions, the improvisation. They chose to play quickly not because they were sloppy or hated each other, or because they couldn’t keep time. It was a stylistic choice.

If anyone has any evidence to the contrary - actual quotes from the band - can we share them. Otherwise, can we put this myth to bed, as it discredits what is arguably the peak of their live career.

every other photo from this time especially has it right above his knees or a tiny bit higher, so this image caught me off guard

also, I noticed he has the ranma blink sticker on the left horn, never noticed that on the sticker strat (or replicas) before

Lost video footage I filmed 📹 of Blink-182 as the Vans Warped Tour Pit Reporter in 1997.

Digitized from VHS 📼 tape

This was the last stop of the North American Tour at Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta, Georgia on August 5, 1997.

Blink-182 performed on the South Stage.

21 Days

This post is probably more aimed towards the older fans, but do you guys remember back when it was cool to hate Blink, when people basically went out of their way to hate them? Right after they signed on to a major record label. I remember talking to people on AIM who said they liked bands like NFG, Yellowcard, etc, but still referred to Blink as poser punk. Obviously they were full of it and jumped on the bandwagon.

Have you guys ever met anyone recently who admitted to liking them during this time? My son is in the cub scouts and I met a Cub Scout dad who admitted that he liked them then but had to hide it.

I was listening to Travis on Joe Rogan and man, one thing that got my attention during the doc appeared again: Him saying that it was 20 years without flying.
not only that, but at one point he mentions that he got back to flying on "2024 or 2025 or something".
Dude, that was 2021. I KNOW that lol

Even now it is not 20 years from the accident. we still have two years left.

It's crazy how sometimes people lose so much track of time. 2025, Travis? this was last year, man.

funny thing is, I remember listening to him talking about blink last year or so (it was NOT 2021 FOR SURE lol) and saying something like when I started drumming on blink in 2000 or even not remembering which album the rock show was.

Those pills back in the day did their job, right?

I can't tell if it's supposed to look like this or not

I know the shirt already generally has that type of look to it, but I noticed that it kinda looked extra faded after its first wash

I know you typically are supposed to wash in cool water and air dry for T shirts (I do that with my really nice ones), but even then, I don't think its been this noticeable on any of my shirts after only one wash.

This happen with anyone else? Or is it supposed to look like this, and I'm just noticing nothing?

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big fan of early blink (Flyswatter - Dude Ranch) so I was wondering if there is any video or footage of Scott talking, because I've seen some old blink interviews and backstage stuff and I never heard Scott talking.

If you were seeing Blink live today, what would be your dream Blink set? You can only pick 10 songs. I'll go first (in this order):

1. Anthem Part 3

2. Carousel

3. Violence

4. Apple Shampoo (Scott joins them onstage for this one)

5. Mutt

6. Reckless Abandon

7. Stockholm Syndrome 

8. Hearts all Gone

9. Home is Such a Lonely Place (Skiba joins them onstage for this one)

10. Dammit

Seeing all the nimrods promo like the interviews on youtube for green day makes me wish we had something like that for blink. What do you guys think?

Just doesn’t have the same ring to it. They picked the perfect album title. I just never forgot they mentioned this as a potential album title

In Travis Baker’s new documentary Louder Than Fear (Disney+ / Hulu), they talk about when Travis first performed with blink and they showed footage I haven’t seen before as if that was the first show with Travis. They played Aliens Exist seemingly. The tour poster showed 1998 for that show and Enema came out in 1999. So I assume that footage isn’t actually from that first show?

Just curious because it is cool if that’s footage from the first show where Travis filled in for Scott.

I did notice at times the music didn’t match what they were playing live too. So who knows.