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Like 20 shirts, two framed signed CDs, two framed signed posters, the funko pops and split personality figure and a collage of buttons and enamel pins.

 

I have a bunch of buttons and stickers, a couple of tour programs, all the albums on vinyl and CD, some CD singles, an original Dude Ranch cassette, a plastic blink bunny, and like 3 or 4 shirts.

 

One more year and EOTS is legally able to drink. This is making me feel old

 

I'm gonna be so mad when it's 40 and is STILL singing about being a kid!

 

It really is crazy.

 

I was (almost) 6 years old when EOTS came out...

 

I was 5 when EOTS came out, and it played every. single. car ride. for. years. (I have older siblings)

It was the first album my little ears were introduced to and it really helped influence and define everything about me growing up. I obviously started to understand the lyrics as I got older and kept listening into my teens, but it really is THE album for me.

 

I have I think 5 tshirts, 2 posters, the stuff that came with the signed Cali cd, the Pops, and Cheshire, Buddha, Dude and Enema signed by Mark

 

I was 13. It was my life in 7th grade and heading into freshman year of high school until TOYPAJ came out and took my life over.

I’ll never forget listening to “Mutt” while getting ready for school dances and pumping myself up over what girl I’d slow dance with lol.

This album was also on the first I ever got drunk. New Year’s Eve 2002 with my best friend and our girlfriends. I was 15 hahaha.

 

My son is turning 5 in a month but he is forced to listen to Blink all the time since I’m always playing them. He’s started to remember the songs and he likes a lot of them. His favorites are feeling this, please take me home, and roller coaster. I sincerely hope he becomes a full on fan as he gets older

 

I'm watching Tom's show Unidentified right now. Its sooooo weird seeing Tom on the History Channel haha.

And they just showed him briefly with Podesta haha

 

That was literally me!! My mom only allowed the censored version, however, my dad let us listen to the explicit version.

 

I remember being a lonely, broken-hearted 12-year-old who constantly felt torn between expressing emotions and being goofy and cheerful. Listening to Enema for the first time, and falling between the ernestness of Adam's Song, angst of Dysentery Gary, and carefree attitude of What's My Age Again taught me it's okay and normal to be more than one thing, that just because I was sad, there is still hope and I could still be myself. It was really liberating for me as a kid.

 

Happy 20 years. Skateboarding and listening to this record was the best.

 

I remember probably when I was like 8 or 9 the lyric “forgive our neighbor Bob, I think he humped the dog” was very interesting to try and imagine.

 

I remember the summer of 99 so clearly and how Enema changed my life even 2 decades later. I got my first job that year and would listen to the album every day walking to work (was only 15 so no drivers license.). I was so interested in the band. Now I heard Damnnit a million times and played the crap out of it on the Cant Hardly Wait soundtrack, but this really got me into blink. Like obsessed. Posters all over the room. Random blink related memories of 99 post enema...
-Being so excited for 9/9/99. It was the day dreamcast came out (which I preordered months in advance and super excited because I only had old school Nintendo and Sega, no N64 or PS. My parents wouldn't buy me a new system so I used all my hard earned cash of $5.25 bagging groceries to save for dreamcast.) Anywaysss Ill never forget 9/9/99 also because blink played the VMAs with all the small people. I didn't have cable so begged my neighbor to let me come over and watch it.

-Seeing my first concert ever on 11/14/99 which of course was Blink 182 w/ Fenix tx and Silverchair. That concert changed my life and put me into the scene. I was hooked on Fenix TX, Lefty, Midtown, and Drive Thru after that. Because of this band I got into a punk scene I barely knew existed. Made so many new friends and 10 years later ended up working in the business and touring with bands.

-I remember having enema play on my stereo during a hurricane in September and losing power for 3 days. The CD was stuck in the 5 disc changer as the one playing. I literally broke that thing to get the CD out to play on the battery powered discman. Well worth it lol

-Begging for the Urethra Chronicals for Christmas that year on VHS. I got it and watched it 2 times a day that entire Christmas break and after. I still can recite 80% of that video to this day as its burned into my brain.

-Infactuated with California and most importantly San Diego after hearing them talk about it. My dream was to visit and to this day Ive been five times. My favorite place in the world and only thanks to blink. Ive been to Sombreros, Macbeths old store, To The Stars, and other random places.

-Seeing that Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (although it was 2000) was amazing


Dozens of shows later, meet and greets, autographed guitars, murals, and all I can say is THANK YOU BLINK 182 for making this 35 year old adult still feel like a kid.

 

You know, it’s cool and all that enema is 20 today and yeah it changed my life and yadda yadda but y’all. Did you know the lyric in Roller Coaster was “all I remember’s the way her BEDROOM smelled?!” I’ve been singing “PERFUME” for 18 years.

Tell my wife and son I love them. I am a fake fan.

 

lol I literally just looked up the lyrics to that song cos I was jamming it and realised I didn't know what he said there. the amount of lyrics I've had wrong on Enema and TOYPAJ since I first listened to them is kind of astounding

 

it's not just stuff like "I wore cologne" that most people had wrong too, like I found out Tom says "my little windmill" in ATST about a month ago

 

I walk alone...

 

“I walk alone, to get the feeling right.”

 

^ SEEEEE

 

"And I can't help but leave, and" Stockhom Syndrome

Anyways, umm... was the 20th Anniversary Merch the big announcement today?

 

20 years - cheers guys!!

 

my shadow