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This article is ... in ... fucking ... sane ...

DeLonge and Hoppus spend a while brainstorming on what their first line should be when they walk onstage. Among the contenders: “We came here to kick ass and eat pussy.” “We love you guys, but if any of you are from Texas, fuck off.” “Hello, my penis-sucking friends!” Hoppus is particularly fond of this last one and experiments with saying it in a German accent and then an Indian one.

 

I woulda been ... 17 ... in 2000, I ate all of this up. No wonder I was a horrible person when I thought this was what made a personality.

 

What is going on lol

Two weeks later, on June 4th, Barker gets injured and has to leave the tour. Here’s what happened: On an off day in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (just outside Cleveland), Barker and Kennedy, tired of room service, took a taxi to a nearby Taco Bell to get some dinner. According to Barker, while he was in the bathroom two large redneck guys started aggressively hitting on Kennedy, an attractive, gamin redhead. They didn’t recognize Barker as a rock star when he returned – they were just unhappy that the girl who had ignored them was with a skinny, tattooed freak. They kept staring at Barker and Kennedy while they were eating; getting a bad vibe, the couple left the restaurant to call a cab and go back to the hotel. “I didn’t want to be a sitting duck,” Barker says. While they were standing at the phone booth, a red car pulled up, and one of the intimidators got out. Barker tried to settle the guy down and displayed his hand, which was in a brace for his tendinitis, to demonstrate that he didn’t want to fight. “He kept mouthing off, and then he hit me,” Barker says. [...]

Barker is hoping to be back on the road in August for Blink’s European shows; until then, he’s tinkering with his Cadillacs and typing one-handed responses to all his e-mail ([email protected]). “Can you mention that I’m answering all of them personally?” he asks.

 

That was a trip.

 

Such a strange time that was...

 

What a guy!

Adrenaline video is out. It’s great!!

 

Awesome video, awesome song.

 

Oh wow I didn't even know about this crazy that happened because I know exactly where that TB is too

 

My childhood bedroom wall...

 

"I never conquered, rarely came, 16 just held such better days..."

 

The wall started well before the Adam's Song video with the small Green Day section near the bottom. Once it got easier to print colored photos off the net, it was game over. I remember when the Adam's Song video came out I was like damn, could've filmed the performance in my bedroom.

 

Speaking of "trip"...

Not sure if this is a legit interview or not, but I remember reading this back in the day on that site and being like "Oh no! Blink does drugs?!" and I was so bummed out... haha.

Alternative Press June 2001

 

Yep this was one my the wall of my first dorm room lol

 

LOL I remember reading this as a kid and seeing that Tom wanted to know what heroin felt like. It kinda broke my heart haha

 

hahaha same!

 

Today’s letters were sent over form Sombrero, a local Mexican food place made famous in Blink’s song “Josie” (“Yeah my girlfriend… brings me Mexican food from Sombrero just because”). The humble eatery is ground zero for rabid Blinkophiles, many of whom seem genuinely pissed upon arriving to find the place devoid of Tom, Mark and Travis. (While fear of a fan stampede might keep them from actually eating at the restaurant, Mark and Tom ordered takeout form the place every day I spent with them. Sombrero makes a mean bean-and-cheese burrito.)

Hoppus hands me a napkin covered in scribble. It reads, “I drove for two hours to eat at your restaurant. Let’s fuck sometime.” It’s signed by three girls, all of whom supplied home and cell-phone numbers. In another note, titled “Enemas Do A Body Good,” four Santa Barbara teens detail how they purchased a home colonic kit from a Sav-On pharmacy (receipt provided for evidence) and proceeded to squirt its contents onto a “stuck-up cheerleader bitch” named Brittney. A 43-year-old wheelchair-bound mother mails in some Blink swag, requesting the band sign it and return it. She includes a photo book with her letter. In one of the more touching images, her Blink-maniac teenage son hangs his bare ass above her hospital bed as she looks up smiling. Hoppus signs her stuff and slips it immediately into a FedEx envelope. In the line on the air bill that asks for his company name, he scribbles, “Totally Gay Men & More Men.”

THESE INTERVIEWS ARE NEXT LEVEL WTF. 2001 was fucking wild.

 

Hahaha what a time to be alive... It's so crazy that all of that was considered okay to say, although just "immature" haha

 

God that is weird, although it was kind of funny when Mark started talking about having his drink spiked just because that seems like that is (most likely) the same night that "Fighting the Gravity" is about. It also gave me a good laugh with:

"It was very, very, very scary. I thought the tail-lights on cars were evil monsters coming to get me. And then I had the total hippie high. I thought the trees were singing to me about how pollution is for them. In the end, I guess it was a positive experience. I don't pollute anymore. And I take the taillights off all my cars."

 

I know the humor hasn't aged well and we know better now but still they were hilarious back then and me and my friend Hurley (yes real name lol) were basically like Mark and Tom. I feel like there were so many times blink would make your stomach hurt from laughing

 

Interesting article from '99 that discusses some of what we're talking about right now:

Revisit Our 1999 Feature on Blink-182's 'Enema of the State'

I always thought Mark & Tom's whole thing was "we make fun of everyone, including ourselves." so I don't really understand what humor hasn't aged well...Anyone wanna provide some specific examples?

The only thing I can think of is having little people in the Man Overboard video and at the VMA performance, but that could be argued they were shining a spotlight on a marginalized group of people and less about making fun of them but I don't think I would personally make that argument.

 

Sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist ... uh ... I don't even know where to start.

 

So silly question, how is everyone finding these posters? I'm typing blink-182 posters in the Google Image search bar but keep getting the concert specific date one off posters and not the official posters. Any help/suggestions?

 

I added dates at the end

 

4/30 the full pic is revealed lol
In Tom fashion