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Hi all. I'm new to the boards. I wasn't sure where the best place to post this was, so I apologize if there was a previous thread already about people's collections. I checked with one of the mods first though, and they said it was ok! Anywho - I just wanted to share some pics I just took of the Blink merch. collection I gathered during my teen years. I don't think there's anything particularly rare in there, but it's definitely special to me. I was hoping to connect with some fans - particularly people who came onto the train around Enema like I did. As you can see, my merch. highly reflects being a fan that got involved around 99' as a 13 years old girl. I would still consider them to be my fave band, but haven't explored anything under the actual "Blink 182" name since the reunion occurred with Neighborhoods and the shows around that time. Should I get over this and give the Skiba albums a listen?....I'm scared to, haha. I feel like he's like my dad's new girlfriend and I'm not comfortable or something....... If you see anything in my collection that strikes your fancy and you'd like to see better pics (of the inside of a magazine or some such thing, just lemmy know!). I'll look forward to interacting with you all on here. Link to more/better images: Thanks, Quinn

This is visually stunning to me:

On this day in blink history, blink-182 italia stole another post from blink-182 online! happy anniversary!

Great to see Mark looking so good. That made me happy.

He looks great with gray hair. I don't think he should dye it again.

Good to see Mark doing great and looking fabulous with Skye at the wedding!

Yeah, ADHD explains the lack of focus on projects, but not the scamming.

Cameo, NFTs, TOUR. Sell merch. Go fund me even for chasing aliens (I would even donate to that). Anything other than this current predatory nonsense.

This was so fun to listen to because it was just Tom talking about punk rock bands, punk rock shows and the early days of blink. And it made me realise how I hate that the Tom we love is still there when you keep the conversation away from AVA and To The Stars Academy. How do we get to make AVA and TTSA crash and burn for good?

Yeah and it's not even just "we're in love" posts, it's sloppy makeouts and literally just licking each others' tongues any time they're in front of a camera.

Dude it goes along the lines as 'a successful person doesn't need to talk about their business'. No one wants to see some grown adults acting like high schoolers posting PDA

Most underrated song on TOYPAJ/Enema era. Thanks Mark.

Sorry to scam ya! I just have really bad ADHD. Invest!

Ava movement has a very low bar for qualifies as “visually stunning”

Rick is so cool for sure but the fact that he let Tom act the way he did in 2005 will always rub me the wrong way

*Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it, don't say it, don't sa* I didn't know Travis was engaged to a man. Good for him!

It’s funny because now I think of Enema and TOYPAJ as being extremely similar albums. I think of them as a pair.

“shit! People aren’t falling for it this time.. I know!! I’ll mention Mark and blink! That’ll get them onboard!”

Really looking forward to the Delongeverse

Keep this cunt out of blink all I gotta say. Don’t want him trying this shit with that band.

All of this boils down to how Tom views his fans; dollar signs. "Look Netflix! I have all of these followers and rabid fans, I can convince them to buy my merch and fund my shit and make YOU money!" Maybe Mark won't switch up the set-list and maybe Skiba never could 100% nail some guitar riffs, but at least they don't view you only as a piggy bank.

Tom reteeeted this lmao

Every once in a while we could do one of those "On this day in 199X the band played" posts.

I’m taking a guess it hasn’t been posted yet, but Mark confirmed it was just a joke on his Discord, stating that: “It’s just Chris (@mrtsurt) having fun. He wants me to host it. There has been no talks. No mention. Just Chris putting it out in the universe. Although I would absolutely kill it.”

He has not ever been good at pop punk. No memorable riffs, lyrics, all a bunch of gimmicks. Eat it. I tried listening to his wack ass music and not one song is memorable or ever got stuck in my head. Couldn’t recall any of that garbage if you put a wiener in my face.

Happy Birthday to Mr. Scott "Mad Dog" Raynor! My biggest drum inspiration and influence that he had on my drumming can't be measured (started playing drums after spending so much time watching old school live footage of the band!).

That’s his wife.

Give Me One Good Reason is one of my faves too. It’s dumb AF but I still laugh at “hate the jocks, the preps, the hippy fucking scumbags” after all these years. I am also a hardcore Everytime I Look For You fan. The bridge is orgasmic. Story Of A Lonely Guy, Online Songs, Time To Break Up, the whole album is a slam dunk for me.

Love was, hands down, the most boring fucking thing I’ve ever sat through.

This is all I want from Tom

Man this is so depressing. Tom is legitimately evil for taking advantage of these poor saps. 15 large films in the works… how many see the light of day? Setting the over/under at 1.5. Who is he making these films for?!? A couple thousand people might actually see these films, and that’s perhaps generous.

It’s sad because if Tom never left blink in 2005, he probably could have built blink into this massive multimedia project thing for adolescents and mark and Travis could have kept things within reason and gotten massive funding from labels, investors, etc. under the blink name to do these ambitious things he wanted to. Instead this is the type of stuff we’ve gotten since 2005, cool ideas that are underfunded / half assed and completely chaotic in direction since he has to have all of the control. Its not unbelievable to me that blink would be playing stadiums right now like Coldplay and the killers and potentially even theatrical movies they help produce; but this is where we are.

Oh dear, that trailer is baaaaaad

Objectively speaking, it's a generic b-rate movie trailer with a crazy Tom joke at the end. Visually, it will look okay, but will have a terrible story line and bad acting. We've done this before with Love and Poet Anderson (lol). I seriously don't understand why he wastes his time with this stuff. And then has the audacity to ask his fans to fund it.

This is what I've got.

I was so stoked the other week when I heard that podcast with Tom and of course now he's back acting like a con artist and grifter, I'm crushed.

Apparently all members of The Empire Club get their subscription renewed for an extra year for free... along with a message saying that the band is busy with their own separate projects right now and probably won't be active in the Empire Club this year. lol. Free subscription but zero content!

This is so gross. I don't even know what to say.

Ehhh, pretty generous to give him credit for anything. Out of the 1,000 fake videos he's posted, like one or two were verified as "unidentified." Who cares? Just because CNN ran with it for some click-bait doesn't mean he did anything special.

Ehhh.... late night talk shows are a fucking tough gig even for an actual experienced professional comedian to take on. I wouldn't wish this on Mark, I don't think it would work out very well. I could easily see him being great in a bandleader/sidekick role on a show like this though.

On the plus side, he’s definitely better than James Corden.

Diddy you quoted a post from 16 years ago my friend

Doesn't get hinted at or mentioned at all, they didn't discuss anything about the breakups or current Blink or anything like that. But he certainly seemed comfortable talking about Mark and telling old Blink stories in a way that seemed super normal and friendly instead of the strained/embarrassed way he's approached it in the past. But 99% of the convo was about the early early punk scene days and bands they hung out with and listened to back then, and some hilarious stories. I was surprised by how coherent Tom was, and by all the different bands/shows/stories he could remember off the top of his head. He was in great spirits and truly seemed more sane than he has in years haha.

It still feels weird that Travis is a celebrity beyond "the drummer from blink." I have no problem with the Kardashian antics, it's just odd seeing him show up randomly in celebrity gossip.

I wore vans at my wedding, comfy AF

I took a survey today that I think was from Apple. I was asked about several tech companies and was asked "do you feel like Apple is threatening?" and I said "yes" and the next question was "WHY DID YOU SAY THAT ABOUT APPLE?" and I said "I dunno".

My favorite nowadays is Roller Coaster. And then Everytime I Look foe You.

the rick podcast was interesting. he basically confirms scott brought all of the bullshit upon himself. we always assumed that but never heard it directly from the guy who had to officially remove him. i also do not understand his opinion on toypaj. there were a couple "tone shifting" tracks but for the most part it was just enema pt 2.

Wab “on this day, member xx ragequit because this and that”. You could have patented buns as a hashtag!