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So a bit back I posted that my buddy sold something on eBay to Skiba and requested a sketch. Coincidentally enough a couple months later Skiba bought something from me as well so I went ahead and requested a sketch too

Find some funny stuff for the timeline website! Joe Strummer "I can even handle Blink one-eight-two. Because my daughters are into Blink 182." From MTV 120 Minutes October 3rd 1999 guest Joe Strummer Original source (at 17:30) @Elisa @_Bagel

the deluxe edition release of a book is such a stupid idea (cash-grab)

I think mark was doing deadpan/awkward humor there about the dead dogs. Typical intrusive thoughts too. I did not come away from the book Mark was on the spectrum of autism, but obviously OCD and just being in control of certain things/thoughts. I know that typically goes hand in hand with people who can be really hard on themselves and Mark seems like the type where he struggles with self-worth along with cynical aspects of themselves (this is kind ironic considering he's an unabashed Disney adult, but it sounds like a nice reprieve from dark thoughts and makes sense when openly has some arrested development). I don't remember if he firmly states it, but Tom being in his life gave him an outlet to be the blink 182 "Mark" and probably let him escape the side of him that dwelled on negativity and stuff he can't control. Almost like the friendship/competition between them gave Mark a form of regression therapy of sorts. You stay young/free and you don't have to deal with the problems of being an adult as much and never confront the hardships of childhood. Then you write a bleak song like Adam Song because you've been shielding/medicating yourself with friends/girls/bandshit for years and you just got into a huge fight with a true friend like Scott. When I got to the part where he was not sure what he was gonna do with his life until he met Tom/Scott and that propelled him, it felt like that was a pretty low point in his life/self-worth and that lasted until he was threatened by BCR (as far as we know). I think that was a hook for me with this memoir. I could very much relate to all of that.

Blink merch is so shit. I wanna rep the boys but wouldn’t be seen dead wearing any of those hoodies or t shirts.

I once dreamed of a blink song called Timothy and it was so amazing in the dream (they were playing it live) but I just couldn’t even hum it when I woke up because I didn’t remember it at all.

Toby Morse is clearly not a great interviewer haha, I'm an hour in now and it is still basically: TOBY: "So like, you guys toured in a van and shit right?" MARK: "Yeah!" MARK: "Sooo sick bro, damn! That shit was crazy right?" The Travis and Tom interviews were a lot better, if I remember right they were both friends/acquaintances with Toby from over the years but it doesn't seem like Mark is. That probably has a little bit to do with it.

Also I think it’s worth noting that a couple of Kardashians are present for Jeff Bezo’s wedding…but not the one who is married to Travis. Glad they didn’t attend that bullshit.

I feel weird knowing that Fap thinks about me in the middle of the night.

It’s pretty cool fap. Chill.

I liked the book. It found a good balance of catering to casual fans while giving hardcore fans some new tidbits. Would I have liked more? Of course, I could have read 4 volumes, 800 pages each on this guy. But the casual fans would have been bored. I do wonder if Mark is a bit on the spectrum, his writing style is very matter of fact about stuff I felt should have been more emotional. I especially found the photo of him and his dogs weird where he wrote something like "those dogs are dead". It was also odd how he referred to being alone after Travis left the Plus 44 tour meanwhile he has his tons of fans and other bandmates. This was the unscripted Mark I saw during the Blink soundcheck in 2016. Very detached. Very professional and emotionless. Tom has his faults, but after reading the book, he isn't as much of an ass as we thought all those years. Finally he talked about the TOYPAJ album signings being absolutely miserable. That was something that got lost for so many years. But I remember the posts from fans back in 2001 about it how terrible it was. 7/10

i had to put that shit on like 1.75x speed to get through it, just to see if there were any interesting bits. mark gets better as the interview goes on. i've literally never heard someone talk more than toby. it's like he's nervous to let the other person get a word in edgewise. mark sort-of picks that up and just lets him go, but it's soooo awful. add in "oh so sick dude", "fuck, that's crazy", etc and he's absolutely insufferable. you would think being in a band like h2o would have made him more relaxed around other pro musicians, but i guess that's not always the case.

God I listened to the first 30 minutes in my car this morning and I turned it off because I thought it was unlistenable. Toby is basically reading the book back at Mark with some nice comments but Mark’s answers are only “yeah” - “right”. The conversation was way more fluid in the other interviews.

Fuck yeah. Good find Mon Ami. I think blink once said they consider themselves a Fisher-Price 'My First Punk Band'. If you can follow the thread from blink to The Clash, then Blink did their job - still do. RIP Joe

Oasis suing anyone must be trolling. Their rip offs are even more blatant than Green Day.

Anyone see that video of the kid trolling Green Day at their recent concert by playing Wonderwall? Lol I’m sure some of you GD haters will get a kick out of it. They invited kid to play a song as they often do, and he started playing Wonderwall…Billie got pretty pissed and kicked him off stage immediately lol. Gotta say that shits pretty fucking funny

Thinking of wearing this today. It’s a size too big, but I don’t mind. I got it at the blink show I went to in Lisbon. The merch girl was super friendly and funny, and I remember her wearing one just like this. I’d relieve that day in a heartbeat. The vibe was unreal. #livejournal😀

I'd tax her to oblivion if it was up to me. I'm here for the tunes

Surprised nobody posted this here yet. This is pretty cool, I’ve always known the guys were blink fans since seeing one of Tom’s Starcasters in the background. And unlike Jan, these dudes know ball!

here https://m.vk.com/video796393836_456239026

I had a dream once where I was hanging out with Tom for like a whole day. We were doing regular stuff like shopping and running errands, but I was also secretly trying not to fan girl. It was hilarious to wake up from

It's so weird when you hear new music in a dream. I always wonder what it would sound like if I could hear it while conscious. Would it be a complete rip-off of another song? Would it be a garbled mess that isn't even slightly musical? Would it actually be a cool (and original) song that would be worth writing and recording?

i don't think he's necessarily on the spectrum; his joke about the dogs being dead is just the type of typical dark humor you find in a lot of gen x-er's. as for the +44 winter tour anecdote, i feel like he was just trying to capture just HOW lost he felt. two years before, he was touring arenas and guesting on MTV. now he couldn't he count on travis -- he was stuck in germany, with some bandmates he (barely) knew playing some pretty negative songs. as for the soundcheck memory, i definitely know what you're saying -- he was super all-business as i recall, when they let fans see them at soundcheck. but the thing is, i feel like if i were a musician, it would be super annoying to have fans there when you're just trying to get the volume/mics right. they're all expecting a performance and engagement but you're just trying to get something done. it turns performing into a multi-part affair, which i might find annoying too. seems like something management may have talked them into during that era, given how little they've done it since.

great song, can't wait for the album.

So this is really sad news for the music world. May his soul rest in peace. What a loss. His music plays a huge part in my life since I was a teenager. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/11/brian-wilson-beach-boys-dies

But he paid to hang out with him, what do you mean they aren't friends!?

I’m so sad about it. A true genius. Changed the sound landscape in the sixties, challenged the best songwriters in the world to do better, RIP.

The Starting Line are now Dad rock and I fully support this.

They are so much better than this, I wasn't expecting a hardcore album by any means, but they were supposed to push boundaries and they ended up rehashing their last album with the same melodies, a different guitar tone and some delay effects here and there.

He wasn’t bad with Tom, I loved that interview, I just can’t get through this one.

isn't he a seasoned musician? why is this news? did he think our band could be your life was fiction?

He still owes us a full unfettered interview. Maybe in 10 years. With @Ghent as the interviewer.

I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling this way. I think those 30 minutes were the worst interview I’ve ever listened to. Toby is terrible but Mark isn’t helping him either. When Tom was on, it still felt like Toby was reading his life off wikipedia, but it worked because when he mentioned some facts like “you got your first guitar” / “you got kicked out of school” / “you started listening to the descendents” then Tom went on a tangent and was great at keeping the conversation going, with Mark its jarring. Why did he even go to the podcast if he didn’t wanna expand a little bit on the book 😂 but I’ll give it another try during the weekend and I hope it gets better at some point 😂

toby morse can be an irritating interviewer -- has anyone ever talked MORE? but there were some amusing relevations from this back and forth: Tom and Mark shared a bus for a leg of the one more time tour. i dont know why i was so shocked or surprised by this, but for two guys who would travel separately on buses, the idea of them SHARING one, especially with their wealth, shocked me. it just goes to show how much has changed -- or perhaps the insane cost of touring nowadays. the official meaning of the "vagina exploding" story from the book: mark's wife had an ovarian cyst burst. he just found it funny in the context of the big VMA success to juxtapose it with a story like that. mark flew so much when making his fuse show and living in london that he was offered american airlines concierge key status — the highest level they have lol. it's so elite that it isn't even publicized. royalty!

It sounds like they never went away. They haven’t bothered with this new pop punk sound. It’s great

Great song 💞

the boys are back. I love these cunts

i love seein' stars, but that's because it's basically tame impala. the rest of the singles i heard were just extremely bland. i feel like writers/journalists have been coddling them with light praise because everyone knows the band lost a huge asset in ebert. and it's really sad, too... band blows up huge, makes biggest hardcore album ever, guitarist chooses drugs over the band. so you want to root for them. and the visuals are cool, the songs sound great... but the riffs are just missing, and the songs just meander. again, that's based off my impression of the singles, but i haven't heard promising things about the rest

Totally. There are definitely a few good songs on it. I like the old stuff and the new stuff so I just want them to make good music. I don’t care which style it is.

Because it’s an album for the new fans (although gatekeeping new fans is corny) - I personally hope I’ll change my mind about it, maybe in the future when I revisit the album - and I let people like it if they like it because there is way worse music to hate on. Turnstile are good people and it’s great to see them succeed, and even more so if you consider that they are a hardcore band.

Ya think they parted ways with him, and from what I read, he was the main song writer and the guy who has the riffs and gave them their heavy sound. exactly. So many of the songs sound exactly like their old stuff. The album sounds so stale and just like a worse version of the last one.

Yup same here, I really enjoyed the Tom one.

I loved his episode with Tom. I'll probably have to read the book before I listen to this one.

Yeah Tom is an open book so he loves fucking rambling on but Mark is more of a closed book I feel and how many times can he speak about this book. I know he has to plug it but fucking hell I think he’s bored out of his skull talking about it, he’s great in other interviews

i hate shit like that. I'd rather someone just ask wild ass questions.

Man, you guys really aren't selling this interview lmao. Sounds like it's a background while gaming podcast and not one that needs my full attention.

Yeah mark is not giving much but the interviewer is terrible, he’s not asking mark questions he’s just reading back his book like you said. 3 hours of that is insane

I can’t wait to listen! And I agree that he’s irritating, but I loved the interviews he did with Tom, Travis and Skiba

Just got into their newest album, Skeletà, really digging it. Umbra, Cenotaph, and Mark of the Evil One are my faves 😁