Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir By Mark Hoppus (April 8, 2025)

[Champ182]

12 hours ago, Ghent said:

That laminate floor was my old house lmao. I purposely took the nice clips I was sent and made shitty video recordings for reasons I don’t entirely remember. I think it was to see who would betray me and also prevent them from getting picked up by YouTube scanners for leaked music.

Pretty sure I was the one who sent you those boxelder. I only sent them to a few people because everyone else here was still spending their days bagging on Skiba and California so I didn’t really want to share anything with them.

I remember posting actual lyrics from songs no one had heard and no one had any idea or ever noticed after the fact 😂

This is a SCANDAL

[thongrider]

I finished it last night. I didn't expect it to this good. I definitely preferred the chapters befote blink though. I'm not sure why the 43rd chapter was about +44. Was also a bit surprised even if I shouldn't have been that Mark wasn't familiar with the pop videos they were parodying in atst. That's why it was so weird he was so into getting into the pop game with NINE.

[fElon]

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

[thongrider]

20 minutes ago, fElon said:

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 found it strange how the writing style of his C diary was to the rest of the book and makes me wonder how much involvment Ozzi had. Tom wanting to introduce a blink board game instead of talking about new music cracked me up.

[Click Track Jack]

7 hours ago, fElon said:

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

Fans are not going to help someone as famous as Mark not feel lonely. He has millions of fans. I’m sorry to tell you this, but he does not think of you like friends or family. 

[OliverIsTheNewDylan]

5 hours ago, Click Track Jack said:

Fans are not going to help someone as famous as Mark not feel lonely. He has millions of fans. I’m sorry to tell you this, but he does not think of you like friends or family. 

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