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.

[GOFFGLAZER2025]

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!?

[_Kyle_]

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. 

[boxelder]

On 6/14/2025 at 8:09 AM, 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 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.

[allsystemsgo]

Apparently Mark may be doing a deluxe release of his book, whatever that means. I still haven't bought the book yet so it seems my procrastinating might have paid off.

[Elisa]

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

[allsystemsgo]

19 minutes ago, Elisa said:

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

Very true. First albums and now (possibly) books. How much material could he possibly add? Just stuff from the OMT tour?

[Elisa]

21 minutes ago, allsystemsgo said:

Very true. First albums and now (possibly) books. How much material could he possibly add? Just stuff from the OMT tour?

I think Mark should have talked more about some recording sessions or the MTV years (with fun or weird encounters/anecdotes), and the Skiba era felt very rushed, but we don't need a deluxe edition for that. 
As for the second reunion, I kinda like how the book starts from Mark's desert town and ends at the Coachella show in the middle of the desert so I'm not mad he didn't talk about OMT. 

[_Kyle_]

On 5/2/2025 at 10:58 AM, _Kyle_ said:

I wish there was a deluxe version of the book that has all the fat the hoppusheads want and need. 

well I guess my wish came true

[Russel Coight]

I will be downloading a free ebook of any deluxe edition of the book because that might be the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.

Book DLC is next level.

[Knapppers]

lol we’re getting micro transactions for books now. They’re everywhere. 

[MSandt]

A pretty fun read, but the book is really quite short, like 250 pages if it didn't have pictures and all the empty space between chapters (of which there are a zillion). I also liked the bits in Ridgecrest the most as this was pretty unfamiliar territory. There's disappointingly little stuff about songwriting and recording:(

[Ghost]

On 6/14/2025 at 2:09 PM, 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

You can fell totally alone being surrounded by thousands of people. 

Plus, Mark has been dealing with anxiety and depression, so makes sense to have seen him 'detached'. 

[Dook]

Mark being super jazzed about finishing Untitled and Tom saying " I never want to do that again" made me sad. They've been quoted saying it's their favorite blink release but their experiences with it were vastly different. Still hopeful that one day they'll lock themselves away and create a super unique blink album.

[bobbo11290]

On 5/19/2025 at 9:35 AM, boxelder said:

yeah, that segment shocked me too. can't believe he was embarrassing them in meetings. and the stuff about the tour "breaking" their team was interesting too -- that they were so difficult to work with people who had spent years touring with them quit. i was glad he gave more detail on that era for sure.

What was going on during that era? I’m intrigued.

[_Kyle_]

https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/fahrenheit182

DELUXE IS UP