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

[Sgt. Rainbow]

9 minutes ago, boxelder said:

i don't even post here a lot man, don't scare me off

I’ll protect you!

[Russel Coight]

59 minutes ago, boxelder said:

i don't even post here a lot man, don't scare me off

Don’t stress. He’ll rage quit again soon.

[Speedo]

9 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

Don’t stress. He’ll rage quit again soon.

YJP,YGOI!

[Kay]

I don’t think Mark’s book will be anything like Travis’s and I imagine the cancer will be a large portion of it, I am curious to read it.

[Russel Coight]

Mark got married/met Skye around the big fame time so we won’t get the “I had sex with this girl” shit. I reckon Mark won’t let us down.

[allsystemsgo]

I think Mark's story will be great with some juicy details. I couldn't get into Travis's gangbanger and hip-hop shit.

[Ghent]

I enjoyed Travis' book. It made me view him differently because it brought more pop punk/punk scene credibility to him in my eyes. Before I saw him mostly as a hip hop wannabe type.

The sex and partying parts played less of a role than I expected. I figured the entire book was going to be that.

 

[_Bagel]

Think divorce, Robert Smith, Tom Delonge, cancer and Mario Kart will colour the book

[thongrider]

Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of that tree story.

[Thibaut182]

Are there any rare pictures of the band in the book ?

 

[Coddled Jan]

9 hours ago, Thibaut182 said:

Are there any rare pictures of the band in the book ?

 

Like what? You’ve wanked to every picture on google images already?

[Russel Coight]

25 minutes ago, Locean Breeze - Jan said:

Like what? You’ve wanked to every picture on google images already?

Weird low blow dude.

[Elisa]

14 hours ago, Thibaut182 said:

Are there any rare pictures of the band in the book ?

 

At some point while working on this book, Mark and Jack went through all the pictures his mom had kept throughout the years (she had saved everything and had a garage with boxes full of old pictures and blink stuff) - I’m sure there will be a few cool pictures on the book. 

[Patient #48273]

5 hours ago, Russel Coight said:

Weird low blow dude.

I also get the feeling he read the joke somewhere else first. Really pathetic behaviour from Jan.

[boxelder]

Barnes and noble here in the states have been putting the book out early and it doesn’t appear to be street dated. I’ve got my copy and am reading now. I’ll post a review later. So far it’s good!

[Sgt. Rainbow]

On 2/26/2025 at 9:21 PM, Russel Coight said:

Don’t stress. He’ll rage quit again soon.

Nostradamus over here 

[Russel Coight]

1 hour ago, Ballz 2 tha Walz said:

Nostradamus over here 

It was obvious as the sun rising in the east.

[boxelder]

thank the barnes and noble gods for giving me the experience of buying this book a week early.

fahrenheit 182 is a standard rock bio to some degree — it hits the highs and lows, enough for fans and casual readers to enjoy in equal measure. the bulk of the book focuses on the band at the peak of post-Y2K millennial fame, which is both to be expected — it’s all he ever wanted — but it means the second half of the book can feel like diminishing returns, in a way that mirrors the band’s career. that means the skiba era gets the shaft, a dick joke i hope we can all appreciate.

the way the book is broken up into very short chapters surprisingly serves it well, giving mark spaces to relish in fun anecdotes and stories, some of which he’s told before and many that are newly public. much like the band name “blink” was imagined as a fast action noun, mark initially bounces from memory to memory rapidly in a way that might leave some readers overloaded, like a sugary soda or an ADD gen-Xer flipping cable channels. but it’s in wise service of the point that his life breaks with his parents’ divorce… a trauma that refuses to heal, and manifests itself through his story. from there, mark dives deeper, despite the conversational tone. to this end, it exceeded my expectations… as a longtime fan with a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of the band, i knew the story of writing “carousel”, or “rock show”/“first date” would make it in. but there are some bombshell revelations across this tome, far more than i had anticipated.

among them: mark has severe anxiety and OCD that has worsened at points in the band’s history. his childhood fear of things that fall apart put his role in the trio as mediator, analogous to the role of the bass in any rock lineup. mark likes order, and hates disorder. without blink, he has no identity. his cancer diaries, abridged in this release, are deeply dark and revealing — a truly raw insight into his thinking and lack of respect for himself. and not as often, mark’s history as a bookworm gives rise to a writerly style that truly shines… how the shag carpet of his childhood home he would lay on listening to records “betrayed him” as the apple juice soaked into it in the midst of a fight. or how the light from the lamppost outside the studio during the breakup brought to mind the lamppost he climbed at the start of the band. for me, the harrowing story of the domestic abuse he witnessed that manifested itself later in “go” is an extraordinary highlight.

the stories of the breakups aren’t as vitriolic or intense as a fan like me might savor, but it doesn’t need to be at this point, in 2025. he says plenty without saying too much, on subjects of interest like BCR, modlife, wives, and more. and some moments don’t make the cut: he never mentions his brief career as a producer, and +44 comes and goes (on chapter 44, i might add) without much background. but almost everything is here: the jokes and tears, the summit and the bottom. even stories told elsewhere, like the punk days of starting the band, or shooting the music videos, are riveting and given new energy. all of the photos are culled from mark’s personal collection, so there’s a few new shots, and they’re thoughtfully dispersed throughout the text. also: the story of mark meeting his wife is EXTREMELY cute.

altogether, it’s about as honest on most things as a fan could hope, but more pedestrian and less viscerally exciting as travis’s gun-toting, gangsta memoir. but his trials with cancer and self-doubt make it far more down-to-earth than its counterpart, and more likable overall. it’s the bio we “always” wanted. and while the focus on the limelight of the past can feel like a concession — to the reader, to the publisher, to everyone — it simply makes sense. in truth, blink is an old band now, and they’re squarely in the rearview. but after all: the past is only the future with the lights on. 

now for the juicy tidbits. if you would rather wait and read the whole book, PLEASE ignore what’s below in the spoiler tag. but given how avidly i’ve waited and other fans have waited, i wanted to collect the most surprising, shocking reveals, especially for those that simply can’t wait:

Spoiler

• the 1996 move to a major was more convenient than intentional: blink was planning to sign to epitaph, but as cargo had been bought by MCA, epitaph could not afford to buy them out of their contract.
• the story of scott breaking his heels after getting too drunk at the hotel del coronado was after a fight with his girlfriend — not out of belligerent exuberance, as has been assumed over the years.
• scott was very unhappy in the band in addition to being an alcoholic, and on one occasion KICKED his kit so hard the ride cymbal accidentally gashed tom across his head — clearly adding to the strain.
• travis alludes to this in his book, but the band dealt with stalkers at the height of their fame, including someone so dangerous they parked outside their homes and monitored their every moves.
• blink-182 and green day HATE each other. green day broke several provisions in the contract of the pop disaster tour in order to embarrass blink including their set times and length, and were super fake to the band.
• from mark’s telling, tom became enormously secretive post-fame. his quiet development of BCR and how it employed all of the blink entourage — from the label to lawyers to tour staff — was a serious wound.
• robert smith was extremely creepy with the band at the wembley show… i’ll leave it at that.
• the vitriol and anger fans picked up on at during that last run of 04 shows, including dublin, was entirely real… the joke insults became more pointed, mark notes.
• +44 was enormously unprofitable: they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars when they toured.
• in perhaps the most shocking reveal in the bio, mark reveals a late-00s interest in scuba diving. on one seaside excursion, he is responsible for a new student, a “buddy”, who goes off course underwater and drowns. this specter of death — compounded by him witnessing a plane crash, jerry finn’s aneurysm, and travis’s own plane crash — haunts this segment of the book.
• extreme bombshell: tom did not attend jerry finn’s funeral, purportedly because finn declined to produce AVA, but instead worked with mark on +44. “i hated him for that,” mark writes.
• the grammy reunion in 2009 was extremely awkward and ill-considered, and kicked off the initial reunion was a downbeat note.
• as fans assumed, tom’s marriage with jen seemed to grow toxic. mark alludes to it several times — from the unspoken competition she waged with skye, to an angry phone call tom received in 2004 mark overheard where jen berated him for being gone too long and leaving her to take care of their kids. additionally, he calls their divorce as tom’s “emotional rock bottom,” and describes new wife marie as kind and caring.
• also as fans assumed, tom’s preoccupation with modlife drove a strange wedge between the members in the 2010s era. tom’s entire drive to record DED was to release it through modlife. he tried to basically make blink a “multimedia experience,” which made both mark and travis uncomfortable. likewise, mark holds travis accountable for his behavior in the neighborhoods era too: insisting he only review mixes in his cadillac, so much so that they rented a cadillac on the neighborhoods tour for him to listen to mixes in that he rarely used.
• in a surprising bit of self-reflection, he recounts the casino shows of 2013 or corporate gigs (like blizzcon) as “soul-crushing”.
• mark glosses over the skiba era in very few pages and barely mentions him. tellingly, he often refers to he and travis when driving the band’s creative direction, not matt. he also describes john feldmann as both brilliant but “deeply unhappy” — a shocking note that confirms fan suspicions mark may have soured on feldy post-california.
• he acknowledges that collaborating with outside songwriters initially made him uncomfortable, but concedes he “doesn’t know how to make albums” in the modern age. to that end, he reveals that sony’s intent with NINE was to makeover the band as a true crossover act, and shepherded them into making it with “big pop producers”.
• tom and mark met at some point, perhaps in 2019 and 2020, to “hash things out”, and tom basically begged for his friendship back, and claimed he would never hurt mark or travis again. only after mark’s diagnosis did the new tom — “rebuilding” his life and more positive than ever — make inroads on this promise.

[Sgt. Rainbow]

12 minutes ago, boxelder said:

thank the barnes and noble gods for giving me the experience of buying this book a week early.

fahrenheit 182 is a standard rock bio to some degree — it hits the highs and lows, enough for fans and casual readers to enjoy in equal measure. the bulk of the book focuses on the band at the peak of post-Y2K millennial fame, which is both to be expected — it’s all he ever wanted — but it means the second half of the book can feel like diminishing returns, in a way that mirrors the band’s career. that means the skiba era gets the shaft, a dick joke i hope we can all appreciate.

the way the book is broken up into very short chapters surprisingly serves it well, giving mark spaces to relish in fun anecdotes and stories, some of which he’s told before and many that are newly public. much like the band name “blink” was imagined as a fast action noun, mark initially bounces from memory to memory rapidly in a way that might leave some readers overloaded, like a sugary soda or an ADD gen-Xer flipping cable channels. but it’s in wise service of the point that his life breaks with his parents’ divorce… a trauma that refuses to heal, and manifests itself through his story. from there, mark dives deeper, despite the conversational tone. to this end, it exceeded my expectations… as a longtime fan with a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of the band, i knew the story of writing “carousel”, or “rock show”/“first date” would make it in. but there are some bombshell revelations across this tome, far more than i had anticipated.

among them: mark has severe anxiety and OCD that has worsened at points in the band’s history. his childhood fear of things that fall apart put his role in the trio as mediator, analogous to the role of the bass in any rock lineup. mark likes order, and hates disorder. without blink, he has no identity. his cancer diaries, abridged in this release, are deeply dark and revealing — a truly raw insight into his thinking and lack of respect for himself. and not as often, mark’s history as a bookworm gives rise to a writerly style that truly shines… how the shag carpet of his childhood home he would lay on listening to records “betrayed him” as the apple juice soaked into it in the midst of a fight. or how the light from the lamppost outside the studio during the breakup brought to mind the lamppost he climbed at the start of the band. for me, the harrowing story of the domestic abuse he witnessed that manifested itself later in “go” is an extraordinary highlight.

the stories of the breakups aren’t as vitriolic or intense as a fan like me might savor, but it doesn’t need to be at this point, in 2025. he says plenty without saying too much, on subjects of interest like BCR, modlife, wives, and more. and some moments don’t make the cut: he never mentions his brief career as a producer, and +44 comes and goes (on chapter 44, i might add) without much background. but almost everything is here: the jokes and tears, the summit and the bottom. even stories told elsewhere, like the punk days of starting the band, or shooting the music videos, are riveting and given new energy. all of the photos are culled from mark’s personal collection, so there’s a few new shots, and they’re thoughtfully dispersed throughout the text. also: the story of mark meeting his wife is EXTREMELY cute.

altogether, it’s about as honest on most things as a fan could hope, but more pedestrian and less viscerally exciting as travis’s gun-toting, gangsta memoir. but his trials with cancer and self-doubt make it far more down-to-earth than its counterpart, and more likable overall. it’s the bio we “always” wanted. and while the focus on the limelight of the past can feel like a concession — to the reader, to the publisher, to everyone — it simply makes sense. in truth, blink is an old band now, and they’re squarely in the rearview. but after all: the past is only the future with the lights on. 

now for the juicy tidbits. if you would rather wait and read the whole book, PLEASE ignore what’s below in the spoiler tag. but given how avidly i’ve waited and other fans have waited, i wanted to collect the most surprising, shocking reveals, especially for those that simply can’t wait:

  Hide contents

• the 1996 move to a major was more convenient than intentional: blink was planning to sign to epitaph, but as cargo had been bought by MCA, epitaph could not afford to buy them out of their contract.
• the story of scott breaking his heels after getting too drunk at the hotel del coronado was after a fight with his girlfriend — not out of belligerent exuberance, as has been assumed over the years.
• scott was very unhappy in the band in addition to being an alcoholic, and on one occasion KICKED his kit so hard the ride cymbal accidentally gashed tom across his head — clearly adding to the strain.
• travis alludes to this in his book, but the band dealt with stalkers at the height of their fame, including someone so dangerous they parked outside their homes and monitored their every moves.
• blink-182 and green day HATE each other. green day broke several provisions in the contract of the pop disaster tour in order to embarrass blink including their set times and length, and were super fake to the band.
• from mark’s telling, tom became enormously secretive post-fame. his quiet development of BCR and how it employed all of the blink entourage — from the label to lawyers to tour staff — was a serious wound.
• robert smith was extremely creepy with the band at the wembley show… i’ll leave it at that.
• the vitriol and anger fans picked up on at during that last run of 04 shows, including dublin, was entirely real… the joke insults became more pointed, mark notes.
• +44 was enormously unprofitable: they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars when they toured.
• in perhaps the most shocking reveal in the bio, mark reveals a late-00s interest in scuba diving. on one seaside excursion, he is responsible for a new student, a “buddy”, who goes off course underwater and drowns. this specter of death — compounded by him witnessing a plane crash, jerry finn’s aneurysm, and travis’s own plane crash — haunts this segment of the book.
• extreme bombshell: tom did not attend jerry finn’s funeral, purportedly because finn declined to produce AVA, but instead worked with mark on +44. “i hated him for that,” mark writes.
• the grammy reunion in 2009 was extremely awkward and ill-considered, and kicked off the initial reunion was a downbeat note.
• as fans assumed, tom’s marriage with jen seemed to grow toxic. mark alludes to it several times — from the unspoken competition she waged with skye, to an angry phone call tom received in 2004 mark overheard where jen berated him for being gone too long and leaving her to take care of their kids. additionally, he calls their divorce as tom’s “emotional rock bottom,” and describes new wife marie as kind and caring.
• also as fans assumed, tom’s preoccupation with modlife drove a strange wedge between the members in the 2010s era. tom’s entire drive to record DED was to release it through modlife. he tried to basically make blink a “multimedia experience,” which made both mark and travis uncomfortable. likewise, mark holds travis accountable for his behavior in the neighborhoods era too: insisting he only review mixes in his cadillac, so much so that they rented a cadillac on the neighborhoods tour for him to listen to mixes in that he rarely used.
• in a surprising bit of self-reflection, he recounts the casino shows of 2013 or corporate gigs (like blizzcon) as “soul-crushing”.
• mark glosses over the skiba era in very few pages and barely mentions him. tellingly, he often refers to he and travis when driving the band’s creative direction, not matt. he also describes john feldmann as both brilliant but “deeply unhappy” — a shocking note that confirms fan suspicions mark may have soured on feldy post-california.
• he acknowledges that collaborating with outside songwriters initially made him uncomfortable, but concedes he “doesn’t know how to make albums” in the modern age. to that end, he reveals that sony’s intent with NINE was to makeover the band as a true crossover act, and shepherded them into making it with “big pop producers”.
• tom and mark met at some point, perhaps in 2019 and 2020, to “hash things out”, and tom basically begged for his friendship back, and claimed he would never hurt mark or travis again. only after mark’s diagnosis did the new tom — “rebuilding” his life and more positive than ever — make inroads on this promise.

God damn. You read the entire book and wrote this review on the same day? Lol cheers. Can’t wait to get a copy of Mark’s book!

[boxelder]

14 minutes ago, Ballz 2 tha Walz said:

God damn. You read the entire book and wrote this review on the same day? Lol cheers. Can’t wait to get a copy of Mark’s book!

Lazy Sunday!