we'll blast the stereo and we'll drive to madagascar

the blink182 reunion had me digging thru the archives the past few days. blink was probably the first band that i followed on a serious basis. listening to each album back to buddha brings me back to specific times and places. i've dug up some goodies, here we have "Stalking Mark Hoppus Through the Ages":

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warped 99, my first. i won the tickets from y100 ( foreshadowing?). do i look dumbstruck due to the beginning of a life-long crush, or because i just had my face blown off after seeing h2o and the bouncing souls for the first time?? i had just turned 15, and it was all downhill from here.


fall 2003, dollar bill tour at the tla. you know that alley between imagine and the steak place where they line up kids before shows? yea i slept in that alley to get tickets for this show. i got THE LAST ticket too. so day of show we went back early to wait and mark came out and hung out with the kids for a while. tom was around but was kind of a dick, refused to sign anything or talk to anyone (more foreshadowing?) second to last blink show i ever saw.



fall 2006, +44 at the tla. total heartbreaker because i had to skip new found at the factory, but got to interview them for yrock with josh. this was when travis's wrist was all screwed up so he was out of his mind on, at least, painkillers,.... i was offered drugs from the BIGGEST BAG OF WEED I HAVE EVER SEEN by his assistant (who later died in the plane crash). After the show Mark came out and signed stuff for every kid in the place, and got some more promo stuff signed, "for the station".



i cannot wait for the new album/tour. i hope it follows the path they were laying with the self titled, and tom's craziness/ego/AvA influence is dialed down. hopefully they won't kill each other in the process. now all we need is a movielife and midtown reunion and 16 year old me will be truly satisfied