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Blink - One Eighty Two
There are 3 members of this great once punk now, pop-punk band, They are, Bass and Vocalist Mark Hoppus, Guitar and Vocalist Tom DeLonge and Drummer Travis Barker, The first album Travis did with Blink 182 was Enema Of The State, This was because Blink 182's original drummer was Scott Raynor who's last album with Blink was Dude Ranch. Blink 182 are my fave band, Why? Go and listen to Dude Ranch then you will understand...


Interesting facts
The guy on the back of Chesire Cat is actually called Brian

Mark has water on his cereal!

Prior to joining the band, Travis played in a group called "The Aquabats"

At every Blink show, Mark writes a different message on his speaker with white duct tape. Anything from "Hi Mom!" to "I have no idea where I am". Once he even wrote a message to his girlfriend after they had been fighting over who loved the other more. He wrote "I love you more".

Have you had the volume up loud enough to hear Mark whisper "Here we go motherf*ckers" at the very beginning of The Party Song?

Travis has multiple piercings and around 50 tattoos. All together they cost around ,000. Well, that's pocket money on his wages!

Tom is a trekkie. He believes in aliens and alien conspiracies etc. He also believes that he has "been abducted and probed in the anus... on purpose".

In the video for 'Dammit' there is a poster for the Italian movie "Farinelli". It's the touching story of a man who had his testicles removed so he could sing soprano.

In the chorus to the Party Song they are actually singing "Vagina Vagina Vagina".

If you listen very carefully, toward the end of "Degenerate" you can hear either Tom or Mark fart and say 'excuse me'.

American Pie messed up in the credits from 'American Pie' it says 'Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, Scott Raynor'. Its actually Travis Barker in the movie, not Scott.

In the scene of the video 'All the Small Things' where Mark is doing his Ricky Martin imitation and getting wax poured on his chest, if you look in the background you'll see a couple making out. Its Tom and his girlfriend, Jen.

Prior to joining Blink, Tom worked at a fast food joint called "Gary's Chicken and Ribs" in Poway, CA.

Tom paints his fingernails (on his left hand only) black.

If you look at the inside of the Enema CD (the part with the eye) and then look at the inside hinge of the cd in white letters it says "Viking Wizard Eyes: Wizard full of Lies. This is because Viking Wizard Lies was supposed to be the name of the album before Enema of the State was thought up.

Some other names thought up for 'Enema' were "Turn your head and cough' and 'Blink-182: Electric Boogaloo'. Let's Get Naked! Yes... Blink was actually naked for the making of "What's my Age Again?"! Well... most of it. For some scenes they wore flesh coloured speedos.

The '182' in Blink-182 actually has no significance at all. There have been several rumors surrounding what 182 means but there really is nothing behind it. It's just a number.

The different purple coloured songs at the end of 'Cheshire Cat' mean that they are joke songs.

The stuff Mark says at the end of Depends is actually a clip from the film Airline

In England, blink 182 is usually pronounced "blink one EIGHT two", as opposed to the American way, "blink one EIGHTY two". But does it really matter? No.

During the last day of production for Chesire Cat, Mark got locked out of the studio and had to smash open a porta-loo with a spade to use the toilet.


 
Why? 182?
The group was once named just Blink until an Irish group with the same name said they would sue if they didn't change there name here are a few suggestions why 182?

1. 182 lbs is Mark's exact weight?
2. 182 stands for the number of times Al Pachino says "F**k" and other swear words in the movie, Scarface. (This is the true one)
3. Taken from the movie "Turk 182".
4. look at the number 182... now write it down a few times... like this - 182182182182... what do you notice? 18 and 21... in the US 18 is the legal "adult" age and 21 is the legal drinking age... most if not all of blink's songs deal with something stemming back to this.



















Contact the band...
Postal address:

Blink-182
P.O Box 500901
San Diego, CA 92150-0901

E-mail address:

Mark: vikingwizardeyes@yahoo.com or mark@loserkids.com

Tom: tom@loserkids.com

Travis: travisbarker@famoussas.com


Blink 182


If you do e-mail them, I dont think they have time to read an e-mail an hour long so keep them short and hopefully you'll get a reply...

Sum 41