W H Y 1 8 2 ?
Pretty
self-explanatory e-mail from Mark Hoppus, bassist of Blink
Blink--just
the sound of the word brings a smile to your face, as visions
of goats and midgets dance
in your head. But change must come to us all. Due to a threatened
lawsuit involving allegations
of copyright infringement and several counts of second-degree
impersonation of an oompa-loompa,
we are being forced by a techno band from Ireland to change our
name.
After
lengthy discussion, much thought, a fist fight or two after someone
suggested "the artist formerly
known as blink" one too many times, and a short prison term
that earned Scott the nickname
"Butt Boy," the group has reached a final decision.
The new name is blink-182.
Why
182? Who the fuck knows? Maybe it's the number of times Mark has
masturbated (lube) to the
paused image of Princess Leia in the Jabba slave girl outfit.
Maybe it's the number of times Tom
has masturbated (dryskin) to the image of the puppeteer dwarf
inside Jabba's tail. Maybe it's the
number of talk shows Scott watched this last summer involving
club kids.
Whatever
the reasoning behind the new name, this is without question the
beginning of a new era for
the three Poway boys. No longer will we laugh in the faces of
those less fortunate. Instead, we will
kick them in the groin. No longer will these three bastions of
manhood champion simply goats and
midgets. No--now is the time to open your hearts and let in llamas
and huge dancing naked clowns.
With
typical perverted enthusiasm, blink-182 has entered the studio
to record a few new songs for release
on 7". Slated for release in mid-November, the new material
will be contained on a three- song
single whose cover will resemble a movie poster depicting an alien
abduction, and will be
entitled "They Came to Conquer Uranus." The single will
be available through finer record stores, or
you can order it for $3.50 from: Cargo Records 4901-906 Morena
Blvd. San Diego, CA 92117. Many
of you have written, saying that you can't find our album, Cheshire
Cat. If the record stores around
you are too lame to carry our music, it is available from Cargo
Records also. $10 for CD's or $7
for cassettes. Look for a split 7" with San Diego's Swindle
for release in the near future as well.
Also,
we recently finished filming a video for the song "m+m's,"
complete with women and guns and
explosions and shit. The video was directed by Darren Doane, whose
other credits include videos
by Pennywise, Ten Foot Pole, MXPX, Down by Law, and many others.
It will be serviced to independent
video production companies starting in late September, and available
to you by mailorder
from Cargo Records, at the address I just wrote up there at the
end of the last paragraph. It
costs six bucks postpaid and also has videos from 16 Volt and
Pile Up.
In
addition to various dates and weekend tours, watch for blink-182
on the road this fall and winter, touriniz
for Taylor Steele's newest surf video, "Good Times."
The ever-changing bill for this tour will feature
the Vandals, Seven Seconds, Pennywise, Sprung Monkey, Unwritten
Law, and Guttermouth,
and will appear in Hawaii, coastal states in the continental U.S.,
Australia, and possibly
South America. Then, later this year, blink-182 will be touring
Antarctica with Elton John and
ViMtesnake. Watch for us there! Also, look for our music in the
new snowboard video from R.J. Films
titled U.F.O., and Jason Weatherly's surf video, Factory Seconds.
One
thing that hasn't changed for us, however, is our love for our
fans, though in these sue-happy times
that we live in, perhaps that much touching in public should be
avoided. Until legal repercussion
is taken, however, we will do whatever it takes to demonstrate
our appreciation to everyone
who has supported us, short of sleeping with your parents (unless
we work out some sort of
a payment plan). Thanks to everyone out there who has picked up
our album, come to a show, or
let us sleep on their floor. We hope to see you at a show in your
hometown soon. Also, thanks for
all your letters, but please don't send anymore stool samples.
IT WAS A FUCKING JOKE!!
Love
and kisses on your pink parts, blink-182
ps-In
response to your many questions, yohimbe is an herbal remedy for
male impotence. Look into
it. It's done wonders for Scott. However, Tom suffers from dizzy
spells and occasionally believes
that he is Fabio. Buyer beware!
Here
are other possible explanations for 182
Mark's ideal weight (in lbs). He
explains that at the time this techno-band lawer contacted the
band, he was having problems with his weight and that his doctor
told him that this was hiw ideal weight. Mark had these post-its
splatered all around his appartment with "182" tagged
on them, reminding him to lose weight.
The police code number
for homicide.
There was this plane-crash in california
where hundreds of people died in. The flight number was 182.
The number of times DeNiro says f*ck
in the Scarface movie.
The neighbourhood in which the band
grew up had a zip code ending in 182. More precisely, 92182.
Also
see:
 Band's
Biographies
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