Blink 182 Blog and Journals

I don't know about you, but the music I listened to as a child adapted me to listen what I listen to now. I grew up listening from this to that and the other thing and I think it helped me have a broad understanding of music now.

Here are some bands I listened to growing up, and sure as hell still listen to!

I'm not sure about you guys, but blink-182 was probably one of the bigget infulences on my life. My older brother, (seven years older than I) introduced me to them, I've been listening to them since I can remember. I remember being so exited when Take Off Your Pants and Jacket came out, and Untitled. I own every blink album created and I cried when they broke up/went on hiatus.

Yes, I was one of those kids who jumped around on their bed, playing skilled air guitar and belted out the words to Dammit.

I was not a sheltered child when it came to language, so their lyrics never phased me. Although, when my brother taught me how to sing Easy Target, my mother was not pleased.

The first song I ever learned on drums was The Rock Show and is my favorite to play.

Jimmy Eat World.

Oh dear, how do I explain these boys?

So what if I was four when Clarity came out? Again, my brother. My brother was who I looked up to when I was younger, he was cool.. Sort of. The second I listened to Jim's voice I knew I was in love. Not joking. Their music was real, and I knew it. It was something I could relate to as I grew up, every album, every song. Their album Bleed American was my anthem as I grew up, not to mention Futures, and Chase The Light.

A Sunday was my favorite song for three and a half years and I remember laying on my floor, legs up on my bed, nearly broken headphones resting on my ears and let each fabric of the song let me escape.

These boys hold a special place in my heart because their are from Washington

Transatlanticism is one of my favorite songs of all time, the soul of that song 'I need you so much closer' is hauting and brilliant.

I had the joy of seeing Death Cab play at Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival in Seattle of 2008, let me tell you, it was a mind blowing experience. They put on quite a show, it wasn't because of the fireworks or the mass amount of people. It was because of their music, how they can adapt to any setting and the music flows freely through the air.

Once again, my brother, showed me Death Cab and I've been in love ever since. I had always wondered what drew Ben Gibbard to be such a lyrical genius. I still don't know, but I've grown not to question it.

Third Eye Blind, oh boy. I must say, my brother is what got me into music.

Third Eye Blind never failed to create honest music. Everything about them is just amazing, I know not a creative sentence, but how else do I word it? Their self titled album was one I'll cherish forever. When they let the world know know of their hiatus I was heartbroken. How could they stop creating such music? I held onto their album Blue forever, in hopes that they might reunite.

And they did, they broke out with Out of the Vein. Yet another full album do add to my collection.

There is is.

The bands that got me into music, I'm so thankful for them. Sounds corny, but without them I don't know what the hell I would be listening to now.

So. Leave a comment below telling me what band or artist you listened to when you were younger!

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Bands that I listened to growing up that didn't make the list:

Coldplay

The Starting Line

Bright Eyes

No Doubt

Sunny Day Real Estate

The Beatles

Basically, me and my band,"Trial of the Exes" Try hard to find a good gig. Sometimes they end up being at a family party but still we make it totally worth it. We are mostly a band that sings unknown band covers so people will get a taste of music not usually heard today like Eyes Set to Kill or old bands like Blink 182 or Papa Roach.

Here's the schedule:

1. We meet up at my house and talk about our final choices for songs and everything. Also choose what to wear for the show.

2. We get dropped off at the gig place and begin setting up our equipment. (My lucky microphone is a black one with Glamour Kills and Paramore stickers with gray tape on it)

3. We warm up then practice before any guests come over.

4. Go over intros, outros, and some encore songs we would like to do. (Usually we end with a crowd sond like How You Love Me Now or Feeling This by Blink 182.)

5.  Make sure the sound quality is good and practice the songs we are gonna sing.

6. If we have free time, text, talk to friends or just play basketball as a calm down practice so we don't get cold feet.

7. Pray that we will be good or do our usual handshake that goes like,"Trial of the Exes! We fight for you!"

8. LET THE GIG BEGIN!!

That's not me in the picture, that's Cassadee Pope :( I wish I could post pics of me and my band but my dad said that it's dangerous and unless you want to be stalked you won't do it xP Dads are so over protective.

Our latest setlist:

Homecoming - Hey Monday

Feeling This - Blink 182

Darling - Eyes Set to Kill

Violent Kiss - Eyes Set to Kill

Remembering Sunday - All Time Low (Acoustic) w/ my Friend Brie doing Juilet Simm's Part cause my voice got scratchy from my cold

Candles - Hey Monday (Acoustic)

Brick by Boring Brick - Paramore (Acoustic)

Liar in the Glass - Eyes Set to Kill

Encore Songs:

How You Love Me Now - Hey Monday

Dammit - Blink 182 (Clean version duh! We played at my friends bday party and she totally enjoyed it! :D)

Make sure to check out my favorite unknown bands like (Not all of these bands are screamo bands. Some of them are punk rock):

Eyes Set to Kill

Throw the Fight (Thanks for the Shout out on Twitter!)

The Material

A Skylit Drive

Hit the Lights

Boys Will Be Boys

The Biggest Lights

Hawthorne Heights

Amber Pacific

A Static Lullaby

The Starting Line

Matchbook Romance

The Audition

Call the Cops

I See Stars

School Boy Humor

(Some Screamo bands suck but some of them rock. I don't like angry screamo, I like the happy screamo like Family Force 5! They are so awesome! :D)

You Know You're an All Time Low Fan When...

1.      Your All Time Low CD's are your most prized possession.

2.      You like the Macarena.
+ You say "[insert your name here] likes the Macarena."
++ "Jack" is the name you insert regardless of what your name is.

3.      You need Lullabies to sing you to sleep.

4.      You are Shameless.

5.      You have arguments with yourself over whether Zack's a douchebag or if Zack's just quiet.

6.      You randomly steal construction cones & put them on your friend's heads.

7.      When you hear someone say "count me in," you say, "there's a story at the bottom of this bottle & I'm the pen."

8.      You have memorized the dance to Poppin'.

9.      You want to feel Weightless ('cause it would be enough).

10.  You are planning on naming your son Alex, Jack, Zack, or Rian.

11.  You are planning on naming your daughter Maria, Holly, Jasey, or Stella.

12.  Circles are your favorite shape.

13.  You realize Holly is actually about Hollywood and Stella is about a beer, not some girls.

14.  You can't believe that "fans" don't recognize Rian and don't consider them fans at all.

15.  You look in trash cans trying to find your "MOM?"

16.  You're dying to get matching tattoos with them.
+you already have done this.

17.  You feel like you have to stay seventeen.

18.  You have dressed up as one of the band members for Halloween.
+people recognized you.
++ It wasn't Halloween.

19.  You stalk them on MySpace/Buzznet/Facebook/Twitter
+ you stalk the crew members too.
++ and people that you believe have songs of theirs written about them (like Maria or Jasey)

20.  You think Baltimore is the greatest city for being All Time Low's hometown.

21.  Whenever you insult someone, you say "Nothing Personal" afterwards.

22.  You feel like you are Damned if You do Them, Damned if You Don't.

23.  You know the words to Living the Dream even though it hasn't officially been released.

24.  You've seen every Buzznet video.
+ Multiple times.

25.  You know all of the crew members.  You don't say "who's that?" when they show Grieco or Matt Flyzik or Vinny.

26.  You wish you were Cody Carson and able to sing with them.

27.  You are a Straight Up Hustler.

28.  Your favorite dance move is the "Superman."
+ "....that hoe."

29.  You love Lisa & Kara & think that they make the perfect couples with Alex and Rian

30.  You think Alex & Jack would make the most amazing gay couple ever.

31.  When you see Atlanta abbreviated ATL, you flip out.

32.  If your weekend doesn't go as planned, you just say "maybe it's not my weekend, but it's gonna be my year."

33.  You know more songs than just Dear Maria, Weightless or Damned.

34.  You know what the Three Words To Remember When Dealing With The End are.

35.  You know ALL the lyrics to ALL the songs on So Wrong It's Right.
+ and Nothing Personal.
++ and Put Up or Shut Up.
+++ and Party Scene.
++++ and Three Words.

36.  You sing along to Alex's indie/emo song & Jack's boner song.

37.  You've downloaded all of their music videos.
+ including the unreleased Hustler and Circles videos.
++ and the Buzznet videos.

38.  Their songs dominate your iPod.

39.  You say to your friends, "my friends are a different breed. My friends are everything."
+ you call these "Vegas moments".

40.  It always amazes you how incredibly sexy Alex Gaskarth is.

41.  You have named your fish (and snail) after the tour pets.
+you have gotten fish solely for this reason.

42.  Your friends think you're obsessed and need a life.
+ they're right

43.  If you don't have All Time Low merch, you took an old T-shirt and wrote All Time Low all over it.

44.  Your binder/locker has their pictures all over it.
+because of this you have been "suspended and possibly molested by the school enforcement agency."

45.  You think Rian and Zack deserve more fame.

46.  When someone asks who All Time Low is, you slap them across the face.

47.  You have turned someone into a fan of theirs.

48.  You obsess over them so much your friends start to hate them.

49.  You have read all of these.
+ you've done at least one of them.

50.  They are without a doubt your favorite band ever and you love them with all of your heart!

*edit*  (I came up with these)
51. You need/are in Therapy.
52.When youwalk into Tim Hortons/Starbucks, you sing Coffee Shop Soundtrack. 
52. Blink 182 is your hero.
+you have a tatoo to prove it.

Check out usdan12cello for more.

Original:
http://www.buzznet.com/groups/alltimelowfans/journals/78077191/

Pretty cool journal, I felt the need to re-post it cause I liked it so much.  Do not credit me for this because I did not write it. 

I'm either too drunk to know better, or I truly am in the holiday spirit. Either way shipping's free for the next week. So check out the PRR store and maybe, just maybe, if you're also too drunk to know better, you'll buy some pointless merch that you'll undoubtedly regret once the hangover subsides.

PRR's kind of like that fugly person you wake up with after a night of binge drinking. It sounded like a good idea after the three jager bombers and the pint of rum and coke. But then you wake up and realize that you would have been better off getting cold-clocked in the family jewels. Store! Bam!

When Pete Wentz was 23 years old, his life was not like most of ours.  Pete was spending his time traveling around in a van with his friends and bandmates trying to make Fall Out Boy happen.  

However, Pete did have something in common with an overwhelming number of 23 year olds: he had no health insurance.  And according to what he said in a forum on Wednesday night, hosted by Passtheball.com and Rock The Vote, his choices amounted to either pay for health insurance or put gas in the van.  Insurance or buy a new amp. Insurance or promotion for the band. Read more...

Even though Mark (singer and bassist from blink 182) is like 37yrs old and im like 15,I still think hes super hot. Yah so is Travis and Tom, but something about Mark meakes me crazy. When he sings vocals for "Im feeling this" oh i melt> Give me your opinion on him and the other members. What's ur fave blink song

Here's some pics of Mark so u can get the idea that even though hes not as young as when he wrote M+Ms, he still kicks ass.

 now you love him

[[Hellooo...so after the inconvenience of being stuck in the parking lot last night after the Blink show, I decided to write a story from it because I get inspired from weird things. Other than being stuck in the parking lot sleeping for a few hours, the show was amazing. FERSURE. EPIC. Oh, and the banner is a pic I took last night from their set background.]]

Chapter 1

"Something's wrong, this is gonna shock them."

"Dude, of all the fucking times for this to happen." Roxanne groaned from the backseat. She leaned back against the seat, both of the palms of her hands pressed against her forehead. Roxanne was a slender girl with jet black hair that was cut into choppy layers the just about stood up if they weren't straightened and icy blue eyes, which she usually coated in thick lines of black eyeliner. A silver ring graced the right side of her nose, and another graced the left side of her lip. 

Her friend Haley, a pretty blue eyed girl with sleek golden blonde hair, was sitting in the driver's seat, attempting for about the hundredth time to start the Mustang she, Roxanne, and their friend Maria were sitting in. Maria had jet black hair like Roxanne, also in choppy layers, except Maria had brown eyes. She had a lip ring on the same side as Roxanne. The three girls were parked in the VIP Parking Lot of the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. It was just after Blink-182 had played their show, and the three girls were getting worried. The car just absolutely would not start.

"What are we gonna do man? It's not like there's anyone who could take us home at this point." Maria pointed out, leaning back in the passenger seat. Haley shrugged, slamming her fists against the steering wheel.

"This car is a stupid piece of shit." Haley said simply, folding her arms and shaking her head. "It must be the damn alternator...if it was the battery the fucking lights wouldn't even come on." Haley mumbled to herself, Roxanne and Maria left clueless. They knew pretty much nothing about cars.

"Well....if we're going to be sitting here, may as well get comfortable." Roxanne decided, digging through her bag on the floor of the car and yanking out a pair of blue plaid pajama pants and the Blink-182 baseball shirt she had purchased at the show. Ducking down to where other people in the parking lot couldn't see her, she pulled on her clothes, sitting back up and adjusting her hair slightly. She laid down, stretching her body across the tiny backseat, curling up her legs to where she was lying in kind of a ball.

"Dammit...I guess I'll call my mom..." Haley muttered, reaching into her pocket and grasping for her Blackberry. Maria sighed, pulling out her enV3 and logging into her Myspace. Roxanne rolled her eyes, sighing.

"Because she's actually going to drive two fucking hours to Charlotte to come get us." Roxanne scoffed, knowing that that probably wasn't going to happen. Nevertheless, she left Haley to call her mom anyway, shutting her eyes and rolling up her hoodie to use as a pillow. Roxanne felt herself dozing off, and when she awoke, her friends were passed out in their seats as well. She sat up, rubbing her eyes, careful not to mess up her eyeliner too terribly bad. Looking around, Roxanne saw that their was absolutely no one left in the parking lot...except for the oddly familar shape the was making its way towards the Mustang. A knock on the window startled Roxanne as she rolled down the window, shooting glares at her heavy sleeping friends before glancing over to the man knocking on the window. "Mark Hoppus!?!?"

"That's me, little lady." Mark chuckled. Mark was the bassist and co-singer of Blink-182. He was a handsome, blue eyed man with brown hair that stuck out in every direction and the cutest two front teeth anyone could ever see. Mark reminded Roxanne of a bunny, and maybe that was why she found him so adorable. Actually more than adorable...more like the most gorgeous man on the face of the Earth. "Are you guys having some issues?"

"Slightly..." Roxanne stuttered, squeezing her body through the driver's side window and doing a face plant into the gravel. After that, she immediately felt like an idiot, having ate shit in front of Mark Allan Hoppus and all. "Dammit." Roxanne muttered, beginning to push herself up off the ground when a hand was extended in front of her. She took it hesitantly, the callused hand closing around her smooth one and pulling her up to stand on her feet. "Thanks..." Roxanne mumbled, blushing a deep shade of red while brushing the dust from her clothes, realizing that she was, in fact, still wearing pajamas. "I'm so fucking embarrassed."

"No need to be...I think a girl is just as beautiful in pajamas as she is in jeans." Mark said simply, continuing. "And everyone face plants. That's life." He said, smiling at Roxanne. She blushed deeper, kicking the ground with the tip of her Converse.

"Haa, yeah. I'm Roxanne, by the way. My friends call me Rox." Rox said, still kicking the ground. She forced herself to finally look up at Mark, who was smiling at her.

"Well that's a cute name." Mark complimented, Roxanne blushing even more. "Anyways, what seems to be the slight issue?" Mark asked nodding towards the Mustang where Haley and Maria were still passed out. Roxanne shrugged, failing to remember what exactly Haley had decided was wrong with it. For all she knew, the damn thing wouldn't start.

"It won't start. There's something wrong with the aluminator or something. Or whatever. It just won't start." Rox answered. Now was kind of a bad time to not know anything about cars.

"You mean the alternator?" Mark asked, and Rox nodded. "It looks like you won't be getting home anytime soon then." Mark told her, and Rox sighed.

"This is great. Just great. Haley called her mom and I guess she's not coming to get us because it's 4 in the fucking morning. She called her hours ago. We're totally FUCKED. Fucked with capital letters." Rox began flipping out, eventually taking a seat in the gravel and leaning back against the car. "Fuck. my life." Mark sat down beside her, laying a hand on top of one of hers and looking at her thoughtfully. "What?"

"How would you like to catch a ride with Blink?"

<to be continued>

oh god, i'm so insanely tired.
my guy friend always makes me walk everywhere with him.
i love to walk with him, but GOD it makes me tired.
i'm over weight, i don't like to walk. :|

so, haven't blogged in about two months. FKLAMDF;LKMA. i always end up doing this. i'm going to attempt to get back into the habit of blogging here again. it's here, tumblr, and the despair faction blogs.
tumblr gets the most votes from me, but whatever. this place is chill too.

i'm listening to blink 182, thanks to the same guy friend that makes me walk everywhere.
his name is erik, cause "guy friend" doesn't suit him too well.
SO ERIK, got me into listening to blink 182 again. he's been all "ADAM'S SONG" for the past two weeks, cause it's his favorite song.
i'm listening to first date currently.

THE BAND I'M REALLY INTO NOW THOUGH:

blessthefall

fuck yesss!
their new stuff is amazing, i was hessitant about it but nope. NOT ANNNYYYY MORE.
it's great, i never was a fan of blessthefall except for one or two songs when craig was in the band.
i'd rant about how craig band jumps, but i'll leave that for another blog. i'm way to tired/lazy right now to type.
but now that beau is in the band, his voice is like WHOA. plus, i think he's a whole hell of a lot cuter than craig.

i'm off to make a quick shirt that says "clap you bastard"

then off to bed.

so night peeps!

hahaha, i feel like my social studies teacher.
she always tells us we have a "quizzypoo" c:
shes funny :]

but ahah, off subject ^^

Nao, like I said, I'm sick :[
Seems like everybody is,
Roxanne went to the hospital friday and she waited for like twenty minutes and then she left
Cody has swine flu D: poor kid :c
Dominic is pretty sick too D:
Russell&Devin are too x3

&nd me, if I wasnt getting sick Friday night, Spending Saturday with Dominic Didnt help, ahah. Honestly I don't care, I'd be sick everyday if I got to spend it with Dominic x3

But anyways, So the Blink182 concert was amazing :D
It was Asher Roth, who I didn't really enjoy but I do kinda liak his song, "I love Collage" but everything execpt that was like ehh.
Fall Out Boy was great :] It was Ashley Simpson's birthday the day before so Pete played "Don't Stop Believing" For her XD It was great, because that was my warped tour song and The Blink Concert was at the same place as Warped Tour was xD
Then Blink182 was amazing :D At the end, Travis Barker did a drum solo and him&his drum set went like in air and was turning. Oh my god he is an amazing Drum player. :]



This is what Travis Barker did when he did the drum solo, I think that was at the concert I was at too, it looks like the Amplatheader in va beach :]
btw i didnt take this picture, justsayinggg.

During the concert I kept zoning out I was so tired and kept thinking about Dominic which is mighty sad, I feel like im going insaine, Blink concert and im thinking about dominic? xD damn hannah. :p

Now Saturday was amazing.
&I found out about the amazingness of the movie Role Models :D
If you haven't seen it I sugguest you go see it :D

&Like we totally went all out fighting each other like seriously he hit me in the neck/head with a temperpedic pillow which acually hurt xD bcuhs damn those things awr hard XD and i gave him a bruise on his back from biting him cuhs he was spinning me around over his shoulder XD
ahaha :]

But anways, Today Im donig nufffffin.
I dun feeel as bad as I did this morningg x3

I did howeever do one thing off my list,
I did make Brionna a sign :D
woo go me.

Ashley tryed to dye her hair red, but it went to black,
She has my natural hair color I wonder waht that look like on her,
If it looks good onn her it might look good on me :]
I so might dye my hair black o:
Tempting but doubt I will xD

I always feel like im in a pretty compedition with her, who is the prettiest and best and i always feel like shees wining.



But yeah look at her, :O
Its just me being my werid self, :p

But anyways, bai<3

Have you ever got the feeling that you really want something different?
Not just a slighty different, COMPETELY different.
I feeel as though I should dye my hair black and put curlers in every night.
which would DEFIENTLY not work for me,
Naturally blonde hair and pale blue eyes,
no wouldnt work.
&I'm not wanting to dye my hair brown because that seems too errr how do I put this, normal? :O
Plus, I hate the color brown :O no affence to people with brown hair i fink it looks pretty on some people. c:
[p.s. I felt like doing something pretty with this today ;] haha]
Oh well, I know like barely anybody reads this, but anyone who does give me ideas :D ?

Well on a different subject,
This weekend should be SWELL c:
Friday: is the BLINK182 concert :]
featuring FALL OUT BOY c: which I've already seen before, two years ago, but I enjoy their old music with a passion. (Under the Cork Tree and Grand Theif Autumn) :] (ftw :D)
Saturday: I should be seeing Dominic, but im not sure, hes sick and such D: plus I'm celebrating my mom's birthday. Celebrating that your fourty six and closer to being decessed xD
He has off work so I hope I can see him :]
I havent talked to him in twodayys, which is never a good sign, but his mom totally told me he was sick over facebook XD I feel as though something bad is going to happen between us, meaning hes going to break up with me. If he is he needs to go ahead and do it.! :O
I need to stop turning this Journal into a Diary, but I can't help but pour out what I'm thinking of.

So whatever happens, happens, but sincerly I will never be the same. :c

Sunday: my mom has to work and I'm pretty sure I have an essay coming my way.

Another thing that has been on my mind is my heathliness. I need to get in better shape.
That is my goal for the weekend,

• Run at least for twenty minutes one day :] perferly at like five or six am. :O
  
• make a sign for Brionna c:
  
• make a banner so I can redo this Buzznet page instead of the defult cupcakes.
  :]
  

Now I am babysitting and a veggieburger and veggiebites are in the microwavee I need to get them out :]
So tootleloo :]
<3Hannah.

p.s. ketcup and chips is oddly delicous c: