Catching up with
blink 182... Between very, very provocative underwear shots I was able to squeeze some random thoughts of wisdom, despair and disgust from the boys of blink 182! Speaking of squeezing,
Marky's current squeeze was on hand and mentioned that
they met through an ad in the reader... New drummer Travis has
quite a few exciting tattoos...and you'll get mucho
respect if you acknowledge that the "Can I Say"
ink-blob is just plain DagNasty. I've known these guys for years now and have watched them go from super-bad-ubnoxious-noise to really great band…when I mentioned the transformation to Tom he said "We were never that bad"…but believe me, they were. I say this to encourage all grom bands out there to keep trying, keep playing…keep asking your parents for money for new gear. It is my theory that if a band can stay together long enough, great things will happen! Here's proof! I was hoping I wouldn't need to mention things like: 1. Blink 182 used to be
called just Blink, but had to change their name. But I will anyway…
Peter King Tom: The foto session today is actually going quite well. I really enjoy getting makeup and having my butt worked on. Normally what I do before any foto shoot is get my butt spackled, shaved, waxed, massaged and buffed. Once my butt is done we
take out three to four different lenses and hook 'em all
together to try and get the craziest close-ups we can. Whats the status of the next album? Tom: We're gonna try an axe Mark out of it completely. He uh, has decided to go the route of his dad and other boys, and uh...animals...all his songs were beastiality type songs and very homoerotic fantasies, so we have decided to go more of a macho route, a more mainstream direction. I'll be singing about girls, what have you and what have I not...things like 'Do me in the toilet'... 'Baby thanks for the ghonorhea'...Looking towards a May or June release. It's hard to find anything to rhyme with ghonorhea besides diarhea! Talk about Travis... Tom: Travis is the new drummer in the band. Seems like he's been with us forever because we get along quite well with him...he's got a lot of tattoos though and if you turn around real quick you can catch a good look at them."
Tom: Hope on his back
stands for-I hope I can get laid by a guy. See that bird on his left arm...that bird symbolizes a man swishing down through the clouds and sleeping with him. I don't know why I'm
even in this band. I'm the only one that likes girls. The
only one that thinks guys and girls should be together. Tell us about Mark in the Hurley fashion show... Tom: What happened was,
Hurley came to us and asked us if anyone in the band was
interested in being a before picture of what you would
like...like say this person is really ugly, but this is
what he could look like after a makeover, some silicon
implants, maybe a butt-ectomy...that's where they
actually take off part of your butt. Hey Mark...talk about the peircings of your bandmates and their tatoos...
I don't really back that
program at all. I'm more like, this is something for me
and maybe my someone special. That's it. I don't need to
advertise my punkness. A real punk doesn't need to show
off...it's like a Karate man...the Karate man bleed on
the inside. A real punk is punk on the inside, it's not
about the tattoos or the blue hair or ... Travis: You are so full of it... Travis spills his beer Mark: ...oh hey, see...is this your beer, you're so punk...a beer and tattoos...are you gonna go break some glass or something? Travis: Are you saying you've never dyed your hair, Mr Purple Hair? Mark: I didn't say I never dyed my hair, I said I didn't need to... Travis: Remember two months ago saying I want to get a big sailor ship tattoo from my knuckles to my titties... Mark: No,no,no...that was if I ever got a tattoo...go away you punker drunkard. Tell us about the girl you're currently stalking... Mark: Her name is Frank...her dancing name is Kneeplay Talk about the new album... Mark: It's gonna be
called 'Molester? I hardly even know her'. Probably a
Late Spring or early Summer release. So-new album-Summertime-Girls lookin' hot wearing less-than bikinis, rockin' their lowers and drivin' Lamborghinis...that sort of thing! Will the drums on the album be tight, or will you need to use a drum machine? Mark: No need...Travis is the one take wonder. He's uses four kick drums...one connected to his sphincter muscle.
Mark: It's basically us in our underwear. And how many facial expressions can you make? I can only think of three. How much you bench? I don't lift weights, I have no idea...although I quit smoking. I smoked for ten years. I just quit a couple months ago and I gained 20 pounds. I'm pushing 207 pounds right now. It doesn't help when you get mexican food catered to the foto shoot like this either. Wow! Sombreros! Mark: Exactly! Just because...this is my favorite restaurant in the world, Sombreros here in San Diego. Over here we have my personal favorite, the rolled taco... Why do you think Mexican food has the same 4 ingredients but so many different shapes? Mark: I don't understand that either...you got your beans, cheese, rice and tortillas and there's 57 things you can order...you know what I hate are black beans...I don't like black beans at all. Travis, what's up with those shoes? Travis: My friend Rosie owns this company, they're called Sha Sha. Let me show you what they have here...in case you do anything different...there's a little storage spot under the sole, if you wanna sneek a little something in to a club, store a key, whatever the case is...change...etc... What's it like hangin' out with these guys? Travis: It's fun. Everything is beautiful in this band...a lot simpler than the nine piece I was in before. Travis can you walk us through the ink...you've got quite a collection? Travis: O.K...starting
on the arms...there's the Virgin Mary for my mom ,
Familia for friends, Drums, Devils, Birds, '$' symbol,
microphone for music and singing in general, bombshell
for the ladies...what else do we got...girl on the
rocket, Jesus, INRI...over to the stomach, The
Ghettoblaster is for my love of HIp Hop, the trucker
ladies because I love ladies, cadillac logo for my love
of cadillacs, Can I Say for DagNasty. On my leg I don't
want to grow up-Descendents Tattoo...because that band
changed my life. Blink 182 are: |
Tom, how's the foto shoot
going?...
Describe them to
us...
Mark: I actually have a peircing,
but not because it was a fad...actually it was a fad and
I got into it, but I didn't want it on my face because it
makes your face look off center. So i got one on my
nipple,just a simple one and it hurt like crazy, I cried
when it happened. I'm still not sure why I did it. The
rest of my band has peircings on their faces, the
stretching out of the earlobes, and tattoos across the
arms. Basically a futile attempt to say...
What do you think of the foto shoot today?
Well there you
have it…I'm not sure what IT is that you have, but
I'm sure the doctor can give ya sumthin' for it.