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Happy holidays.

If this is what he wants
And this is what she wants
Then why’s there so much pain

@MarkHoppus

It all started with a simple tweet. The Mark Hoppus twitter page has been a huge resource for blink 182 news since the official announcement the night of the Grammys. I suppose anyone with the cognitive ability to put two and two together could have probably deduced that this small exchange between Hoppus and fellow bassiest for the band Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz, may have lead to a secret show of sorts. And so it did.

Via Megan Thompson

The set, sponsored by TMobile & captured for Youtube, featured material spanning the band’s career, from Dammit to Feeling This. There were plenty of “HEY MARK!!” shouts from Tom and a “Fuck you AT&T!” from Hoppus. There was very little full synth and auto-tune, which guitarist Tom DeLonge featured heavily in live shows with Angels & Airwaves. It was a set that is the first of many more coming later this summer, with openers Fall Out Boy & Weezer.

But, according to a new interview on Billboard with Hoppus, frequent DeLonge/Hoppus cohorts won’t be the only kids to share the stage with the influencial pop punk band from SoCal. Panic at the Disco, All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth, & Chester French are all possiblities for different venues and that may just be the short list if tweet exchanges between Mark & various members of Minneapolis’ Motion City Soundtrack follow through. It’s likely to be a very big summer. Tickets go on sale May 30TH.

More photoes…

Barker, Hoppus

www.blink182.com

According to Buzznet, blink-182 will be touring with Weezer this summer on their first outing since reforming after a 4-year hiatus. Buzznet cites an anonymous source and few other details are available about such a tour. What we do know is that the tour will be prior to blink-182′s album due this fall and will contain songs from several of the band’s albums.

Most information currently available, with the exception of the Weezer announcement, is straight from bassist Mark Hoppus’ own lips, or perhaps fingers may be a more appropriate word. Hoppus has been constantly updating his Twitter.com account since it’s creation with ramblings of day to day activities. Entries on the musician’s micro-blogging page range from his erratic sleep schedule to working on remixes for bands like Fall Out Boy and his announcement of working with new albums as a producer for acts like Motion City Soundtrack, with which he worked on Commit This to Memory in 2005.

Tour Mockup

The man seems content to remain busy even through out the finalizing of blink-182′s album and in preparation for a tour. Other entries by Hoppus are conversations with Chris Holmes, who worked with Hoppus extensively on +44 during the blink hiatus, about the possibility of working with production while on the road with his own band. This would lead some to ask why not take along a lesser known band to give them exposure? To be honest no one knows if other acts will be involved on the summer tour, although you’d have to think the details would come out soon. Weezer may have been guitarist Tom DeLonge’s idea. DeLonge did a co-headlining tour with Weezer and his band Angels & Airwaves just last fall, when the rumors of a blink reunion were starting to formulate. Immediately after the announcement of a reunion and a tour rumors had already sprung about just who would be special enough to join along, including the mock tour poster that made it’s way on to AbsolutePunk.

Regardless of who’s on the tour, this summer is sure to turn every twenty and thirty-something out there back into a 15 yr. old kid laughing at fart jokes. And let’s be honest, we could use some of that.

Rehearsal List

Always
I Miss You
Feeling This
Down
Dumpweed
What’s My Age Again
Obvious
Violence
Stockholm Syndrom
Go
Easy Target/All of This
Carousel
M+M’s
Dammit
Josie
All The Small Things
Man Overboard
Rock Show
First Day
Apple Shampoo
Don’t Leave Me
Going Away to College
Adam’s Song
Mutt
Anthem
Anthem Pt. 2
Story of a Lonely Guy
reckless Abandon
Give Me One Good Reason

hello to you. it’s been a long time since i’ve posted anything here on the himynameismark site. i haven’t had it in me. these past two months have been the hardest times that i can remember, and i hope that we never see anything like this ever again. first losing our dear friend and longtime producer jerry finn, and then the plane crash that happened in september, taking our friends chris and che. even two months later, i still can’t believe what happened, and it’s too much to talk about. but let me say that i think about little chris every single day, and the world is not the same without him. he is one of the best people i’ve ever known. we travelled the world together, spending countless hours on busses and planes, in hotel lobbies and dressing rooms. we worked together, laughed, and played jokes on people. when i saw him in the studio, no matter if it were with blink-182, +44, or an unknown band i was producing, chris would walk right in, introduce himself, make some jokes, and make sure everyone was taken care of. he made everyone feel at home. like they were family. every person he met was a friend for life, and he could talk to anyone. it didn’t matter if it was the biggest star in the world or someone waiting to get into a show, little chris treated everyone as a friend. he was a dear friend to me. i’m so sad that he is not here right now. there are just no words.

i’m also so thankful that travis and DJ AM made it out of the plane that horrible night. travis is a brother to me, and since the crash he has gone through more than i can even imagine. from the day after the plane went down, when i saw him in the burn unit out in georgia, to the hospital here in LA, to seeing him at home, his recovery is nothing short of amazing. every day gets a little better. and not only is he my brother, but also the best drummer and musician i’ve ever seen. the man was born to play drums, and it is great to see him starting to get back into the studio and behind his kit.

as for me, i have been getting back to work as well. a couple of weeks ago i went into the studio with our lunar activities, to finish up their record. chris holmes and i recorded three more of their songs, and they are in the final mixing stage right now. then last week i went out to new york city to introduce all time low at the 2008 woodie awards for mtvu. the day i got back into town i went right into the studio with my friend richard gibbs, who scores films. he had a rough idea of a song for the movie he is currently working on, and he wanted me to come in and collaborate with him on it. we spent five straight days in the studio and came up with a really fun track for a movie called “fired up,” that comes out next year. it’s good to be singing again, and getting back into it. now this week chris holmes and i are working on a theme song for a tv show. today it passed the first round of approvals, and now it goes up to the big time producer people for their thoughts. hopefully it’ll be seen on a television near you very soon. check local listings.

in the midst of everything else that has happened lately, tom, travis, and i have all spoken together. first through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. they’ve all been great, very positive conversations. we’re just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. it’s a good thing. obviously the first question for a lot of people will be “does this mean a blink-182 reunion?” the answer is none of us know. we haven’t talked about it at all. right now it’s just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect, and let the past be the past. the events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. life is too short.

- www.himynameismark.com (Nov. 18TH, 2008)