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Blink-182 doing something "no other band has done"

Posted by aubin on Monday, April 27, 2009 at 1:30 PM (EDT)

Sounds like Mark Hoppus has inherited bandmate Tom Delonge's gift for mysterious promises. The Blink-182 bassist spoke to MTV about their recent "video" shoot.

He explained exactly this much:

It's definitely not what it seems to be. It's not really a music video shoot, and it's not really a movie shoot. It's something that no other band has done, and the technology behind it is ridiculous. I don't even know how to explain it. I can tell you this ... when everything is finished, you won't be seeing a big green wall behind us.

The band reunited this year and will be touring with Weezer in the summer.

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badbrain (April 27, 2009)

there should just be a seperate site for green day and blink182 news. Or non-news

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

Using the word "professor" to describe Bach Schwarzenblake is a stretch, at best. He's no teacher. I sat in on his "creative writing" class late in the term once, and all he did was demonstrate the proper technique for fellating Geffen record executives and A&R reps.

Sad, but I guess that's the best way for a no talent hack to sell out in a competitive environment. At least he recognized he was making music that isn't good enough for general consumption, and needed to resort to taint-licking to make money and reach audiences. Then again, if you're stupid enough to only get into Hunter College, you probably could benefit from lessons like that.

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Jay3313 (April 27, 2009)

Right hand works the balls, left hand signs away your soul?

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

Well done. Now every Jawbreaker fan has to deal with that mental image!

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Rudy87 (April 27, 2009)

hey now... I live down the road from Hunter College
oh wait, youre right
atleast its better than Ulster County Community College or SUNY New Paltz

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

Ulster, and New Paltz, eh?

How many washed-up emo has-beens are on the faculty in those places?

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

Man...I need to get a job as an A&R rep.
-Dante

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

To extract money and support from an A&R rep, you have to get on your knees.

To get that job from an A&R rep's boss, you have to get on your knees... and face the other way.

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

Man...I miss serfdom.
-Dante

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

Look up "droit de siegneur" on Wikipedia.

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

That would be rad except all the hot chicks probably already gave it up for goats or clean water or some shit.
Whores.
-Dante

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

Blake Schwarzen. plays dress-up with his lovers and acts out EXACTLY that scenario...

Wait...

Didn't I see you in my building a couple nights ago?

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

Was I wearing a crown and eating a giant Turkey leg?
-Dante

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

WOW!

The first .org member I've met in real life!

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

Too bad I didn't see ya. Next time I'll bring more turkey legs.
You don't need clean water by any chance?
-Dante

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JawbreakerSucks (April 27, 2009)

Based on the noises I hear coming out of Blake's apartment, I think I'll skip...

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Jay3313 (May 6, 2009)

Wow, didn't know his new band was thaaaat bad.

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sugarfull (April 27, 2009)

This was an excellent return to form.

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julianminutes (April 27, 2009)

i guess mark's been talking to tom a lot

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Jay3313 (April 27, 2009)

"You won't be seeing a big green wall behind us...you'll be seeing a pile of green at our feet. "

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TheOneTrueBill (April 27, 2009)

So it'll be like that one scene in Quantum of Solace with the giant video screen of the floating eye?

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jacknife737 (April 27, 2009)

That scene was pretty bad ass

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AAHHHH (April 27, 2009)

i'm pretty sure that floating eye was a real prop. and yes, it was badass

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CrackerEvan (April 27, 2009)

I can't wait to hate whatever he's talking about.

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TheOneTrueBill (April 27, 2009)

Hahah, I laughed because it's true.

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Kickaha (April 27, 2009)

"I can't wait to hate whatever he's talking about." - That's pure comedic genius!

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IanIsSuperRad (April 27, 2009)

Fingers crossed for a porno.

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jacknife737 (April 27, 2009)

""This video will be so spectacular, so groundbreaking, so godlike that it will make all other music videos look like cheaply made child-pornography"
-Sir Thomas DeLonge.

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the_other_scott (April 27, 2009)

i'm 90% sure that i have swine flu, but i don't have healthcare.

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ffwoodycooks (April 27, 2009)

you just think you have it because it's the "Hip" thing to have now.

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the_other_scott (April 27, 2009)

or because i live like 20 minutes away from where they just found 30 cases of it. and also because i am sick. and also because, yeah, i'm a trend setter. three years from now, i'll be like "i had swine flu in its early days, you don't even know, man"

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Jay3313 (April 27, 2009)

Swine flu? Too trendy.

Now SARS was an awesome disease...I had that way before the Rolling Stones gave a shit about it. I was all like...coughing and shit. It was nuts.

Then I coughed on some people, including old people and children, cuz fuck them if they aren't hardcore enough to take it.

Or something.

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the_other_scott (April 27, 2009)

I always preferred 80s era AIDS to Sars. Sars had that total bizz-disease mentality, you could always tell AIDS was here to stay.

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ffwoodycooks (April 27, 2009)

AIDS is played out. I have schizpilemio. its a new disease, youve probably never heard of it.

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

You didn't fuck a dead pig did you? That's like a 90% guarantee you got it...or that you're a fucking pervert.
-Dante

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the_other_scott (April 27, 2009)

fuck no, what's the point of fucking a dead pig? i mean i guess if you've already got the squealing sound on your iPod it works, but otherwise its fucking boring.

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FelixT (April 27, 2009)

That's why universal healthcare is so good. Because of it, everyone who think they are sick or who just want to start a trend can go to the hospital and make everybody else who are really sick wait in pain. Canada rulez man. :P

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the_other_scott (April 27, 2009)

last October I came down with something called Migratory Arthralgia. I didn't have healthcare then, either, It was fucking terrible. I was only able to afford one visit to Urgent Care (which set me back like $400) to get diagnosed and then I had to just wait it out for 2 weeks until it went away.

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FelixT (April 27, 2009)

That's ridiculous. What happens if you are really, really sick and can't afford to see a doctor? You die? I don't want to start a Canada vs US war, it has been done enough already, but I will never understand people who don't support universal healthcare.

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the_other_scott (April 27, 2009)

i do support it...at least as an option...

what happens is the hospital will most likely treat you anyways and then they will bill the shit out of you and if you don't pay your credit is fucked for the rest of your life.

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FelixT (April 27, 2009)

Yeah, I was just saying that because I read so many comments of people saying that universal healthcare was stupid and that we shouldn't have to pay for others. That's rich people's talk. :P

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fallingupwards84 (April 27, 2009)

Hospitals aren't going to let you just die like that; they'll treat you

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Spooky (April 27, 2009)

Man, that sucks. This hot co-worker of mine has it too so I'm covering for her from 8 to 5. I wonder how long that shit lasts..

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miniblindbandit (April 27, 2009)

bottle your blood for a vaccine. you could make a killing.

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thirtyseconds (April 27, 2009)

The last sentence truly fills me with excitement and anticipation.

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

Uh...He does know that green screen technology is so commonplace it's used for the daily weather, right? Actually that'd be awesome, "you won't be seeing a green wall behind us, but rather a imaging of the low pressure system over the midwest...Then Travis will be bringing you today's traffic!"

-Dante

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ffwoodycooks (April 27, 2009)

Travis should do traffic, he knows a thing or two about crashes.
boom, roasted (literally)(boom again))

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

Do you think our children will be athletic?
-Dante

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ffwoodycooks (April 27, 2009)

as long as they get fed on YOUR child support, im fine with it.

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10-4Eleanor (April 27, 2009)

I haven't laughed this hard at anything on the internet in god knows how long.

Bravo.

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dlangl4 (April 27, 2009)

I bet it's going to be dumb and not amazing.

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DrewXFishy (April 27, 2009)

needs more green day on tour

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RightLaneEnds (April 27, 2009)

Gay man sex has been done before.

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FuckYouOiOiOi (April 27, 2009)

i liked it better when they just ran around naked in their videos

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TheMike (April 27, 2009)

You would.

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TheMike (April 27, 2009)

Holy shit, they're totally going to start the motherfucking machine. For realz.

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SydBarrett420 (April 27, 2009)

Are they talked about singing a song over a video of Travis Barker getting a Mandingo cock attached to him to replace the burnt Hebrew National he lost in the plane crash?

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Indecay (April 27, 2009)

I know Weezer have been shit for years but surely they don't deserve this?

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davebrave4 (April 27, 2009)

Funny you should say that; I thought the same thing about Blink 182. What could be more boring than touring with Weezer?

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Indecay (April 28, 2009)

Touring with Blink182.

Or The Offspring. Poor Frank Turner.

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fox82 (April 27, 2009)

Tim Armstrong should shoot it. Just to make it suck that bit more.

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julianminutes (April 27, 2009)

in black & white high contrast-o-visionnnnnnnnn

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ThoughtRiotAF578 (April 27, 2009)

and it can be a video of the band walking around some random area being all punk rawk.

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Wentz_Equals_Death (April 27, 2009)

technology eh

Okay no problem. Here's my second plan. Back in the 60's, I had a weather changing machine that was, in essence, a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser." Using these "lasers," we punch a hole in the protective layer around the Earth, which we scientists call the "Ozone Layer." Slowly but surely, ultraviolet rays would pour in, increasing the risk of skin cancer. That is unless the world pays us a hefty ransom.

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SydBarrett420 (April 27, 2009)

Austin Powers stopped being funny in the 20th century.

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kevgren (April 27, 2009)

I'm sorry, but that's objectively untrue.

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BarleyPat (April 27, 2009)

Obligatory "311 stopped being interesting in the late 90's" comment

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SydBarrett420 (April 27, 2009)

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speeds (April 27, 2009)

actually it was never funny

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psychosis_cheer (April 27, 2009)

hahahha i doubt it

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exthuse (April 27, 2009)

Baron Von Tito is stoked.

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thegimper (April 27, 2009)

Props.

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MN_punkmaster-skaman (April 27, 2009)

Let me guess... it's going to look like Sin City! No!! It's going to be with computer animated! Anitmated!!

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nowah (April 27, 2009)

i was thinking more along the lines of a scanner darkly

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MN_punkmaster-skaman (April 27, 2009)

If that's the case, I'm still sure a band has done that some where.

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maggiejmoxie (April 27, 2009)

what... just... what?

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fallingupwards84 (April 27, 2009)

save the "technology" crap for Angels & Airwaves; Tom is going to destroy Blink's legacy (if they had any)

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CrotchRot (April 27, 2009)

you're the only leg i see

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kevgren (April 27, 2009)

Ten bucks says it's a shot for shot remake of the "Thriller" video.

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Shark-e (April 27, 2009)

That sounds a whole lot better than anything I can think of them doing.

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TheMexican (April 27, 2009)

Oh for the love of...

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RondoMondo (April 27, 2009)

When it's all said and done, maybe they'll all be hanging from nooses.

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. First public suicide music video. What Michael Jackson tried to do with Billy Jean before he pussied out.

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martinNZ09 (April 27, 2009)

$50 says it is actually a commercial for Famous Stars and Straps

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CrotchRot (April 27, 2009)

haha a commercial

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shrapnel (April 27, 2009)

"...you won't be seeing a big green wall behind us...you will be seeing Green Day in front of us"

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iconoclast (April 27, 2009)

dumb. asses.

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JimmyNorville (April 27, 2009)

Simpsons did it!

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smorange7 (April 27, 2009)

Hopefully it's better than that lame-ass Green Day music video... what the fuck?!

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Hey_Asshole (April 28, 2009)

once you get past all the bullshit "this is not punk" and "blah blah major label sellouts" thing, this band is great.

and, while they may be a little more commercial sounding, have done nothing The Queers and the Descendents have not also done (re: fart songs, dick song, love songs)

hopefully when their new record comes out, we can get someone who is not so fucking reactionary to review it

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kevgren (April 28, 2009)

I don't think they've done any extremely sexist or offensive songs, so, viewed that way, they're probably nicer guys.

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SATAN_the_KOREAN_DINOSAUR (April 28, 2009)

homosexual robot fight. you heard it here first.

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SilentStorms (April 29, 2009)

"once you get past all the bullshit "this is not punk" and "blah blah major label sellouts" thing, this band is great.

and, while they may be a little more commercial sounding, have done nothing The Queers and the Descendents have not also done (re: fart songs, dick song, love songs)

hopefully when their new record comes out, we can get someone who is not so fucking reactionary to review it"

Hey Asshole,

Or you're just an elitist who thinks this is the kind of music we should be listening to. Don't put these guys on the pedestal along with the other bands you mentioned and expect us to KNOW it's great. I don't particularly care for this style of music anymore. It doesn't make me reactionary. It makes me me. I'm not liking this cuz they're big or not big or whatever the fuck you want to insert. I just don't like it.

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