U might not recognize this band, because it is the band Blink 182, before they ‘blew up like crazy.’ (L to R: Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus, Thomas DeLonge)
It’s kinda weird these days. I feel bands want to ‘make it’ in a way that means ‘not becoming a huge brand that can sell a bunch of shit to markets that u don’t respect.’ Whether it is tweens or people over the age of 36 who still buy Green Day albums, it seems like bands want to be ’successful’ in a way that is like ‘i just want 2 solid albums, and tons of indie cred.’
Feels weird looking at pictures of Blink 182’s latest tour. Can’t believe they almost ‘broke up 4 good.’ Seems retarded for these types of megaBands 2 break up 4ever. I think that they make like several hundred million dollars per tour. It seems ‘too good to pass up’, even if u ‘didn’t get along with some other bro in ur band.’ Wonder if Grizzly Bear / Animal Collective / The Postal Service / Death Cab 4 Cutie will ever ‘grow old’ with their listeners, and eventually get to play large scale concerts where u overcharge for seats and make tons of money [via selling merch].
Seems lucrative to be Blink 182.
Moms line up with their kids 2 ‘buy merch.’
Photos via thecobrasnake
Groups of pre-altbros / maltstream teenbros form a deep bond/project their insecurities of ‘being left out’ by wearing the same shirt.
Tweens text & ’sext’ & ‘tweet’ from ur show.
U have sponsors/an 18 wheeler with ur faces on it
A cellphone company tries to monopolize ur brand/get every1 to enter some text contest.
Tweens photograph u and post pix on the internet
Blink 182 has appealed to the ‘Cali Bro’ demographic, and bros who dress like ‘cali Bros’ who aren’t from California. Even though they started ’smoking’ and ‘growing facial hair’, they still love what ur band/music means 2 them.
U get to see ur older mexiBro fans mingling with tween girl fans, representing a ‘bridge’ across race + generation
U get 2 be a ‘cool dad‘ and carry around ur child / human accessory
I feel like I will know I have ‘made it’ as a band when I play a large-scale outdoor venue, and I watch two shirtless bros embrace one another, as if they have just seen the ’sickest fucking performance’ in the history of the concert going experience.
Can’t believe Blink 182 has been around for 30 years. I wonder when it is time for a band 2 ‘hang it up’, or is there just ‘2 much money 2 be made’ if you are a respected brand with a tribe of loyal followers/fans who aren’t ‘connected’ enough to find something new 2 enjoy.
Just want to start a band, build an ‘insane’ business model, and continue to let my brand grow old gracefully, continuing to rake in more money as the years go on.
Maybe the best music in the world appeals 2 the most amount of ppl and we should be happy that the bands that the most people like are the most financially successful. I feel like maybe having a ’strict brand’ isn’t necessary–maybe ur brand needs to be ‘confusing’, so that it can appeal to people in multiple demographics who ‘don’t understand life’ and end up trying to ‘be kewl’ via antiquated methods, such as ‘really liking blink182/green day/u2/coldplays.’
Does n e 1 else ‘want 2 throw up’ when u watch Bruce Springsteen ‘perform live’/hear old ppl talk about his ‘amazing performance’?
‘I guess this is growing up, yall’ – the blinking 182times
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MISS U SCOTT RAYNOR <3
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
miss u travbro v1.0
miss u pete best [via back when the beatles were authentic]
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//////////Reply by The Man in the Hat
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
totally caught that typo too.
ttear
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//////////Reply by alex
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 1:29 am
I am a hip high schooler, please comment my blog!
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//////////Reply by Z
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 11:57 am
miss when the comments started out with “@”. might keep using it anywayz.
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“i guess this is growin up” – the blinks, yall
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//////////Reply by the fink
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
WTF carles??
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wish i had an ipod
might buy a cd player today
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//////////Reply by tao
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
bought a tao lin book…was ‘disappointed’
gonna go listen to dude ranch now
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Does boxcar racer still have cred….because it’s so much more “rough” and “edgy”?
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//////////Reply by pfft
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
nano
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thanks again for reminding me who i am.
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GHEZYNS
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I am srsly about to boycott this site. Enuff of the mainstream music coverage (via Hootie, Weezer, Blink182). How about pre-leak coverage of Atlas Sound or just anything relevant. Fuck.
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//////////Reply by altBro
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
ATLAS SOUND = mainstream. every1 knows it. every other article on ‘p4k’ is about this ghey marfie.
post some newz on UUVVWWZ
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
CRLZ CRLZ CRLZ
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//////////Reply by Mari
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 3:10 am
who the fuck cares, blink 182 is timeless.
if good music is too irrelevant, go listen to your own ‘kewlboringmusic’ via pains of being pure at heart/p4kcore.
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//////////Reply by Zandro
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
@monster, boooo fucking hooooo, ‘y cant crls post about some band no1 knows so i can brag about my musical superiority to my friends?’
grow up, bro.
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love that you called their first drummer Travis.
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//////////Reply by jvac
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
love that you knew the first drummer wasn’t travis
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//////////Reply by sarah
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
it’s pretty obv it’s not travis…
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
love that ur totes ‘in on the joke’
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//////////Reply by altBro
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
HAH what a douche
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They’re ‘just about done with our butts, they’ll let us know’
I mean really crls who taught you how to throw the dick down the stairs?
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Blink182 were never in any way shape or form, ‘alt’, they were never SUPPOSED to be an ‘alt band’, so in a way it’s kind of mean to make fun of them in this context.
They are a bunch of guys who just like to joke around, they are a frat band for zany guys and girls who like zany guys. They were never ‘alt’.
I personally never liked their music… but I wouldn’t make fun of them for selling out… it’s like yelling at hannah montana for being “mainstream”, that’s kind of the point.
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//////////Reply by xoxo
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
i’m sorry, what were you saying?
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“Does n e 1 else ‘want 2 throw up’ when u watch Bruce Springsteen ‘perform live’/hear old ppl talk about his ‘amazing performance’?”
No. Go fuck yourself you elitist prick. Go listen to the shitty altcore band the Teenagers again.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
4 real yall! my dad always talks abt bruce springysteen + ghey old shit like that. makes me want 2 cut myself [some more]
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//////////Reply by y3K
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
friendly horrors is right :) Bruce Springsteen is an “elitist”. it takes him @ least 5yrs to cut an albm. sumtimes i think “glory days” is a parody of his own career :( also what’s with the soprano’s being his back up band…..no one’s intimidated!!
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//////////Reply by el fggt
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
ur not 2 friendly r u friendlyhorrors
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//////////Reply by Z
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
@friendlyhorrors, ugh, dad! stop hcking my mac and leaving comments on my bookmarked blogs!! i thought if i made you a twitter account it would b enuf. guess i wuz wrong.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
@friendlyhorrors, forget Springsteen, at least he isn’t shilling for blackberry.
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted August 9th, 2009 at 3:43 am
@friendlyhorrors, YA KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO??? YA NEED TO JUST ‘CHILL’
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thats not travis in that pic. little kids are always going to be tards. death cab has already gotten old with their fans. wtf r u talking about in this post? that you didnt know who blink 182 was until the reunion tour? post sux. hipsterrunoffrunoff.com
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//////////Reply by comehomenow
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Thnk you just ‘dont get’ where carles is coming from
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//////////Reply by Gainesvillain
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
wow this is getting ridiculous
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thats scott brah, in that pic brah, top page..brah
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//////////Reply by UP in theaters now
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
lol this is better than the David Bowie/Jacob Dylan one
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just dwnloded some of blink 182. they are “ok”. sounds like they are trying to be like sum 41 xcept they are “older”. seems like they want 2 b back in high school. I’ll probably try to check them out live if they come 2 alaska.
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i wonder if you guys realize that sorority girls started the whole ‘abbrev’ thing. you guys are fairys.
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//////////Reply by y3K
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
sdshw is right
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//////////Reply by cobones
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
rt n bhr!
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//////////Reply by pfft
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
wat is srrorty grls?
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//////////Reply by jjj
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 9:08 am
valley girls not sorority girls.
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
@sideshow, †åkes 1 2 knøw 1
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going 2 see them 2 night. hope they play their hit song ‘my girls’.
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//////////Reply by jim morisson
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
that’s not funny. ive decided you have no life ne pas. you should just end it.
peace.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
thought it wuz kinda funny.
4 real tho…i’m trying to get psyched 4 blinking 182 tonight.
wut is their live show like? do they just stand behind samplers and bob their heads like evry 1 says?
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//////////Reply by xoxo
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
yeah but mark hoppus comes out in a big ball towards the end and walks across the crowd.
can’t decide what genre of person uses the handle jim morrison on hro. so confusing.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
@xoxo, not sure if ur a boy or a grl [not sure i care] but <3 u
//////////Reply by jim morisson
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
my name is jim morisson. pretty straightforward.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
@jim morisson, seems weak.
//////////Reply by val kilmer
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
i you should change your name to ‘van morrison’…….more alt
//////////Reply by val kilmer
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
i think you should change your name to ‘van morrison’…….more alt
//////////Reply by lizard king
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
@val kilmer, totes agree!
//////////Reply by xoxo
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
@ val kilmer, you should change your name to doc holliday.
//////////Reply by doc holliday
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
@ xoxo, thanks…i feel more authentic. i always blog in a cowboy hat and boots. so this is more ‘natural’
//////////Reply by Mari
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 3:15 am
thought it was kinda funny too. <3 u ne pas.
//////////Reply by xoxo
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
and i have a huge crush on doc holliday from the movie tombstone, so we’re all set to cyber. i guess we can skip me asking what you’re wearing, obviously….
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//////////Reply by BlipsterCambridge
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Lets tug y’all.
are you trying to bore me into reading your short stories?
cuz it’s working.
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FALSE CAPTIONS!
TWEENS DON’T TWEET!
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//////////Reply by le CEECEE
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
ima tween i tweet
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/55/l_e155b938ba70da1f6376d7b7174930e5.jpg
and take pics 2 ‘twitpic’
arent i fkin kute?
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//////////Reply by lol
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
i swear your fat gheyzn ass tries to get attn on every hro post. sort out your issues already
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//////////Reply by BlipsterCambridge
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 8:14 am
She just whants to tuggle.
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anyone see that juggalo wearing the lakers jerzy.
Juggalo juggalo
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Man, I can’t believe John Hughes died, Home Alone was like my second favourite movie.
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Ferris Buelller smoked el cocko, though
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//////////Reply by jjj
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 9:10 am
hot.
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RIP MJ
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*pours some brew on the krb 4 hsi fallen homie*
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Probably good I’m not a Blink type rock star, because I’d be taking advantage of chicks like that mixed-race cutie in the “Tweens photograph u and post pix on the internet” pic and making them suck my peen.
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can’t beleev cobrasnark was there. shouldn’t they be taking pictures of cokewhores and ghey-okis receding hairline? plx?
tBark was better as BaronVonTito in the original anCo
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this was funny but ultimately music is music, and when u start ‘worrying’ bout what’s kewl not kewl, then you’re just chasing lyfe. good music comes in all genres/forms/bands.
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jesus
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Miss U HRO
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this blog is sorta B-182. Big sponsorship, lots of tweens/tweets, cali-bro demographic, lingers around past its time
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//////////Reply by pfft
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
hro doesnt have a real job. needs to make a little money some how.
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//////////Reply by jjj
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 9:11 am
like the inclusion of race and cool dad completely inappropriately? <3.
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do you think a vacuum can suck itself up? do you think the internet is that vacuum? do you think the well has run dry? do you think time has a beginning and/or end? do you think YOU maybe want ad money like every other pretend “real” person wants [via p4k]? do you actually like “music” or do you just like thinking about it with your head instead of your heart?
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//////////Reply by the fink
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 9:22 am
so deep bro
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so all those pixxxx are from milcocky, wisbro. weird. saw ‘john mayer’ @ the same venue twice…
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Weak post. Easy to pick on Blink180+2.
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//////////Reply by brett
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
@Dave Stewart, they were much betr when they wer 179+3 , 180+2= sellout
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lol, daft punk font
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How can u tell that ur band has truly ‘made it’ and that u r living life as a ‘rock star’?
- when your still spending your advance $ the label gave you on alt clothes and vintage monosynths
How can u tell that ur band is ‘irrelevant’ and that u r living life as a ‘has been’?
- when you’ve done an episode of ‘cribs’
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I think people only h8 ‘mainstream’ because they suck too much to ever be ‘mainstream’
TBH, I’d sell out in an instant
H8 indie cred
<3 teen sluts
<3 dollars
Miss guy from Blink who died in a plane crash or whatever
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
@draculas, mainstream is kind of like fast food, it does the job but once you’ve had a five star dining it leaves much to be desired.
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//////////Reply by draculas
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
@anony,
Better to have alt and lost than to have never alt at all?
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you should make a post about dave matthews/phish/other lame jam bands.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted August 8th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
@Andrew, This sector is already dangerously over saturated and headed for a crash.
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Carles obviously has some kind of contract/man crush with them because we get a new blink post about once a month.
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OH SHIT GANG GANG
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Thats not travis barker fucktard. Its scott raynor
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//////////Reply by BlipsterCambridge
//////////Posted August 9th, 2009 at 12:56 am
@Tim,
Take out Scott’s peen before you talk to us grown folks.
It’s downright disrespectful.
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//////////Reply by tim suxxx
//////////Posted August 9th, 2009 at 12:58 am
@Tim, who is travis barker? scott plyz drums bang bang 4 blnk 182 right? idk wut yur talking about
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Dear Carles,
I love you; if you weren’t so blatantly gay I would ask you to have your babies (that looks trashier in writing then it did in my head, i assure you).
Stumbled across your blog recently and happily overdosed as I caught up with the plethora of older posts. Now I consider myself a devote follower as I never read a post without llol (literally loling) and/or being given something new to seriously ponder or scoff at.
Keep it up sugar.
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//////////Reply by chuck
//////////Posted August 9th, 2009 at 11:27 am
@Karen, tl;dr
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dudes, yall r like the mainstream of alts……
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blink182 is still around?
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way to go R-tard
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GREEN DAY YAYYYYYYYYY
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This is a post about milwaukee
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Blink is still awesome on cd..But the shows got so lame around 1999 time. Everyone was like 12 years old! Wish I could see them again but can’t bring myself to do it!!!
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