BLINK 182 (Facts)

• "Adam's Song" is about a letter that Mark read from a kid before he commited suicide. Then he got the idea for the song.
• "All The Small Things" and "First Date" are both featured in the movie Clockstoppers.
• "All the Small Things" is featured in the Gamecube game Donkey Konga.
• "Dammit" is featured in the movies Bubbleboy ,Can't Hardly Wait and Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.
• "Mutt" can be heard on the movie Tomcats (2001).
• An indefinite hiatus when used as a term for a band, means that they are taking a break. Tom just had another kid, Travis and Mark are home with the little ones, so it may mean that they are taking a break. There are several contradictions, because the members of the band said that "All was over", but then they said "It's just a break".
• At the starting of the video "Josie", Mark takes his lunch and kisses his real mother.
• At Tom's Angels And Airwaves concerts, he plays the song by blink 182 called "Down" by himself.
• Before "Blink 182" and even before "Blink," the original name for the band was "Duct Tape".
• Before every concert, Tom always drinks Red Bull.
• Blink 182 did 9 tours in Australia.
• Blink 182 was originally called just Blink, but they changed the name since there was an Irish Pop band called Blink too.
• Blink-182 consists of Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge and Travis Barker.
• Blink-182 Formed in San Diego.
• Both Tom and Mark like to eat their cereal with water.
• Cds gone platinum: Dude Ranch (platinum), Enema of the State (7x platinum), Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2x platinum), Untitled (2x platinum)
• Counting all the alternative releases, the group has released 20 Major albums, 2 compiliations and 5 DVDs.
• Earlier in 2006, Travis played a couple of shows with DJ AM and has trademarked the name The Phenomenons for a new band.
• Flyswatter was a demo tape and was never released. Since it's a demo album it isn't clear when it was recorded: 1992 or 1993.
• If you listen to the song Reckless Abandon with the left earphone only, you can hear people talking in the first 20 seconds or so.
• In an episode of Two Guys and a Girl, Blink 182 is playing "What's My Age Again" naked.
• In music video "Josie", the band attends Westlake High School.
• In the Brazilian and Latin American versions of the album Greatest Hits, there is a bonus track: Aliens Exist, live from a concert in LA.
• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Something Blue", Willow gets drunk and dances to "All The Small Things".
• In the video "Dammit", when Tom's pants fall off, Scott mouths "Your pants fell down". Also Tom mouths to Mark "I love you" during on themovie screen.
• In the video "Man Overboard", they arrive at a club called "FenixTx". This is a band that Mark used to manage in 1999 before the succes of the album Enema of the State.
• In the video for "First Date", Tom mouths 'what the f**k' after the girl falls headfirst off of her bike.
• In the video Josie, Tom has a Rhythm skateboard.
• In years 1999-2000, the song "All the Small things" was in the top 10 of several music magazines.
• Mark and Tom both live in San Diego. Travis lives in Riverside.
• Mark and Tom's favourite restaurant is Sombrero's. They mentioned it in the song "Josie".
• Mark Hoppus (the bassist) appeared in Simple Plan's video "I'd Do Anything"
• Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker are also part of the band Plus 44.
• Mark Hoppus was born on March 15, 1972, in California.
• Mark is the only member without any body piercings or a tatoo.
• Mark's dog's name is Ahi.
• Mark's sister Anne wrote Blink 182's biography, entitled Tales From Beneath Your Mom.
• On the album of 'The Enema Of The State", you can clearly read on the spine that it says "Viking wizard eyes, wizard full of lies".
• Parents: Both Mark and Tom's parents are divorced. Travis' mom Gloria died of cancer on Travis' first day of high school. The first tattoo he ever got was a memorial of her.
• Scott was 14 when Mark and Tom recruited him to the band.
• Singles: M+M's (1996), Josie (1998), Dammit (1998), What's My Age Again, pt. 1 (1999), What's My Age Again pt. 2 (1999), Man Overboard (2000), Adam's Song (2000), All the Small Things (2000), Feeling This (2003), I Miss You, pt. 1 and 2 (2004), Down, pt. 1 and 2 (2004),Always (2004), Not Now (2005).
• Some rumors as to why the band split: -Mark was feeling left out after the formation of Boxcar Racer -Tom didn't want to play that kind of music anymore -They wanted to spend more time with their families
• The actors dancing in the "What's my age again?" video had no clue that they would be dancing around naked.
• The album Enema of the State was originally supposed to be called just Enema.
• The band Panic! At The Disco started out by making Blink 182 covers.
• The eye on the inside of the "Enema of the State" CD can be seen as a poster in the video "Always".
• The image on Cheshire Cat was originally from a calender. They tried to use it legally but they couldn't. They then took the picture and modified it so they wouldn't get sued.
• The legend that is blink-182 started way back in 1992.
• The man selling "blink" drinks in the video "Dammit" is their manager Rick Devoe.
• The song "A New Hope" was originally called "Princess Leia". The name of the song is also a refrence to Star Wars 4: A New Hope.
• The song "All of this" was supposed to be their fifth single but the hiatus stopped it from happening.
• The song "All the Small things" can be heard on Sabrina, the teenage witch.
• The song "All The Small Things" can be heard on the movie Charlie's Angels during the end credits.
• The song "Dammit" can be heard on Dawson's Creek (1998)
• The song "Dumpweed" can be heard on the movie Jailbait (2000).
• The song "Feeling This" can be heard on Madden NFL 2004 as "Action."
• The song "Feeling This" was first thought of by having Mark and Tom separated into two different rooms without talking to each other. When they got out, they realised they had both written about sex. The song came out with two versions of sex in it. The lustful side and the romantic side.
• The song "I Miss You" can be heard in the pilot episode of The Mountain.
• The song "Mutt" can be heard on the movie American Pie (1999).
• The song "My Pet Sally" was meant for an old friend of Tom who used to work at his old high school as a security guard and her name was Sally.
• The song "What's my Age Again?" was originally going to be called Peter Pan Complex but they where affraid people wouldn't get it. Also, at 1 minute and 49 seconds into the song, you can hear Mark say in the backround "Stay with me, Wendy".
• The song Apple Shampoo is about Mark's ex-girlfriend who used apple shampoo.
• The video for What's My Age Again? was shot in Los Angeles.
• The videos All the Small Things, Man Overboard and What's My Age Again? feature the Banana Man.
• Their first concert took place at a bar. Since they were underage, they were only allowed to enter when it was time for their set. No one came to see them, after only one song Blink was shut off. After the show, a man came up to Tom, bought him a Snapple and said, "You deserve it."
• They can also be seen in "Pop Disaster Tour," featuring Green Day and several other punk bands.
• They can also be seen on "Album Launch"
• They received $500,000 for "The Rock Show" music video.
• They where going to call there self-titled CD "Use your erection" but then later changed it.
• Tom chose the name "blink" because he reportedly likes short verbs.
• Tom Delonge was born on December 13th, 1975, in San Diego.
• Tom is married to Jennifer Jenkins (a.k.a. Jennifer Delonge), Mark is married to Skye Everly (a.k.a. Skye Hoppus) and Travis is married to former Miss USA Shanna Moakler (a.k.a. Shanna Barker).
• Tom is now in a band called Angels and Airwaves, alongside members of The Distillers and The Offspring.
• Tom said several times that he is obsessed with aliens, and his hobby is Ufology, the science that investigates UFOs.
• Tom said that the band's official name is blink-182 (without capitals and with a line between blink and 182). However, he also said that it doesn't matter how you spell it because they "misspelled" their name in several disks.
• Tom was the original founder of Blink 182.
• Tom's daughter is named Ava DeLonge. He also has a son named Rocket.
• Travis and Tom are also members of Boxcar Racer
• Travis Barker appears in P Diddy's video for "Bad Boy for Life."
• Travis Barker was born on November 14, 1975, in California.
• Travis is also a member of The Transplants.
• Travis is kissing his wife Shanna Moalker in the video "Down".
• Travis is making a band called Expensive Taste.
• Travis started his own clothing company called Famous Stars and Straps, and Mark started his own clothing company called Atticus along with Tom. Tom also made his own company called Macbeth shoes.
• Travis was a member of The Aquabats, and joined blink 182 when he was part of this band.