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Mark Hoppus - Blink 182 news!

So this is pretty huge and unexpected news.Basically Mark posted a blog about the last two months.The beginning about the Lil Chris and Che is really sad.
Reading about Lunar Activities I'm almost 100% sure that +44 didn't start working on a new record and never will.But it sounds like a Blink 182 reunion isn't impossible.That would be really a great thing.

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.

Chris and the bear

taken from James Ingrams myspace:

one time, after everyone else had left and gone home, me and chris were chillin at the studio. he threw a slice of pizza and it hit me in the face. i bolted into action and chased him, threatening to give him a swirley, and i would have if i caught him. i didnt though, that little fucker shut all the lights off and hid. i bellowed out that when i found him, he was gonna taste toilet water for a week. from off in the distance and through the darkness all i could hear was chris laughing about being chased by a bear. the standoff ended not with his head in the toilet, but with me catching him and introducing his face to a slice of pizza as well. we finished off the night watching a movie with homegirl and the kid. the next day, no one thought the story was as funny as me and chris did.

great story to remember lil chris in a nice way

Fucking legend!

Remembering

In our memories ....

Tragic news

Life is a fragile thing!
What's hard about this is that I met Chris back in '06 at the +44 show in Berlin.He walked around putting up FSAS stickers.When two of my friends helped him with a big one he promised us to get Travis to come outside of the venue while the opening act plays.That kinda didn't work out but right when +44 came on stage he was searching for us and gave us drumsticks and other stuff.Basically it seemed like Lil' Chris was a super nice guy and he didn't deserve that.RIP.

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein, known as celebrity DJ AM, were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four Southern Californians, including Barker's bodyguard and his personal assistant, authorities said.


The pilot, Sarah Lemmon of Anaheim Hills, and copilot, James Bland of Carlsbad, were also killed, according to the Lexington County coroner.

The Learjet was taking off shortly before midnight Friday with six people aboard when air traffic controllers saw sparks. The plane, which was en route to Van Nuys airport, veered off the end of the runway, through a grassy area and a perimeter fence, slammed into a berm and became engulfed in a "significant fire," said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.
Barker and Goldstein were in critical but stable condition this afternoon at Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of the crash site in Columbia, S.C., said hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits. She declined to comment on their injuries.

Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles -- both members of Baker's entourage -- were among the dead.

According to music industry sources, Charles "Che" Still was a longtime friend of Barker's and sometimes worked as a bodyguard when the star drummer performed in small shows. Barker and Goldstein had performed together under the name TRVSDJ-AM at a free concert in Columbia on Friday night.

Baker, nicknamed "Little Chris," worked as a personal assistant to Barker and had appeared sometimes on MTV's "Meet the Barkers" the domestic-life reality show that aired in 2005 and 2006.




Michael Creger, a friend of Still, said the bodyguard's family was reeling from the news. They were upset, too, that early media reports of the accident focused on the injured Barker instead of the dead passengers. Still's family had thought the group in South Carolina would be returning home on a commercial flight, but travel plans apparently had changed.

The athletic Still was "a gentle giant" who aspired to be a professional athlete and had been working part time for Barker, Creger said. He was a "huge music fan" who, with his tattoos and stature, was an imposing figure to strangers. His friends, however, knew him as "a loving guy, the kind of guy would do anything for anybody," Creger said.

"His mother in Riverside is just devastated by this because Che's dad died not long ago also," Creger said.

At the crash site today, the air was still heavy with the odor of jet fuel. A trail of black soot led off a runway, across a five-lane road next to the airport and up an embankment. The nose of the aircraft was gone and the roof was missing from two-thirds of the charred plane.

An investigative team from the National Transportation Safety Board has been dispatched to South Carolina.

"It's absolutely terrible and tragic," Columbia Mayor Bob Coble said.

The plane is owned by Global Exec Aviation, a Long Beach-based charter company, and was certified to operate last year, an NTSB official said.

Mark Shater, spokesman for the charter company, declined to comment on the crash or the pilots. He said the company is sending a management team to South Carolina to cooperate with the FAA and the NTSB.