Stay[ing] Together For The Kids?

It's been quite a while.
Man, I read back over my previous entries last night. I was one angry bitch eh? Well, it's all in the past really, I've moved on and I've had a lot happen to me in the last while that makes me want to start blogging again. The first being that I genuinely love writing, and I've realised that. I find nothing in this world more therapeutic and satisfying than writing my heart's desire. The second is that I spent three weeks in London interning with Rock Sound magazine. Now, please understand when I say that this is a huge deal for me. It cemented the fact that working somewhere like that would be an ultimate dream for me. I would move there tomorrow if they asked and well I have to keep in the game don't I?

Anyway, I sat staring at this screen wondering what or who to blog about - I had such great intentions and now I've hit a slump - but I realised I should've said something long ago about the Blink 182 reunion. Blink to me are everything that was good about my youth and many a drunken night was spent tearfully willing them to get back together. I'd pretty much accepted the fact it was never going to happen and the concert I went to in 2004 was the first and last time I'd ever see them on stage together. Eventually, I began to realise that I didn't want them to return. Those years and songs should be frozen in the time I experienced them, as memories. Seemingly, just when everyone had given up hope (and as some said.. "stopped caring"..sad face) they crawl out of the woodwork (or out of their respective mansions and post-Blink-flirtations) for another crack at it as a band again.
Now, don't get me wrong, it's amazing that they're back together, but I can't help but wonder what's going to happen. I mean, they went out at the top of their game. The last album - Self Titled - was a huge step forward in maturing their sound, and although they were criticised for not being the carefree idiots they once were, what we witnessed was promising and some of the songs that appeared on that release have become some of my all-time favourites. Now they're faced with the challenge of making a record that is better than that previous release PLUS the AVA/+44 efforts combined. As we have seen, this is not a band that forgives and forgets easily. it has been well documented that the beginning of the whole debaucle was Tom's (amd Travis') involvement in Box Car Racer. Mark Hoppus was -understandably- upset that, evidently, it wasn't that Tom needed to make music without Blink, Tom needed to make music without him.


Even years after the fact, the Box car subject was still being raised and Mark was always vocal about how it had upset him. So after an event that lasted mere months, how can we expect a rift that lasted three years to be healed, regardless if it took the near-death of Travis Barker to kick-start it?
Adding to my doubts are the seemingly stand-offish demeanor of Tom at the Grammys and his serious composure.
Of course, without being a close friend of the band I can hardly trust my judgement, but remembering how they were before and how they were now, a lot has changed. I just hope it hasnt been too much.

Lyric time.
This song has been relevant so many times for me growing up in a small town populated by chavs and old people.

Mom and dad they quite don't understand it,
all the kids they laugh as if they planned it
Why do girls wanna pierce their nose,
and walk around in torn pantyhose, oh yeah

I like the ones who say they listen to the punk rock
I like the kids who fight against how they were brought up
They hate the trends and think it's fucked to care,
it's cool when they piss people off with what they wear, oh yeah

So give me one good reason,
why we need to be like them
Kids will have fun and offend,
They don't want to and don't fit in

Hate the jocks, the preps, the hippie fucking scumbags
Heavy metalers with their awful pussy hair bands
counting seconds until we can get away,
ditching school almost every single day, oh yeah

So give me one good reason,
why we need to be like them
Kids will have fun and offend,
They don't want to and don't fit in

Give me one good reason,
why we need to be like them
Kids will have fun and offend,
They don't want to and don't fit in

Laters x.