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Friday, 13 February 2009

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    Blink-182: 'Indefinite Hiatus' no more.

    "Yeah, we won't," DeLonge declared. "For a bunch of diplomatic and political reasons, we called it whatever back in the day, but it was a breakup. I've moved on. I believe that now I've found a place in my life where I'm happier than I've ever been and I'm with the best people I've ever been with and I'm making the best music and art I've ever made. So when people ask me if I'm ever going back to Blink, there's just no possible way. I'm in a totally different place, and I'm so happy. In Angels & Airwaves, I truthfully think it has infinite potential to be and do anything it wants to do." (Buzznet)

    Sure, Tom. Blink-182 was never going to reform and make music again. And yet, here we are folks, amidst one of the biggest news blitzes in 2009.

    I was reading something up on Yellowcard’s hiatus and their drummer, LP’s apparent agreement to join Lost Prophets (No that apparently isn’t true) on Absolutepunk.net when a comment came to my attention.

    “Who cares? Blink is back”

    So I started to research it on the same website and came up with this topic:

    “David Kennedy of Angels & Airwaves appears to have confirmed a new Blink-182 record”

    Now, I don’t know about you guys but I got pretty excited. So I researched a bit more and found that Blink-182 was going to present an award at the 51st Grammys and all I could think about was a future reunion of the band.

    Last October, Travis Barker was injured with second/third degree burns after a plane crashed in Georgia killing four of his friends and injuring him and another well known artist from California. A month after a crash, Mark Hoppus, bassist of then-former member of Blink-182 wrote on his blog that he, Travis and Tom Delonge were rekindling their lost friendships after four years of not speaking to each other.

    As you may know, Blink-182 was a very influential pop-punk band that emerged in the ‘90s and became very popular in the early years of the new century. After a series of deciding factors –such as Hoppus’ feelings of betrayal of Delonge and Barker’s side project Box Car Racer and Delonge’s feelings of wanting to stay home with his family, the band called an indefinite hiatus. But it was the signal that one of the biggest bands of the day was over and it seemed that they were never to regroup again. New projects Angels and Airwaves and +44 came out to the music scene and Blink-182 remained a memory.

    After the Hoppus’ message to all his blog readers, speculation started to arise about the possible reformation of Blink-182. Travis barker squashed the rumours saying that it was an impossibility that the band was going to reunite after. However, Hoppus states in an exclusive interview with MTV.com that “The future is wide open. ... Blink-182 wasn't manufactured by a label, and we weren't making music to make money or for fame. [...] My final thought is this: If — and this is a big if — Blink-182 were ever to re-form, it would have to be the most amazing, ridiculous, mind-blowing show and tour ever. I feel like, as bitter as our breakup was, we stepped back at the top of our game, and we'd have to come back even stronger and better than before.”

    This caused a more even bigger speculation and for once in four years; old fans had a glimmer of hope that grew every day about the possible reunion of the ‘pop-punk band that started off the modern punk scene’.

    After three or four weeks of waiting on some more news of Blink-182’s possible reformation, the press had released that Blink-182 would share a stage once again for the first time in four years presenting an award during the 51st Grammys and leads me back to where I started. Then David Kennedy, guitarist of Angels and Airwaves allegedly confirmed the reunion and that Blink was creating a new record. Without any official comments from Hoppus, Delonge or Barker, fans were on a blitz exchanging this newfound knowledge and the internet was imploded with talk of Blink-182’s probable reunion. However, these were only rumours and fans were left to wait for the Grammys to find out if Blink would release more information on the matter.

    On the night of February 8, 2009, Blink had appeared on the Grammy stage and after Hoppus joking about how it was good to see that Stevie Wonder and the Jonas Brothers was together, Barker finally confirmed all of the fans wishes. Blink-182 would be making music once again.

    With a newly revamped official website, Myspace, and new memberships with many other social networking websites, Blink-182 was back. They also released a message for all the fans that were waiting for this moment on all these websites:


    "Hi. We’re blink-182.
    This past week there’ve been a lot of questions about the current status of the band, and we wanted you to hear it straight from us. To put it simply, We’re back. We mean, really back. Picking up where we left off and then some. In the studio writing and recording a new album. Preparing to tour the world yet again. Friendships reformed. 17 years deep in our legacy.

    Summer 2009.

    Thanks and get ready…"

    All of these events –from the announcement that Blink will reunite for the Grammys to the confirming message from Travis Barker sent the internet –especially loyal Blink fan sites and music websites –notably Absolutepunk.net into the biggest forum blitz known to 2009 at the moment.

    So the question is what’s going to happen? Blink-182 is officially back?

    +44 are on a indefinite hiatus. Angels and Airwaves are still on for their new record. Finally, YES. Blink-182 is officially back. And like the official message says “[They’re] back. [They] mean, really back.” They’re coming out with a new record and promises to have a world tour. They also have new merch and a new logo (not really, just that there’s six arrows instead of the previous five and it’s has a metallic shine to it)

    So yeah. BLINK-182 IS BACK!

Sunday, 28 December 2008

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    Fast Times at Barrington High
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    Paper Chase
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    Ashley's Top 100 Songs of '08

    I was just thinking of all the things that happened during the past year of 2008 and I realized that my music tastes grown so much. Music is practically a part of me now that I cannot live without it and I have to thanks all the artists who have inspired me to live life to whatever potential it may hold for me. It inspires my writing and how I live my life. I can’t thank them enough for creating such amazing music and they’re just awesome bands. It’s been one hell of a year that if anything,  I don’t want to do over. I’ve hurt too much to want to recall this year even though there were a couple of highlights. Anyhoo, it gives me great pleasure to give you Ashley’s Top 100 Songs of ’08 (Although it’s the songs that got me through the year):

    ·         Linkin Park:

    1.       Leave Out All The Rest

    2.       In Pieces

    3.       Easier To Run

    4.       Hit The Floor

    5.       In The End

    6.       Papercut

    7.       One Step Closer

    8.       Bleed It Out

    9.       No Roads Left

    10.   Faint

    ·         Simple Plan:

    1.       Perfect

    2.       Me Against The World

    3.       One

    4.       When I’m Gone

    5.       The End

    6.       Welcome To My Life

    7.       Your Love Is A Lie

    8.       Take My Hand

    9.       Generation

    10.   What If

    ·         Yellowcard:

    1.       Breathing

    2.       Way Away

    3.       Only One

    4.       Martin Sheen Or JFK

    5.       Shadows and Regrets

    6.       Five Becomes Four

    7.       Paperwalls

    8.       Bombers

    9.       Firewater

    ·         Avenged Sevenfold:

    1.       Afterlife

    2.       A Little Piece Of Heaven

    3.       Almost Easy

    4.       Unbound (The Wild Ride)

    5.       Brompton Cocktail

    6.       Gunslinger

    7.       Scream

    8.       Critical Acclaim

    ·         The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus:

    1.       Your Guardian Angel

    2.       Face Down

    3.       Pen and Paper

    4.       False Pretence

    5.       Damn Regret

    ·         Elliot Minor:

    1.       Parallel Worlds

    2.       The White One Is Evil

    3.       Jessica

    4.       Still Figuring Out

    5.       Time After Time

    ·         Daughtry:

    1.       It’s Not Over

    2.       Over You

    3.       Feels Like Tonight

    4.       What I Want

    5.       What About Now

    6.       Crashed

    ·         Faber Drive:

    1.       24 Story Love Affair

    2.       Killin’ Me

    3.       Obvious

    4.       Second Chance

    5.       Summer Fades To Fall

    6.       Time Bomb

    7.       When I’m With You

    ·         Panic At The Disco:

    1.       Nine In The Afternoon

    2.       That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)

    3.       Northern Downpour

    4.       When The Day Met The Night

    5.       Camisado

    6.       Lying is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

    7.       But It’s Better If You Do

    8.       Time To Dance

    9.       I Write Sins Not Tragedies

    ·         Paramore:

    1.       Misery Business

    2.       Miracle

    3.       Let The Flames Begin

    4.       Crushcrushcrush

    5.       Born For This

    6.       Pressure

    7.       Decode

    ·         There For Tomorrow:

    1.       Deadlines

    2.       Pages

    3.       Waiting

    4.       Taking Chances

    5.       Remember When (Used To Be Used To It)

    ·         30 Seconds To Mars:

    1.       Attack

    2.       The Kill

    3.       From Yesterday

    4.       A Beautiful Lie

    ·         Fall Out Boy:

    1.       I Don’t Care

    2.       Thriller

    3.       “The Takeover, The Break’s Over”

    4.       This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race

    5.       Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

    ·         The Academy Is...:

    1.       About A Girl

    2.       Summer Hair = Forever Young

    3.       Paper Chase

    4.       His Girl Friday

    5.       Crowded Room

    ·         All Time Low:

    1.       Six Feet Under The Stars

    2.       Dear Maria, Count Me In

    ·         Sum 41:

    1.       With Me

    2.       Count Your Last Blessings

    3.       Pull The Curtain

    4.       Speak Of The Devil

    ·         We The Kings:

    1.       Skyway Avenue

    2.       Check Yes, Juliet

    3.       Secret Valentine

    ·         Metro Station:

    1.       Control

    2.       Shake It

    ·         The All American Rejects:

    1.       Dirty Little Secret

    2.       It Ends Tonight

    ·         Avril Lavigne:

    1.       Innocence

    2.       My Happy Ending

    3.       I’m With You

    ·         Other Various Artists:

    1.       The Cab – Bounce

    2.       The Fall Of Troy – F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.

    3.       OneRepublic – Apologize

    4.       MxPx – Play It Loud

    5.       Evanescence – Tourniquet

    6.       Three Days Grace – I Hate Everything About You

    7.       Angels And Airwaves – Everything’s Magic

    8.       Saosin – Voices

    9.       It’s Not Over – Secondhand Serenade

    10.   Fireflight – Unbreakable

    11.   Billy Talent – Pins And Needles

    Isn’t that an amazing list? Well at least I think it is. Ahaha. Anyway, yes I know that some of these songs are way old but they did help me get through such a rough year. There’s a lot of songs you may not recognize unless you’re a fan because a lot of them are from their CD and they haven’t or aren’t singles. If that’s the case, check them out because they’re awesome. So yeah, enjoy! I don’t know what you can do with this but it’s still awesome for me. I can’t even put all these songs in one disc. It looks like it would take five when you think about it. But yeah, enjoy and maybe you might find you’re new favourite band. Thanks!

    - Ashley [thehardcorexrocker]

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Friday, 07 November 2008

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    There for Tomorrow
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    On The One Year Point

    Hey guys. Sorry I haven’t been able to blog lately. I’ve been so busy and I never have chances to actually blog on something. I’m actually writing a book called “The Five Stages To Finding Yourself” at the moment and it’s based on a true story. If you want to, you can read it on fictionpress.com. The link is fictionpress.com/~thehardcorexrocker. Of course, I’m still writing a lot of poems. I’ve been able to write a lot lately. Anyways, I’ve had a hectic schedule in a past three weeks.

    To the point. As you can see, this blog has been titled “On The One Year Point”. My reason is that exactly one year ago, something triggered me to go into a depression that I’ve been fighting. It’s been a hard year where I don’t know myself. I usually refer it to when I lost myself. I wrote a poem today. Actually, when I think about it, it’s no wonder why I’ve been in a horrible mood today. Of course! That makes perfect sense. Anyways, here is my little poem. Enjoy.

    On The One Year Point

    I walk down this highway to disaster

    For this past year I’ve been broken

    You never realized this happening

    All you can see is the facade that I have used

    My dreams have finally been shattered

    There is no such thing as a happy ending

    Understand that I can’t deal with this

    This pain is something unreal

    Who would have thought I’d be this way?

    Discover the truth behind the lies I’ve told you

    I hate to cry because it shows weakness

    Anger is always boiling within me

    Frustration is always getting to me

    Try to peel away the person you know I am

    You’ll see that I’m emotionally dead

    I can’t understand why this is happening to me

    Did I do something horribly wrong?

    We were always trying to keep together

    Trying to remember all the good times

    When all we would do was smile our hearts out

    These memories are all I have left

    Don’t forget that I will never be the same

    Nothing is going to bring me back

    I can’t breathe in this contaminated air

    With the deceit and lies surrounding me

    Let me fall into the never-ending hole

    Know that there is no place for me here

    Leaving out the best and worst of me

    Don’t compete with my words of heartbreak

    I’m done waiting for the light

    It’s too hard to move my frown into a smile

    Common sense is nothing without logic

    My logic has been twisted because of this

    Can I scream into the dark silence?

    Scream that I’m dying on the inside

    My dark brown eyes are clouded with doubt

    All I hear are people telling me to be myself

    How can that be when I don’t know who I am?

    Look at the circumstantial evidence

    See that I have dramatically changed

    It’s time for you to see what I have become

    There are no taking chances with life

    Time will never stop for something gone wrong

    Stopping the earth from rotating is impossible

    Here comes the deadline for the end

    I try to procure tears to show my feeling

    This heart has become too cold for touch

    Reach into my soul even when it’s buried

    I won’t be six feet under all of you

    But you’ll be wondering where I’ve gone

    When I jump off and become a living memory


    Anyways, that’s it for me right now. I’ll update as soon as I can. Probably in a week, I hope. See you later.

    - Ashley [thehardcorexrocker]

    P.S. I probably won’t finish the last blog until Christmas Break.

    P.S.S. If you want to check out my poems, check it out at: http://www.bebo.com/TFBHP

About Me

  • About me eh? Well, some say that I'm a cold hearted bitch. Others say that I'm one serious spaz. My friends say that I'm a complete nerd with all the fixings. I say that I'm just one of those quiet misunderstood teenagers who doesn't really give a flying [beep] about anything. Anyways, I unfortunately have a bad temper and I like to be very independent in whatever I do. I tend to I tend to keep myself from others at a distance; uncomfortable when meeting new people although I am trying to break the habit. I'm all for originality and don't follow the trends. I can be your typical nerd but I can be another person entirely. Besides these minor details, there are three things you need to know. I love to read, I write to my heart's content and I'm one for music. Rock/Punk/Metal/Alternative music. And that's about it.

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    • Member Since: 8/15/2008

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