well i guess this is growing up

wow. wow. wow. so many things about this video. where to begin? i guess i could start with my confession of undying adoration in my teenage years for blink-182. this vid, being the kicker for my 3 something year infatuation. thanks to 120 minutes, this was the beginning of my skater girl 'punk' phase. (popunkpopunkpopunk).

embarassing fact #1: i had the poster for enema of the state with mark/travis/tom in their boxers tacked up above my bed on the ceiling.

embarassing fact #2: hotmail never accepted Root as my last name - it would always reject it and say my last name was 'invalid' no matter how many times i tried. so instead, not knowing how email worked, and that everyone who would receive a message from me would see it, i saved my last name as Hoppus. As in, Mark Hoppus, cuz you know, we were all gonna get married and stuff. *sick.

embarassing fact #3: i met the boy i lost my virginity to and deemed my first 'true love' in high school at the movies seeing 'american pie.' the only ppl in the theater were me and a girlfriend (who i probably haven't spoken to since), said virginity taker, and his two friends. we shouted at each other across the theater about who was the bigger 'blink' fan and contested each other with random trivia. 'well, do you have cheshire cat??' 'whatever happened to scott?' 'college, duh.' so i guess, thanks, american pie and blink - 182 for the hot 16 year old pop-punk affair.

but anyway. goddamn. i don't care how embarassing it is, but embarassing fact #4: i still think Dude Ranch, as obnoxious and harsh as it is, is a fucking killer album. Even with those needless filler tracks of tom kissing some horses' balls, or whatever the fuck that is, that's my shit. enema of the state, god, i haven't heard that since i was maybe 19 or so and i guess a listen would be amusing for a bit, but that's where i have to draw the line. i always pretended to be the biggest fan of their first album, cheshire cat for 'street cred,' but let's face it, that album sucked. (even though i think that shitty 'carousel' song was me and v-card's 'song'.)

but this video? the reason i even youtubed it in the first place is that whenever i'm having a new quarter-life crisis of sorts or am pissed, sad, stressed, whathaveyou, i think back on the wisdom of my husband that never was, the frost-tipped (seriously, what's up with that hair? totes forgot about that bad bleach job), barking, 'nobody likes you when yer twenty-threee' mark hoppus and his solid life advice: "well i guess this is growing up.' and i'm like, yap, mark, feel yer pain brotha. growing up suxxx. (embarassing fact #5: i remember the part in the song where it breaks and on mtv springbreak 2000 and the show i saw in tinley park when i was 16 when BAD RELIGION and fenix tx opened up for blink 182 and mark raps 'ice ice baby'. stop, collaborate and listen. .. oh gawd.) but yeah, well i guess this is throwing up.

but yeah. whatever did happen to scott? (shouting across the theater: 'HE WENT TO COLLEGE!')

sucker.