Mark Hoppus talked about new blink-182 album, The Blinkumentary, +44 songs and more

Here you are the latest answers by Mark Hoppus at Blink-182 Collectors Facebook group.

  • no set dates for a single release as yet. still writing songs.
  • writing with matt is going great. he's an amazing songwriter and easy to work with. very enthusiastic.
  • new star wars trailer was just okay, although i'm very stoked for it.
  • new music before any tour.
  • most of the songs i write begin on an acoustic
  • i've not had a chance to read travis's book yet.
  • no plans to write a book myself at the time, but who knows in the future?
  • metal octopus i still have somewhere
  • favorite blink-182 item is my giant bunny sculpture
  • cereal killers is matt's project that he asked me to play on, since we started writing songs for this, he hasn't been working on it as far as i know.
  • the untitled album is my favourite, but they are all cool to me in their own ways.
  • those who can't was fun. i had two lines. i hope i delivered them okay.
  • nothing and nobody is still sitting on a hard drive. good ideas in there, but needs more work, and all three of us are working on other things right now.
  • the h in the untitled album was forgotten but i like to think it's obscured behind the b.
  • amy schumer made herself a star. she is awesome. she and i hit it off right from the beginning and i am glad to have worked with her on the show. she deserves all the success she has coming.
  • talking with fender about a possible new style of signature bass
  • somehow i fell in with a bunch of the new wave of LA comics. it's super fun working with them, but i don't know if i'd do stand up. i don't think i have that ability.
  • i'm sorry about the podcast saying new year twice. we regret the error.
  • i usually donate my old equipment to schools
  • i don't really eat cereal anymore. back in the day, cap'n crunch w crunch berries
  • we are all in the studio together each week a couple days at least, and work on song ideas on our own that we bring into sessions that we all work on together
  • we work during the days, so everyone can be with their families at night
  • my favourite plant(s) are the tomatoes in my garden
  • i think i have at least one of everything that blink has ever released
  • our chickens now live at a friend's house since we don't live in the UK full time anymore
  • lately listening to halsey and silversun pickups
  • burritos over tacos
  • thermos is great. still keeping hot drinks hot, cold drinks cold
  • been running more for exercise lately
  • that bass vi is is storage
  • i haven't been reading comics lately, i've gone to the store a few times but nothing has stuck out to me so i haven't bought any
  • i saw jim a couple weeks ago at taste of chaos
  • yes i still produce bands. i worked with PAWS over the summer
  • that's up to Chris Siglin
  • tips for producers? go with your gut. you are the impartial third party. your duty is to the music.
  • yes we should get ded pressed, but (meme of "I dont know what Im doing")
  • i haven't painted in months. i need to do it more often. it's intimidating to me.
  • bass influences: simon gallup, karl alvarez, ned's atomic dustbin (both bassists)
  • i don't watch the fights
  • batman over superman
  • there is no rightful possessor of the iron throne now that king joffrey is gone. he was the one true heir
  • yes and he'd better be, if there's some "oh he didn't really die" thing, i'm going to be angry. don't toy around with something serious like that.
  • i like neighborhoods
  • i have no bucket list. i'm content to play music and tour and sit on my couch in the off time
  • no i'm not okay with the death at all. at all. but if they make us think he's dead and have the swelling mournful music like he died, the products better be serious about it.
  • i have no guilty pleasure songs. why feel guilty about liking a song?
  • my eagles are struggling this year, just like chelsea. hard year to be a team i support
  • team swift
  • we love the old blink catalog. no one acts like it doesn't exist. but there are some deep deep cuts that don't work live.
  • down with pumpkin spice
  • yes i always brush my teeth before going onstage. now it;s tradition/superstition
  • i was supposed to be on talking dead but i forget why i couldn't do it
  • yes my favourite line is "the past is only the future with the lights on."
  • haha. yes someday i hope i can finish the live show on a different note. that's a good question. (to my question, which was "Any chance you'll DJ at Emo Night again?")
  • my computer has a british keyboard autocorrects colour favourite finalise
  • yes we recorded the untitled shows and filmed them as well and were planning to release the live album/video and then there was one less member
  • favourite halloween movie is the original dracula, where at one point dracula reviews a lease contract
  • i hope the blink documentary sees the light of day. that was our fault.
  • i never cut my own hair
  • not sure on outside producers or self-produced. just writing and recording songs for now.
  • earl grey tea or nothing when it comes to tea
  • i really love the +44 album. we stopped doing +44 when blink reformed
  • pretty much every memory of jerry finn is a great memory. he was the best.
  • i am reading "lafayette in the not-so-united states."
  • no other tattoos. i'm too fickle with what i'm into at any given time.
  • wii u at our house. our ps4 collects dust
  • people contact my manager about producing for them
  • it was pete's birthday and i thought the bass told me to set it free?
  • no, my family and friends and listening to music make me happy
  • if someone puts the toilet paper backwards coming off the back i will flip a table
  • my iPhone is what i need on tour
  • i gave away all my collected vinyl
  • iron man.
  • look, if you want to get into marvel civil war this is going to be a long discussion.
  • iron man and batman are just rich dudes with toys. i think it's a draw. neither is soulless enough to destroy the other. but i prefer marvel over dc, so there's that.
  • glad to hear your sister is out of the hospital and doing better!
  • i play as peach in all the nintendo games. smash, mariokart, etc
  • i love my tesla as much as i love my phone
  • sparkling water is my drink of choice]
  • lp is the plan but it is still early days
  • i'm going as a disinterested adult for halloween this year
  • i try and choose people to give things away to during the show
  • yes i would play +44 songs at blink shows now
  • i have no tickets for the force awakens. i am going to let destiny take me where it will that week. could end up at a screening or premiere or could miss it entirely and have to wait a month.
  • dirtbag abandoned us so long ago. years ago
  • the older i get the more i bah humbug. there's so much xmas from august on, that by the time xmas day arrives i'm ready for it to be done.
  • okay humans, i'm out for tonight. thanks for all the support and for the questions.

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