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Basically a response to this post
Couple of things
- I’m not a investor of shill for TSSA, just a dude that was into punk rock and was paying attention.
- My main point here is that Tom is sincere and not purposefully scamming people.
- I could be wrong.
Circa 1999 I was young and getting into punk rock. Offspring, Sum 41, Green Day ect
Blink and Green Day were always my shit, bought the Cd’s, learnt the songs on guitar ect
After a while and about 50 tracks at the end of Blinks love CD of them talking shit I started to get an idea of the personalities in some of my favourite bands.
In blink you’ve got:
Mark Hoppus : Down to earth silly guy, bit of a mommas boy.
Travis Barker: Quiet dude, animal behind a drum kit.
Tom Delonge: Crude as fuck, believes in aliens.
Everyone knew Tom Delonge was into aliens, probably because of the song he wrote called Aliens Exist.
Tom states in numerous interviews ranging from last year all the way back to about 2000 that the first thing he did when Blink got big and he got his first paycheque he bought a PC to look at alien shit. He also details pre having the internet in your hand always having a book in his hand. Travelling from gig to gig there was a lot of down time on tour and he spent this time reading UFO books.
2001 on the “Take off your pants and Jacket tour” Delonge decides right I’ve read a few books, I’m aware of the key players in the UFOlogy field and I’ve got the money to facilitate let’s take this up a notch. He hits up Steven Greer who hadn’t started offering retreats out in the desert to contact aliens and was actually doing some great work with the Disclosure Project.
He hits Greer and Carol Rosin (Wherner Von Braun’s, the gentleman who one decade was a nazi, next decade chilling with Mickey Mouse telling the American public how we will be landing on the moon soon, apprentice at Fairchild Industries) up and brings them out on stage and gets to know them. Greer gives him a load of unedited footage from the Disclosure project in a move I’ve heard Greer describe as a attempt to bring the Disclosure Project to Hollywood.
Tom sits on the footage and starts to get paranoid his phones are being tapped so he goes quiet on the UFO front. He does take the time to go into the desert and try some of Greer’s CE-5 protocols to some effect apparently.
As we hit 2003-2005 we enter what a Blink 182 fan would call their “Emo” phase. Obviously this stands for emotional and I’d argue with good reason yes the group got angstier. The traveled to the Middle East to play for the troops and brought back some new philosophies on life. Tom especially. Check 19:50 of this link for a bit of background on that.
Band keep touring Tom keeps getting more and more pissed of with the machine that Blink has turned into which causes him to loose his classic attitude the masses have come to love and know. He also slipped a disc in his back and has started taking pain killers.
2005, Tom leaves blink says it was a mass media corporate machine. He goes quiet for 6 months or so then starts doing interviews claiming god wrote his new album and it is going to be a new era for music. At the time I was 12 and thought he was on crack. Now I can understand that he was referring to the ever more prevalent idea that the universe is god and therefore being part of the universe could constitute an album being written my god and the new era of music he was referring to were streaming services.
If you know anything about the music business you will know the bubble done popped in 2006ish. The 80’s and 90’s has seen too many record labels giving bands millions of dollars and struggling to make returns, this is why you see so many artists from the early 2000’s re-recording their material (Reel Big Fish, Bowling for Soup to name a couple) it’s because they don’t own them and are now realising they have been fucked out of loads of money and are now trying to re-cooperate the money.
Tom also seemed to be getting into sci-fi movies at this point especially Stanley Kubrick. This interview is relevant .
Did you know Blink 182 were one the first bands to have a deal with a clothing company?
Billabong, Hurley and Quicksilver saw opportunities to capitalise on the new wave of punk that was happening In the early 2000’s. Blink initially signed deals with them which seems commonplace now but it was new back then. Eventually, in a move that starts the beginning of a trend, Tom wants to move from being a client to being a CEO. He sets up a few different companies.
Loserkids Macbeth Atticus
All 3 of them are skate-wear apparel brands. By 2005 Tom was talking about an experience where a fan could go online communicate with their favourite artists, receive free music early, buy merchandise and discuss with other fans (social media???? Streaming services this was half a decade before Spotify) He called it Modlife. It amalgamated his previous companies into one experience. This is model and software Delonge uses today. I believe Nine Inch Nails still use the Modlife framework for their websites and I’ve heard Tom say Kanye used it at one point so people are paying attention even if you haven’t heard of it. (Trent Reznor is one of the most respected people in the game and their drummer Ilan now drums for Tom if any one was doubting that claim) Tom keeps building this framework up until 2010 when he rejoins Blink 182 and tries to convert Blink to this framework he has designed. Long story short Blink play together from 2009-2015 with Tom obviously anxious and drunk at the prospect of starting the machine back up. He has gained an awareness of his past persona and the expectation of that return by millions of people although understands that mindless swearing is overall bad for the masses. They release two projects during this time. The album Neighbourhoods is pretty obviously recorded at separate locations and you can tell who wrote what with a little bit of Blink knowledge. The EP Dogs Eating Dogs has an interesting release, it was live to pre-order though a Modlife based website also tied with a new fan club called “The Rabbit Hole”. Then all of that is taken down. It gets a standard iTunes release.
Rabbit hole from California is literally Mark saying I won’t follow you Tom.
Mark always summarised the sunny day, girlfriend troubles, silly side of Blink with songs like Online Songs, The Party Song, Don’t Leave Me ect
I believe Mark is scared to move out of this bracket for fear of rejection from the fan base and therefore loosing the thing that makes him happy in life. I have alway believe that whilst attracting typical “pop-punk” All Time Low A Day to Remember kind of fans Blink also pulled a wider audience. I think this can be traced to Toms influence.
Look at Some classic Tom songs: Anthem Pt2, Reckless Abandon, Not Now
They deal with similar themes to marks songs but speak in a more philosophical sense about the wider implications of the actions spoken about in Marks songs.
I have come to the conclusion that Tom around 2004 realised the implications of playing to millions of People and preaching the word of shit piss fuck, fuck a dog, when you fucked grandpa ect. He realised he was soiling the minds of the youth the resulting emotional reaction caused Blinks first break up.
I’m gonna back this up by citing some lyrics from Toms recent solo album single New World
“It violates and blinds the eye, but I’ve found a New World”
He is saying that Blinks overall message is not overall constructive to the betterment of the human race and he cannot live with something he created being a negative vibe.
Another year passes.
February 2015 Tom leaves/gets kicked out of blink.
Blinks statement: “Tom’s disingenuous, he makes us feel uncomfortable in the studio”
Tom’s statement: “I’ve been trying to take Blink independent for the past 5 years with a lot of resistance and think we should branch out into other mediums of art”
This is where we start to see him taking his years of UFO research public but it wasn’t the first time. Back in 2011 Tom went on Coast to Coast FM with George Knapp. He spoke about the process I have just described, being on tour, lots of down time and reading books. We get to see an idea of what books he has been reading and this is important because these are the names we see Tom working with today. He talks about Peter Levenda, Joesph P Farrell, Skunkworks, Bob Lazar, Jeremy Corbell, Harold Putoff, Jacque Vallee. If your in the UFO or conspiracy game then you know these are legit people.
If your not in the UFO game then look at the names above, find out what their most acclaimed work is, find out how the community responds to them, find out what people outside of the UFO world think of these people. These are legit people.
This isn’t some Corey Goode David Wilcox’s bullshit.
Post Blink, which could have been used as a vessel for this project that would have reach to a much larger audience and must be a massive bummer for Tom, all of the names above have worked with Tom or at least met him. Discredit Tom and you are discrediting some of the best names in the game.
Have any of you actually read Sekret Machines: Gods? If your gonna try and tell me you have read that book and fully comprehended the scope of what it’s talking about, who wrote it, who wrote the foreword and how that affects the human race in a massive way then go ahead because that’s what we should all be talking about.
If you guys really are open minded
Check out, in this order:
Wernher Von Braun Jack Parsons) Aleister Crowley John Dee Horus Atlantis
Then
Work out how this connects to the Marvel Film Series, Twin Peaks and the work of David Lynch and Neon Genesis Evangelion and boom.
You’ll understand what Tom is trying to do.
God is the universe. gods are aliens.
Submitted October 15, 2018 at 03:40PM by olund94 https://ift.tt/2IWTE0y
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