Blink 182's Mark Hoppus answered a bunch of fan-submitted questions as part of Reddit's AMA (Ask Me Anything) feature. The full page is rather unwieldy due to Reddit's old-school conversation thread design. There's an image table halfway down the page, but I've collected some of the more interesting bits for you here:

Q: Is it harder to relate to the adolescent lyrics of the earlier songs now? I mean, you've been a dad for ten years now.

A: no. when i sing dammit, a song written more than 15 years ago, i remember the exact day i wrote it, what i was going through, what it meant to me.

Q: What was the first song you guys, as blink-182, wrote and thought "we sound pretty good; we could make something out of this"?

A: carousel. we wrote it the very first time i met tom. i showed him a bassline i'd been working on, and it fit perfectly with a guitar part he'd been working on. we'd only known each other for less than an hour and the song was fairly formed even then. it was weird.

Q: How did the blink side project "Box Car Racer" make you feel?

A: weird, betrayed, jealous. probably more than i should have.

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Flyleaf singer Lacey Sturm says she'll be meeting the rest of the band in the studio later this month to start recording vocals for their new album, due out later this year.

Foxy Shazam posted their video for "I Like It," the first single from their forthcoming record The Church of Rock & Roll. The clip features many of the large, ebony posteriors they sing about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rz4I69mQMo

D.R.I. guitarist Spike Cassidy is recovering from surgery complications. Cassidy has been fighting colon cancer since 2004, and his colon was removed earlier this year. There has been no announcement whether or not this will affect previously announced plans to tour with volunteer roadies. (March 2 at Brass Mug in Tampa)