Your Sunday Afternoon Vegetarian(s!) of awesome Vegetarianishness are the guys from blink-182, your favorite pop-punk band.   Yes, it seems (and again, this is with some really poorly-done research) that Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker are all vegetarians.   I’ll talk a little about the band itself, and then a side project or two that I actually might find to be a little better.

Being one of the few truly successful bands to come out of San Diego, blink-182 made their best music right before breaking up, on their eponymous album.   So, instead of giving you a video of, say, “Dammit,” let’s try “Always.”  I’ll just go ahead and throw in that the girl in the video is Sophie Monk, who is also a vegetarian.   Sometimes, these things practically write themselves.

I’ll get back to blink in a minute or two, but let’s talk about side projects. A few years back, someone told me to give Box Car Racer a listen, which features 2/3 of blink (Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker), and I decided, yeah, why not.   And it turned out to be outstanding.   Here’s the unofficial video for “Letters to God,” which if I recall correctly, is written from the viewpoint of DeLonge’s grandmother, who was dying.   Be careful for the f-bomb dropped about a minute in.

So, Box Car only made the one album, blink broke up, and DeLonge turned to Angels and Airwaves, which he claimed would be “the greatest rock-n-roll revolution for this generation.”  It wasn’t.   Hoppus and Barker, meanwhile (a different 2/3 of blink than Box Car, yet with some overlap), formed +44, which produced this track, “No, It Isn’t.”  I’m giving you an unofficial video with ungreat sound quality so you can hear the original cut of the song, which is way better than the album version.

These days, Barker is busy drumming over hip-hop tracks, after eighteen million people watched him do this:

He recently survived a plane crash with his new music partner, DJ AM, who put out a free mixtape that’s pretty solid.

Alright, I’ve hit the 300-word mark and 4-video mark in this post, so let’s wrap it up.   I promised I’d get back to blink, and let’s go old school for when they were silly kids singing about dirty things (the video has dirty language after the song is over).   And, as always, takepart to get your free vegetarian starter kit.   I assume it comes with carrots or something.

I picked that song, “Untitled,” specifically because (1) my band in college covered that song and (2) one of my bands in San Diego played that exact same stage.   It’s like the Circle of Life or something.   With Simba and whatnot.