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BLINK-182 RAISED ME

16 years ago two teenagers were seated ‘bored to death’  after exhausting the recommended daily allowance of video gaming;  the inevitable repercussion of a one sided series of playoffs on Winning Eleven (PES for the uninitiated) that had lost its novelty. They decided to watch some TV, the vanquished grabs the TV remote and flips through the channels, he settles on MTV; (back when Music Television actually played music) there’s a music video on, he exclaims, ‘Oh I really like this song!’ he's seen it before,  the video parodies the ubiquitous boy band era of the 90s and has a very catchy tune to it, the other kid moves his gaze to the television, the video is amusing, but the first kid was right, it was a really good song! That kid? Me…The song?...All The Small Things…and the Artists? A punk rock band from California, USA. That day, the trio of Tom de Longe, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker better known as Blink-182 waltzed into my life and have never left, and even if Efe B