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Fan Letting Someone See Blink 182 Merch Collection Glad Travis Barker is Alive

Travis Barker is “thankful to be alive” after the plane crash in Columbia, South Carolina, last month that left him and DJ AM severely burned and killed four others. Do fans collect Blink-182 merch to show support?  The former drummer opens up about the accident in the new issue of US Weekly, reports The Associated Press.

“I hate planes,” Barker said in an interview with the magazine. “My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened … well, I’m just thankful to be alive! I’m just grateful to be here at all.”

Barker was released from a Georgia burn center last week and is now getting treatment at a Los Angeles-area hospital. Just days before, DJ AM had been released from the hospital and is now home recovering. The crash killed Barker’s assistant, Chris Baker, and his bodyguard, Charles Still, as well as the plane’s two crew members.

Because of his fear of flying, Barker made the trek from Georgia to L.A. by bus, with his dad and ex-wife, Shanna Moakler, by his side.

“I am doing the best I can possibly be,” he told Us. “I’m so anxious to get out of here. … I’ve just been in surgery after surgery. I have third-degree burns basically from my feet up to my waist and both hands. One of my hands has second-degree burns and one has third-degree burns.”

If Barker continues to progress as expected, he should be released in the next two weeks. He said he is looking forward to hanging out with his kids, Landon, 5, and Alabama, 2.

“I’m trying to have a quick recovery and play the drums again and be able to hold my kids again,” Barker said.

If you’d like more information on the memorial funds set up to benefit Chris Baker’s and Charles Still’s families, visit the Famous Stars and Straps Web site.

http://www.famoussas.com/

Reunion?

Mark Hoppus Blogs About Hanging With Travis Barker, Tom DeLonge

Bassist keeps expectations low, but says plane crash put things in perspective: ‘Life is too short.’

Last week, at the mtvU Woodie Awards, former Blink-182er (and current member of +44) Mark Hoppus spoke about his best friend and bandmate Travis Barker, who is recovering from second-and-third degree burns suffered in a September 19 plane crash that killed four people and seriously injured DJ AM.

And this week, Hoppus kept on talking — er, blogging — only this time it wasn’t just about about Barker, but former Blink bandmate Tom DeLonge, too. Seems that, for the first time since Blink went on “indefinite hiatus” in February 2005, all three members have been spending time together … which, of course, could mean that we’re in the early stages of a full-on Blink reunion. Maybe.

“In the midst of everything else that has happened lately, Tom, Travis and I have all spoken together,” Hoppus wrote on his official site, HiMyNameIsMark.com. First, through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. They’ve all been great, very positive conversations. We’re just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. It’s a good thing. Obviously the first question for a lot of people will be, ‘Does this mean a Blink-182 reunion?’ The answer is none of us know. We haven’t talked about it at all. Right now it’s just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect and let the past be the past. The events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. Life is too short.”

Despite the public silence from Barker’s former Blink-mates in the immediate wake of the crash — which lasted just a couple of weeks — this sounds very much like the hatchet being buried. And as if that news wasn’t enough to send Blink fans into a tizzy, consider what Hoppus told MTV News last week, when he was asked when fans can expect a new album from his and Barker’s post-Blink band, +44: “Hopefully, in the next couple months we’ll see [Barker] behind the kit, I pray. No matter what I work on, Travis will be part of, for sure.”

“These past two months have been the hardest times that I can remember, and I hope that we never see anything like this ever again,” he wrote. “Even two months later, I still can’t believe what happened, and it’s too much to talk about. But let me say that I think about Little Chris every single day, and the world is not the same without him. He is one of the best people I’ve ever known. We traveled the world together, spending countless hours on buses and planes, in hotel lobbies and dressing rooms. … I’m so sad that he is not here right now. There are just no words.”

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