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Jul 19, 2004 danielky link
Freshman band camp... Stand in the sun for 3 hours in the morning, walking about 10 feet to either side, going back to the spot you were just in, doing it over again, and starving while you're doing it. Oh well, only 2 weeks and 4 days left!!!!! Well, at least our band's the Pride of the Bluegrass. It should get better. hopefully. Lafayette High Class of 2008!!! (Lexington, Kentucky, they won the state championship 13 years in a row 'til last year... stupid cross-town rivals... and they were in the Macy's Parade 2 years ago)
Jul 19, 2004 quiveri link
How is walking back and forth band camp? I'm confused.
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Eloi - YOU'VE BEEN DUCK'D!
Jul 19, 2004 danielky link
well, we're learning all the marching step stuff, and we just have gone about 20 yards so far to each side. We haven't gotten into our show stuff yet, just the basics. Today was the first day. We'll get funner stuff later on. Like, next week. or tomorrow.
Jul 20, 2004 red cactus link
"Funner" stuff being...walking BACKWARDS??! Man, I'd be excited if I got to stand in the sun doing such pointless things as being in the freshman band.
Jul 20, 2004 Hoax link
It's for the chicks cactus! They go wild for the freshman band! Woooo! Show us your Tuba!
Jul 20, 2004 roguelazer link
Ha ha. All my friends are at band camp. I feel bad for you and them. The only advantage seems to be that all the unattached band girls are going out with band guys by the end of the summer...

On a funny note about walking backwards, under my school's old band director, if you missed a step you needed to do a complete circuit backwards by yourself then go on with the rest of them. The new band director don't do that no more ,though. :D
Jul 20, 2004 Pyro link
This one time, at band camp...

Methinks I shouldn't have seen American Pie... :P
Jul 20, 2004 aeternalis link
...

You know, at least he's outside, unlike the rest of you.

Doing pointless things, yeah, but outdoors, nonetheless.

Sun tan!

Hoax and roguelazer: Band chicks aren't that great. I'm one of them.

/me waits for Pho to come in here and start a marching band war.
Jul 20, 2004 roguelazer link
Seeing as how the female half of my friends are all band chicks, I would say that I have at least some authority to judge on the subject. :D

It's funky. Most of our orchestra play in band. And most of them play Clarinet.... Odd, no? Our freaking principal violaist (sounds weird, but violist means one who plays the viol) plays the clarinet...
Jul 21, 2004 red cactus link
I say frisbee is a much better use of outside time then band of any sort.
Jul 21, 2004 Hoax link
>Hoax and roguelazer: Band chicks aren't that great. I'm one of them.

Woooo! Show us your Tuba!
Jul 21, 2004 red cactus link
Toooobaaaa!
Jul 21, 2004 danielky link
/me thinks Hoax is stuck on "Wooooo! Show us your tuba!"

Yeah, 3 days in... holding a trombone up in the air for 20 minutes hurts (It won't in a few days, but for now it does.).
/me goes and gets ice for his shoulder.

On another note... This guy who used to be the assistant band director at U Michigan is helping at our camp. HE IS A TOTALLY IDIOT/FREAK/WHATEVER ELSE YOU WANT TO CALL HIM/ANNOYING PERSON. He starts crazily laughing every 30 minutes and we've played every line on this sheet about 15 times... and it's really easy. Also he won't let us play our show music yet... I think all the freshmen want to punch his guts out, but that wouldn't be nice...

Oh ****, screw niceness.

/me goes to punch the guy's guts out.
Jul 21, 2004 red cactus link
*cough*

How exactly does one go about "punching someone's guts out"?
Jul 22, 2004 aeternalis link
> How exactly does one go about "punching someone's guts out"?

I'd say a lot of punching. Is he fat?

And why the hell does danielky computer access during band camp? Computer with the INTERNET, nonetheless. Blasphemy, I say!

> Seeing as how the female half of my friends are all band chicks,
> I would say that I have at least some authority to judge on the
> subject. :D

And I just think you have weird taste in females. :P
Jul 22, 2004 danielky link
Band camp is only during the day. We don't go to some other town for band camp. Just to the high school. Therefore, I get to go home and use my computer. With Internet. And it's Windows thank you very much! (:P) I think I'm going to run through a pair of shoes marching over the asphalt every day.

Punching people's guts out: This takes lots of concentration. First, you need a good, sturdy arm. Then you rear back and punch. Then you "accidentally" attach a knife to your hand, punch again, and pull the guts out. It's that simple.

:P
Jul 23, 2004 Mufmaster link
Hehe. At www.goodquotes.com, the fourth entry under "Famous Last Words" is: One time at band camp...
Aug 04, 2004 danielky link
well, only 2 days left now! And I only have to march on Friday morning. Thursday's freshmen orientation in the morning, so I don't have to march. And we don't march in the afternoon. fortunately. But hey, we have the whole first movement of our music done, we're in the refining stage. Oh, and only 3 more movements left... crap.

Let's see, I've only done about 150 push-ups during the whole 3 weeks of camp, not bad at all. Oh, and no American Pie imitations... I don't think...
Man I hate that line. "One time at band camp..." It's so stupid... well, I'm out.
Aug 05, 2004 roguelazer link
You have Freshman orientation in... August? Um... Right...
Aug 06, 2004 danielky link
IT'S OVER!!!! YAY!!!!! Now all we have is practice every day after school (starting in a week), and some practices on Saturdays. Then we have 3 overnight competitions, 2 parades, and a couple performances to go on top of football games. Very relaxing, huh.

Freshman orientation was in August rogue, we start on the 16th (I'm pretty sure, at any rate it's the Monday one week from the coming Monday. Yeah, anyways, I'm out.