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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 9:32 am | |
| Last night's marching band competition went horribly. After working incredibly hard Thursday and fixing nearly everything that never worked, we failed. Horribly. We dropped 3 points in ratings! 3!! It's practically like how it was with our first competition! This may be the first year in 11 that AHS doesn't have an honor band. (Honor Band: Superior rating in Marching and Symphonic Band) The fact that we're comprised of mostly rookies shouldn't matter either. They're not rookies any more. They know how to march correctly, they know their drill, they've been at this long enough. Admittedly, it's most their attitude that is bringing us down. It's like they don't care. They think it's geeky or dumb or it's just Marching Band, it doesn't matter! It's not even a proper sport!
If it's not this year, it's next year and the years after. We're going to have a marching band of hotheaded, egotistical, oh-I'm-not-a-rookie-anymore sophmores. They were already practically like that this year! We had rookies correcting veterans. You're all still fucking n00bs!! You can't do that. Ever. Yes, I just said they're not rookies anymore, but they are far away from knowing enough to correct someone who's been at it for years. Some can't even read their drill book.
Admittedly, it was our first cold competition and the n00bs may have been frozen in their shoes because they didn't dress warmly. But that can't account for messing up basic things. Hell, veterans mess up, I mess up. Everyone does it sometimes, but all these little mistakes and all these people forgeting what we added and fixed it just...ruined everything. Why did everyone choose last night to fuck up? I don't know. Tons of people didn't. I'd say a third of the band did well. But you can't have a third marching strongly with the rest sort of bumbling a long. It doesn't look good. The thing about marching band is that one person can make a perfect form look wrong. In one case, it could be me, when I'm the top of a hollow triangle of piccolos, if I'm not exactly there, it looks dumb even if everyone made it to where they're supposed to be. I realized that and haven't missed that part since.
Did I mention states are next week? It's the final competition that decides if we're honor band material or not. Boy, that's going to be fun. | |
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~*Mikan*~ Admin
Number of posts : 1151 Age : 32 Location : 美国 Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 9:48 am | |
| Well okay see that's why I didn't join marching band in the first place. If I did I really wouldn't be commited to it. As for the new rookies I see what you mean during class. | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 10:36 am | |
| some1 should sit those freshmeats down and give them a thing or to upside the head. *sigh* if this is what jr's do to their senors i fear for the well being of america | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 1:50 pm | |
| They're not just freshmen though. But the majority of them are. The thing is, section leaders make them do push ups and Elgin yells at them but it doesn't seem to do anything. | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 3:01 pm | |
| thats where spanking comes in | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 3:10 pm | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 3:11 pm | |
| yea.....*sigh* to bad u cant do the whole corpral punishment thing. i find them so much more creative then just plain paddle and butt | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 3:15 pm | |
| Hopefully the epic fail of that competition will motivate them to do better before all the veterans beat them up for ruining our legacy. | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 3:28 pm | |
| I think u shud just beat them up now, tho considering the fact they outnumber us they just might all gang up on us..like..small..annoying..ants | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sun 14 Oct 2007, 3:42 pm | |
| Yeah. We'll get them during Tuesday practice. | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Mon 15 Oct 2007, 7:11 pm | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Mon 15 Oct 2007, 7:16 pm | |
| I don't know. Even though I'm above them, I'm not allowed to do anything to them...yet. Next year I will. Next year will be fun. | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Mon 15 Oct 2007, 7:24 pm | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Tue 16 Oct 2007, 6:30 pm | |
| I'm going to be a section leader next year. It goes like:
Elgin Section Instructers (Like Mr. Niehoff, Mr. Perez, Marching Alumni) Drum Majors Section Leaders Upperclassmen (Juniors and Seniors who have marched since freshman year) 2nd Year Marchers <-I'm right here right now Rookies
So yes, that means Abby and I will be in charge of making sure our section (all the piccs) march properly and get all their music checked off. It means we can make them do whatever we want basically. | |
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~*Mikan*~ Admin
Number of posts : 1151 Age : 32 Location : 美国 Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Tue 16 Oct 2007, 6:44 pm | |
| Wait how are you going to be a section leader? You are going to march with the french horn? (I don't know the name for the marching one...) | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Wed 17 Oct 2007, 12:12 pm | |
| No, I'm still marching picc. I don't understand why everyone thinks I'd have to switch instruments in marching band too. Anyway, I'm going to be a section leader because me and Abby have seniority over everyone else. | |
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ChiisaiKamo Admin
Number of posts : 1281 Age : 31 Location : Kyoto :D Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Wed 17 Oct 2007, 3:37 pm | |
| - tw334n4rchy wrote:
- thats where spanking comes in
LMAO!!!! yeah, that's what its like in my orch class too...all the freshmen can't play AT ALL except maybe bridgette and peter, but that's about it. sadly. and most of the class is freshmen-filled too. why the hell am i in this orchestra, anyways?? | |
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coveredINbees
Number of posts : 485 Age : 31 Location : Shan Shen Registration date : 2007-09-30
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Wed 17 Oct 2007, 3:54 pm | |
| It's not that they can't play, that doesn't matter. It's that they can't listen to tune, they can't count, they can't MARCH.
And orchestra is gay anyway. | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Wed 17 Oct 2007, 5:47 pm | |
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ChiisaiKamo Admin
Number of posts : 1281 Age : 31 Location : Kyoto :D Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Thu 18 Oct 2007, 10:29 pm | |
| hahaha, i havta agree with you when it comes to my orchestra. everything that's a failure in marching band to you, its like 10 times worse in my orch >.> | |
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tw334n4rchy Moderator
Number of posts : 1044 Age : 32 Location : A-town Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sat 20 Oct 2007, 11:20 am | |
| today at the cleanup i saw marching band getting ready for their competition (haha i saw delphine!) and yea they scare me. everyone was so serious and quite with their heads down and stuff and yea...its like whole army of music playing soldiers | |
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ChiisaiKamo Admin
Number of posts : 1281 Age : 31 Location : Kyoto :D Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sat 20 Oct 2007, 1:15 pm | |
| LOL!!!! wish i could've been there >.> | |
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~*Mikan*~ Admin
Number of posts : 1151 Age : 32 Location : 美国 Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sat 20 Oct 2007, 2:29 pm | |
| Y.Y my wisdom teeth extraction was today. 2 down, 2 to go. I feel some pain now since the medication is going away. It sucks! Plus I am still bleeding and the put in stitches! Yes stitches for the gums. Ayoh... | |
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ChiisaiKamo Admin
Number of posts : 1281 Age : 31 Location : Kyoto :D Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sat 20 Oct 2007, 2:33 pm | |
| haha, man, stitches just...ajwe;ifhaekrhkaehjr me out X_X 'cause my mom got them for her thumb back in january '04 (i know, bad start to the year >.>) and it was just...creepy >.< | |
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~*Mikan*~ Admin
Number of posts : 1151 Age : 32 Location : 美国 Registration date : 2007-09-02
| Subject: Re: Ranting-Complain here and see who actually cares ;] Sat 20 Oct 2007, 2:38 pm | |
| Well anyway it didn't hurt when they put it on. But now since my numbness is going down I feel it >.<! It HURTS | |
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