CsLeAxRyIsNaExT's Xanga

Friday, January 13, 2006

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:02:14 GMT

Jammin' and chillin'...random pep band games r fun! heehee...Alsion and Blake- i've been doin ur Laffy Taffy dance, lol...itz quite fun!

CLARINETS RULE

shout out to my homesax to da max- u know who u r and never come here but i shout nonetheless, lol...

2 months w/ evan on friday the 13th- how freaky-deaky is dat?? lol...i'm lookin forward to fri. the 13th acctually-and i'm pretty sure marisa is too...jsut a random guess, lol

much love to all y'all ('cept trumpets)

**chels**

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:07:39 GMT

Back to skool??? ACK!! Ok. so wut is up with wack thugg pplz in my video class chatting about marijuana yo?? Kinda scary y'all...anyway, skool is wack...i wish it was JAZZ BAND all day- everyday!!!! YAY!!! I heart JAZZ BAND... :)

so anyway...i pretty much hate wind ensemble.,..yep...i'm sure i'm not alone, lol...was that minday rehersal insane in da membrane or wut yo? And mike didn't even come...

BTW, his monkey shrunk and he was surprised...if u don't know wut i'm talking about i promise it's not perverted...just another joke the two of us share...lol...I WANT TO GO ON THE AIR!!!!

word to ur mother,

**Chels**

Friday, January 06, 2006

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:43:25 GMT

SIGNS U've Been in BAND too Long:

When you hear music and you start marking time.
When you walk behind someone and you're in step with them.
When you try to guess the tempo of your favorite song.
When all your friends are in the band.
When you don't mind changing clothes on the bus.
When you point out key changes and dynamics while listening to the radio.
When every guy/girl you're interested in is in the band.
When you like wearing your uniform.
When people ask you about your social life and you say, "Oh, you mean my flute/trumpet/drum/etc.?"
When you consider your drill book a fashion accessory.
When someone hits a wrong note and you chew them out for an hour.
When you practice your instrument more than you talk to your dog.
When being mauled by a drum is a normal part of life.
When people worry when they see you without you instrument.
When "armed guard," means a girl with a pole instead of a guy with a gun.
When band camp is FUN.
When you answer to "Band Geek."
When someone says the words "atten hut" and you automatically snap to attention and scream "REGIME".
When you remember flats and sharps more easily than your name.
When you dress the lunch line, and urge others to do the same.
When your mouth is frozen to your mouth piece, and it feels normal.
When left slides or right back slides feel normal.
When your instrument has a name.
When you remember your instrument's birthday and forget your mom's.
When making a line is you biggest accomplishment of the day.
When back marching no longer reminds you of ballet.
When you give your instrument a birthday party.
When you can make white shoes look black.
When your uniform fits.
When black feathers become a fashion "do".
When you see your section more than you see your family.
When everyone wants to kill the other football team...and you want to kill the other band.
When you have dreams about early morning marching band.
When you think morning practices should start a half-hour earlier.
When you accidentally call your band director "Dad".
When you CAN sight-read.
When you can put on you uniform in less than 10 minutes.
When reeds taste good.
When you have a band song stuck in your head, and you tap your foot to the beat.
When you think your plume is alive.
When marking time is your favorite form of exercise.
When you have a neck strap/harness tan line.
When you subconsciously start practicing with a pencil.
When numbers past 8 aren't important.
When you're more opinionated about the Madison vs. American Fork Bands than the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
When you roll-step through the cafeteria so you don't spill your lunch.
When you'd rather practice than read this list.
When letters past G aren't important.
When the only class you look forward to is band.
When you actually like marching band and would kill to do it all year long.
When you wonder what life would be like if you weren't in band.
When you roll step while you walk to class.
When you major in music.
When you use your high school band director as a role model.
When those stupid "band humor" jokes are the funniest things you've ever heard.
When you pick the instruments from the music in cartoons.
When you start screaming "LEFT! LEFT! LEFT!" to the people that walk in front of you on the way to class.
When you've dated everyone in the band and now wonder if you're ever going to have another date.
When you think the trumpeters have a right to be egotistical.
When you don't think the flutist have a slight attitude problem.
When you change your instrument to the tuba.
When you have perfect pitch.
When the band director is always right.
When you marry that special someone in your section.
When you have kids and force them to be in music.
When you get the jokes on this list.
when you aren't sure which is more dangerous a girl with a flag or a guy with a gun!

Friday, January 06, 2006

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:40:29 GMT

You MIGHT be A MUSICIAN If...

your phone is unplugged for 2 hours or more a day so you can practice.
you are more worried about breaking a finger then breaking a leg.
Bach is not just a funny sound you can make in your throat.
when practicing chromatic scales becomes more fun then bowling.
you spend more money on books, instrument supplies, private lessons, and classes then rent, food, and bills combined and, you have more then one job to pay for everything.
you dream about little sharps attacking flats and whole notes falling in love with quarter notes.
playing The Flight of the Bumblebee is as easy as reciting the alphabet.
you know that normally The Flight of the Bumblebee is not that easy of a piece.
the thought of taking a break, if only for a week, sounds crazy and suicidal.
you listen to PDQ Bach and get all of the jokes.
that irritating song that's been running through your head for two weeks is by Mozart.
that irritating song that's been running through your head for two weeks is from "Wozzeck" by Webern.
your notice you are drumming your fingers on the table to the rhythm of the classical music being played at the restaurant.
you walk down the hall singing the bass line to Beethoven's 7th and you wonder why people look at funny.
you might be a musician if you consider Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" marchable.
you prefer playing your instrument rather than having sex.
you know and can recite all the musician jokes and derivitives in score order!
getting the sniffles is a true catastrophy.
you walk around conducting the Verdi Requiem, Dvorak Requiem, Bruckner e-minor Mass, Beethoven 7, etc., and wonder why people are looking at you funny.
you can roughly translate any Latin text, but you've never taken a Latin class.
your co-workers can tell what you are listening to on your headphones by the way you are typing.
you're willing to shell out $16 for a score to 4'33".
you know what 4'33" is.
you know Tchaikovsky's full name AND all its spellings.
you have played more instruments than the average person can name.
you own more in sheet music than in CDs
you can define the difference between a sonata and a concerto.
you know 101 jokes involving either violas, French horns, or percussionists.
you know any jokes about players of any other specific instruments.
you took more semesters of foreign languages, that you hardly ever use, than english.
you have expelled more hot air than your average politician.
you actually cheered on the marching band in high school.
you have ever played anything by Bela Bartok.
you had carpal tunnel before computers became popular, or have injured yourself more times sitting down than standing up.

Friday, January 06, 2006

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:35:35 GMT

To my hometools from da shed:

Hollah fools! Another year has taken off! And i really could care less...what does xcite me tho is that i'm getting a new awesometastical clarinet! Heck yes! Word is Bond!! Well, much love to Evan, as he is my xtra special homeboy...and a certain someone who doesn't even look @ zis wack XANGA thingy...he knows who he is and shall eventually come for his hat...we hope.

So happy new yr. to all and wutnot! I know everyone is looking forward to getting back to skool...well...i'm not...but surely there's SOMEONE who wants to go back!

Yeah...and all that stuff pplz say about going bak to c ur friends...that's wut the parties over break r 4 yo! Really ze only person i want to see is my xtra special dead leprechaun that wants to go on the air...and i havent't him awhile...and that's funky...that i wnat to.

well whatever...

Happiness to all!

~Chelsea~

(ur band geek from...well, scientists aren't quite sure yet...)

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:38:47 GMT

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!!!

~Dear Santa,

Please give all the good children clarinets and all the bad kids evil trumpets.

much luv,

ur homeElf from da workshop,

~Chelsea~

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:35:52 GMT

You Might be a Band Geek If...

during concert season you wish you where out on the field.
you can be found before school, at lunch, and after school down in front of the band room with all the other band members.
you spend more time in the band room then at your own house.
you are way too protective of your cubby hole.
you role your feet marching everywhere.
you look forward to band camp every summer.
the only dresses you have are black and concert style.
for guys, the only dress clothes you have are dress slacks and tuxedo shirts
you go to parades that you are not in and make sure lines are straight, horn angles are parallel, and everyone is on step.
you listen to the classical station and can name off songs that you remember playing in band.
you take comfort in the sound a baton makes banging agaisnt a podium.
you own your own E-flat clarinet.
you visit your band director everyday at his house.(Mr.Brinkman, lol...only Evan would get that...no we don't really visit him!)
you can play every cadence the drum corps plays despite the fact you play clarinet.
you always start off on the left foot.
you can't walk and listen to music at the same time without marching to the beat.
your fondest memories of high school are from being in the band.
your best achievements have included becoming first chair and section leader of more than one section.
when you hear your favorite songs from band you can't help but do the fingering for the notes with the song.
you don't know the melody of a song because you only remember the part you played in band.
you can pick out all the different parts in any song.
...and name the instruments that play them.
you still wear your band shirt, from your senior year--ten years ago.
you count down the days remaining until field band camp.
you have a favorite cadence.
you walk in step with your friends in the hall, in the street, across campus...
...or scream "LEFT, LEFT" at people out of step with you.
you conduct every time you hear a song play on the radio.
you proudly show off your trumpet mute collection.
you've managed to build a beach-side hut using your old reeds.
you constantly sing old band tunes three or four years after graduating.
you go back to your old high school to help with summer band practices.
you try to hurt the other band at a football game.

**Taken from www.youmightbe.com/pages/band_geek.html**

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:04:50 GMT

Band

A very common disease in which the individual feels the need to repeatedly play an object, usually referred to as an "instrument," on an day to day basis. Common side effects are loss of hair, virginity, social status, social life, and in some cases, mild death
Bob: Wanna go to the movies?
Bobette: I can't, I have Band

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:00:46 GMT

A band geek by definition is:
1. A person who calls the band hall their second home.
2. Has the ability to play 5 or more instruments.
3. Participates in musicals, ignoring the long hours of torture, but enjoying it thoroughly.
4. Dates other band geeks.
5. Has no problem repeating things.
6. Has no problem repeating things.
7. Will skip other classes to be in the band.
8. Are always happy, or appear to be, no matter how bad things get.
9. Are the coolest people in school.
10. Are always having fun, through playing, dating, having sex, etc...
11. 200 times better than "orch dorks" and "choir queers" combined, and they know it.
The band geek appears to be a normal student... Until they enter the band hall...

Friday, December 16, 2005

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:49:43 GMT

Marching band...

Life.

Where were you Friday night?
At a football game, marching at halftime.
What about Saturday?
Marching Contest.
Sunday?
Practicing for Region Band.
Monday after school? Tuesday? Every other day of the school week?
Marching practice. Come on, you think I have another life or something?

band geek

A person involved in band who enjoys it so much that they constantly have band on their minds.

Known to date other "band geeks," roll their feet outside of band, generally have random and/or strange thought processes, are generally some of the coolest and most talented people ever, while some are quite possible the scariest people ever.

Not to be confused with "orch dorks" or "choir queers"
Those Eastmont band geeks are the bomb dizzle. Not to mention hot.

Marching band is a sport.

Marching band

1. a group of amazing hilarious (yet perverted) people who can march in step, following a drill chart, while either playing music or spinning a flag/rifle/sabre
2. people playing music in the stands at a football game or dancing to it
3.the hardest workers in the world
4. a group including brass, percussion, woodwinds, and colorguard.
5. my life
6 synonym:awesomeness

stuff taken from www.urbandictionary.com <see it for more xtra fun band definitions