Band Geekism (This could take a while)
It's alien abductions
It's fields that could be mud wrestling pits
It's pondering the existence of football
It's pins and t-shirts
It's dancing
It's just a jump to the left with your hands on your hips
It's your first experience with Astroturf
It's sleeping in the lockers
It's crying for the seniors your freshman year
It's always being accepted
It's finding ways to entertain yourself
It's 4,000 screaming fans
It's spirit wars
It's mile runs to get to a bathroom
It's lame sing alongs
It's a cult
It's ballet and tap dancing
It's completely innocent PDA
It's roller coasters and water rides
It's a zoo
It's hair, hats, and nails
It's the bus rides
It's living in the band room
It's the gloves
It's Pringles
It's hyperventilating, then hypoventilating
It's prank calls
It's glow sticks
It's cheering for the rival
It's wearing a blanket
It's early mornings and late nights
It's snorting Pixy Stix
It's Mountain Dew and Skittles
It's all for one and one for all
It's playing dress-up
It's hiding out
It's a trophy pit
It's rushing the field
It's jumping fences
It's tons of spirit
It's killing anyone who says "This one time at band camp"
It's dying, but living through it
It's getting killed by the drumline
It's always having a second home
It's getting into uniform when it's pitch black
It's calling yourself a band geek
It's one big family
It's the awards ceremonies
It's dedicating all your time
It's wanting to play every instrument
It's competitions and home games
It's never missing a home game
It's enjoying band camp
It's hours on the field
It's knowing every hold in the field
It's water bottles
It's secrets
It's not caring what anyone thinks
It's convincing orchestra members to switch to band
It's flying
It's love and hate
It's having 102 people backing you up at any given moment
It's roadtrips every weekend
It's everything
It's the cone of silence
It's playing make-believe
It's home
It's dark corners and back hallways
It's rivalries
It's fear for the cult
It's finding sheet music in your English folder
It's purposely putting sheet music in your English folder so that you can entertain yourself
It's playing favorites
It's mouthpieces
It's anti-socialness
It's speechlessness
It's a society
It's exploring
It's seeing how many people fit into a practice room
It's watching old competitions on video
It's dancing in the hallway
It's white crepe paper
It's the smell of the uniform room
It's teepeeing the lockers
It's taking over the orchestra, dance,choir, and guard rooms
It's getting out of class
It's jealousy
It's conversations without speaking
It's tuning
It's squeaking
It's finding yourself
It's the "soundproof" walls
It's sectionals (or lack thereof)
It's cars, busses, and speedbumps
It's holes in the sidewalk
It's forgiving and forgetting
It's obnoxiousity
It's making up words
It's nicknames
It's reminiscing
It's disturbing conversations
It's a demented sense of humor
It's reading people's minds
It's the hats
It's wearing Sambas everyday
It's unusual combinations
It's being the living example of a band geek
It's mourning the loss of the band director six months before it happens
It's 24 hour access
It's what's in the back of the lockers
It's rumors
It's long conversations
It's well-wasted afternoon
It's mugging mailmen
It's random animals
It's evil looks
It's getting hit in the head with lockers
It's evil janitors
It's a place where no janitor will set foot
It's storage rooms
It's marching band council
It's morbid poetry
It's always having a place to go
It's jokes and pranks
It's finding out things you never wanted to know
It's not practicing
It's crying in public
It's being strange
It's being late to class everyday
It's old reeds
It's spit fights
It's millions of emotions at once
It's being able to talk about anything
It's curtains
It's instruments and music taking over your bedrooom
It's sightreading (or not)
It's laughing
It's evil
It's six foot metal poles
It's getting locked out
It's long notes
It's mirrored walls
It's using the stereo
It's playing on the piano
It's songs
It's pictures
It's recordings
It's not having to follow the rules
It's running across busy streets
It's longs walks or runs
It's snow
It's 15 hours a day at school
It's the stage
It's falling off the floor
It's dreams and schemes
It's not listening
It's caffeine
It's secret places
It's knowing nothing will ever be the same
It's bittersweet memories
It's a reason to live
It's emails and IMs
It's games
It's missing football season
It's finding a reed in your pocket
It's constantly being at school
It's the end of the world
It's security cameras
It's hidden hallways
It's breaking instruments
It's counting the days until band camp
It's trying to find the band room
It's epic
It's walking down the hallway in step
It's flats and sharps
It's having no idea what goes on at basketball/ football games
It's writing
It's the 8th world wonder
It's memories
It's second opinions
It's lyrics
It's legal insanity
It's only illegal if you get caught
It's shunning American Pie
It's plotting to take over the world
It's halftime
It's being in the dark
It's racing back
It's strange
It's all for one and one for all
It's solo music
It's screaming at each other
It's sliding down the banisters
It's knowing how to get away with spending the night at school (if ever necessary)
It's getting to miss a day of school
It's being dressed alike
It's lasers and lights
It's growling
It's anonymous phone calls
It's solo and ensemble
It's way too many solo & ensemble events in one day
It's ghetto solos
It's not understanding outsiders
It's crying when you see someone make drum major on tv
It's becoming who you are
It's long hours of hanging out
It's partners in crime
It's owning the band room
It's leaving other classes to go to the band room
It's temptation
It's the ceiling
It's other decades
It's tradition
It's the bop step
It's finishing each other's sentences
It's Jungle Boogie
It's a million ways to get in
It's high-stepping
It's hang outs
It's no spare time
It's way too many guard
It's being told to go home
It's then saying that you are home
It's the latest schemes
It's chalk
It's inside jokes
It's counting the minutes
It's loitering
It's solo and ensemble scores
It's plotting the death of judges
It's knowing your way around other schools
It's 10 pounds of sheet music
It's a necessity
It's conducting
It's quotes
It's interpretive dances
It's being too hyper
It's story-telling
It's torturing people
It's shoes
It's life
it's getting passes to go to the band room instead of doing math homework
it's a place to go during homeroom
it's playing cards
it's making faces at the guard
it's ahhing over the elementary schoolers trying out instruments for the first time
it's 'find the flip flop'
it's actually practicing
it's being paid in Pixy Stix
it's falling out of your chair from laughing too hard
it's throwing balls at the door while guard is trying to practice
it's never going home, yet always being home
it's magnetic attraction to the band room
it's reeds
it's spit wars
it's finally getting revenge
it's typing lists like this instead of doing homework
it's no secrets - it's roller coasters for the first time
it's finding out that your bd helps with a drum corps in Florida, and immediately planning a road trip there
it's finding out that the section leader's little brother has a crush on you
it's your lack of tuning being compared to Texas Chainsaw Massacre
it's laughing too hard to play
It's sitting at home on a Saturday night, transposing your music so that you can play it on another instrument
It's wondering what to do when there's no band event on a given weekend
It's knowing all the concession volunteers
It's nacho cheese
It's telling the bd you want to live in the band room
It's scaring the male flautist, then watching him run away
It's playing cards
It's memoirs of band camp
It's spending your non-band weekend practicing, transposing, and reading band-related stuff
It's crying when you heard about the Chippewa Falls band
It's loving every minute
It's hearing "This is the band. There are no secrets here." again
It's having dreams about marching
It's worrying because you can't find your DCI world championships recording
It's a group of band geeks wearing all black walking down the hall together
It's being able to read people's expressions
It's being in denial
It's sitting on the rival side instead of in the student section
It's knowing every corner, hall, and door
It's the fact that our piccolos really have made little girls cry (playing the instrument, not the players)
It's everything
It's corruption
It's never being alone
It's plotting against outsiders
It's the P.H.C.
It's breaking every rule
It's getting away with anything
It's strange looks
It's watching high-stepping
It's spending way too much time on lists like this
It's fun with reeds
It's knowing exactly where you belong
It's being able to ID the janitors
It's putting people in lockers
It's payment in Pixy Stix
It's getting revenge
It's no longer living in the shadow of anyone
It's being speshul
It's being feared
It's conducting on the bus
It's biting annoying outsiders
It's being so odd that you no longer find yourself odd
It's pictures
It's poking fights
It's scheming
It's writing every report for any class about something to do with music
It's growling
It's knowing at least a dozen ways to get in
It's rule number one
It's having friends all over the country
It's getting hit with a flag
It's hitting a dog with a flag (accidentally)
It's building models out of reeds
It's happiness, sadness, tears, and joy all in one
It's getting hit in the head with a trombone slide
It's unairconditioned gyms
It's making tunnels under the trombones while they play
It's actually getting through said tunnel alive
It's beating up the 3rd chair
It's bouncy balls
It's crosswalks
It's speaking in complex sentences at the exact same time
It's "Name That Song"
It's screen names
It's taking over the track
It's living through everything to tell about it later
It's long phone conversations
It's fire drills
It's stalkers
It's stalking
It's overcoming the wrath of the assistant bd
It's brainwashing the bd
It's coming up with ideas for new shows
It's wanting to pick up a new instrument (again)
It's 5 people to open a door
It's kidnapping instruments
It's running
It's hiding in dark corners
-It's breaking in the student conductor
-It's being told that your section belongs in a playpen
-It's knowing nothing will ever be the same
-It's the vp giving you sunglasses for a pep rally
-It's bowing down to the bd
-It's calling a reporter a whore
-It's playing second part because your bd doesn't trust anyone else enough to lead the seconds
-It's not liking snow days
-It's utter confusion
-It's actually going to the pep rallies
-It's icons
-It's bus rides
-It's saying "Tap your heels together 3 times and say 'I wish my iPod would work, I wish my iPod would work, I wish my iPod would work.'"
-It's wishing you had drill paper to plot out your tumbling routine for PE
-It's talking about goats and cats
-It's having imaginary friends
-It's looking forward to Wednesdays
-It's missing marching more than you ever thought was possible
-It's wanting the team to go to state
-It's counting the days until band camp
-It's having your own language
-It's using said language
-It's finding out you have a guaranteed spot in the top band next year
-It's enjoying playing for judges
-It's the Numa Numa song
-It's having every band person at a single lunch table
-It's braids
-It's going to the band room during lunch
-It's bouncy balls
-It's chalk
-It's drawing on the chalkboard
-It's hanging out in the auditorium
-It's chasing someone with a 6 foot metal pole
-It's feeling sorry for people who don't have a performance on Friday nights
-It's reading each other's minds
-It's being wayyyyy too hyper
-It's writing every essay for English about something band-related
-It's security cameras
-It's hundreds of emails daily
-It's making icons about band
-It's comics
-It's crying when your find out you have a guaranteed spot in the top band
-It's enjoying playing for judges
-It's stalking a tenth of the band on a random day at the mall
-It's icons
-It's being entertained during English
-It's figuring out other people's combinations
-It's going to the mall to play cards
-It's being stalked by a senior's younger brother
-It's band shirt/jeans or black pants/sambas/black hoodie or band jacket
-It's losing, and having the time of your life
-It's food fights
-It's being told "you may be band kids, but you still have to make it look like you're following the rules" by the vice principal
-It's missing pep band
-It's a conspiracy
-It's being able to read people's minds
-It's wanting to tell off your English teacher
-It's addiction
-It's learning new card games
-It's making icons that express your love of band
-It's asking to hold a saxophone
-It's recruiting for the cult
-It's realizing that some people aren't as bad as they seem
-It's learning to tolerate people that you hate
-It's the PHC, MBC, TCC, and ATC
-It's air hockey incidents
-It's karaoke
-It's fire drills
-It's freaking out during fire drills because you don't have your instrument
-It's playing in the rain
-It's having a food fight every day at lunch
-It's sticking together
-It's wishing marching band were year-round
-It's being the only one in your section who knows all the notes
-It's the dungeon under the school
-It's the cat walk
-It's being late to full band because you were exploring
It's all this and so much more