Author's Note: Thank you for your reviews, guys! Well, since people have been saying to continue and have given me some more suggestions and what not for this, here's some more, lol! Thank you everyone who gave me some lines in their reviews. Please, keep on suggesting them! It's awesome that so many of you have the same feelings about band (or guard, VejitaLuver69!) that I do... So, yeah. Plus, I feel so awesome (or something, lol) by how I've touched so many of you and brought back so many memories. I love reviews like that, in case you couldn't tell... Enough of me talking, haha...
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Band Geekism - Part Three
*submitted by VejitaLuver69*
It's being called "cattleguard" by all the drum line and dealing with it
It's the extensive amout of brusies and broken fingers from your rifles
Its a transformation from a tomboy to a girl, cuz your stuck around at least 8 other girls in the guard
It's getting to be able to date the drum line section leader
It's getting a chance to try for guard captain
It's the tears of sadness and joy when you don't get it, but your best friend does
It's having to take away your equipment for the other band people, because they think they can show you up
It's the humalation of being shown up by a band member that switched to an instrument, and you having no idea that they did
It's making the cheerlerders mad by "being on thier turf"
It's the laughing when you "accidentally" hit one of them with your flag
*submitted by Anime Queen*
It's being rivals with a band student and friends outside the band room
It's having all the band members give you credit
It's your first parade
*submitted by Keara Silmarien*
It's realizing that drummers have really twisted and sick minds
*submitted by BHSBandGeek2005*
It's family.
It's crying with your band friends
It's getting hysterical when you find your band director has been fired
It's plotting the death of your imbecilic principal for doing such a thing
It's arranging an "illegal" tribute concert for your former band director
It's learning to love & respect a new director even if he is just two months out of college
It's learning that your band can survive anything
It's learning that you can survive anything
It's hanging out in the band office
It's having chats with your director that are totally non band related
It's plotting with friends to turn said office into a shrine to your former band director
It's calling your band director by his first name just like everyone else in band
It's slipping up and doing so in front of an administrator who is not too impressed with it
It's learning true respect
It's bonding with your section leader
It's driving all over town just to pick up all the band people
It's cramming 10 people into a car that holds 5
It's learning about the highs and lows of life
*submitted by Sarah aka Claire Annette (awesome!)*
It's about purposely squeaking on your clarinet
It's about mistakingly squeaking on your clarinet
It's about 'inter-band' relationships
It's about crank calling the band director
It's about playing with 110% enthusiasm
It's about being nervous about playing a solo
It's about screwing up a solo
It's about cheering when you learn you've been selected to the region band (no matter what band you make)
It's about laughing when one of the people in your small ensemble screws up..badly
It's about broken reeds and broken hearts
It's about saluting your instrument
It's about making all kinds of new friends-freshmen,sophomores,juniors,seniors,7th graders..it doesn't matter
It's about sprained ankles and sore feet
It's about going to contest and then having a blast at an amusement park
It's about cheering after your band has won an awesome award (and/or saying 'ugh' after the other schools won the better ones)
It's about stinky group photos
It's about taking a 'stupid' group picture next to your best friend
It's about playing "On Wisconsin" (our fight song) over and over when our team actually makes a touchdown
It's about playing the Alma Mater while the drill team dances to it
It's about balancing homework with band and other activities
It's about trying to march right
*submitted by Anakin McFly*
It's having lightsabre fights with someone else's flute
It's getting scolded for touching that someone else's flute
It's writing stuff like this
It's visiting the Marching Band section of fanfiction.net practically everyday
It's spending almost all your holidays in band
It's playing cards by torchlight at night during band camp
It's complaining to everyone who will listen about how you spent almost all your holidays in band and therefore did not have time to do your holiday homework
It's driving the poor bus driver deaf after winning a competition
It's playing loud enough such that the 'soundproof' band room is no longer soundproof
It's marching in the carpark and running out of formation whenever a car drives by
It's trying to protect your instrument from the rain whenever you have to run across an unshaded area
It's screaming when you discover that some rain did hit your instrument
It's forcing your whole band to read your band fanfiction
It's submitting reviews like this because you just have too many things to add
*submitted by ally*
It's the fact that candy is illegal on a bus before a compitition
It's lifting 50 pound instruments on to a truck
It's showing up for A. P. classes at 9 am after geting in at 2:30 am from champs
It's about learning life isn't fair (we were Robbed!)
It's about pride in who you are
It's Hatter Pride
It's getting pnemonia from practicing in the rain
I'ts an attitude which seperates excellence from mediocrity
*submitted by Lady Drummer*
It's learning to tolerate body odor
It's underage driving
It's Homestarrunner
It's naming your drumsticks... then breaking them and crying
It's not understanding football
It's making up names for football positions, since you don't understand football (catcher boy, runner boy, tackle boy...)
It's intense hatred for American Pie jokes
It's sweat stains
It's running through a group with a bass drum and watching people scatter
*submitted by Not a Trumpet*
It's that feeling you get when you are squinting straight into the sun for the drum major, knowing that if you miss the enterance it's ruined
It's free spam samples
It's being able to listen to your Linkin Park CD with friends and decide how to make it into a marching band song
It's being offended when the instructor calls the saxaphones brass
It's telling the freshman that their plume is on backwards.
It's freaking out when you forget your Jazz Band music, and not careing when you don't have your Honors Language Arts homework for the third time in a row
*submitted by hi*
It's being the annoying band at all the feild shows
It's changing on the bus
It's hearing "One more time" and knowing it is a flat out lie
It's hauling pit equipment around all day
It's cutting classes and hiding in the band practice rooms
*submitted by Margaret*
It's being a terrified freshman at boot camp
It's living in Austin, Texas, and marching every day after school in weather with 100% humidity and temperatures no lower than 97 fahrenheit
It's head banging with pompoms stuck in your braid
It's nearly falling off the bleachers while dancing to brass jams
It's knowing that the football team stinks, but being able to say MY band/section/drum major/Band Big Sibling could beat YOUR band/section/drum major/Band Big Sibling
It's a cult! (well said!!!)
*submitted by Miller T*
It's being put in sousaphone cases
It's hyperextending your knees, but marching festival anyway
It's being forced to carry a sousaphone, even though you already have a flute to carry
It's getting special treatment because your rank leader is dating the drum major
It's being asked 'what exactly is a dreadnaught, anyway?' (my school mascot is a dreadnaught)
It's having the other school's fans cheer for you at football games
*mine now... :)*
It's going to the TFBC website
It's ignoring the shin splints from marching long parades
It's wearing sandals while marching, but discovering that you march better with them
It's missing the graduated Seniors much more than you ever thought you would
It's going to away games to "scope out the competition"
It's meeting new people
It's sticking up for your friends
It's getting emotionally hurt, but having your friends at your side
It's dirting your white Drum Major gloves the first football game
It's all about the cape :-)
It's the pride you feel when you finish your first performance, even if it wasn't perfect
It's running down the band hallway and purposely hitting the wall, just for a few laughs
It's laughing so hard you almost pee your pants
It's squashing eight people onto the band couch
It's somehow fitting 57 people, 57 uniforms, and 57 instruments onto one school bus
It's McDonalds and Subway
It's sitting in restaurant parking lots because no one wants to leave just yet
It's glass chalk all over your car
It's running through sprinklers and getting yelled at later for not acting like a Drum Major
It's embarassing your director by going, "This is our director and we're making a scene!" whenever you see him or her while you're at band camp
It's the endless medical forms
It's spandex and long underwear under your uniform
It's three hour long phone calls with someone you barely knew two year prior
It's "diet drinks"
It's grossing out at band PDAs
It's all this and SO much more...
~~~
Band Geekism - Part Three
*submitted by VejitaLuver69*
It's being called "cattleguard" by all the drum line and dealing with it
It's the extensive amout of brusies and broken fingers from your rifles
Its a transformation from a tomboy to a girl, cuz your stuck around at least 8 other girls in the guard
It's getting to be able to date the drum line section leader
It's getting a chance to try for guard captain
It's the tears of sadness and joy when you don't get it, but your best friend does
It's having to take away your equipment for the other band people, because they think they can show you up
It's the humalation of being shown up by a band member that switched to an instrument, and you having no idea that they did
It's making the cheerlerders mad by "being on thier turf"
It's the laughing when you "accidentally" hit one of them with your flag
*submitted by Anime Queen*
It's being rivals with a band student and friends outside the band room
It's having all the band members give you credit
It's your first parade
*submitted by Keara Silmarien*
It's realizing that drummers have really twisted and sick minds
*submitted by BHSBandGeek2005*
It's family.
It's crying with your band friends
It's getting hysterical when you find your band director has been fired
It's plotting the death of your imbecilic principal for doing such a thing
It's arranging an "illegal" tribute concert for your former band director
It's learning to love & respect a new director even if he is just two months out of college
It's learning that your band can survive anything
It's learning that you can survive anything
It's hanging out in the band office
It's having chats with your director that are totally non band related
It's plotting with friends to turn said office into a shrine to your former band director
It's calling your band director by his first name just like everyone else in band
It's slipping up and doing so in front of an administrator who is not too impressed with it
It's learning true respect
It's bonding with your section leader
It's driving all over town just to pick up all the band people
It's cramming 10 people into a car that holds 5
It's learning about the highs and lows of life
*submitted by Sarah aka Claire Annette (awesome!)*
It's about purposely squeaking on your clarinet
It's about mistakingly squeaking on your clarinet
It's about 'inter-band' relationships
It's about crank calling the band director
It's about playing with 110% enthusiasm
It's about being nervous about playing a solo
It's about screwing up a solo
It's about cheering when you learn you've been selected to the region band (no matter what band you make)
It's about laughing when one of the people in your small ensemble screws up..badly
It's about broken reeds and broken hearts
It's about saluting your instrument
It's about making all kinds of new friends-freshmen,sophomores,juniors,seniors,7th graders..it doesn't matter
It's about sprained ankles and sore feet
It's about going to contest and then having a blast at an amusement park
It's about cheering after your band has won an awesome award (and/or saying 'ugh' after the other schools won the better ones)
It's about stinky group photos
It's about taking a 'stupid' group picture next to your best friend
It's about playing "On Wisconsin" (our fight song) over and over when our team actually makes a touchdown
It's about playing the Alma Mater while the drill team dances to it
It's about balancing homework with band and other activities
It's about trying to march right
*submitted by Anakin McFly*
It's having lightsabre fights with someone else's flute
It's getting scolded for touching that someone else's flute
It's writing stuff like this
It's visiting the Marching Band section of fanfiction.net practically everyday
It's spending almost all your holidays in band
It's playing cards by torchlight at night during band camp
It's complaining to everyone who will listen about how you spent almost all your holidays in band and therefore did not have time to do your holiday homework
It's driving the poor bus driver deaf after winning a competition
It's playing loud enough such that the 'soundproof' band room is no longer soundproof
It's marching in the carpark and running out of formation whenever a car drives by
It's trying to protect your instrument from the rain whenever you have to run across an unshaded area
It's screaming when you discover that some rain did hit your instrument
It's forcing your whole band to read your band fanfiction
It's submitting reviews like this because you just have too many things to add
*submitted by ally*
It's the fact that candy is illegal on a bus before a compitition
It's lifting 50 pound instruments on to a truck
It's showing up for A. P. classes at 9 am after geting in at 2:30 am from champs
It's about learning life isn't fair (we were Robbed!)
It's about pride in who you are
It's Hatter Pride
It's getting pnemonia from practicing in the rain
I'ts an attitude which seperates excellence from mediocrity
*submitted by Lady Drummer*
It's learning to tolerate body odor
It's underage driving
It's Homestarrunner
It's naming your drumsticks... then breaking them and crying
It's not understanding football
It's making up names for football positions, since you don't understand football (catcher boy, runner boy, tackle boy...)
It's intense hatred for American Pie jokes
It's sweat stains
It's running through a group with a bass drum and watching people scatter
*submitted by Not a Trumpet*
It's that feeling you get when you are squinting straight into the sun for the drum major, knowing that if you miss the enterance it's ruined
It's free spam samples
It's being able to listen to your Linkin Park CD with friends and decide how to make it into a marching band song
It's being offended when the instructor calls the saxaphones brass
It's telling the freshman that their plume is on backwards.
It's freaking out when you forget your Jazz Band music, and not careing when you don't have your Honors Language Arts homework for the third time in a row
*submitted by hi*
It's being the annoying band at all the feild shows
It's changing on the bus
It's hearing "One more time" and knowing it is a flat out lie
It's hauling pit equipment around all day
It's cutting classes and hiding in the band practice rooms
*submitted by Margaret*
It's being a terrified freshman at boot camp
It's living in Austin, Texas, and marching every day after school in weather with 100% humidity and temperatures no lower than 97 fahrenheit
It's head banging with pompoms stuck in your braid
It's nearly falling off the bleachers while dancing to brass jams
It's knowing that the football team stinks, but being able to say MY band/section/drum major/Band Big Sibling could beat YOUR band/section/drum major/Band Big Sibling
It's a cult! (well said!!!)
*submitted by Miller T*
It's being put in sousaphone cases
It's hyperextending your knees, but marching festival anyway
It's being forced to carry a sousaphone, even though you already have a flute to carry
It's getting special treatment because your rank leader is dating the drum major
It's being asked 'what exactly is a dreadnaught, anyway?' (my school mascot is a dreadnaught)
It's having the other school's fans cheer for you at football games
*mine now... :)*
It's going to the TFBC website
It's ignoring the shin splints from marching long parades
It's wearing sandals while marching, but discovering that you march better with them
It's missing the graduated Seniors much more than you ever thought you would
It's going to away games to "scope out the competition"
It's meeting new people
It's sticking up for your friends
It's getting emotionally hurt, but having your friends at your side
It's dirting your white Drum Major gloves the first football game
It's all about the cape :-)
It's the pride you feel when you finish your first performance, even if it wasn't perfect
It's running down the band hallway and purposely hitting the wall, just for a few laughs
It's laughing so hard you almost pee your pants
It's squashing eight people onto the band couch
It's somehow fitting 57 people, 57 uniforms, and 57 instruments onto one school bus
It's McDonalds and Subway
It's sitting in restaurant parking lots because no one wants to leave just yet
It's glass chalk all over your car
It's running through sprinklers and getting yelled at later for not acting like a Drum Major
It's embarassing your director by going, "This is our director and we're making a scene!" whenever you see him or her while you're at band camp
It's the endless medical forms
It's spandex and long underwear under your uniform
It's three hour long phone calls with someone you barely knew two year prior
It's "diet drinks"
It's grossing out at band PDAs
It's all this and SO much more...