I received the Spat Camp mailing for Marching Band next fall. I’m very excited to get back to playing and having fun with that set of friends.
Does anybody have a suggestion as for what I should put down for my “nickname” to go on the Spat Camp name tag?
SKB Works with Inventor to Solve U.S. Military Bugler Shortage, by creating an Electronic Device that fits in the bell of a Bugle and plays all of the notes. How sad.
USATODAY.com – Bye, bye, a piece of the pie, where the money you spend on music goes.
iPodlounge | All Things iPod, cool pictures of people and their iPods.
birdhouse.org: Virtual Partch, links to some of the works of Harry Partch, a composer who used 43 microtones to the octave.
That article that I posted about earlier this week about the worst bands of 2003 got me to thinking . . . which band is the worst band in the history of rock and roll? Being a stats and numbers and research geek, I’ve developed a system for who qualifies and process for then honing the qualifiers down into a sheer hard ball of ultimate badness. It’ll probably take a week’s worth of posts to type it all out here with explanations and what have you, so watch this space to see the worst of the worst pulled from under their rock and beaten to death with sticks.
??Via: The Worst Rock Band Ever??
The article goes on to list out a bunch of bands that suck and has head-to-head competitions in a NCAA Bracket style. The worst rock band ever turns out to be Motley Crue.
Well, I’ve gone and done it… registering for Fall ’04 that is.
Here’s the official breakdown:
All in all, it’ll be 13 academic credits & 3 “fun” credits, making this my easiest semester at the U yet.
In case you were wondering how it looks time-wise, he’s a screenshot from iCal:
As I’m sure you’ve heard a million times already, the Lady Gopher’s Basketball Team is headed to the Final Four. I won’t be going in the band (since I’m not in WAB). The game is in New Orleans, and they are staying at a $200/night hotel, so it should be a pretty sweet time.
The big game is Sunday, I hope y’all watch. They are showing the game at William’s Arena (for free) if you are interested. It sounds like they might get a band together and play during the commercials and such.
For those that are curious, right now I’m at library in downtown Norfolk, VA. I’m in Norfolk for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. Yesterday (Friday), the Gopher’s (#7 seed) creamed the#3 seed, Boston College. Tomorrow at 7pm ET, we play the #1 seed, Duke.
It should be a good time. Although Duke’s band seems pretty dorky (maybe I shouldn’t talk). We got into town on Friday night. Saturday we played at a pepfest thing at a local mall here. It was a competition between the respective bands/cheer squads. We (of course) took first place and won a free movie ticket.
Saturday we tried to go visit Virginia Beach (25 miles away maybe), but the bus service took forever. After about an hour of being on the bus, we had made it half way. So we had to turn around and come home in order to get back for a pep rally or something.
That night, we hung out with the Louisiana Tech band. They were staying at the Marriot Courtyard, which was infinitely nicer than the Radison we were staying at.
Today, we’ve got the day off so I slept in and am now at the library. Some people rented are car and are driving to Washington, D.C.—a 3.5 hour drive!
Ok, I’m sorry this post is grammatically poor and littered with incorrect spellings, but I haven’t the time to proofread it as I have 2 more minutes with the computer.
Hope everything is great back home in the Twin Cities. See y’all on Wednesday.
I’m headed to Norfolk, VA this weekend to see the Gopher Girls Basketball win the next two games.
Ooh, it’ll be fun!
Although at the moment it looks like I might have to take one of my midterms at 7am on Friday. Here’s to hoping that instead the departure time is later and I can take it at noon like everybody else in my class.
Brad Froehle 