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27May08

Man, it’s been a long time. I always mean to update… and I would say that I’ve been busy, but school’s almost over and about 98% of us just lost any motivation to do ANYTHING.

Anyway, I’ve been listening to Mates of State’s new album “Re-Arrange Us”.

I’m not going to lie. It is pretty wonderful. The album itself is really different from their beloved album “Team Boo”, but it’s different in a good way. I’m totally into it.

So I checked out the lineup for Austin City Limits 2008 earlier this year, and I was pretty disappointed. The only band I would have wanted to see was Mates of State, but I’m not about to pay $80 to see one band 2 hours away. Good thing I looked to see if they were touring any time soon, and guess what! They’re coming to Houston on June 12th, 2 days before I leave to California. What amazing luck! I am forcing Bryan Zubay to go, even though he says he probably can’t, and T.D. and Kevin decided to come with me. Hanging out with them at the Invisible Children Benefit Show was a lot of fun, and I can’t wait for the Mates of State show. It’s going to be great.

Hmm…so life kind of slowed down these last few weeks. Really, we shouldn’t be doing anything anymore, but some teachers just insist on continuing. I wish all classes could be like Human Geography right now: movie time. We’ve seen Ball of Fire and I Am David in the past few weeks, and now we’re watching Pan’s Labyrinth. Yeah, too bad I don’t quite have an A in that class and I’ve lost any more opportunities to raise my grade because of movie time. Oh well. I am feeling SO lazy. Which is probably not a good thing since I’m only a junior, almost senior. Wow.

Band is annoying me a little less now for some reason. A LITTLE. I was elected Band VP, which I never expected. I also decided to stay in the Pit and be Pit Captain, playing marimba once again. I really love it. The only real thing I don’t love about it is my section’s lack of the same enthusiasm and determination. Even Ms. Stevens said that I have the worst job in the band having to be responsible for the section of what they believe is full of drumline rejects. Truthfully though, our parts are just as important, no less, but for some reason no one understands? I mean….drum corps pit members weren’t drumline rejects, and they prove that the pit has some of THE best parts of a show. Maybe I can get them to understand that and love what they do.

It’s already been a rough start though. I think we started originally with nine people, and we’re already down to six that I know are staying. There are like sixteen pit parts though, so Mr. Stevens and Mr. Brown had to figure out the instrumentation for all of us by mixing and matching different parts up, which is a huge hassle. I had to do the copying and seriously used an inch of paper. Then I went though and marked it all up, and I’m kinda afraid the music might intimidate everyone because they are all so chaotic. Hopefully it won’t bother the kids too much, even though it’s been bothering me already. Man, I miss freshman year when there was thirteen people in the pit, the parts were written specifically for our pit, and we had a ton of fun.

Sigh.

Well I could recap over all the other stuff that’s happened since my last entry…nah.

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