I want to be famous ♥

That's what I think of when I hear the title of the show for next marching season.

I think of the pussycat dolls. So the theme for next years show is careers. And the show's name is "When I Grow Up..."

From what I hear it's rather slow. Because, what? Apparently Taylor wants to get a head start, so he's making everyone play Segment I and II. Even if they're seniors, and or won't be in band next semester. But guess who missed out on band, once again?

I did. All for the motherfucking uniforms. But I can't do or say anything because, well, fuck it'd be bad coming from the "Head" uniform girl. D| I really hope next years crew won't get four girls again. I just don't think four can cut it.

O HAY TAYLOR? IT'D BE NICE IF YOU DID ALL THAT LEADERSHIP TEAM INTERVIEWS LAST WEEK. I THINK I CAN SAFELY SAY I'M TIRED OF DOING THIS JOB.

I don't even get paid for this..

Had a band concert this past Wednesday. I guess it was the perfect time to tell the students (as well as the parents that showed up for the concert) that some of the seniors wanted to play for graduation. :| Apparently the choir seniors are doing it. They've decided to sing this year.

Apparently it was this big ole' tradition a couple of years ago. And as much as I love traditions, that tradition died. It died before my senior class even got there. But in the four years of my high school career, I know we never saw that tradition die.

And besides! What will we do? If I heard this correctly, the choir seniors get to walk. They come back and sing after the band is done playing I believe. THEY GET TO WALK WITH THEIR SENIOR FRIENDS AND CLASS. What would we get? Nothing. No playing for us.

:| I'm not doing it. I've played my three years. It's time for someone else to play. It's our motherfucking turn!

In other news! I didn't cry at banquet! |D I think that's a mighty feat! :D

Band Banquet was so odd though. They shortened junior/senior presents, and instead of calling the leadership team up to the front for awards they gave us paper certificates and made us stand. Lol, Taylor's mini-speech about me was expected. He mentioned a lot of things about me being a uniform girl.

But so anyways! Miyou spent the night after pretending to be my dad (XD my dad went out of town, so he couldn't go to the band banquet, so me and my mommy gave his ticket to Miyou. That and my mom didn't want her 18 year old daughter staying alone for half the weekend 'cause she went to some ranch Saturday)

Saturday we went out to see the new Star Trek movie. And I do have to agree with my teacher. It was amazing. I love movies where you don't need any information on the movie, or you should see the show before the movie. |D They explain things in detail. And, even had some of the major catch-lines the tv series characters say :D

Affter thaaat we headed back on to my house and watched more KHR. I'm done with the Varia arc now! |D I'm somewhere in the TYL arc noww~~ (to be precise: I'm right at the point where Byakuran pwns TYL!Mukuro.)

GOOD LORD. KUBO I'M COUNTING DOWN.
42 chapters since you haven't gone back to the Vizards.
I want my fucking vizards.

In other news. Nagato is totally gay for Yahiko. END OF STORY.

I really wish I had an iPod with more gig.

Thanks to pandora I'm addicted to these newish artists.

3OH! 3, The Shinedown, Hollywood Undead. Bands like that.

I mean it's not like I'm unhappy with Ulquiorra (s-shut up. I named my iPod. He was green and has a four gig. IT'S FITTING NO?!) But I can easily fill up 1000 songs on it now. Though I should really consider investing in a new one. I've had Ulquiorra for about four and a half years now. And the clicker is starting to dye. And I have to reboot it often.

LE SIGH.

Anywho. D: I'm so nervous tomorrow. My throat is doing a little better! But I feel like I have to force my speech out sometimes. D: I just hope that whatever the hell this is goes away, or at least gets a little better.

|D I'm so excited! My schedule as of yet:

Tomorrow: Three classes tomorrow. Japanese AP exam. Senior skit recording, wtf.
Friday: Senior skip day. PROM!~

I WILL TAKE PICTURES OF MY DRESS THEN! D| I SWEAR. So don't eat meee.

Next Tuesday: Japanese Officer '09-'10 officer elections~
Next Wednesday?: LAST Band concert~
Next Friday: Last Band Banquet.

Tuesday after that: TTGL TIME HOPEFULLY?! srsly. How fucking hard is it to get one bloody episode?!
Friday: Cosworx party~

Last week of May Tuesday: JAPORDY!
Last week of May Thursday: A-kon pre-reg!
Last weekend of May: A-kon~ (and lol dead week!)

First week of June: Exams~
Sunday: GRADUATION! :)

Oh, note to self. Read Lord of the Flies chapter two soon. D|

 We recorded our playing in band today.

So that means we moved into the actual band hall (our band practices in the orchestra room) and it felt odd.

'cause being in the orchestra room we can hear EVERYTHING. Like, we can hear the people on the other side of the set-up. But in the band hall, everything is different. It makes you feel isolated, and almost has the stage presence.

D:

And the recordings sucked. He didn't even tell us how horrible we did. >: Thankfully he knows that we can preform better then this. Bleh. Now I have to re-think of a new magazine cover. I was planning on doing something about Miyavi, because he was gonna be here--what? This... Saturday? :O At that one con.

But I've found out that the main picture has to feature myself on the cover. >.>"

I'll probably have to use one of the pictures from Enterprice City. It's the only time I've looked raver-ish in a photo that I have D:

*cry*

Oh well--at least we get to see the second episode of Baccano today. 3: (f-ffuck. I forgot the random tidbit for today. D;) Today's just not my day. T.T

 I-I didn't think it could be possible.

B-but I now know how a baby feels when they are teething. I UNDERSTAND THEIR PAIN.

And since my dad is lacking work at the moment, there be no money for me to get my wisdom teeth pulled.

B| I hate wisdom teeth. Almost as much as I hate Alligator Alley (D: kjslfkjs;df. NO. Not fair that the brass get to wait fifty-two fucking mesaures while the clarinets, flutes and bassoons play their asses off on complicated literature.)

FIFTY TWO FUCKING MEASURES OF REST.

D< And then later on, half of our music is like... taken over with accidentals, and it sucks even more that the key we're in is the Key of C. (Which I believe is the one with two sharps.) So the three pages that consist of Alligator Alley is marked with circles, and L's and R's for alternate fingerings.

D: my brain goes boom at the sound too. It's a bitter, horrible sound.

And get this. THE SONG WAS DEDICATED TO THE GUY'S "FOURTEEN YEAR OLD NIECE WHO CAN PLAY A 'MEAN BASSOON.'"



D:< I don't want to go to math. There these two dumb fucks that annoy the shit out of me and Julio..

 Haha, so today we split up in two different bands in first period.

We got possible UIL music and concert music. (ILKJFDSDLAJKF I LOL'D WE GOT THE "JIG IS UP" A PIECE WE COULD'VE PLAYED LAST YEAR IN BAND XDb) And today we played out of the green book (yay, band stuff!)

We "annotated" music. (In the down up's) I can't do it. My brain doesn't want to.

=O I find it odd that I can play the music, and I know the fingerings. But I don't know the name of the notes (Well the higher notes XD;) and I most definitely don't know the countings. Haha, one special band student here :3;;;

But anyways, during film theory we finished watching Wall-E. I just realized that his reboot noise came from a mac. D: D: D:

:O I get to go to Chili's for dinner today~ :3

I'm vury vury happeh :3

Taylor had the most awkward conversation this morning.

It was vury awkward. VURY.

So he was telling us things about the holiday parade (what time to get there, rehersal schedule. Stuff like that...) and then the conversation led to this. And I quote,

O.O WAT? I seriously thought he was going to retire after our class left.

I asked Alex in my desktop publishing class and he told me the same thing. He was like 'Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I remember Taylor telling us freshman year.'

8Db so now this means he'll be making himself into a robot. HE WILL BE THERE FOR OUR 50TH REUNION. HE WILL BE. WE WILL ALL SHIT BRICKS TOO.


On other news! I was given a link. GO SEE IT. NOW! I lol'd.

Nehe, so I'm gonna stay up tonight. D: I totally need to re-read Macbeth Act's III and IV. I need a refresher before that quiz tomorrow. And then I'm gonna watch Wall-e again and do a coverage for film theory~ :3 And then look over some music so I won't get push ups till I freaking die. I don't want that. 3;

And shamelessly working on a few things. ^^; ehe.

Oh yeahhh. I still my epic sight reading skills >:3

FFFFFF. Okay so today in band I actually got to play my clarinet then do uniform stuff (thank God... Not going to lie. Doing uniform shit can be boring.) and so we were practicing our music for our holiday concert that's coming up.

Today was the first time I had ever looked at my music. (AND LOLOLOL WTFC? Apparently we got another piece in class when I was doing uniform stuff. D: I need that... >.>;;)

I have amazing sight reading skills. GO ME :3~

Hehe, this is so exciting~

*Never looks/attempts to play a piece without having gone, played through, practiced with full band. It's just one of my pet peeves. ^^;*



LOL. NOW IT'S OFF TO COMPLETE MY JOURNALS FOR JAPANESE CLASS! WOOHOO!~

Was somewhat of a dissapointment.

We came, we played, we amazed?

We got fourth place of something or another at prelims, made it to finals, but was in 7th place all around.

We saw a band that was preforming the full duration of our segment three (Machu Pichu, city in the sky) we went after them in finals. So it was an almost "Deja Vu" feeling. XD;

=\ then it came time for final results. We were at 7th at prelims, and we stayed at seventh for finals. I thought we did better then seventh. I really did. But I have a feeling that we jinxed our selves by saying we were going to make at least 3rd or 1st that morning.

8( At least we did better then the Carrol band (the band that preformed Machu Pichu.) We placed higher then them, but still. =\ I felt like we did a whole lot better, but that might have been me. I felt like puking before we started.

But a funny thing happened yesterday. Our drum majors were on the fifty for prelims. (And how Hayley got it was she had to pick a number between 1 and 40, she chose 45. XD) And so after yelling for our school being annoucned, I yelled out "WE ON DA FIFTY!"
And then when we had to preform for finals, we were walking in and apparently a school yelled "THEY ON DA FIFTY!" XD

I love spreading trends :33

:O I got woken up by a doggie today.

Hurhur. lol.

But so anyways, yesterday was our first ever run of the entire show at half-time.

=\ I'm happy we didn't slow down like we always do in the second segment. And from what I paid attention to, our sound was moderately well. I just wish coach would've tuned the different woodwind sections. (It sucks, because he tunes the brass in their different sections, and yet we have a few of our woodwinds, our best players actually, on mics. So it sucks if they're out of tune...)

But whatever. That's all they care about now. The brass. I think it's a little unfair, because this isn't a drum bugle corp. This is a high school band for cripe sake. We aren't going to get anywhere if an entire section of instruments aren't well tuned.

And I'm very displeased that Mr. Taylor didn't do as me and Maddi had asked him to do. We came to him to tell him that half of the band were not treating us with the respect we've had for years past. And it's frustrating, because this is somewhat coming from a few seniors as well as juniors. People who should know this by now.

I'm also unhappy with Ms. Martinez. I asked her if she would sit with us to understand where a few woodwinds are coming from during the game. And me thinking that she would sit with a few of the clarinet players during a few quarters, and then move up to the flutes during the others; she only sat with us towards the end. Where there was really no point in doing so.

But whatever, I just don't care anymore. Come whatever the fuck may.

But anyways, on a lighter note, we're almost done with the uniforms.



...

Haha, I find it funny. My dad came up to me and told me that I should be taking it easy for tomorrow.

Yesterday was a football game, and I didn't get home till 12:45ish (because my neighbor was taking me home and her daughter was having people over so they stopped at kroger to get some food) and woke up at 7:30 for a car wash at 8. And then afterwards me and two other girls walked over to the school to work on the competition uniforms (which are now in order complete with breast plates. The purple baldrics are even in order, and we have the shako's ready and in some order, the only thing we have to do is get them on the right racks (to match the person) as well as the plumes in them by tuesday.)

And wtf gloves?

Wow, so after I got off Shitty McCrapperson, I got onto good ole Harold. (Yes, I named my laptop x3)

And looking at segment two's music selection makes me want to cry.

I thought Mr. Taylor was trying to be funny by making up lyrics to the melody. And I joined in to on my rendition of Dance In Darkness I would sing "My mommy, my poppy, my sister, my shoe..."

But looking at the original lyrics. It's so touching. Fuck the entire segment is touching.

Dear Gene, of course you are here
And now it's nothing to fear
Oooh, I should have known
Oooh, I was never alone

This isn't the last song
There is no violin
The choir is so quiet
And no-one takes a spin
This is the next-to-last song
And that's all, all

Remember what I have said
Remember, wrap up the bread
Do this, do that, make your bed

This isn't the last song
There is no violin
The choir is quiet
And no-one takes a spin
This is the next-to-last song

And that's all ...

Bjork, y so sad?

After hearing a few songs off of youtube, it makes me understand the music selection more. It makes me want to play more from the heart instead of nothing, which was how I was playing it before...

But holy crap. Machu Picchu sounds so kick ass. XD I love it! And I now know that the little zorro theme was even included/written in the original piece for Machu Picchu.

Pfft, listening to fusion made me confused. I didn't hear anything.

Segment I
Segment II
Segment III

So today in band Mr. Taylor told us all to think of a story that reminds us of the music we play from measure 50-70 in segment three (so we could sell the felling/music properly.)

And so I thought of ninja's and pirates.

During measure 50 is an almost "after the calm" type feeling, it's all happy and sunny, then by the time measure 58 comes it's all "hoshiz, something badass and epic is coming (the ninja's) and then when it hits measure 68 the attack begins.

The ninja's and pirates are all out, and everything, then by the time measure 112 comes, along comes ZORRO!
fucking wins and pwns all.

What does this mean? I will be writing a "story" about this and hopefully have it uploaded onto someplace so you can all hear it and understand.

=\ Then after band ended we put our insturments away and I got pulled over by Mr. Taylor and was asked why I missed band. D: I didn't miss band.

The other Lindsey missed band. The flutist. I'm a clarinet.
D: It's so frustrating sometimes, because whenever we're out on the grid they don't use our last names, and so whenever Jones is fixing the other Lindsey it makes me feel like I'm off. But really, I'm not. D: D: D:


I totally feel for Alex and understand him and his hate of the directors not using last names. (There are like a bazillion Alex's in our band...)

And then today in English we got to see Tommy Lee's documentary of going to college. =\ it's alright. I'm super happy that we made it to the band episode (he tries out for drumline) and he sucks so much. He got so mad he through down his tenor. It made me slightly cringe. Those things cost a lot of money.


Well I should pack for tomorrow, and try to do my Algebra homework (for once I don't get it. D: fucking perpendicular graphing. I knew I always liked parallel. <33) and work on my presents for my little sises. xD

Today was a very moody day.

I found out this morning that my next door neighbor had to get her appendix removed. I don't think it was serious, she got it taken out, but, it's just people these days keep getting injured.

=\ Maybe this is foreshadowing something that's going to happen soon? I sure hope it's nothing too bad 8( I don't think I could take it mentally if something else happened to a friend of mine.

And then yesterday, a dear friend of mine had a facebook community made of how much people hate her. It was very upsetting to her. But at least two out of the three people that came up with it are very sorry about their actions. 8\ People these days. I mean honestly, why waste your efforts in making something on the internet? Let alone when they could take up their problems with her, herself. She doesn't even have a facebook. So that was even more of a low blow.

But anyways, today we were given lame grade-sheets for band. Half of my teachers didn't even know my raw grade, so my paper consists of mostly P's. Oh well, the only thing I have to check before turning it in is band itself. XD;; *cough*
And honestly, who would be failing band?

But on the topic of band, I feel bad. I haven't written to my little sisters this entire week. I guess I could've done it yesterday when I was sick, but I just wanted to play Kingdom Hearts xD; Oh well, I'm baking cupcakes for them to make up for my lame gift I had given them last week.

But hey, black socks come in handy! :3 And I gave them their favorite candies too, so it wasn't that tortorus.

=\ I would love for my spam email to not say anything mentioning penis, or erictile disfunction, or something promoting trojan's or other odd things of the male anatomy. =\ =\ =\

It's so awkward deleting an email titled Penis.

Really, it truley is. ^^;;

Mmm, I should quit stalling my Kanji cards. I'm already having enough trouble as it is in AP Japanese. *sighs and multitasks in making cupcakes and kanji cards*

Haha, so tonight the drumline dude (I think his name is Andy?) was talking to Alex, and he was like "Mitch-cakes."

*snark* that totally made my day. 83

And after he was done and gone me, Alex, and Hayley started snickering.

"IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!" But oh, apparently it is Mr. G. xD;
Aha, more senior skit ideas! :3 :3 :3

(As well as a new nickname for sommmeoneee :3;; s-shut up >///<)

8)

Wrist update!

It doesn't hurt as much when I have it ouf of the wrap, but typing for a while sort of makes it agitated. (Or maybe makes my fingers agitated,) And I can take it off when I write, so thats a good sign it's getting better :3

3; However I don't want to push anything past its limit and reingure it. So it had to get rewrapped before we did two run throughs of the first segment.

8D And after we were done with those two run throughs I felt like puking my hot pocket that I had for dinner! 8);

And I have completely fallen in love with this song. :3

B'AWWW

I WANTED TO CRY SO MUCH. VERY MANLY TEARS. THAT GAME WAS SO CLOSE TOO. A VICTORY WE HAD IN OUR GRIPS, THAT COULD'VE ACTUALLY ENDED WITH THAT 15 SECONDS LEFT.

JERKS. D'8

THAT LEAP WAS AMAZING. I WANT THAT ON TAPE LOL.




83 and on other news, I'm so totally crushing on this kid in baaand. ^^ Haha I was in so much denial when my mom and dad were talking about him to me during the band picnic. XD;



and i liek ttly got this lame band fanfic in my head (yay, Naruto and band!)

"So shake your bambama."

Hah, I haven't listened to "Hey Mama" from the Black Eyed Peas in a long ass time. It brings the OG inside of me. No joke. 8D haha, I know so much gangsters that I could be one if I wanted to (pfft, although I don't wanna, coz my brother's a gangster, and then he'd be like "wtfnoogtfobitch."

But anyways, we had our first run through of the opener on the field :3 It was amazing. Not gonna lie.
Sure there are an ass load of things we could work on, for example keeping shapes now that they've taken the training wheels away, as well as spacing.
But it was bliss. We played the loudest we could. And it sounded so wonderful.

Mr. Jones: "I want you to play your loudest on a Bb concert for three quarter notes."
Band: *does as told*
Mr. Jones: "Good, now that you've proven to me you can play loud, do it all the time."

Heh, I'm somewhat shocked that I have a good portion of it memorized already. Sure there are parts where it's like "UHHHWTFDOIPLAY?!" but then there's other parts that are like "OMGIKNOWTHISWHYDOESN'TANYONEELSE?!"

Haha, I'm doing good for only having looked at the piece like three or four times. :3

School was blarg. And damn it's already 10? Damn.

D: well I guess I should look at two of the school songs I have yet memorized. 'Cause I think we're playing school songs off tomorrow?

I sure as hell hope that it's not going to be half of the first segment. You can't expect people to already have it memorized--err, well the people who have stuff to do.

D: But whatever, there are parts I know and parts where it's like "hmm imma count now. see you laterz"

BUTOMGIT'SSOSCARY. Two color guard members come really close to me in these two moves. The new director goes "who's C12" (lol, like four times... D'8) and I go. "uh I am?" And then he instructs Avie (and then later Kalip) that she should be just a few inches away from my bell. I'm so happy they aren't doing a flag move there. They're just actually moving XD;

8D although I wouldn't mind if they knocked my shit clarinet (or as Nick would say "Walmart brand") out of my hand, but if they did it during UIL I would totally freak out, coz they always make you march with the best horn you have. But I guess it'd be cool to take one for the band >D true dedication man.

Well anyways, I should get onto memorizing lame-o confidence. As well as the star spangled banner.

So I stumbled across the G4 channel and came across Cheaters.

WHY HAVE YOU CHANGED SO MUCH?!

D'8 it's so weird then what I normally watch and see on the WB33 station.



Oohhh basic channel tvs.... *sighs*


D'8 on other words, I start school this coming Monday. I don't wanna, but yet I'm (like a weirdo) kind of excited too, cause it's my last year. Blahblahblahhh.

Fuck, I still have to do summer reading and memorize the opener for band, and then stupid confidence (blarg to you Eaglettes, blarg.) As well as the Star Spangled Banner. 3:

Summer where art thou?

"I've had people tell me that you're almost done with school. But in my head I was just thinking that I was almost done with High School. There was still a chunk I had to go through with College."
Truefax. Truefax.

I love rain. Really I do.

However I hate marching in it.

"I'm not paying for this. I'm not paying for this."


Aha, true band nerd when you care more for your instruments well-being then your own.

I hope I don't get a cold over this. I was coughing and sneezing all the way home. And as soon as I stepped foot into my house a whole jumble of shivers went down my spine. Such an unpleasant feeling. I dislike you cold D: Really I do.

Oh well, hopefully I'll finally get to see Tropic Thunder tomorrow with mongoliabun as soon as I'm done doing band stuff at 6.




I see no point in going to that event tomorrow, I didn't even go to westwood. Blarg, they never forced the leadership team to go. Not ever. But nowww they decide to get it in their heads  to do so?! Rawr...

So my mom got this new brand of toothpaste. It's called "electric mint."

=\ In my opinion I think it taste a whole lot more like apple toothpaste.

But oh! I should hopefully have Daisuke's soccer shorts finished by tonight hopefully.
So all I really have to do now to have Daisuke Motomiya's soccer uniform complete is to:
a) find white fabric for his soccer socks
b) put the finishing touches on his klets.
c) find a burgandy wig.

:) It's exciting. I hope I find wigs for Daisuke and Black*Star. (And hopefully Near, if I have enough money left over. D'8)


Man, am I tired of having my dad pop into my room saying "Lindsay you need to eat something before you leave."

I've already eaten, and bathed, and is in clean clothes before I head out to band.

However, I should try to fill up my water bottle.

Hmm...

It rained today, it was marvelous. However that flip-flopped our plans for today's marching. So instead of marching in the nice cool morning, we played in the nice coolish air conditioning. Then had more play time with the people who didn't make competition block, then broke for lunch.

Only bad thing is, we went out on the grid around 12:30--which was pretty hot and humid.

I didn't even have my hat or sunglasses. 8(

And to make things worse, some stupid underclassmen bitch put her hand on top of my shoulder to get me  to move faster.

I KNOW WHERE MY GOD DAMNED SPOT IS. I DON'T NEED YOU TO PUT YOUR FUCKING ARM ON MINE, BREAK MY CONCENTRATION AND GET ME OUT OF FUCKING STEP.

I HATE PEOPLE WHO FUCKING KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WANT TO HELP CORRECT OTHERS WHO DON'T NEED GOD DAMNED HELP! I'M A FUCKING SENIOR, FOUR YEARS OF MARCHING EXPERIENCE. AND IF I DO RECALL THIS IS THE PERSON WHO WOULD GET TO THEIR SPOT FASTER BEFORE AND MARK TIME.

>.> YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT!

>.>" fuck.