surfman034

I think it is extremely selfish that people threaten to leave DCI or refuse to support DCI if woodwinds are allowed. Yeah, people may not want them, but if it happens it happens- no use fighting over something that doesnt include your vote I feel that if a woodwind can come in and play and march better than a brass player, take the woodwind. It's not taking away a brass player, its adding somone who is a better performer. i think the real problem here is the bandettes- BAND! that's what we should try to change

all really cool songs, but i was looking for more corps songs...like the ones they sing together before/after shows like autumn leaves you'll never walk alone, RCM...etc

whaaa??? I can see where this might lead someone, Dear Cadets, Please take away the THE infront of your name, you may have won and all, but you are going down hill Ditto for you cavies apparently scores and finals only work when it makes someone right I for one like the change...now I can finally rest easy that no one will ever confuse The Magic with the basketball team......now if i can only keep maderins and the fruit oranges seperate.....gonna be tuff

i did some searching online and found some stuff 444 is represented as a sympbol for angels and as a vice for them to communicate with humans- (like something happening at 4:44 or seeing the numbers and experiencing a sign of some sort etc....) however some allso believe that 444 is a symbol for lower force demons and should not be dabled with (one guy on his site said he recieved message from them saying things like evil and hebrew words that translated into some bad omens for the future..like a 9 year war where the mesiah will come down from..hmmm IRaq???? lol) sounds like white noise to me, so i dont really believe that part of it here is the coolest one i think ( a bit odd, but interesting) Why is it that almost all countries of the world teach their children English in their public school systems? The reason is simple and obvious, God has ordained English for this purpose, this generation and for the uncovering of the Revelation 13 calculation prophecy. So do not receive the error of these prophecy teachers who say it cannot be determined by the English. They are completely wrong and have nothing else to offer you that will pass the scientific method as the English gematria codes will. The math speaks for itself and cannot be denyed by any serious student of prophecy. Also you will not find any of these match total patterns in the Koine Greek, or the Hebrew. The A=6 B=12 C=18 alphabet shown below was not picked randomly. It was selected out of 443,556 scientific alphabet possibilities that exist in the English language for calculating 666 possibilities. There are no more and there are no less. The alphabet below is a progression of six alphabet beginning at six. A=6, this is the starting value, now lets add 6 more 6 + 6 = 12, this determines the value of the next letter which is B. B=12 12+6 = 18 which determines the value of C. and so forth C=18+6=24 D=24+6=30 E=30 In other words: 6,12,18,24,30,36 and so on. A=6 B=12 C=18 D=24 E=30 F=36 G=42 H=48 I=54 J=60 K=66 L=72 M=78 N=84 O=90 P=96 Q=102 R=108 S=114 T=120 U=126 V=132 W =138 X=144 Y=150 Z=156 The name Jesus by this alphabet key has a total value of 444. How do we know? Simple addition of course using the alphabet key above. Lets check it to make sure, look at the alphabet above and find the value of J. The value of J is 60, alright what is the value of E? The value of E=30, now find the values of the other letters in Jesus' name. Then add them up to find the total. The point is this: the only word that calculated to 444 in the above group was the name Jesus. Now to clarify the point I wish all to understand we must first do a little more addition. Using the same alphabet key find the total values of the words: Gospel, Cross, Messiah, Jewish Yep, they are all 444. Alright now what are the odds of these five words Jesus, Gospel, Cross, Messiah and the word Jewish having the same total 444 value using only one numeric alphabet key? What are the odds of the match values of the word groups shown on the calculator page? here is the link if you want to read it all: http://www.geocities.com/iamthekey_2000/simple.html I actually thought it was a boring ending when i saw it and didnt get it...now it makes more sense and really works nicely....i think crown should have made sure the judges knew this too...good job Crown design team for incorperating this into the show!

I think a really great chart would be Chorale VI Sol Fa- I think Crown toyed with using it before dumping it early in the season I would LOVE for Phantom to do Bernsteins Mass in 06...I think they could really take it far even though it has been done already As for Surf, I was really hoping that they would shock everyone and come out with something totally unexpected like Firebird......something back to reinCARMENation or even the Mays and Metheny show..... back in 02 thought it was cute, now I am just like again?? but this year did take a step forward...to each his own hopefuly its not the music from the recent moulon rouge...with like a kit during lady marmalde from them

that is a really good idea maybe have each corps do the age out vid themselves and send it in to dci...that way there will be ample time to edit and make a great memory...dci could even give each age out a copy great idea...you should e-mail it to dci

What does everone think the best corps song is?? even though i dont partivullary care for them, my vote would have to go for madison and you'll never walk alone they lyrics really seem to sum up what being in a corps is...the essence of it all- awesome corps song whats your favorite?

just wondering on this I had a friend say it meant nothing, and a friend comfermed that it did He signs his xanga now with 444 after coming off of tour mt couriosity is peaked...whats the deal with 444?!?!?!?!

so here is a question for yall........ have you ever performed in a corps that was doing a show you absolutley hated? why did you join/stick with the show and did you return the next year all in all did you look back on it differently or did everyone else know it was a bomb discuss

maybe in a "sorry we cant give you the title even though we want to but here is a disney one instead" type of an award anyone knoe who got it for div II?

but if grand finals reserves the right for 1 champion in div II and III......i dont understand the need for a combined night so if i am right, it boils down to..... you have a div II champion on sat you have a div II champion on sat you have 1 big div II/III champion on sunday? has there ever been an instance when the div III champions came anywhere close to being crowned grand champion????? it seems illogical, if dci feels the nedd to seperate them due to size to create a more level playing field for the corps to compete in, why throw out these rules for a contest that sets them up against what dci tried to prevent? Why not throw everyone into quarterfinals and call it the same thing? i have an inkling that say Raiders came and shook things up, coming in top 3 for grand finals, that would be the end of that (a la Magic coming in 12 in 02 from div II)

Don't overlook Capital Regiment While they may not break into the top 5,6,7 anytime soon, they have been unsurpassed by consistantly getting better each year...even in this harder year they stayed around the same area as last year i think they have the capabilities to make finals either this or next year Carolina Crown imo will be where Blue is in a couple of years...they are on the right track and i still cant get over their horn (esp. mello) sound i think they can easily slip into 5 or 6 next year with some tweaking in design for next season

hopefully a fleur de lise

does the whistling and drill and pit get countened as score worthy material? or is it just like a brass on field warm up?? If the latter is the case, if in some rare event there is a huge tear and some members fall down, will they get penalized in the judge sheets? just wondering.....like our favorite mistakes in 2003....i mean our favorite things...yeah that was the show

To me they all make sense...except for BLue Cadets set up a confusing story and help the audience member better understand what is going on. Seattle..on of their arrangemenets actually has speech written in as part of the score.....I think it does compliment it nicely BD.....well I mean he reminds me of that guy in Grease that does the dance contest....it sets up the dance derby and clarifies the whole its in reverse for you. we talked about this tonight as well in the theater.......the logical reason that bd does the show in reverse is for the entertainment (GE) value. If the show played out in true form, the last image you have of the 2005 BD is 1 slow moving tired 1000 hour dancing couple winning the dance contest while the other 30 guard members are out of it in their boogie woogie bugle boy cots. screams excitment blue...the speech made me go what the crap every time i hear it.....it doesnt grow on me, maybe because it doesnt go with the show, or because its good enough without it that you just want to hear music i did love though when the interviewer cut off the blue pit member while he was trying to explain it...you could see the guy interviewing was trying not to laugh