thewdude2

I marched in a "Top 12" corps this past summer, and was going into the season with a little bit of financial trouble. 1) Save every penny you get. Birthday money, Christmahannukwanzuka money (let your relatives know what your saving for), pennies you find outside your car, SAVE IT ALL. No late night trips to Wendy's either, it ruins your stomach and your wallet. 2) Go to local, small businesses in your area and ask if they would be willing to help you with your cause. Be sure to be professional about it, dress up a little. I had a deal with a local hair-cut place for every customer that used a specific coupon, I would get $5 towards my drum corps fees. Something small like that can go a far way. 3) If you get a spot with your corps of choice, constantly communicate your situation to the corps management. Also, ask them for ideas, they usually have many great suggestions and keep you on the right track. 4) Hit up your great great step-aunt in-law twice removed. Even if you haven't talked to them in a while, it might be nice to re-establish a connection. Let your far off relatives know what your up too, and even invite them to a show near them over the summer to see what their money is going towards. 5) Contact your local Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, etc. It varies from group to group, but one of them might be willing to shell out $100 or so. There are many more options, but I have found those to be the most successful. I was able to pay off my entire tuition before move-ins, and even had some left-over money for free-days, and I didn't even have a job. Good luck, hope that helped a little!

SCV = 42

I had the problem earlier of only being able to watch one video, then nothing after. Harder to navigate, the loss of scores and placements, and now I am getting a page load error. Go back to the old version, just keep the bigger screen. Boo.

92 SCV

Ballet for Martha not Ballad.

Pacific Crest - "El Corazon de la Gente: Alegria, Amor, y Fuerte"

From www.pacific-crest.org: "Pacific Crest is pleased to announce their 2009 program, El Corazon de la Gente: Alegria, Amor, y Fuerte." The full story here: Pacific Crest 2009

Well, when we drove by Lucas Oil on the way to finals, there were still construction workers cutting steel and cementing steps/handicap ramps on the outside. It looked very close to completion at the time, but I'm sure there were some housekeeping things that needed to be taken care of for safety reasons. So oh well, I thought IU worked at pretty well considering the circumstances, we will see how Lucas Oil works out this year.

Santa Clara Vanguard

This website is really cool!

How is it that nobody has said SCV, but people have said Pioneer and Troopers...?

Phantom Regiment

Yes, their site is updated. They update it after every championship, and display the champions from each divison on the corps home page. You can tell it is Phantom from this year because of their sashes/guantlets, and you can see SCVC behind the guard member under the open class pic. The clips are updated as they are going to get for now, they only play clips from the previous year.

At the Drums Across the Pacific, 2008: Announcer: "Performing their 2008 program, "DRUMS ALONG THE PACIFIC!" Drum Corps International is proud to present..." He did it for every corps there, I'm really suprised that he didn't notice each corps had the same show... And in Atlanta, 2008: The Crossmen were on the field, and Brendt Crocker was announcing. Crocker: "Please welcome to the field........THE GLASSMEN!!!!!!!!!!............." Crowd: Crocker: ...........THE CROSSMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! And SemiFinals 08: Crocker: "Performing their 2008 program, Constantly Risking Asurbidy, Drum Corps International is proud to present, The Blue Devils!" If you listen to him on finals night, he really made sure he pronounced that one right.

The Boston Crusaders

After watching them tonight, an idea popped into my head for what they could do to spice up their act and make it different. I read somewhere on DCP that the Colt's guy was gonna do something with cymbals, I was bummed they didn't pull any plates out a slice at each other or something, that is definatley an art that not even the whole drum corps communty gets to see, so I think if they pulled that out they would have gotten America's attention. Also, when they jumped onto each other's shoulders and started playing the two story rack, it got me thinking how that was definatley different from their other performances. If they found a way to mix in some sort of acrobatics, that would be something that hasn't been put on stage before. (Blue Man Group is mostly acting, Cirque isn't focused on music, Stomp only hang from wires, and Blast is drumcorps indoors). The only flaw is they would need to learn how to become gymnists within the next week. Oh, well. Best of luck to them, I used up my 10 votes.

Well, I wouldn't go THAT far, but I do agree that with BlueMan, Stomp, and Blast, they aren't anything we haven't seen before. In order to win, they need bring something to that stage that people haven't seen before. Now, as to what that could be, I have no clue.

Alright, I know that people have said not to ask, but what in the heck is INT? (My friends and I are having a conversation about it right now, and can't for the life of us figure it out).

Their SAFTEY zone? That is like saying the Dev's "saftey zone" is anything jazzy. It's not a saftey zone, it is what they do best. IMO, Phantom's music is anything but safe. Now for Hotel California, talk to me when Crown adds it to their rep...

chicken encheladas and leftover meatloaf

You guys need to go listen to the yell at 0:07 seconds of the Pacific Crest - Stanford webcast on the Fan Network. Trust me, it is relevant.

You can see our most recent tour schedule here (the one on the homepage of www.pacific-crest.org): PC Tour Schedule See you on the road! P.S. Thanks for all of the support. It's awesome! EDIT: URL

I like you.

I thought it was the second one, with too much emphasis. But the first one is just as funny.

I think I read on DCP somewhere (not sure if it's true) that an announcer read the following sometime last year... "From Santa Clara California, perorming their 2007 program!..." instead of "From Santa Clara California, performing their 2007 program !(Eureka)..."