KVG_DC
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Yeah it doesn't bother me all that much. It just sorta stands out having seen High schools make snappier graphics videos.
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It does look like it was made with stock video effects and text effects from iMovie.
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The Sunnydale Hellmouth is gonna be an amazing prop.
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2 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:
Keno is like bingo. Worst odds in the house, I’ve been told.
I was thinking more about the “lazy gambler” scale than odds.
So it’s basically bingo but you don’t have to pay attention until the card is full?
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Where would Keno fit within this? I mean, you can see people just standing around in 7-11 throwing money into Keno slips and watching the number come up.
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19 hours ago, mcjordansc said:
What I like most about his live shows is his use of the audience.
Yeah those moments are always something. There's some great sets of Ben Folds Five out there doing this with their audiences.
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Huh. Poms (dance team equivalent) was the elite at my school in the 80s. Girls would all try out for poms and those who didn't make it would try for cheerleading, if you didn't make that, guard. There were some who went straight to guard because they liked the equipment work though. But yeah poms/dance were considered the top of the glamour order. They'd traditionally do the basketball school song routine and it was only after some major flap with the cheerleaders, it was taught to the cheerleaders and they were to join. But basketball halftime was poms/dance only. And cheerleaders would sulk about it because they'd get a big roar and then everyone would go for the bathroom and concessions while the cheerleaders took the floor.
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Having a Dance Squad and a Guard is very 80's Indiana band. The dance squad was called the pom squad though but the actual use of poms went out of the marching show by 81 or 82 I think. They were effectively a dance squad. They'd have some little mini flags they'd do for a portion of the show but generally were a separate auxiliary from the spinners who were the Color Guard.
They unified them as a single guard in my time in the mid to late 80s and the uproar about "I will NOT carry a FLAG from some of the longstanding poms was hilariously dumb."-
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I remember an article covering a big ISSMA competition in the local paper in the 80s one year that opened with a descriptive line of, "These school groups of tooters, wavers, and beaters..."
We were HOWLING with laugher about it for weeks to close the season obviously. The band director would always retort, "well, she's not WRONG..." when telling us to break into sectionals with those terms. "wood tooters over there, brass tooters there, beaters back behind the stands, wavers to the aux field!"-
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29 minutes ago, waliman4444 said:
I don't know if I'm regressing but in addition to drum corps music, jazz and classical, at 74 yrs of age I've discovered a hip hop producer ( J Dilla ) whose music has influenced so many late 90's and early 2000's hip hop artists that i've grown to enjoy..Robert Glasper is a disciple..peace
I've posted Glasper's Black Radio in the "Music Drum Corps Should Do" thread. There's a LOT there to work with that could be done so good.
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12 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Never had that duty. But I have had to do casualty notification to next-of-kin. Absolutely awful but it needs to be done. So you do it. Fortunately there is a script and you have a chaplain and a medic with you.
Never been the military chaplain in that situation but been in hospital chaplain situations like that where some doctor is the one who has to bear the news. I suspect you know this but it's actually a 'best practice' for the one to break the news not to be the one who picks up the support. There's no solid script for the chaplain part of it though.
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6 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Yes, but I have had 16-year old HS students in my college biology classes who are much more mature than some of the 21 (or 31)-year olds.
The difference between a 16 year old who has demonstrated the ability to handle college content and a 21 year old who is in college taking biology "cause I have to" is part of that gap though. I totally get that age isn't a guarantor of maturity, but that 16 year old is probably a few standard deviations ahead the maturity norm for 16 year olds than the 21 year old you have in mind for his cohort.
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A friend of mine marched Mandarins back when they were tiny. He said they'd use the break before the hit the road to tour to literally drive around Sacramento and approach kids that were just hanging out in malls and stuff with, "Wanna tour the country this summer?" If they were a go, they'd then figure out if they were good at hitting things or blowing through things, or twirling things. They trained a lot of people from scratch for a few years then had enough returning to make their mark in the A60 championships.
He's in awe of what they're doing now and can't believe the "little not very good group I was part of" is putting out shows like they have recently.-
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2 hours ago, Brian Tuma said:
“People are saying.” 😂
Ah yes. As someone about to grade another round of undergraduate essays, i'm steeling myself for the eventual... "Since the dawn of time, it has been known that..."
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Sorry...i just had to. I can't see EDM without thinking of The Good Place now.-
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Phantom Regiment social media needs to leverage some sort of announcent like, "We're working to bring Sean Bean as a Drum Major consultant tech this year..."
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40 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
(He is a student at Texas A&M. They fired their football coach, Jimbo Fisher).
Oh.
Ok then.
Alright.
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Yeah we switched. NBC has the performances at the Macy’s and all. CBS is doing a hack job down the road that’s mostly advertising
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1 hour ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
Are you doing ok? I heard your Jimbo got cut off.
Uh…
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Parade time was to have been bumped up this year to 8:30? CBS started at 9. It’s 9:25 and we’ve had two broadway numbers advertise their shows and a lot of chatter from the hosts about ones “journey to being a broadway star.” And our second commercial break.
Zero parade. Aside from what you see in the background as the hosts talk about themselves
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So much for the “next year they’re doing white unis and a “good guys” cowboy show.”
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Oh daaang. I found one of the guys found a recording our whole set on youtube
Its' a great opportunity for the kids who go. You do a set performace, you get to do a clinic with a muscian (we had Dennis DiBlasio)And watch some of the greatest other performances. Airmen of Note played ours for the main stage night and they were amazing.
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I had the pleasure of my high school jazz band being invited my senior year. We always had great jazz bands but that year and the one following we had ridiculously good bands.
We blew the place down with this number to close our set.
Our set was actually used in recordings of a number of the charts we did for the audio going out with marketing to school band directors by publishers.
I was reminicing one time with someone who'd played one of the other numbers we did and "our director played this recording for us of that number and told us "thats a high school band. if they can do it we can." Those cats from ____ were great." I was like ....oh snap...that was us....-
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1 hour ago, Chief Guns said:
When I was 15, I ran over the small tree in my parents front yard that my mom planted lol.
It was 16 and a rabbit that made a bad choice to cross the road on a Sunday evening after youth group.
I park the car and come into the house and I must have looked in shock or something because mom sees me and, "OH WHAT'S WRONG WHAT HAPPENED?"
"I......I......I hit a rabbit."
"oh thank god I thought it was something serious."
"MOM, I KILLED IT"-
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Boston Crusaders 2024
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Imagine the response and GE moment it would make to have a feature that put the whole line on tubas.