There's a surfer dude and a music major somewhere in each of us

I give you Surf-fége:

Dude
Way
Man
Far out
Sweet
Lame (or Like, or loose[how you should hang])
Totally (or Ten, what you should hang)
and that brings us back to Dude.

and the arpeggio:
dude-man-sweet-dude-sweet-man-dude

Have some

cake

Yup, it's true!

Saturday, July 5th, there will be festivities at Jon's pad.

Thus far, there will be the watching of a live drum corps webcast from Stanford, CA (which starts at 6:30 p.m. in CA so 7:30 here) as well as watching whatever other drum corps shows we want to get us hyped for Corps Encore. Oh and I do mean whatever shows we want! I signed up for the DCI Fan Network which has streaming video of all the top 12 drum corps from 1975 to 2006 plus a ton of other features. Plus, from what it sounds like in Jarrett's post, there will also be the hazing of some Band Hall newbies.... excuse me, we will be "indoctrinating" some newer Band Hall citizens. Should be tons-o-fun!

Plan on it starting at 6 p.m. Jon and I talked earlier today and suggested pizza (just like $5 pizza from Little Caesars) and snacks. Jon said that he'd provide the drinks. If ya got any questions, you can ask either Jon or myself and maybe Jarrett?

Jon, I forgot to ask... Where is your place? I've never been.

EVENT

So...
In addition to the hike scheduled for this friday at 6 pm - which apparently is to include a reading of the constitution and declaration of independence as we go up (ummm...)
hee hee.

Saturday, 5 july is a good time for an evening get-together of some kind. No less an authority than Jingles the Pirate himself told me so and also informed me that other(s) had suggested getting together to watch drum corps videos in order to get warmed up for Corps Encore on Thursday the 10th. I also am attempting to assemble a cadre of Band Hall citizens to be indoctrinated in the glorious traditions and lore of the Band Hall, i.e. Jinglesþula. Jon has suggested his place as a facility (though I don't mean to speak for him!) which would be good... hmm.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

And suddenly I am reminded of Dave Cox

and his classic joke...

How many trumpet players does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Five.

One to change the bulb, and four to stand around the room and say,
"Sure he's good, but I could do it higher and faster."


Oh and I think that Julius von bismarck is the crazy Berliner I heard once (on TV) say he was trying to get people to accept "the dictatorship of art - because art is the only lovely dictatorship."

I could be wrong but it fits the behavior

|_0\/3 t3h x-m@5 m|_|z1k, d00d

Ricky, that sounds strangely like the Tastee Bros. Those punks! They let their site expire and now I can only refer you to the one on Archive.org. I do have some recordings of the Tastee Bros if you really, really, really want them. :)

I can ride my bike again, yaaay!! Hooray for fuel savings!

Oh, shoot!

What people won't think of.
Image fulgruator (plus nifty CCTV defeating headwear).

I know it's June but this is still pretty good.....

So Tuba Christmas is a great event that quite a few tuba and euph. players look forward to each year. They gather in masses every year to play Christmas carols and to just have a good time playing some low, soothing tunes.

But some people ask, "why isn't there a (insert instrument here) Christmas?"

This is why.....

Enjoy?...... Well, try to anyways.....

Event Notice

Well for any of you that be interested, there's a hike in the works. It's an alternative 4th of july activity: the plan is to hike Malan's peak (a fairly gentle hike) in the evening so as to be able to see all 8 or so major fireworks shows at once. So we're leaving the browning center at 6 pm, from the W lot, and all are welcome to join us. If you wish to have access to the games/events calendar, just email Jon or I and we'll get you in on the action!

Otherwise, you have absolutely no excuse to have anything less than a great day.

Fun with l'Gogle

I found another eccentric Jarrett.
I advise you to check out the fake and faker bios.

I don't have to know them. It's better if I don't. But there are a few out there and they do their thing, usually very well.

dig this

from John Mackey's blog:
band vs. orchestra

also I've updated my blog and my URL so... hopefully the links work

Hello all....

Why hello to all.... It seems as though another year of marching is upon us. I find myself this year in quite the interesting position. Being the assistant director at Roy HS I now find myself in more administrative and overseeing tasks than hands on teaching and running of the band. Not sure he chose the right guy for this, but I guess we'll see.

For y'alls info, Roy HS has acquired all-new uniforms. We will hopefully be debuting these beauts at either the 24th parade or Roy days. So make sure you catch the train.

I know I'm a geek cuz all I ever talk about are computers, band or my family, cuz my kids are quite adorable.

I miss being up there with you guys. Ah, the memories!

Feel free to contact me jeffry (dot) s (dot) johnson (at) gmail (dot) com

Later y'alls!

Loud noise, anyone?

One of my co-workers kids is selling a nice Tama kit w/ cymbals for ca. $800 if anyone's interested. Zildjian (hh, crash, ride, china). Apparently it's hardly ever been played. See here.

Bet Your Bottom Dollar On Tomorrow

Just to remind everyone - tomorrow is Download Firefox Day. It's the official release of Firefox 3, and they're trying to break the Guinness world record for most downloads of software within 24 hours of its release.

Do your part to help out in the war against Internet Explorer.

Linus Torvalds wants YOU...

I vote yes

As you all knew I would to a large group of geeks en masse, seeing The Dark Knight. I also vote we see it at the Junction seeing as how you can reserve your seats. Hence, we can all sit together in a collective group of geeks. We are less easy to infiltrate in numbers. I will be seeing it with or with out all y'alls* and be prepared for me to be wearing my Batcape.

Check y'alls* later!



*Not sure why I keep referring to you as y'alls, I'm neither from the south or a the hills....meh.

YES!!!

to the Dark Knight!

That's it for me. later.

Well hello

Hey Andrew - good to see you. No, the band hall has not caught fire to my knowledge. But I hear they are taking out the carpet and putting tile or laminate flooring down or something like that.

Hey we should all go see the Dark Knight together, eh? July 17, I think.

There is a lawyer, a scientist, and a marketing agent somewhere inside all of us

Nutahn's Law v. 1.0

i. Whereas the party of the first part henceforth known as "a particle" and all estates, properties, rights, limitations, and liabilities hereby contained on, in, around, nearby, or in otherwise proximity to said particle, shall at it's sole discretion remain in its present state of ambulation vis-a-vis disambulation until acted upon, upin, uparound, upnearby, or upinotherwiseproximityto the party of the second part, henceforth known as "a force" hereby defined as a quantity accumulated e.g. agglomeration of mass as a product of the antiderivative of jerk, hereby defined as the derivative of acceleration.  Some exceptions and conditions apply.  Not valid in Kansas.  If unsatisfied with Nutahn's Law v. 1.0, please return unused portion for 5 cent refund in HI, ME, MI, WI.  Employees or family members of Einstein Enterprises (R) may not apply.  Chances of winning depend on the number of entries.  No purchase necessary.  See store for details.

Oh. Hello.

Well hello everyone! I'm glad to see the band hall has not caught on fire and you have not been trampled to death as Dr. Root tries to find the fire exit. That's pretty much all! Adios.

Firefox Download Day 2K8

I love my Fx browser! I'm also pretty excited about the release of Firefox 3 (specifically due to claims of lower memory usage.) It's also really cool to try to snag a world record in the process. :)

Good heavens! I'm a freakin' geek!

Click the link above and pledge your support for one of the greatest open source projects of all time. :) Peace out!