This is going to be difficult.
Nov. 4th, 2005 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, I'm about to go to the homecoming game.
If I had stayed in band, I would be in my uniform right now with a gold plume in my hat. And I would get my name announced at halftime.
I wonder if getting up at 5:00 AM every morning since August would be worth that. But the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
In all seriousness, the band still sucks mediocre-core, as evidenced by this morning's performance at the assembly. (Why, oh why Superman in the first place; he's such a Boy Scout of a super hero.) But it's still my band.
If I had stayed in band, I would be in my uniform right now with a gold plume in my hat. And I would get my name announced at halftime.
I wonder if getting up at 5:00 AM every morning since August would be worth that. But the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
In all seriousness, the band still sucks mediocre-core, as evidenced by this morning's performance at the assembly. (Why, oh why Superman in the first place; he's such a Boy Scout of a super hero.) But it's still my band.
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Date: 2005-11-04 06:21 pm (UTC)Seriously, can you think of ANY songs about Batman except that one Prince did for the 1989 movie soundtrack? I can't right now.
Even the Kinks only referenced 'Superman or Green Lantern,' a choice which can only be justified by the fact that 'Batman' wouldn't have scanned.
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Date: 2005-11-04 09:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-04 10:01 pm (UTC)We don't really have marching bands but we do have a proud tradition of marching girls that has sadly fallen by the wayside due to the imported popularity of cheerleaders. Marching girls march, as you'd expect, in formation, often to a brass or bagpipe band. Their uniforms are vaguely military/Highland in design, and for a while held a place in the New Zealand psyche somewhat analogous to the sailor suit in Japan (though slightly less fetishistic). Marching became a popular recreation for Kiwi girls and women during World War II. I never was a marching girl but I always thought they looked awesome in the town Christmas parade. I was usually on the Women for Peace float because my mother was a member. We kids on that float tended to fight a lot.
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Date: 2005-11-04 10:31 pm (UTC)I had no idea there was such a thing as marching girls. That's nifty.
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Date: 2005-11-04 10:36 pm (UTC)Hee. Your school looks like a motel in New Zealand.
A motel in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Hamilton is like... like... I have no analogy for Hamilton. It's this great sucking void of dairy farming and beige.
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Date: 2005-11-04 10:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-04 10:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-04 06:22 pm (UTC)they should just have sung 'Superman or THE Bat-Man ain't got nothing on me.'
Stupid Kinks.