This is going to be difficult.

[trenchkamen]

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.

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[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

Probably because there aren't enough songs about Batman.
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.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

OH DUH
they should just have sung 'Superman or THE Bat-Man ain't got nothing on me.'
Stupid Kinks.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Well, their marching show was based around three classic superheroes -- Superman, Batman, and Spiderman -- but they only did the Superman segment for the assembly. And it's the marching band; they don't sing. I don't know if New Zealand has football teams or the marching band. It's an American Thing.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know marching bands don't sing... We don't have many American football teams, certainly. We have football teams, as in soccer, and rugby is sometimes referred to as 'footy' since it is, in full, 'Rugby football.'
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.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Odd. That school's architecture looks almost exactly like my school's. Just replace the grass with dead grass.

I had no idea there was such a thing as marching girls. That's nifty.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's actually a school - it's from a motel's website.
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.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

Hamilton is Tatooine, but damp.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

You see, Tatooine sounds about right for my corner of the world. I live in the Sonoran Desert. In fact, that place looks green compared to my town, if you don't count the artificially-planted palm trees that attempt to make us seem more like Southern California.