my fall break

Okay, so I know that I've been depriving all of you of the stories of my life this past week. And we all know I have a pretty interesting life....
Yesterday, we went to Kristin's color guard competition at Bay High. The competition was the Florida Bandmaster's Association competition. Here's my comments on everything I saw...

Bozeman had by far the best Drum Major. He was very entertaining to watch. It helps that it was a good show as well. They performed songs by the Eagles and they did really well. Their color guard also had really cool flags on one song. They had the regular flags on top and then a little pennant flag on the bottom. It was really cool looking.

Liberty performed a gospel show. While they did do a good job, I couldn't get passed the fact that the Drum Major seemed just a little too fruity for a gospel show.

Freeport was the smallest band that I saw and it struck me as funny that they had 1 man with 4 bass drums. they also had the strangest hats EVER! The drum major had one kind, the tubas another, and the rest of the band yet another. It was quite crazy. Too add to it, the color guard was wearing Hawaiian shirts which made sense since the band was doing Jimmy Buffet songs, but seriously, couldn't they have gotten the school colors instead of blue and yellow? Make it at least match! I did like them singing "Cheeseburger In Paradise" and it was cool that the entire audience started singing at the same time. Really really cool.

Next up was Walton. We think they were performing Cirque de Soleil music. Or rather we hope that it was Cirque music. That's the only way it would make sense that they were dancing with giant exercise balls.

Marianna was pretty good. I'm still trying to figure out how Green Day's song "Holiday" fits in a show that's pretty much all Beethoven, but oddly, it worked. My friend Sean was sitting with us at this point, and as soon as he saw the majorettes step out on the field he started making comments about how he doesn't like the way that majorettes march. It was pretty funny.

Arnold: I was very happy to see the band member in the wheelchair. It was sorta refreshing. However, I didn't care for the rest of the show too much. I didn't mind the music but when they incorporated marching into it, they got a little dangerous. The color guard was trying to take out the band members it seemed like since they hit different members at 2 different times. And to top it all off, the band seemed a little claustrophobic at one point. It wasn't as great of a show as I was expecting

Rutherford was the next band at bat. Now I was interested in watching this one because my mom's best friend's daughter was in this color guard. They did very well. I just have to point out that it was very Broadway-y. That's not necessarily a bad thing, I just didn't expect to see jazz hands at a band competition.

Bay High made me very happy when they performed Bon Jovi's "Wanted" and did a good job of it. I do have to say that at one point there was a color guard member that did a pop that was WAY above everyone else's pops. That would have been fine if it hadn't messed her up by getting her counts off.

Mosley was the last band and as happy as Bay High's turn at performing Bon Jovi made me, imagine my joy at hearing 2 Bon Jovi songs in the same performance. This band was by fare the best overall and their scores reflected that with strait Superiors.

I just have a couple more comments to share...
What's with people wanting to perform West Side Story? I think the judges should have counted off for any songs from West side story. It's ridiculous.
And also why do people like to stand and sit in the pathways and not even move out of other people's ways? Not cool, random people that made me mad. Just not cool.
And I didn't get to comment on every one's performances since i forgot that i had a pen. he he.

Until next time...
Peace, Love, and Chicken Feathers!