What show is this? Its a bit humorous.
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This is old news…at least in the information provided by the site…
behindthename.com tells you the origin, meaning, popularity, and just about anything else related to names. I looked mine up:
My first name: David – derived from Hebrew, meaning “beloved”
awwwwwww how nice.
My middle name: Lee – derived from Old English, meaning “meadow”
awwwwwww how nice.
So I guess you can call me “Beloved Meadow.” awwwwwwww how nice. 🙂 I guess I kinda look like a field? Set me as your desktop background!!! haha.
Anyways, look yours up and post it in a comment. Maybe if I get enough people to comment with enough names and definitions listed, I can get sued for plagarism against behindthename.com. Help me out here, would you?
These are from Ryans graduation party, back at the end of may. I guess I just forgot to post ’em, and stumbled upon them looking around today.
Its that time of year again. The time when you get up early even though its summer. The time when you’re running in circles when you should be relaxing at home. The time when you try to remember how to play your instrument. The time when you reconnect with friends. The time when you get excited about the next 4 months.
Can you guess? (if you answer right you get a bonus!)
Good job! It IS marching band marathons! You get yourself a cookie with a BONUS gold star sticker on it! Now that doesn’t happen every day!
So about those marathons…now that I’ve written a paragraph long crappy introduction. Tuesday through Friday was the marching band’s first mass practices for the season. 8am to 6pm every day, working on music, marching, et cetera, et cetera. Our show this year is “James Bond 007” and is somewhat modeled after the 2004 show “007” by The Cavaliers (winning them the world drum corps international championship). I’m assuming our show will bring us similar success? 🙂
Anyways, this year we have a massive drumline. 5 or 6 snares (not sure yet), 4 quads, 6 cymbals, and 6 basses! Absolutely huge! So far everything is working together good. The show music is really awesome, and we’ve also been working on three cadences I wrote: Ninja, Insummability, and last and wierdest named: Moist Urinal. mwahahaha.
So thats the update for now. I soon hope to be making a couple more videos of:
a) Me playing a snare solo on a mirror (no it won’t break! I promise! just wait and see!)
b) Me doing some kind of finger snapping solo (though I have yet to write or adapt one)
Perhaps this weekend I’m also going to try to put up a Shawnee Heights Thundercussion wordpress blog website info page record resource media center chat room place thingy.
Till next time, try to figure out what “insummability” means and let me know if you figure it out…becuase quite frankly, I have no clue. Drop me some comments, whatever. You know the routine. Thanks!
Just to show how bored I am: results of a personality test:
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Advanced Global Personality Test Results
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-Stability results were medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.
-Orderliness results were high which suggests you are overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense too often of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.
-Extraversion results were medium which suggests you are moderately talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting.
-Trait snapshot:
clean, organized, dislikes chaos, semi neat freak, perfectionist, traditional, realist, fits in most places, enjoys managing others, risk averse, good at saving money, prudent, respects authority, high self control, hard working, does not like to stand out, follows the rules, finisher, resilient, takes precautions, cautious, honest, unfamiliar with the dark side of life, practical, dutiful
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Four days since my last update…four days of a LOT of one thing: practicing drums.
It’s a revolution..with two causes:
1.Since percussion camp, I’ve been super-inspired to work work work on my skills.
2. I was lucky enough on Friday to get a “master class” from Chris Lacinak, an awesome New Orleans drummer. He taught me some things about technique, style and feel, practicing, and many other things.
So Chris’s practice ideas were to take a book your are working out of, and as you progress you review…TONS. EVERY TIME. So I’m almost to the end of a snare solo book, and now every time I want to practice the last solo or whatever, I go back and play through the entire book till that point. ohhhhhhh sounds boring I know. But Chris says in a month, I’ll have that book memorized (haha), and be able to play it all perfectly. Plus, I’m really excersizing my “chops.”
But yeah, other than drums the past few days, Amy has returned from Wisconsin. So we hung out all yesterday afternoon which was really great, since we hadn’t really talked since eh like almost two weeks.
I also wrote another drum cadence yesterday…and may make a habit of writing one everyday, just because that may help my creativity flow, and because I’m super bored. I’m also wanting to make a cool snare solo video of me playing on a mirror in my house. I decided it would look totally awesome. I’ll post it in the next few days.
Cole has also assigned me to administer to his forums for the next few weeks, so (unless you were brought to my site from his forums) you really need to chech out “Argumentative Demise”.
Thanks for reading! Gimme a comment as usual if you want.
Yes yes. I have just arrived home last night from over a week and a half of two great camps.
First was Missionpalooza, an event where Episcopal Youth from eastern KS and western MO get together for 5 days and do mission work work out the KC area. There are worksites like animal clinics, homeless shelters, food kitchens, Habitat for Humanity, among over 10 others. I got to do Kaw Valley Habitat for Humanity. mwahaha, I got to swing a hammer and do other jobs around a house building site for 3 days. Our site manager was this awesome black lady that was super nice, organized and personable, and BONUS: she talked crazy ebonic jive!!! She called me “Brotha Dave”! haha.
Anyways, other parts of Missionpalooza included worship, great meals, a night on the Kansas City Plaza, foot washing, and going swimming. I had to leave early on Saturday, so I missed a trip to Worlds of Fun and a healing service. Even though I had to go early, Missionpalooza was awesome! I though last year was great…but it got even better this year. The group of about 90 youth were the most awesome people to hang out with, and just yeah. It was awesome!
Next was the Total Percussion Camp at Washburn University. It started on Sunday, and we had little audition things to see which groups we would end up in (A, B, or C…A being most skilled). I made A for drumline, drumset, and mallet, and B for accessories…haha, but I think the accessories thing was random, becuase some really bad people were in A. This years camp hosted Jeff Moore as a clinician. He was awesome. Just google him and you’ll find out all about him and his career.
A couple highlights were:
-seeing Dr Morgan (percussion teacher at Washburn) and Jeff Moore just rock out on drumset together! Mwahahaha!!!
-me playing some drumset along side Jeff Moore in a class
-me winning the MVP (most valuable player) award at the end of the camp
-having $9 extra on my meal card to buy a ton of candy with!
So yeah. Lots of percussion learning experiences and such I could share, but I don’t think most people who read my website would care. Maybe I’ll write some of it if someone wants me to.
I know these longs posts and be just that…long, so I appreciate you reading it!!! Drop some comments by sometime! Thanks!
Hopefully you like! Let me know what you think!
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A FEW years back, a technology writer named John Battelle began talking about how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future. When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and entered a few words into a search engine, what they were really doing, he realized, was announcing their intentions.
They typed in “Alaskan cruise” because they were thinking about taking one or “baby names” because they were planning on needing one. If somebody were to add up all this information, it would produce a pretty good notion of where the world was headed, of what was about to get hot and what was going out of style.
Mr. Battelle, a founder of Wired magazine and the Industry Standard, wasn’t the first person to figure this out. But he did find a way to describe the digital crystal ball better than anyone else had. He called it “the database of intentions.”
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That’s really cool. I’ve never thought of it internet searches that way. And Google Trends (mentioned in the article) sounds to be an excellent to predict the future! haha.
