To Reno, to San Fran, and Back Again

So I missed another week. Deal with it. IT was spring break, and if you actually think I'm gonna put up posts over spring break then you be crazy bub. That's right, I called ou bub! Deal with it. Anyway, over spring break I went on tour with the varsity jazz band I play trumpet in and we rocked the crap out of it! We left after school got out thursday and drove over night to get to Reno, Nevada. There we played at the Reno Jazz Festival at UNR. To put it simply, we rocked it. Somehow he got put in the "small school" category, and we won overall against all the other bands in that section of the competition. However, we did a little more than that. My band teacher compared to what bands scored in the other divisions and turns out we scored somewhere in the top five of the whole competition, out of 600 other bands!! I think we can count that as a victory.

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Region Band

So yesterday region band happened. It was fantastic.

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Let me tell you a story. It's a story of trials and challenges, happiness and triumph, and also singing in a bus. 

Once upon a time there was a band. It was called the pchs symphonic band. One day they went to region band festival. They scored a one, A one, and a one minus. They qualified for state. Now let's get to the cool part. 

Ok enough 3rd person. This is getting ridiculous.  Anyway, we left the high school and got on the bus for the three hour bus ride home. Sounds awful right? Wrong. It was amazing. At first it wasn't so great but then we decided to sing thirty versus of "beer on the wall" and then went into singing random pep band songs for a ton of the ride. Finally, we got home. And lived happily ever after.

THE END.

Song of the Week #19

Social Security Fraud and Men in Dresses

Three Words. Cash. On Delivery. Possibly the funniest play I’ve seen in my life. Never mind, THE funniest play I’ve seen in my life. I really haven’t seen many plays though. But anyway, our high school did a production of Cash on Delivery this week and it was fantastic. I wasn’t in it of course, but it was absolutely hilarious! I can’t come up with a very good way to explain the show other than using the exact words of the directer-

Welcome to tonight's production of cash on delivery! This show is a British farce-- and a funny one at that. Since it is a farce, there are some rules in place. All farces must have slamming doors, mistaken identities, several misunderstandings, and (since this is a British farce) a guy in a dress. 

Now isn’t that intriguing? And that’s not even all! There’s also a killer washing machine, someone gets struck by lightning, and the whole thing’s about Social Security fraud! This show easily gets a ninety nine hippopotamus shaped gelatin molds out of one hundred from me! And in case you’re wondering, the one I took off was because the sound system overheated and the “phone” didn’t ring when it was supposed to. Congratulations to everyone involved in this show! It was splendiferous!