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(Show Details) - creeva: Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s - creeva: way too early - creeva: @evilpacket final verdict? - creeva: blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy - creeva: making spaghetti - creeva: bored 3:44am Updated status on Facebook.Brent time to take care of the dogs and head to bed. 6:17am Dugg 23 links on Digg. (Show Details) - 42 Spectacular Flickr Collections of Abandoned Places [PICS] - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY - The 20 Worst Toy Makeovers - The Real Batmobile - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) - The 7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green - Magazines Are for Crazy People… [COMIC] - Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] - Top 10 First Aid Mistakes - 25 killer Linux apps - Batman 3 by 2011? - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] - mySQLgame, playing with database queries - Biden dislikes File Sharing, Net Neutrality and Encryption!! - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 - JPL and the Beginnings of the Space Age - The Ghost Cities of 2100 (w/PICS) - Police Arrest Ninja Team That Targeted Drug Dealers 6:17am Posted 24 items (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 (via Tumblr) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 (via Tumblr) - 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits (via Google Reader) - Terror watchlist “upgrade” is “imploding,” legislator says (via Google Reader) - dugg five more stories on Digg - Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs (via delicious) - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again (via Digg) - Batman 3 by 2011? (via Digg) - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 (via Digg) - Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s (via Twitter) - way too early (via Twitter) - @evilpacket final verdict? (via Twitter) - blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy (via Twitter) - making spaghetti (via Twitter) - bored (via Twitter) - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] (via Digg) - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] (via Digg) - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY (via Digg) - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] (via Digg) - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village (via Digg) - 25 killer Linux apps (via Digg) - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected (via Digg) - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) (via Digg) - Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy (via Digg) 10:06am Bookmarked a link on Delicious.Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs 10:06am Posted 29 items (Show Details) - Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s - The 20 Worst Toy Makeovers - mySQLgame, playing with database queries - 42 Spectacular Flickr Collections of Abandoned Places [PICS] - Police Arrest Ninja Team That Targeted Drug Dealers - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] - 25 killer Linux apps - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village - Top 10 First Aid Mistakes - Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] - Batman 3 by 2011? - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY - JPL and the Beginnings of the Space Age - Magazines Are for Crazy People… [COMIC] - The Ghost Cities of 2100 (w/PICS) - Biden dislikes File Sharing, Net Neutrality and Encryption!! - The Real Batmobile - The 7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 - blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy - way too early - making spaghetti - Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy - bored 10:06am Posted 54 items (Show Details) - My blog: King of the Circus - tumblr: Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - tumblr: Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - Diggs: Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY - Diggs: Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy - Google Shared Items: 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits - Google Shared Items: Terror watchlist “upgrade” is “imploding,” legislator says - del.icio.us: Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs - twitter: Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s - twitter: way too early - twitter: @evilpacket final verdict? - twitter: blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy - twitter: making spaghetti - twitter: bored - Last.fm: John C. 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(Show Details) - 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits - Terror watchlist “upgrade” is “imploding,” legislator says 11:03am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - Ashland Community Band at the Ashland County Fair at Ashland County Fairgrounds - Created Public Calender and RSS Feed 1:00pm Published 2 blog posts on MySpace. (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 1:02pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent @evilpacket final verdict? 2:29pm Posted 23 items (Show Details) - Top 10 First Aid Mistakes :: creeva :: digg - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village :: creeva :: digg - 42 Spectacular Flickr Collections of Abandoned Places [PICS] :: creeva :: digg - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected :: creeva :: digg - 25 killer Linux apps :: creeva :: digg - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] :: creeva :: digg - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again :: creeva :: digg - Creeva’s Recently Played Songs :: creeva :: last.fm - The 20 Worst Toy Makeovers :: creeva :: digg - mySQLgame, playing with database queries :: creeva :: digg - Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs :: creeva :: del.icio.us - Brent way too early. :: creeva :: facebook - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY :: creeva :: digg - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) :: creeva :: digg - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] :: creeva :: digg - JPL and the Beginnings of the Space Age :: creeva :: digg - Magazines Are for Crazy People… [COMIC] :: creeva :: digg - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 :: creeva :: digg - Brent @evilpacket final verdict? :: creeva :: facebook - Batman 3 by 2011? :: creeva :: digg - The Ghost Cities of 2100 (w/PICS) :: creeva :: digg - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] :: creeva :: digg - Creeva’s Recently Played Songs :: creeva :: last.fm 4:56pm Published a blog post.Maintaining Multiple Blogs 7:26pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent is wondering why the people you may know isn’t very accurate. Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-25

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 12:00am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 12:00am Published 2 blog posts. (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - King of the Circus 12:00am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 12:00am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 12:00am Posted an item[Creeva's World 2.0] Online Activity for 2008-08-24 12:01am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - [Creeva's World 2.0] Online Activity for… - [Creeva's World 2.0] Online Activity for… 12:02am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - [Creeva's World 2.0] Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - [Creeva's World 2.0] Online Activity for 2008-08-24 12:02am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - [Creeva's World 2.0] Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - [Creeva's World 2.0] Online Activity for 2008-08-24 12:02am Posted an item[Creeva.Com] Online Activity for 2008-08-24 12:03am Posted 6 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) - creeva: Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s - creeva: way too early - creeva: @evilpacket final verdict? - creeva: blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy - creeva: making spaghetti - creeva: bored 3:44am Updated status on Facebook.Brent time to take care of the dogs and head to bed. 6:17am Dugg 23 links on Digg. (Show Details) - 42 Spectacular Flickr Collections of Abandoned Places [PICS] - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY - The 20 Worst Toy Makeovers - The Real Batmobile - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) - The 7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green - Magazines Are for Crazy People… [COMIC] - Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] - Top 10 First Aid Mistakes - 25 killer Linux apps - Batman 3 by 2011? - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] - mySQLgame, playing with database queries - Biden dislikes File Sharing, Net Neutrality and Encryption!! - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 - JPL and the Beginnings of the Space Age - The Ghost Cities of 2100 (w/PICS) - Police Arrest Ninja Team That Targeted Drug Dealers 6:17am Posted 24 items (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 (via Tumblr) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 (via Tumblr) - 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits (via Google Reader) - Terror watchlist “upgrade” is “imploding,” legislator says (via Google Reader) - dugg five more stories on Digg - Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs (via delicious) - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again (via Digg) - Batman 3 by 2011? (via Digg) - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 (via Digg) - Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s (via Twitter) - way too early (via Twitter) - @evilpacket final verdict? (via Twitter) - blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy (via Twitter) - making spaghetti (via Twitter) - bored (via Twitter) - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] (via Digg) - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] (via Digg) - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY (via Digg) - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] (via Digg) - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village (via Digg) - 25 killer Linux apps (via Digg) - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected (via Digg) - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) (via Digg) - Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy (via Digg) 10:06am Bookmarked a link on Delicious.Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs 10:06am Posted 29 items (Show Details) - Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s - The 20 Worst Toy Makeovers - mySQLgame, playing with database queries - 42 Spectacular Flickr Collections of Abandoned Places [PICS] - Police Arrest Ninja Team That Targeted Drug Dealers - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] - 25 killer Linux apps - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village - Top 10 First Aid Mistakes - Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] - Batman 3 by 2011? - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY - JPL and the Beginnings of the Space Age - Magazines Are for Crazy People… [COMIC] - The Ghost Cities of 2100 (w/PICS) - Biden dislikes File Sharing, Net Neutrality and Encryption!! - The Real Batmobile - The 7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 - blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy - way too early - making spaghetti - Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy - bored 10:06am Posted 54 items (Show Details) - My blog: King of the Circus - tumblr: Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - tumblr: Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - Diggs: Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY - Diggs: Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy - Google Shared Items: 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits - Google Shared Items: Terror watchlist “upgrade” is “imploding,” legislator says - del.icio.us: Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs - twitter: Dogs are done - time to catch some zzzzzz’s - twitter: way too early - twitter: @evilpacket final verdict? - twitter: blog tweaking and kiosk management - joy - twitter: making spaghetti - twitter: bored - Last.fm: John C. Dvorak and Ziff Davis Media – CrankyGeeks 124: The Future of Journalism - Last.fm: Leo Laporte (leo@leoville.com) – Daily Giz Wiz 634: Lexmark X9575 - Last.fm: Leo Laporte (leo@leoville.com) – Daily Giz Wiz 635: Timex Internet Messenger Watch - Last.fm: Leo Laporte (leo@leoville.com) – Daily Giz Wiz 636: Dress for Dinner Napkin - Last.fm: Leo Laporte (leo@leoville.com) – Daily Giz Wiz 637: AppleCore’s aTV - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a message via friendfeed - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a message via friendfeed - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a tweet - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a tweet - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva listened to a track - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva bookmarked a link - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a tweet - MyBlogLog: Creeva shared an item via friendfeed - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a tweet - MyBlogLog: Creeva listened to a track - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva shared an item via friendfeed - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva listened to a track - MyBlogLog: Creeva listened to a track - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a tweet - MyBlogLog: Creeva dugg a story - MyBlogLog: Creeva posted a tweet 10:17am Updated status on Facebook.Brent way too early. 10:19am Shared 2 links on Google Reader. (Show Details) - 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits - Terror watchlist “upgrade” is “imploding,” legislator says 11:03am Posted 2 items (Show Details) - Ashland Community Band at the Ashland County Fair at Ashland County Fairgrounds - Created Public Calender and RSS Feed 1:00pm Published 2 blog posts on MySpace. (Show Details) - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 - Online Activity for 2008-08-24 1:02pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent @evilpacket final verdict? 2:29pm Posted 23 items (Show Details) - Top 10 First Aid Mistakes :: creeva :: digg - 300,000 Brick LEGO Production of the Olympic Village :: creeva :: digg - 42 Spectacular Flickr Collections of Abandoned Places [PICS] :: creeva :: digg - That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain’t Protected :: creeva :: digg - 25 killer Linux apps :: creeva :: digg - 10 Pieces of Unusually Awesome Kids’ Furniture [PICS] :: creeva :: digg - Superman: How To Make You Believe A Man Could Fly, Again :: creeva :: digg - Creeva’s Recently Played Songs :: creeva :: last.fm - The 20 Worst Toy Makeovers :: creeva :: digg - mySQLgame, playing with database queries :: creeva :: digg - Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs :: creeva :: del.icio.us - Brent way too early. :: creeva :: facebook - Alfred E Misfit tee, NYC, NY :: creeva :: digg - Hello, Folks! Grammar Nazi Here… (PIC) :: creeva :: digg - The Top 10 Most Tasteless (but Delicious) Cakes [PICS] :: creeva :: digg - JPL and the Beginnings of the Space Age :: creeva :: digg - Magazines Are for Crazy People… [COMIC] :: creeva :: digg - Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1 :: creeva :: digg - Brent @evilpacket final verdict? :: creeva :: facebook - Batman 3 by 2011? :: creeva :: digg - The Ghost Cities of 2100 (w/PICS) :: creeva :: digg - Lego Star Wars Olympics 2008 [Flickr Photo Set] :: creeva :: digg - Creeva’s Recently Played Songs :: creeva :: last.fm 4:56pm Published a blog post.Maintaining Multiple Blogs 7:26pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent is wondering why the people you may know isn’t very accurate. Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-25

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 1:36am Updated status on Facebook.Brent @babyfro97 Newfoundland - you want a newf. 1:36am Updated status on Facebook.Brent @evilpacket it would be awesome if you could program gatorade. 7:57pm Mac Users are More Smug Then Smart 8:03pm Posted 4 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) - creeva: Mac Users are More Smug Then Smart: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://tinyurl.com/6jkdvl - creeva: quote of the night - “there is ketchup on my toast and jam on my eggs” - creeva: @evilpacket I wasn’t really a fan of vantage point - creeva: time to take care of the dogs and head to bed 8:16pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent Mac Users are More Smug Then Smart: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://ping.fm/Dlhbn. Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-24

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 1:36am Updated status on Facebook.Brent @babyfro97 Newfoundland - you want a newf. 1:36am Updated status on Facebook.Brent @evilpacket it would be awesome if you could program gatorade. 7:57pm Mac Users are More Smug Then Smart 8:03pm Posted 4 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) - creeva: Mac Users are More Smug Then Smart: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://tinyurl.com/6jkdvl - creeva: quote of the night - “there is ketchup on my toast and jam on my eggs” - creeva: @evilpacket I wasn’t really a fan of vantage point - creeva: time to take care of the dogs and head to bed 8:16pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent Mac Users are More Smug Then Smart: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://ping.fm/Dlhbn. Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-24

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 2:03am Updated status on Facebook.Brent I Hate Traditional Marches: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://ping.fm/18ywa. 8:49am Posted 6 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) - creeva: Why the hell did I get up so early on a saturday? - creeva: Is There a Strong Future For Community Bands?: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No re.. http://tinyurl.com/69prud - creeva: @evilpacket it would be awesome if you could program gatorade. - creeva: @groovymarlin - creeva: @brianshaler this is twitter - everyone is boring to the masses - creeva: @babyfro97 Newfoundland - you want a newf. 9:22am Is There a Strong Future For Community Bands? 9:57am Updated status on Facebook.Brent Why the hell did I get up so early on a saturday? Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-23

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 2:03am Updated status on Facebook.Brent I Hate Traditional Marches: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://ping.fm/18ywa. 8:49am Posted 6 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) - creeva: Why the hell did I get up so early on a saturday? - creeva: Is There a Strong Future For Community Bands?: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No re.. http://tinyurl.com/69prud - creeva: @evilpacket it would be awesome if you could program gatorade. - creeva: @groovymarlin - creeva: @brianshaler this is twitter - everyone is boring to the masses - creeva: @babyfro97 Newfoundland - you want a newf. 9:22am Is There a Strong Future For Community Bands? 9:57am Updated status on Facebook.Brent Why the hell did I get up so early on a saturday? Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-23

I’ve done the community band circuit for a year now and I’ve played with two community bands. The one thing I have noticed is that the bands don’t really seem to be growing. When they do grow it’s usually by an older member decides to join in the band. The youth market seems to be completely disenfranchised. I can understand part of that, though I declined to the join the VCMA when it was first formed due to not liking the director. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to play, I still had the yearly Vermilion Alumni Band to play in, then I moved to Oregon. While there I hardly ever pulled out my trumpet and when I did it was just for a half hour stint every few months. My lips didn’t have the range or stamina they once did. After blowing out my lip the last couple years at Alumni after moving back to Ohio, I decided I need to bring more regular playing in my life. This led me to community band. Since I am young(er) I have a different perspective on the band. The first thing is that the music (at least over the summer) is extremely heavily weighted to music written before I was born. If we play anything done after I was born it was an arrangement of a pre-existing piece. I hear the director say things like, “we’ll play this piece because everyone will know it”. Most of the time this is said, I neither know it, nor do I recognize the melody. I feel attached and not a part of something I can recognize. This is not to say that I think the old music should be ignored, no matter how much I dislike traditional marches. I think we should play a wider variety of music that encompasses all eras. Young people that really aren’t in to band music should have something that is recognizable to them and not just something that there parents kind of remember or their grandparents danced to on their first date. There needs to be a mixture. A mixture that should appeal to all those involved. Rules I would follow to achieve this if I was choosing the music: 1. Choose at least one movie/television theme song- preferably something recognizable to all ages. While we are playing Moonriver in the VCMA and I adore, it is not something that the majority of under-forty crowd would recognize. I think you would have to go to the over fifty crowd to truly appreciate and remember it. My wife said she would forever be in love and be inspired to work harder at learning an instrument if she hears The Muppet Show Theme Song. My personal favorite is video game theme music, something as traditional as The Legend of Zelda Theme Song or a number from the Final Fantasy series. There is a national company that tours and just does live concerts on video game music, it sells out pretty quickly. These types of concerts have a great deal of appeal to the under forty crowd and that should be taken into consideration. Some TV themes I would like to hear: Batman the Animated Series Theme The Muppet Show Theme The A-Team Theme The Adam’s Family The Star Trek Theme Farscape Theme Benny Hill Theme Monty Python’s Circus Theme Futurama Theme The Incredible Hulk Theme Inspector Gadget Theme Macgyver Theme Mission Impossible Theme Quantum Leap Theme Bonanza Theme Scooby Doo Theme Twilight Zone Theme X-Files Movie Themes I would like to hear: Anything by John Williams Anything by James Horner Harry Potter Anything large movie made in the last 20 years. 2. Choose at least one pop arrangement - the VCMA did the Beatles and this would fit into this category. The real problem with pop music is that so little of it actually sounds good for a concert band. The fifties and sixties popular songs actually sound the best, though there are a few later pieces that sound quite good also. 3. Choose one classical piece that easily recognized, so far in neither of my community bands have we tackled any classical music. We have done some “traditional” pieces, but nothing classical. Where is the Bach, Beethoven, or Chopin? There is an abundance of this that has been arranged for concert bands, but the bands I belong to seem to overlook anything pre 1880 and post 1960. Christmas music doesn’t really fall under “classical” Out of these 3 areas community bands should be able to play one piece from each of these genre’s through out there year of performing. I’m not saying it has to follow that one of each of these pieces get played every concert, but out the forty or so pieces I have played in both bands, they should be able to accommodate one of each of these in their play rotation. There are other rules I would follow also. 4. No more then 20 percent of your music can come from any decade. If it was all arranged in the eighties, that’s fine but the melodies and original music was composed according to this guideline. I’m not going to pick on arrangers for doing a modern arrangement of In the Mood, its swing era song. With this rule you could also still fit in easily a whole concert and still have music written from before I was born. 5. No more then 40% from any single genre. Whether this is marches, swing, classical, theme music, etc., etc. - variety makes more people take notice unless you’re doing a theme concert. 6. Theme concerts (usually X-mas concerts for community bands) - In a theme concert you should play a maximum of 80% of the music that follows the theme. One or two pieces should be reserved for something unexpected and interesting that doesn’t fit the norm of a particular theme. Whether this is a Christmas march or a summer playing of Sleigh Ride, the unexpected brings peoples attention by breaking monetary. 7. While conductors normally choose the music in most circumstances, there should be one or two pieces chosen by the band members themselves to work through and play. These people are there to have fun, play something they really want to play. 8. Encourage your members to compose or arrange something for your band to play. This makes the music all their own and gives your band something special. That covers my notes from music selection. So how do you attract new members? Other then people moving into the community or the rare person finding out about you and showing up, there is little in the means of growth. Community bands are competing with the Internet, Social Networking, video games, hanging out with friends, going to the bar, or clubbing. Having lived through my twenties already most of these are more fun at that age then community band. You need to hook members while they are still young. I’ve always played for the love of playing. I really started when I was a sophomore in high school, by my junior year you couldn’t keep me from auditioning or volunteering to play for whatever group was available. This alone helped me grow into a much better musician. I used to be able to transpose music from the key of C or the Key of F in my head automatically and play along from that sheet music. My range and stamina were much better then they are still today. My technique today is better in a lot of ways, but I felt I was a better player in a larger scope back then. That was after only a year of playing back then, I have some of that memory still in my head and I’m old enough to have gained wisdom. My knowledge should have grown. After my single year of college I stopped playing with any group outside of Alumni band. It wasn’t out of disinterest as much as effort. If I didn’t love playing I wouldn’t stay with the community band, there is no one in my peer group and for a large part of it it’s not really “fun”, at least not in the sense it was fun back when I was in high school. Most players fall off because they are not engaged early enough into the community band cycle. To give an example what non engagement with playing can do, for alumni band out of the 160 of us that went through 3 years together, only 5 showed up last year to Alumni Band, only two of us regularly play now. That’s hovering around a 1-2% rate of a player likely to stick with then instrument after school form my personal experience. Almost all community bands explicitly state that will accept members that are in high school with their band director’s permission. Now while I would have gladly played with a community band when I was in high school I was not going to go up and have Mr. Henry sign a permission slip or call to ask if I could join the band. This is a turn off. What should happen is that community band should be actively engaging the high school and middle school band directors for members every single year. If community band members are worried about middle schoolers, then they should make a junior community band where the regular band can show up if they so choose and the younger players can show up. Younger players are looking for people to emulate, to try to sound like. Having mentoring by accepting is only going to raise their skill level. Players that show up are not getting school credit, they are not getting paid, and so why have any stipulations. If the music is too hard for them they are not going to stick around. If they don’t really enjoy playing and are only in the school for socialization or the fun from that they are not going to show up. If community bands are there to make its own members better, then the younger the better they can make the band as a whole be better. The older players get the benefit of mild teaching and understanding of what they are doing and the younger players gain a mentor. Once the younger players are hooked they are more likely to stick with music, since they then have a place to play after they graduate. They will be informed about the community band and will be regular members. If they are anything like I was they will find a great relief about having some place to play over the summer. Older members may even make a little bit of side cash by giving lessons, even if they aren’t as good as a true instructor they could still impart wisdom and teach a student to the edge of their abilities, at which point the student could move onto someone else. My high school self could play rings around my present self. I think community bands under estimate the skill levels of these players. Is there a strong future for community bands? It depends. The older generations need to realize that playing in band is not “cool” at least not until your in your thirties, and I still get the occasional snicker about it - I just don’t care. A community band is considered a tired thing by the younger generation who would prefer most of their live music to contain electric guitars. The ability to evolve and bring new members in is essential for most community bands to last another twenty years. Showing players it can be fun by playing music they can identify with and accepting them as peers within their membership. You could still have a stipulation where the younger members couldn’t vote in elections, I’m sure you wouldn’t want your board run by four sixteen year olds - but having one of them in a position with a voice may give you great possibilities then someone like me who is already twice that age and out of touch. I’ve gotten the VCMA website in a stable place. I can quickly edit it and make changes, so before any radical redesigns I’m now working on moving them over to Google Apps for internal paperwork. I plan in the near future signing the VCMA up for a Myspace page and a Facebook account. People in the younger peer group will be able to see it as an organization to identify with. The older members need to realize why they started a community to begin with, which includes - hanging out with friends, playing for people, becoming better musicians, and having fun. None of what I have written breaks any of that. It may take them a little bit out of their comfort zone, but the mantra of business these days is to embrace and extend. Growth happens once some of these things are followed. If the bands I play with don’t start embracing this I’m not sure they will last another twenty years and things will get shaky in another ten. Growth has not continued, but rather it has stagnated, unless there is something done to counter-act this, the downward trend will continue. In my band I’m still considered just a kid, though my father had his fourth child by my age. I’m too young to them to be anything but a kid so what do I know. I’m too old for any of the young people to truly listen to me, plus I’m over thirty so I’m to young to be trusted. If we go by Cory Doctorow’s book Little Brother - they don’t trust anyone over 22. Somehow I’m stuck in the adult version of the tweens. So no one will truly pay attention, but that doesn’t mean this shouldn’t be said. Picture from here

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My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 5:52am Creeva.com Week In Review 8/15/08-8/22/08 6:56am Shared 2 links on Google Reader. (Show Details) - Are images of the early Mickey Mouse still copyrighted? - Are images of the early Mickey Mouse still copyrighted? 8:53am Posted 10 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) - creeva: Good morning my tweets - creeva: Creeva.com Week In Review 8/15/08-8/22/08: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No rela.. http://tinyurl.com/5m3rto - creeva: 1991-1997 Sailor Marching Band - Summoning Alumni: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts N.. http://tinyurl.com/6zsun5 - creeva: @branchero the california kind - in ohio we never run out of cream of wheat - creeva: Installing drivers on kiosks - creeva: Did gmails spam filter stop working? I’m getting a ton of spam today in my inbox - creeva: I hate it when amazon shipping is almost the same price as the item - creeva: @evilpacket tell @babyfro97 to use twitterfeed to auto post blog posts into her twitter stream - creeva: @babyfro97 congrats - it’s much much better then manually notifying twitter when you do a blog post - creeva: I Hate Traditional Marches: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://tinyurl.com/66×2t3 9:23am Updated status on Facebook.Brent Good morning my tweets. 10:28am 1991-1997 Sailor Marching Band - Summoning Alumni 12:10pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent Creeva.com Week In Review 8/15/08-8/22/08: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No rela.. http://ping.fm/oRcc5. 7:22pm I Hate Traditional Marches Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-22

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 5:52am Creeva.com Week In Review 8/15/08-8/22/08 6:56am Shared 2 links on Google Reader. (Show Details) - Are images of the early Mickey Mouse still copyrighted? - Are images of the early Mickey Mouse still copyrighted? 8:53am Posted 10 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) - creeva: Good morning my tweets - creeva: Creeva.com Week In Review 8/15/08-8/22/08: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No rela.. http://tinyurl.com/5m3rto - creeva: 1991-1997 Sailor Marching Band - Summoning Alumni: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts N.. http://tinyurl.com/6zsun5 - creeva: @branchero the california kind - in ohio we never run out of cream of wheat - creeva: Installing drivers on kiosks - creeva: Did gmails spam filter stop working? I’m getting a ton of spam today in my inbox - creeva: I hate it when amazon shipping is almost the same price as the item - creeva: @evilpacket tell @babyfro97 to use twitterfeed to auto post blog posts into her twitter stream - creeva: @babyfro97 congrats - it’s much much better then manually notifying twitter when you do a blog post - creeva: I Hate Traditional Marches: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No related posts. http://tinyurl.com/66×2t3 9:23am Updated status on Facebook.Brent Good morning my tweets. 10:28am 1991-1997 Sailor Marching Band - Summoning Alumni 12:10pm Updated status on Facebook.Brent Creeva.com Week In Review 8/15/08-8/22/08: ….. Read MoreNo tags for this post. Related posts No rela.. http://ping.fm/oRcc5. 7:22pm I Hate Traditional Marches Original From: Online Activity for 2008-08-22

Picture from here Traditional marches, I’m not a fan. Ironically when I was in marching band we didn’t play many traditional Sousa Era marches, and those that we did play I loathed. When I joined community band however we have played a ton of traditional marches. I wouldn’t complain to much but most of the music was written before my grandparents were born, I can understand playing some of the traditional Sousa marches that everyone recognizes, but hte more esoteric ones that don’t get played as much? Well there really is a reason they don’t get played as much. Original From: I Hate Traditional Marches