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State of things
So it is getting into March now. Only two weeks away from my birthday, I'm very excited. The jazz band is playing on noon recital here in two weeks, it'll be the first performance the band does of the Addison music before we actually fly out to Texas a week later. It's scary to think that that is coming up right after Spring Break. I'm not ready ( Read more... ) -
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The weekend is now officially over, and the jazz band has taken it's first step towards success in Addison in a few weeks. We had the Northwestern Jazz Festival with two important guys that'll be at UNT. Mike Steinel is on the staff at UNT, and we played two of his charts. And he was very impressed with our performance on both of them. The cool ( Read more... ) -
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So the more and more I think about this North Texas trip, the more and more I get excited. Performing at arguably the largest jazz festival in our country is just amazing as it is, but if that we could win our class and play again on the Friday night slot... Holy shit. It would be just great. Obviously there are still a lot of things that need to ( Read more... ) -
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Nobody said it would be easy. I pretty much hate myself right now. But I'm doing what I feel is right, and what is best. I just don't know how I'm going to do it without fucking it up. No one ever said it would be so hard.
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I'm not sleeping well lately, and that's no good at all. Whenever I actually do get to sleep, it's good. But the problem is that I'm just not falling asleep when I should be. It really sucks, because I need energy right now because there is so much still to do with lots of stuff ( Read more... ) -
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The Mars Volta just fucking rocks. There is so much energy in that music, even though it is kind of out there. But I swear listening to the hits in these songs just makes my adrenaline burst through my body. I don't have but a few songs, but listening to them in the sequence that my computer plays them in is always an experience in foot stomping ( Read more... ) -
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I'm torn at the moment, and it's not good. I've got a lot on my mind and in a terrible position with it at the time being. Things are going to have to play out for a little while before I can act. But I hope that I'm not going to fuck up royally. We'll see what happens ( Read more... ) -
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The rush process is done, and I'm not happy with a lot of things. I'm not so happy with some of my brothers. And I'm not so happy with myself. I'm mad at some others, for things that aren't really their fault, but then they are. I'm mad at how low some people stoop, and how our fraternity lacks courage. And I feel that I need to start doing more. ( Read more... ) -
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So I went to practice around 12:15, and I got back right around 3. And it was maybe the best practicing I've done in a long time. I feel like I finally had a breakthrough on some of these tough spots in Knuckleball and even more so in Joyous Reunion. I love that feeling when suddenly all that stuff you couldn't play before starts to click. Tonight ( Read more... )