Title: Releasing my inner band geek
It's Saturday afternoon as we speak. I have a big yellow cat on my lap, "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" is on the tube, and I'm eating chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. With a big ol' glass of milk. Werd. Why chocolate chip cookies, I hear you ask? Because I can. This is one of the advantages of being a grown-up.
I get to have some fun tonight. Drums Along the Rockies is at Mile High Stadium this evening, and I have tickets. Yeah! This is one of the many Drum Corps International events happening this summer. Phantom Regiment, Blue Devils, Cadets of Bergen County, and and Santa Clara Vanguard are all going to be there -- among others. I can't wait. In fact, I have to start getting ready here pretty soon so we can go. In case you don't know, DCI is to marching band what the NFL is to junior high peewwee league football. It's hard to describe what it's like to be pinned to your seat by a company front of guys that seem determined to blow the stadium down with sheer lungpower. Suffice it to say, it's enough to give you goosebumps, and you're lucky if it doesn't make your skin crawl right off your face. It's AWESOME.
Okay, yes, I was a band geek in high school. It utterly defined my personality and everything I did at school. DCI was the Holy Grail for band students when I was in high school. I never tried out, because I play saxophone and DCI corps are brass and percussion ensembles. But Clinton High School's marching band modeled its field shows after drum corps, we watched videos of DCI finals at band camp every year, and my final hurrah in 1993 before I went to basic training was a pilgrimage to DCI World Finals in Jackson, MS. I am still, ten years later, the biggest band geek.
The Blue Knights are, incidentally, based here in Denver. I wonder if there's some way to do volunteer work for them. That would rule. If I can't march and play, I might as well hang out with people who do.
Well, it's time to get ready to go. I'll fill y'all in on details of the competition later. Off to geek out!
-- marcie.