Shaun Kahler
Central H.S.
Trombone
Dear Shaun,
Congratulations on being selected as a member of the Bands of America 2004 Honor Band of America. Thank you for submitting a recording in the audition process for this elite organization. The recordings were evaluated by members of the applied music faculty at Indiana University,Bloomington, Indiana. The performance level of all of the recordings was extremely high, and you should be very proud of your accomplishments. Shortly you will receive a critique of the recording you submitted, which will include a ranking of your audition on a performance standard scale. It is our hope that this process will be helpful to you as you continue your musical growth.
10.20.03- HBOA results should be here any time now. I'm really kind of off and on about making it or not; I don't have any gut feelings about how I'm going to do. Could go either way in my mind. That's all I've been thinking about for the past two or three days too. I can't believe I haven't been counting down the days/hours/minutes/seconds till we leave to Disney World on Saturday. I'm really excited about that, though. Nothing to worry about for the next week after that. No school, no homework, no trombone, no band BS, just Disneyworld. We're playing Molly on the Shore... again. I really don't feel like working that up again unless we are going to do it at unimaginable speeds or something. I kind of like the "brass quintet" piece we're doing.. it'd be great if I hadn't already lost my part, lol. I'll have to play 25 whole cents to get a new one. Bleh. Deanna and Erik are supposedly trying out for a concerto competition with a duet concerto. If they made it, it'd be kind of bitter-sweet, I guess. I'd be unbelieveably happy that trombones actually get to perform a concerto.. but I guess I feel kind of left out considering that there are only three trombones in the orchestra. And the whole thing would remind me too much of something like Sunny and Cher. Stupid hormones. Shut up. [/jealousy]. Oh well. I'm supposed to be a jazz guy. Hah, yeah right. It just hit me that I'd been working on jazz for like a year and a half.. and gotten absolutely nowhere. But I'm actually pushing forward on all this other stuff. I really wish I could get all these chord changes and what not that he's trying to teach me, but it's just so hard. Arrrrgh. I never thought that my relief would be working on legit stuff. Figures. Maybe I'm just not meant to be a "jazz man". Maybe it'll just take me a while or something. Oh well. Why is it that 95% of my blogs are band-related? Oh yeah, it's because my life is 95% band.
10.1819.03- Lol, finally ungrounded. My apology
to Mr. Basham was "forwarded" from an assistant director... so much
for that. Ah well. October is winding down, and I can only listen
to "October" in October for about 10 more days. I need to find some
random quiet spot on top of a ridge or something where I'm not
being bothered at all and I can just watch the sun set and all the leaves
fall. Won't be happening for much longer. But then again, winter's following
that, which means... 5 foot high airs off of plastic kicker ramps
from sleds going 30 mph down my hill! This year should be great, especially
because I'm getting a snowboard. I haven't skated in almost half a year
now, and I miss the adrenaline rush of catching air, of riding minipipes with
my friends, of Axis. *Sigh*. Oh yeah.. speaking of birthday/christmas presents,
Disneyworld is in only in 6 days! Man, am I going to have a bunch of work
to do when I get back, because I know I'm probably not going to get much done when I'm gone
and probably not enough done this week. That's how it goes, I guess. Speaking of
long trips, HBOA results should be in by the end of next week. I can feel the butterflies already.
For some reason, I have the feeling that I'm not going to make it. But I keep on telling
myself that if I think that, then I won't make it, even though it's out of my hands at this point. It kind
of worries me too, because it was like I knew I was going to make All-State; I mean, I definitely
thought about not making it, but something in my head told me that I was
still going to get in. And now, I can just imagine getting the e-mail with the list of all the people
that made it, with my name nowhere to be found in the Trombone section, almost as if I had
been completely ignored; audition CD nowhere to be found. Speaking of ignored.. ah nevermind.
I'm going to sleep so that I can quit ranting. Night!
10.7.03- I notice as the year gets more and more into detail, I find myself having less and less time for the things that I want to do, and instead spend hours upon countless hours doing things like homework, band, and yakking on AIM. I want to do more while I still have time. I have almost a year and a half left before I am done with high school.. and the memories aren't there. I would just like to get out more I guess. But today I was really happy because I called my dad in the middle of the school day to ask if I could go to the coffee shop with Savannah, and I figured it would be a no.. but he let off the leash a ton. Instead of having to go through all the trouble of having him talk to her mom and talking to her and having set times I needed to be home, he just said, "Yeah, sure." And I had a great time today. Walked around Fountain City for a little bit, hung out with Savannah, the works. My first after-school minimal-consent date. Anyway.. I have to do homework now. Can you believe that we are almost halfway through the first semester??? Jeez.
10.2.03- Badger badger badger badger badger badger... Hehe.. funny bizzare flash thing. 2 days till BOA! Kick your mom in the eyeball. I can't wait, how about you? I'm very excited, and can't wait to see the rest of the bands there. Especially Clinton. Their show is going to be really awesome. Well, must go now. Los veré ustedes luego.
10.1.03- Oops.. I accidentally trashed Mr. Basham and his drill. Yeah, I messed up big time on that one. But hey, at least it's not Bassett this year! Well.. at least it wasn't as bad as what I said about them. Anyway, only 3 days until BOA.. wow. I say for Thursday and Friday we run the show, run the show, run the show. Because the thing is.. we can clean these sets of sets all we want to.. but if we don't end up in the right place coming into the first set of the set.. then we can't get it as right. "Pretty pictures" my butt. Lol. Anyway, like I said, I made some weird trance song on my computer the other night, and I put it up.. and totally forgot to put in a fade out so it's kind of like,"Song, song song song song song song," and then like," ". But it's kind of cool I think. Maybe I'll make a few more for fun if I don't have to do anything else. Oh wait, I have no time. Haha, seriously, I just got bombed with history homework and pre-cal stuff. Time to get to that then.
9.25.03- Yay. Our band is finally learning how to cover down after three months of rehearsal. Arg. I need to lighten up. Ah well, I guess you can only do so much. I think our band will be okay. Man, I really need to update more often.. but I couldn't this week because I had to go down to my grandmom's house. Anyway, time to practice or watch TV or something. I'll call you when I hear something interesting. See ya.
9.21.03- North Laurel went pretty well.. well, besides the whole competition thing. Lol, the busride was awesome! It figures I try to be so optimistic when that kind of stuff happens..but then again.. the busride really was awesome.. if it makes any of you bandos out there feel any better, the difference between 4th and 6th was .22 of a point.. which is really small; we could've done way better on one of our better runthroughs. Speaking of optomistic *sigh*.. check out my mom's shed in PA this is what the hurricane did to it... Yikes. That's scary stuff. See ya.
9.18.03- I'm in a really good mood because I had an awesome day. Me and Sara really hit it off today. I couldn't be happier. Oh wait, I'll be really happy on Saturday when I get to spend a bunch of the day with her. Yay! Lol. I checked out the North Laurel Competition... let's just say that we have a very good chance of making some high placements at this competition.. not because the competition sucks.. but because we are good! All your band are belong to us. By the way, I'm Igor Stravinsky.. figures. I love the Firebird Suite!!
 | If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Igor Stravinsky. Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, my music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as I aged. I am a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at me after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring." Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test |
9.14.03-
Dirty Vert (9:26:40 PM): *poof* your clothes are red.
Arg. People keep deleting my other site. Make me mad.
I guess I will have to clear space on this site to make it work.
*sigh*. Tell me stuff that I could probably take off of here that
nobody really cares about (as in movies or mp3s or pictures,
not text). How about some other stuff that would make the site
nice and spiffy? Post on the tagboard if you have any ideas.
Anyway, I went to the fair yesterday with my friend Bethany that
goes to Fulton. I had an awesome time too, even though
getting in and getting a wristband costs 25 dollars! Log of arg
to arg to the second. Oh yeah, I have homework. I'm so glad
I don't have any more history homework! I talked to Mr. Sisk
the other day about giving us really long homework that he
could easily have given us a week to work on, and he is now
going to give us much more time. What else is new with me..
I can't think of much. Congrats to all you band members out
there for making an excellent show on Friday. And we have
a competition next Saturday; get ready for it! And I posted a new
band story up for all of you that like to read. See ya!
Saturnsfyre (9:26:47 PM): eh?
Dirty Vert (9:26:58 PM): yep.
Saturnsfyre (9:27:06 PM): i don't understand.
Dirty Vert (9:27:17 PM): what's to understand?
Saturnsfyre (9:27:44 PM): my red clothes...
Dirty Vert (9:29:23 PM): right.. they are red.
Saturnsfyre (9:29:42 PM): um.. no, the shirt's blue, the shorts are grey...
Dirty Vert (9:29:54 PM): Dirty Vert (9:26:40 PM): *poof* your clothes are red.
Dirty Vert (9:30:00 PM): so you see, they are red.
Saturnsfyre (9:30:12 PM): why are my clothes red?
Dirty Vert (9:30:24 PM): because I said *poof* your clothes are red
Saturnsfyre (9:30:33 PM): wow you're wierd.
Dirty Vert (9:30:47 PM): hey, you're the one wearing red clothes
