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]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/17388126/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/17388126/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:52:56 PDT
But I submitted a new piece, do you all still even care anymore?

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/16231288/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/16231288/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:54:20 PST
The past few months have just been stressful. Band has been more haywire this year in it's scheduling, school hasn't been very easy, and I'm working a part-time job after school and on weekends, making time for friends and family comes hard, and to top it all off, I have three instruments I have to keep practicing to keep my skill at it. So the probability of getting some artwork done....slim.

But next semester things shouldn't be so bad. I have easier classes, you know, like sleep through them and get an A classes, in which I can draw, I'll have more time after school to work on my art, and when graduation rolls around in May, I'm going to get a new Dell laptop with a Hi-def screen, bundled with a all in one print fax scan copy thing, wireless mouse and keyboard,and dual monitor support hi def graphics card. That should boost the speed and productivity of my art since it will be a faster machine, and hopefully I will have two screens instead of one to maximize my cramped computer screen work area....and make more room for all my desktop icons......

But there is good new on the horizon, and I cant wait for it.

Im glad to finally be back on DA after so many months of inactivity

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/15770907/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/15770907/ Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:09:24 PST I Promise that I will post some stuff soon....if you guys still even care

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/15629123/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/15629123/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:10:45 PST
Anywho for the cheated part.

Nov 3rd was our last state championship in our band. We finished 3rd, and missed second by only a fraction of a point...but I just have to wonder why the reigning champ has had THE SAME SHOW for three years...maybe even four. That gives them 48 possible months to work and perfect a show...whereas we and several other bands only get about 3 and a half months....sure our band reuses sets and drills...but we don't play the same music in the shows every year...

I think we have lost sight of what a real marching band is supposed to be. MARCHING AND PLAYING. Not marching to the beat of thousands of dollars worth of synthesizers, keyboards, and huge speakers....or standing still, kneeling, or marking time while your playing...no not at all. Marching band is pure and simple horns, pit, and drumline...all marching and playing within the framework of time...all in perfect sychronization and harmony

I'm proud to be in a band with a director and super dedicated staff that cherishes what a real marching band should be, and they mold us into that kind of band....

I watched some college bands a few days back and I've noticed a lot of bands are starting to turn to fancy synthesizer stuff..and their hornline only plays a fraction of the show....America has lost it's vision of a true marching band...it's just an old fad thats gone out of style...

The reigning champ also stole one of our drumlines' cadences...written by one of our very own drumline members...can you say copyright infringement? I believe so...Our cadence was in a tangible form...you could hear it!

Maybe I'm just overreacting....I dunno, I cant sleep over this...it lingers in my mind all day long...sometimes just thinking about it sends me into uncontrolled fits of rage and hate....But one of my good friend says this to me a lot....

"We were 3rd in state, but 1st in our hearts because it's the placing of our hearts that comes before the placing of our band..."

...and it really helps

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/15102902/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/15102902/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:30:16 PDT
I also don't understand why people who was a friend gradually turns on you, just because they want to hang out with a more "cooler" groups I guess you can say. They then start to back stab you, spread rumors that are not true, and try to humiliate you, but no one listens to you because your group of friends is inferior to another, and I and my friends don't have tons of money or the correct last name in my town. There's just, in my opinion, way too much favoritism within my high school.

I also hate it when they try to act like their better than everyone else, when in reality, they are not as good as their big heads think they are...I got a crash course on that a long time ago, and I guess you just have to wait for the right moment for God to open your eyes...although God seems pretty distant right now.

All these little "groups" within high school society are starting to bother me too. Even though there's the main groups, like "preps" and "losers" there are divisions amongst those, too many for one tiny high school in the middle of nowhere. I love having my group of friends, but I don't like it when groups shut you out just for the fact you don't posses a quality they have....my friends generally get along with most people, but there are a lot that mock us and treat us as inferiors, just because we're who we are.

I know this is a ranting post, but I really need some advice. My life and future seems so bleak now, and it's all because my last name is Hobbs and my moms works in an office and dads mows a golf course...me and my family are not "qualified" enough to be anything...we have to be what others want our lives to be like...all because of the stuff I just typed.

I'm also tired of getting scorned, mocked, and treated like pure !@#$ just because of who I am...I am me, and thats what I want to be...and no one...NO ONE should mess with my personality. Too bad you have to do what everyone else is doing or else your a loser at life and shouldn't go on living. I've already lost count of the numbers of permanent scars left on my soul...

Personally, I've learned to never judge someone until you know them. Sure at first glance you may think their beautiful or butt-ugly, but until you get to know them that could all change, for better or for worse. I'm assuming it's another one of those "hurdles" in life, and I'm afraid I've jumped this hurdle way too many times...soon it will get so high I wont be able to jump it...and thats when my hopes and dreams become distant memories to be laughed and mocked at for years to come...doesn't life just suck sometimes?

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14954004/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14954004/ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:42:43 PDT
I'm also very tired. The drill in our show is very difficult and can get very tiring after a night band practice, a football game, then a morning rehearsal and a competition. My body feels like a dishrag, but I hope to catch up on my sleep tonight and tommorow, that will really help a lot....

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14649498/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14649498/ Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:24:23 PDT
Today was an all day band practice. It wasn't what I expected it to be too. I was really looking forward to helping my clarinets but it was not to be...but to make up for it we got a lot of the bugs worked out of the show, but we didn't quite meet our goal. Our first competition is only two weeks or so away, and honestly, I'm scared of the outcome of it. I really am.

I'm even more worried about State Championships. Our band is a good sized band and all, but I think a lot of people have just stopped trying. Our band director says you have to believe, but I don't know. Right now I am more disappointed than anything.

Maybe things will work out for the better. I just feel like everyone has turned their back on me other than my friends...

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14595159/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14595159/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 PDT
I'll never forget watching the first tower collapse in my 3rd pd gym class that year. I can still feel the horror of knowing thousands of Americans died in that collapse...it just got worse when the second tower collapsed. And now, being able to watch documentaries with pictures and sound of falling, crushing bodies and helpless screams, it brings back that horror.

Even today when I say the pledge the voices sound not like the voices of the people around me, they sound like the voices of those men and women, hero or civilian, that perished that normal, NYC day truned into a living hell.

I do have a 9-11 pic drawn up, my scanner works now, but I lost my jump drive...again...

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14414819/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14414819/ Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:59:41 PDT
My class schedule this year sucks, but I am not surprised. They messed up my schedule the past three years...and this year has been exactly the same. They wont let me take any classes I want to take this year because apparently I haven't taken enough tech classes in order to graduate...so yeah I'm taking a lot of boring classes...I mean a lot of boring classes. But somehow I'm going to suffer through them and graduate and move on into college.

Thats basically it. Oh and I have tons of stuff drawn up, I'm just in the process of trying to get my scanner to get along with the laptop.....

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14126984/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14126984/ Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:15:41 PDT
Every time I've had (forced) to reformat my desktop PC, something always goes wrong. First time round it was the graphics card, second time printer, and so fourth and so on.
Well this time it was my scanner it refuses to work with my desktop, I tried to fix it, but it refuses to be fixed, so I said screw it.

To my amazement, dad gave me his antique laptop since it had a earlier version of windows on it (Windows 2000) that my scanner was more compatible with. Luckily the scanner worked, and I was able to save the file on the laptop, then transfer it to a floppy and take that floppy and copy it off onto my desktop PC. Yes I still use use 3.5 floppy's, its old school, and all our computers are old school. Besides I like floppy's, once you've used them too much and they stop working, they make great objects to throw at people, they make wonderful coasters, and they are fun to take apart. Plus they are reliable when Windows crashes.

Well for some odd reason now, the laptop is refusing to save on a floppy or even my little USB jump drive thing. I don't know what it's problem is, but it sure does have one.

If someone is well literate of technology, please help me.

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14067229/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/14067229/ Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:07:31 PDT
The scared little freshman huddle on the first day of band camp.
2. Watching the freshman make fools out of themselves and they have no idea.
3. Caffeine and the bands addiction to it.
4. The un-corresponding coordinate sheet and drill chart.
5. The ankle tan line.
6. Getting so badly sunburnt that we look like lobsters.
7. Wrecking your car on the day of a band competition.
8. Raiding all of the various fast food establishments in town during lunch and supper breaks.
9. Dashing across the field like a gazelle.
10. I’M SO CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!
11. “While your posing for the pictures, think about sex...because none of you losers will ever have it.” - Mr. Elliott
12. Piccolo players’ death trill.
13. Fast dizzying, drunken sailorish drag turns
14. “It’s the bull flag! LOOK AT THE BULL FLAG!!!” - Mr. Elliott
15. Yeah, snows here....IN OCTOBER.
16. Why is it snowing in October?
17. Making the freshmens’ horns loose their virginity.
18. “Saxophones, you sound like my lawnmower.” - Mr. Elliott
19. Woodwind players trying to play brass instruments.
20. Brass players trying to play woodwind instruments
21. Explaining all of the things about band to non band members...and they still don’t get it.
22. Drummers + their ignorance = Entertainment!
23. Sell that Gift wrap!!
24. Diet coke and Mentos experiments
25. The Diet Coke and Mentos experiment on the car where the coke froze to the car.
26. Marching and mud means FUN...and messy shoes.
27. Navels are a type of orange, and oranges are not on your belly.
28. Learning how to parallel park (and really suck at it)
29. Hot Hands, they can be used for so much more than warming your hands...
30. Watching the band competition video over, and over, and over, and over....
31. The band busses when it is dark outside.
32. Utilizing the video feature on your iPod to watch and review band videos....and listen to past band concerts.
33. Just try to act normal when your handing out fruit to the customers.
34. Waltzing across the vast blue and beige bandroom (and run into a bright yellow chair)
35. The trumpet trio...I dunno...sucks.
36. “STOP CRACKING PITCHES” - Mr. Elliott
37. “Make the band bigger...start makin’ babies!” - Mr. Elliott
38. “I have a vision...of a marshmallow roast on the middle of the practice field, and stories and myths of the band.”
39. Let’s get married on the practice field!
40. When we die, lets have our funerals and burials at the practice field.
41. We can hire the band to play our wedding music, then when we die, our funeral music!
42. Adopting saxophone and baritone players into the clarinet line.
43. Finding your freshman pet.
44. The amazing flying grocery bag.
45. Ole has an ACCENT ON THE “E”!!!
46. If it don’t fit, MAKE IT FIT.
47. It’s raining outside, so he have to rehearse inside. Our director asks “where are the clarinets?” He meant where were we on the field at a particular moment, but we raised our hands in our seats...
48. My Uniform is eating me alive.
49. OMG....not Savannah!
50. You know, even when Savannah tries, she still sucks.
51. (Freshman) “Who’s Savannah?” (Upperclassmen) “You don’t want to know, you will be scarred for life.
52. Yeah our band director really knows how to booty dance.
53. Our band directors booty dancing is just scary.
54. Maybe he’ll fall of the tower?
55. “If I shall fall from the tower, I shall fall being a happy man!” - Mr. Elliott
56. Car window paint.
57. “Stop using the biblical method to find your pitches. Seek and ye shall find will not work.” - Mr. Elliott
58. Sombreros
59. That camouflage Bass Pro Shops hat has sexy written all over it.
60. Yeah I have that totally random recorder flute thingy in my car.
61. “I feel so stupid, I keep asking people what time it is, and there is a big sign with the time flashing on it in big bold red letters on up the road.”
62. Look at the preschoolers watching us, I think that one is going to be a clarinet player and that one will be a.....
63. “You know, I think I am going to have enough kids to start their own rock band, better yet, a jazz band...because that would require more sex.”
64. “My kids WILL play and instrument and WILL join a band or I will beat them to within an inch of their lives.”
65. Ha ha ha, that bird pooped on him.
66. Bus stripping. To the bare minimum, maybe even further in the back of the bus....
67. I am going to invent the smell of band (which stinks by the way)
68. Sweaty stinky people hugs after pra... ]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13984960/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13984960/ Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:55:48 PDT
As far as doing anything artistical, I am totally uninspired and too lazy to draw anything. I've spent most my summer playing the clarinet and improving my skill upon it.

Band practices have started up too. I can't believe I have been in band so long...I think I am going crazy from it.

I cant stop yawning either....its a bad habit I have learned...it's so annoying. I also apparently have nerve damage in my thumb...according to my doctor. I cant feel it from where I've played the clarinet so long. It feels so weird...it's like having some weird heavy thing dangling off the side of your hand...I hope nerve damage heals. Even though i cant feel it, somehow I am still able to write and draw and everything else a normal person would.

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13802370/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13802370/ Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:24:41 PDT
DON'T CALL My CELL PHONE

Oh and don't worry about giving me your number, I wrote down all my contacts on a sheet of paper when my phone started acting strange a few days ago.

Ill be sure to post another bulletin when I get some sort of new phone or replace my phone.

Yes I copied this from a myspace bulletin I posted a few minutes ago...I am too lazy and tired to type right now.

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13737827/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13737827/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:37:05 PDT
I swear all I want to do is work, play and teach clarinet, play saxophone and violin, compose music, draw...and eat and sleep...just like a normal teenager! I don't want to do all of the above and have my back turned...only to get talked trash about..and treated like that as well...I'd give anything for just one day of this...no drama...no politics...just a smooth work day or a relaxing rehearsal or the comfort of my bed or the riverside where I create my art. ( No I don't live near a river...but there is one nearby)

I can't just chill out anymore either...the more I try the more I get frustrated and angry at whatever is going on drama wise...it's depriving me of sleep...I haven't slept well if not at all the past few days...my personality along with my character has just faded away to...because now-a-days I am forbidden too...at least that is how I feel.

Hopefully someday this won't be so big of a problem....i doubt it though

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13563897/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13563897/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:42:29 PDT
I've also enjoyed sitting in my car and pretending like I'm going somewhere...or pressing all of the buttons on my CD player, reorganizing my CD's over and over, and actually CLEANING my car, inside and out, which rarely happens.

Along with plastic fork towers I have forked our flower bed, stuck forks in the ceiling,
put forks in the laundry, named a lot on the Sims "fork", taped forks to my wall, put forks in my purse and clarinet case, oh and eat with them.

When you have a gigantic box of forks just randomly in your house, you can't resist.

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13460362/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13460362/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:33:41 PDT
Another thing is today I played with the Johnson City Community Concert Band, and I realized how much I love it. I love playing among pro's, I love the people in that band, it would absolutely break my heart if I had to quit, that's why I am so thankful to my family and God for this.

When things go bad and things turn sour, the only person I had to turn to was God. I prayed so had for months over everything, and it looks like things are going to work out well. I hope so anyway, but I am not going to loose faith.

]]> ~Music-Is-Life142 http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13336112/ http://Music-Is-Life142.deviantart.com/journal/13336112/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:38:36 PDT
It rocked, I also won a little stuffed dolphin in the shark fishing game, I named it Ecco too. It's real soft and PLUSHY.

Our town looks so cool when it's upsidedown. Even though it's small, and there isn't much around, it still looks cool. Especially the local Magic Mart, which is directly across the highway from the school. Yes I experienced this when I was riding the "Moon Rocket"...I was the only one with my hands up in the air for the most part.

The only downside is the harnesses and stuff that secure you really hurts your shoulders, or in my case. my neck. It feels like its been broken and put back together.....but I'll get over it in a couple of days.

I also got another job a Taco John's. I should officeally start on Fri. Until then I have to memorize the cash register layout, basically studying a piece of paper with the buttons on them and five pages of what each one means and what they do. But I'm going to try my best, If I ever want to drive again, I have to work.

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