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Nor is anyone else...I'm just rejoicing in the humor that the first time we beat a playoff-bound team with Kidd, it's because they pulled a "Mavericks" in the fourth.

I tend to agree with stopping too long. Literally, if we didn't know better, I think half the band would have been wondering if we were doing five separate songs.

Glad you think our show is amazing. I was wondering what it was that those two guys were taking swings at the corner of the wall-ball wall with while we were loading. Apparently (this is third-hand, accuracy unknown) the only reason we got a "II" from one of the judges in concert was because 'Nova walked around too much, and took too much time between movements of Lincolnshire (I wouldn't disagree). Hence, the reason he was p'o'd while we were loading up to head back to school. Ah, the vagaries of Pre-UIL.

Finally got the scoop from the 2nd chair oboe (also a txbands forum poster, albeit infrequently)...1-1-2 on stage, 1-1-1 in sight reading. Sorry about having to put the auditorium and cafeteria back together.

Don't worry about the MeetMe, Jason...I remembered that you probably weren't going to see that right after I posted it. Just FYI: That's his official legally binding nickname now, "Reese the Beast." What did we get score-wise? 'Nova isn't talking. And what (if any) comments do you have on Awayday?

I'll be sure to come over and say hi, dude. Watch for the percussionist with glasses and a bad hair day...that's me. Anyone else want to join our mini-MeetMe?

In addition to Frisco's Pre-UIL...Fort Worth's is this coming Friday, at Southwest High School. It's a two-day event (Thursday and Friday)...generally speaking, the non-varsity groups are on Thursday, the varsity ensembles are on Friday, but any specifics I personally do not know, other than that Paschal's Wind Ensemble (performing Rolling Thunder, Lincolnshire Posy, Awayday) will be on Friday night. Plus (depending on scheduling details), you'll also get a chance to hear Southwest's top band (performing Redline Tango, Symphony No. 3 [slavyanskaya], and March op. 99).

I said this over on the ESPN.com threads, too... EWING THEORY ALERT!!! EWING THEORY ALERT!!!

It's like we've turned into the Mavs, circa 2002 all over again. Close, but can't finish games...point guard makes Dirk better, but still can't finish...we think we're good, but we really aren't...Lakers mop the floor with us all the time...

uggggggggggghhh...why the @&^**(# can't we finish games?!?!?!?!?!????

Yeah, we are. Took it way slow at the concert (about half note=100, if I were to guess)...but on Friday we took the middle third of it at half=120...it was awesome... And for once the percussion break sounded relatively exciting (being one of the percussionists playing it, to me it's just kinda pointless...especially when you're taking it at 2/3 tempo. Sounds way cooler at 5/6 tempo. Which Ticheli piece are you doing?

Remember, though...pre-trade, they were seventh, too. They've been getting better...the problem is, so is everyone else.

Two words: Tracy McGrady. Yeah, sure, he's a "fantastic" player...but one would think that a fantastic player would have made it out of the first round by now.

I actually didn't see the spurs/hornets game...a friend of mine (one of the drum majors) is a ball kid for the mavs, and got me tickets for the charlotte game. Much as I agree we have a shot at the 5 or 6, I still think we probably get a 7...now, though, I'm 46/44/10 on whether it's the 7, 6, or 5 respectively. Much as I would wish to get the five, I want no part of Utah when they have home court. It's almost as scary a thought as playing a home-court Houston team.

My personal feeling is, we're basically locked into the #7 spot...maybe #6 at best...for the simple reason that Denver's too fragile for its own good. Even if we don't make it out of the first round again, take a look at the playoffs from a sheer fandom standpoint: LA w/Kobe playing out of his mind against the most entertaining team in the league (Golden State); Santonio/Dallas XXVVVIII (or whatever it is now) Houston/Phoenix (not as entertaining w/Shaq, but w/potential in terms of McGrady having not won a series before), Utah (home court in the best arena in the league) vs. the top NBA point guard right now (CP3 is...end of story) and the surprise story of the year Hornets. Who doesn't want to watch that?

We've finally finalized our program as: Lincolnshire Posy -Grainger Awayday -Gorb Rolling Thunder We're also having a concert a week from tonight, starting at 7 in our auditorium, if anyone in D/FW cares to come see us.

Yeah...when our band hit mvt. 5 about a month ago, a bunch of us spent a good five minutes during lunch complaining about it amongst ourselves, trying to find an answer to, "If it's 2.5/4, followed by 1.5/4, why not just make it a bloody 4/4 measure?" Yeah, lunch with the band nerd knothole gang is awesome.

Agreed...especially now that the dog-butted b-ballers down I-35 have dealt for Kurt Thomas.

Quite frankly, that's the rule, rather than the exception. Only very rarely (1984, 2003) are drafts much deeper. I mean, Kwame Brown was once a #1 overall pick! By far the two most talented drafts since the NBA/ABA merger were '84 and '03. '84 had Olajuwon, Jordan, Sam Perkins, and either Malone or Stockton (I don't remember which). '03 had Lebron, Carmelo, Wade, and one Josh Howard at the end of the first round. Again, though, exception rather than the rule.

Hey, who knows? Maybe Avery brought Kidd in to buy him some time to develop JJ Barea, as well as win now.

Quite frankly, the '83 Rockets were dumber for not taking the instantly-expanded fan base they would have gotten if they'd drafted Glide instead of Sampson. I mean, if you KNEW Olajuwon (who was also at U of H at the time) was coming out the next year, and you KNEW the fan base of Phi Slamma Jamma would instantly boost ticket sales a few grand a year if you drafted them both, why not take both of them, instead of trading for him twelve years later?

thank you God, Fate, and the Great Pumpkin that Devean George exercised his limited no-trade clause.

Anyone else think that trading Harris, Diop. Stackhouse, George, Ager, two draft picks and cash to New Jersey for Jason Kidd and Malik Allen is a bad idea?

Interesting...our band is doing Rolling Thunder as well (if he ever gets us the parts). In other news, two people (including me) are completely passed off on Lincolnshire Posy, and I'm passed off up to meas. 102 in Awayday.

You missed drumset.