people who never update their websites/people who never marched drum corps, but talk about it like they are 26 year vets/mushrooms/people who enter aol chatrooms and type in ALL CAPS/books by stephen king/the smell of dogs/obnoxious drummers/boy bands/mtv trl and all those other silly acronyms/commercial radio/music by handel or bach that lasts for more than five minutes/the SAT and how it controls our lives/rosie o'donnell/survivor/fishing/getting booed at drum corps shows by fans of OTHER corps/cigarettes and smoking in general/titanic/the smell of canola oil warming on the stove/the star of indiana and blast!/high school freshman flute players/britney spears, and the rest of the 'plastic woman crew'/people who think that pearl jam has gotten worse over the years/using video as a substitute for memories/bugles/people who learn one lick on their horn and play it constantly/the ignorance of the people in my fall 2000 arts class/pants that cost more than $30/mazda miatas/ebonics/rotfl lmao lol and other internet shorthand/people who say 'wow your tall' everytime i see them. i know im tall, and you told me that yesterday/guys with car stereos- you know- the ones who pull up to stoplights and shake YOUR windows/magazines: spin, teen, rolling stone, elle, seventeen, the source, etc./people who can't spell/people who know 'west side story' and think they are well versed in classical music/the word 'dude' used more than once per sentence/pro basketball/pokemon/dragonball z/any video games other than nintendo and super nintendo/asshole guys who get all the girls/men who abuse women/alcohol/the smell of bus 803 on august 1/my aunt's fourth husband/26 may/4 year olds who are in to the 'plastic woman crew'/people who don't realize that the blink 182 video was making fun of them/snow/screenplays that read like bowling balls falling down a flight of stairs/matchbox 20/lip sync/everyone who ever hung out in b wing, or sat on the rail in between classes at my high school/calculus/contra lines who look horrible/bent legs on the backup/blonde highlights in the hair of 17 year old males/dumb nicknames people give themselves/'your momma's so dumb' jokes/getting pneumonia and therefore being so sick you have to stay in the gym during rehearsal for a whole day two weeks before finals/dumb guys who get their girlfriends pregnant and then freak out/george w bush/jeb bush/george p bush [yes he does exist]/george bush sr/barbara bush/jeb bush/w's daughters/american pie, scary movie, and all the other movies that make my generation look like globs of mucus who sit on the couch all day and tell fart jokes and talk on the phone about sex/stories by charles dickens/people who marched drum corps 20 years ago and think that people who march today are ignorant pieces of trash/stories about the 1974 kalamazoo purple knight brigade regiment cadets and how awesome they were/people who call soda 'pop'/cold weather/mind games/girls who go for asshole guys [see large print above]/the gas light in my car/election jokes/people who think that opera is just fat ladies in viking gear and refuse to learn more/going to the grocery store for a certain kind of bread that they make in the bakery, and the store not having any left/eminem/'sampling' aka copying other peoples' songs/bad grammar/people who think i'm some sort of deity because i'm in The Cadets/strangers with candy/insomnia/bicycle stepping/the words 'i can't'/dotbooks/country music awards shows/spanish tv stations/pissy moods/losing/rude college profeesors/when a cake has WAY too much frosting/metallica/not knowing what time it is/texas in july/montana in december/frat guys who wear the button up the front shirts and all have the same haircut/the dude in my anthropology class who wears his frat jersey- his nickname is intrepido/people who don't understand that the word 'minute' has two pronunciations/the parking police/when you drop your mouthpiece, and its really loud/when people talk only in innuendo and sarcasm/cold pancakes/the super bowl- it was in my town, and it wasn't that cool, folks/when you are playing on the keyboards in radio shack and the clerk decides you are having too much fun and turns them off from behind the counter/the whassup guys and all their commercials/people who imitate the whassup guys constantly/people who bitch about it being to hot on tour- its july did you expect it to be cold?/getting nailed in the head with a racquetball racquet by devin/sweating so much that after you get out of the shower you don't feel any different/circle drill for more than 30 seconds = pointless/people who honk there horns in parking garages because they can and they think its cool/microsoft word's automatic grammar fixer thingy/that guy who i always see at the school of music with the silly hat/traffic/fake plastic trees/those nights when its about 5 degrees too cold to leave my bedroom window open/temptation island, and every other 'reality' show. this isn't my reality./when the self checkout at publix won't scan my bottle of iced tea/people who think they are good cooks, but actually suck/toll booths/when a teacher asks 'does anyone have any questions?' immediately before a test, and a dumb guy says 'do we have to take it?' and then laughs like a big oaf. haha. im laughing on the inside, really/when people in another unnamed drum corps tell me about how they are 'going to be top three this year along with bd and scv.' see you on retreat./the pettiness of scholastic a division winter guard parents/gnc stores- want to get in shape? eat less, excercise more/the ignorance of the usf oracle's 'off limits' editor/college football in florida, and how it affects your social position in life/everytime someone tells me that 'x person made blast!', making it sound all godly. i got news for ya folks, its just drum corps inside at mezzoforte/breathe dah/doing dishes/coughing up goo/mind games/dave matthews' voice when he sings/people who destroy conversations by screaming/not having large blue eyes/techno covers of old u2 tunes/weekly planet columnists/'who's elvis costello?'/cigarettes/when people think that punk bands they've heard of haven't 'sold out' yet. i got news for ya: if you've heard of them, they already sold out/people who think they know what the personalities of rock stars are like ('tom from blink is so down to earth.'; eg.)/sunburn/the extreme degree of ugliness of my clogs. they are wicked comfortable, but equally ugly/two dimensional individuals/
 
 

sam, i'm sick of your bitching- take me home