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Lacking Credentials: Life Lessons I Learned From Drum Corps »

• Things are never as bad as you think. • It’s never worth the energy to be angry at someone. • There are few things as rewarding as being drenched in hard earned sweat. • Looking at a watch makes the time go slower. • As soon as you get frustrated, you’ve already lost. • Your biggest enemy is…

Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

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—	John Green, Paper Towns (via thebooksyoulove)

Easily the most frightening thing on the web.

So. Legitimate.

If I could throw this sound into a blender, it would be too rich for me to ingest the mellow milkshake produced of it.

MY FAVORITE MARCHING SHOWS

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Moanalua “Menehune” - “Pirates!!!”

This marching show introduces me to marching bands on the internet which led me to DCI on the internet which led me to over-enthralled, “Splooie!” slandering, I-think-I-know-everything-about-everything-of-marching characteristic critiquing sort of guy who can get pretty excited if he hears a marching band a few blocks away and will talk to you for hours about any drum corp if you’d like. And I like shows about pirates.