this is on a slightly different note from Tai's last message, but I just found out that the Duke alumni band is re-forming next wednesday at madison square garden for the semifinals of the Preseason NIT.
I have no idea what plans are going to be surrounding this, and it could be a complete non-starter, or it could be a very interesting event. I sent them a message telling them I'm in town but that I'm extremely non-committal, and I estimate that based on what I know right now, there's a 30% chance that in 7 days I'll be playing drums on espn2.
The last time I did this was in 2004, when Oklahoma played Duke. I remember it feeling very out of the blue when I did it then (like I lived here at the time and afterwards I went back to people I was socializing with in NYC and said "yeah I just played drums for the duke band last night") and they were very much like "huhhhh?". It's funny because I pulled my rugby out of storage (rugby = the blue and white striped shirt the band members wore) like 2 weeks ago and was showing it to Tai, and obviously had no notion of possibly doing anything with it, so it's sitting in Seattle, and if I did end up going to this I'd be borrowing someone else's rugby to wear to the game.
Anyways, there isn't a whole lot more for me to say about it. It was a pretty weird event back in 2004, and it could only be like 10 times more weird doing it in 2009, but there's certainly a possibility of pulling out a video tape for our baby and being like "here's your dad on tv back when you were 3 inches long". That would actually be kindof cool.
(But at the same time, I still think it's 70% likely that I'm not going to do it.)
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