Someone wrote about it.freeknationMarch 13 2010, 09:36:17 UTC
When the curtain rose, Clay had this back to the audience. His suit has already been described. It was loose fitting and baggy, the silhouette befitting a big-band crooner. A 12-15 piece band was on to his right, horns, saxes, violins -- everything you'd need for the "big band" sound. To his left, the contemporary players: piano, drums, guitar and bass guitar. Spinning around and striding to the mic, he launched into "Mack the Knife
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Then he got chatty again, and started telling us, in a joking way, about what a loser he'd been as a teenager. He was sure we were all just shocked to hear it. He'd quit choir when he moved from Elementary school to 6th grade, not realizing that in the process he was dumping his entire support structure, all of his friends. Now he didn't know anybody, didn't have anyone to hang out with, no one to eat lunch with but the foreign kids who didn't speak English and didn't realize what a loser he was. He joked and cracked wise through the whole story, but it wasn't hard to picture the skinny, goofy, artistic little boy who suddenly felt lost and alone at a new school with no one to hang out with. One teacher took pity on him, he said. She started letting him eat his lunch in her classroom every day. He was sure she never realized how much that act of kindness meant to him and how it changed his life. She was here tonight and he asked her to stand up and be recognized for what she meant to him. He went on to say how often teachers had
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OH MY GOD.
AND HOLY EFFFFFFFFFFFFFIGFNGFGINIFGNIFGFGNI SUSPICIOUS MINDS IS LIKE MY FAVORITE SONG EVER I AM LEGIT GONNA PEE MYSELF.
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