Thursday, April 17, 2008


Had lunch with Nick across the street from the high school where he teaches drama.

The Backrow sketch show back in January (the one I wasn't it), included a sketch about a school band and a boy who organizes everyone to play a song he wrote to impress a girl he likes named Amelia. They play the song and realize it's actually Simon and Garfunkel's 'Cecelia.' "I thought it sounded familiar but I didn't realize I'd copied it until I heard all the parts together." It was a good sketch. It's usually fun to see performers play instruments on stage, the nerdier the instrument, the better.

Nick: Some of my students saw that show and they liked it. Anyway, one of the guys who saw it is dating a girl named Cecelia, and he just asked her to prom during a school assembly by getting a bunch of people to play the song. He got the idea from the sketch.
Me: That's pretty neat.
Nick: He'll probably win the Best Asking Someone To Prom competition.
Me: There's a competition?
Nick: Every year. Whichever one is the best wins free tickets to prom. Which is not a small thing. Prom tickets are, what, 100 dollars or something.
Me: So, right now, at your school, there are big grand romantic gestures going on left and right?
Nick: Pretty much.
Me: Wow... That would make a good movie.
Nick: You're right. It would.

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