tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post113111268658843739..comments2023-10-18T03:45:34.271-04:00Comments on Mental Blog: Edmonton...Part 1Larry Keilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1131333641084881282005-11-06T22:20:00.000-05:002005-11-06T22:20:00.000-05:00I think you mean Avril Lavigne.She had a song a wh...I think you mean Avril Lavigne.<BR/><BR/>She had a song a while back called...Sk8erBoy...or somethin like that. About a year ago my cousin and her husband visited from California with their kids. I suffered a deja vu (back to childhood) because my parents asked me to play the accordion for them. Sheesh! Husband, whose name I've forgotten, is a bombastic aggressive Jewish guy from California...how is that possible? Anyway, he must have been at a loss for an appropriate response to seeing someone playing the accordion...(Arlene! Arlene! help me out here!)...because he kept asking (agressively...I'm hipper than you...I'm gonna show my kids how sarcasm works...) for songs that simply don't work on accordion. Sk8erBoy was one of them. Fact is, I don't think I've ever heard the tune, and if I have I wasn't listening.Larry Keilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712568631874956243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10282020.post-1131328071427352662005-11-06T20:47:00.000-05:002005-11-06T20:47:00.000-05:00You sounded positively poetic there - an old troop...You sounded positively poetic there - an old trooper of poetry - you old Trooper, you -<BR/><BR/>Sometimes I watch MuchMusic while on the treadmill at the Y. They have this segment where they group the "top ten" along a theme. Yesterday's theme was really bad break-up songs, well, they used an expletive that started with f. #1 was a song by that little Canadian girl of rock with the black eyes like raccoons - talented in that young angry punk way. Sheet-it, can't remember her name - lololol - must be getting ol....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com