It was the summer of 2003, which is in the top 5 of my all around best summers. I was in great shape, looking and feeling great. I was dating. I was in transition, finishing up my job and getting ready to move to Monterey to start a 2 year full time MBA program. I was busy, busy, busy doing tons of fun things, all the time. That summer, this totally ridiculous song was getting a lot of play time. It epitomizes the absolute worst parts of kids today. Let's take "whatever". If you say it to someone, it is pretty much the most dismissive thing you can say. Super rude. The entire "song" is this compilation of encounters that the guy has throughout the day. For example: I went down to the beach and saw Kiki and she was all like, Eehhhhh. And I was like, WHATEVER! It is so spot on and exactly how kids today talk. It is the worst!
I am almost embarrassed to admit that I liked the song, but in fact, lots of people liked it. If they didn't like it, they'd at least heard of it and could sing the chorus. Curiously, everyone that is, except Liam Lynch. I was in the middle of the orientation activities with my MBA class and one of my classmates was named Liam Lynch. Now the odds of this singer attending graduate school in Monterey were pretty low. I might have even googled him to see if it could be him. Regardless I decided it would be a clever ice breaker to introduce myself and ask him. Knowing Liam, I am still unsure to this day if he actually knew the song and was messing with me, or if he genuinely didn't know what I was talking about. He is definitely not the singer of that ridiculous song. What he definitely is, is a generous friend who is a ton of fun to hang out with, even though I never quite know what he is thinking! I hope to hang out with him in New York someday, sooner rather than later!
