ME: So how’d guitar lessons go today?
LI’L DIVA: Good.
ME: Practice those (windmilling ala Pete Townshend) power chords again?
LI’L DIVA: (rolling eyes) No.
ME: Ahem. Learn anything new?
LI’L DIVA: Yeah, some song by … The .. Clack?
ME: The Clash?!
LI’L DIVA: Yeah.
ME: (eyes popping) Which one? Which one? “Should I Stay or Should I Go”? I actually sang that in our band in high school. We never played any where outside of my friend Tim’s basement before --
LI’L DIVA: No.
ME: “Rock the Casbah”? We also --
LI’L DIVA: No.
ME: "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"?
LI’L DIVA: What?
ME: Which song?
LI’L DIVA: “Train” something …
ME: “Train in Vain”?
LI’L DIVA: Yeah.
ME: I have The Clash on Broadway box set you can borrow and -
LI’L DIVA: What’s a “box set”?
I have apparently failed on many, many levels.