Dan Kennedy is the author of the national best seller Rock On: An Office Power Ballad andLoser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation, a regular contributor at GQ, and a long-standing writer at McSweeneys.net. He resides in New York City where he frequently performs onstage as part of the Moth storytelling collective. He is currently writing and developing the pilot of Rock On for HBO.
I told myself she reminded me of Liz Phair, but without the marijuana-steeped tomboy, devil-may-care, laid-back attitude of Liz Phair. This is the type of thing you tell yourself when…