Secrets of the City

Max, no offense, but this post is totally and completely wrong. The concert is on JULY 7. That may explain why the perfume’s site is down.

But hey: I’ve sampled the stuff. Enjoy the videoblog.

Ah, you’re right, Jason. I’ll change the date in the post.

MNSpeak has reported on stories that are months old before… but this may be the first future-post. I like the innovation the new editor is putting into place.

What can I say? I’m proactive, and I think outside the para-digm.

Actually, this post is just an excuse to discuss Prince. So I have a few questions:

Anyone else think Under a Cherry Moon is a flawed but underrated movie?
Anyone else miss Prince’s million-odd sort-of-crappy side projects, like The Family? And that fusion band he had for a while?
Did anybody ever buy anything at the Prince store uptown, when it was still there?
And finally: Share your Prince stories here. Has he knocked at your door lately and tried to talk to you about religion?

$5 for whoever comes up with the best alternative name for the prince cologne.

Avoiding the obvious “Purple Rain”. I’ll start with “Let’s Go Sprayzy” and “Darling Stinky”. I also think that “Sexy M.F.” should not only be a perfume but a whole fashion line.

How about Eau de imgay?

Well, I know His Purpleness turns 49 today (we’re the same age, which is odd). Happy B, P.

Grote: Too Pricey 4 U

Purple Spray’n.

bob…I thought prince was always 4′9″ ?

Black Sweat
Spray It All Night
Spray!
Spray “O” the Times

Anybody else think it’s going to smell like pussy incense?

I think we should also take a moment to think about what our own cologne lines would smell like. Mine would smell like burnt ozone, scented trash bags, and sandalwood. And poop. I’d call it Nostril Handshake.

If this thread is about discussing Prince, I’ve got a question: Why are you all so obsessed with him here? Are you that desperate to feel nationally important that you will never let Prince or Dylan go? Seriously?

oh christ sayin’, you’ve really pegged us all!

what’s the board’s motivation for discussing prince and his cologne? what’s your motivation for questioning the motivation of a innernet forum-board?

sayin’ smells like turd cologne today

I got tickets to the Macy’s show and therefore got the perfume, it doesn’t smell very good at all.

My cologne would be unscented.

Are you that desperate to feel nationally important that you will never let Prince or Dylan go? Seriously?

yes.

My cologne would smell like the sazerac cocktail. After its been ingested and then uningested, when I discover it flecked on my lapel the next morning.

my cologne would smell like a cross between fresh cut grass, a freshly opened can of tennis balls, strawberries and cream and vodka. And then I would woo Maria Sharapova.

I already have a cologne, with a catchy theme song: Charlie!

Mine would be a faint smell of cigarettes and hard livin’…ha

They would call mine “Kevahn” and that would become my name.

“a freshly opened can of… balls“

Convenient out of context quote for my own amusement.

“a freshly opened can of… balls… and cream“

Even better. I should be a journalist!

I think I’ve found a clip of a young sayin’.

Those balls were taken completely out. Of context.

Also, he should call his perfume “Near Retirement Spirit”. Furthermore, Grote is right. Sexy M.F. should be the name of a whole empire.

i gotz a couple if anyone wants to buy ‘em . . .

not balls. well i do. but they are not for sale. bottles of 3121.

Only if they’re out of context.

Maybe I should change my name to a symbol first.

Anyone else miss Prince’s million-odd sort-of-crappy side projects, like The Family? And that fusion band he had for a while?
Did anybody ever buy anything at the Prince store uptown, when it was still there?

The Family were great. That album’s an underrated gem — I’m glad to see they’re still playing together, their music still holds up remarkably well. “Screams of Passion” — unbelievably great tune. I have all THREE Madhouse records and confess I never listen to them, though as a Prince completist I’m glad I have ‘em. And yeah — I bought some albums there at the time, and a T-shirt, I think? I’m kicking myself for not buying the symbol-shaped tamborine.

That Chapelle bit is the greatest.

It would be tempting to just write off Prince for this kind of stuff (perfume, conversions, phallic name symbols, etc) but dude’s incredibly talented, as I was reminded by his smoking hotness on SNL and halftime at the super bowl. Def my favorite crazy rockstar.

There’s quite a collectors market for some of those Prince side projects from the 80s, cause almost none of that stuff is in print anymore.

I read an article on the perfume and it apparently smells funky.

I had a locker not far from Prince at Mpls. Central, 1974. Summer football practice. I’m guessing the scent is earthy, masculine, with undertones of sweatsock, tiger balm and jockstrap. He quit to play music, so I got to start at wide receiver. Guess I showed him.