Now that you’ve watched the Prince SNL clip a dozen times, let’s turn the channel to some dude in Kennewick who has turned his home intro a Prince shrine. Not a day has gone by in the past 25 years in which the guy has not listened to the purple one. Just to make this hypothetical Office Space II character more complete, the dude’s day job is an assistant manager at Applebee’s. In other news, Rhino is doing a retrospective and he’s finally partied with Paris. Okay, you can go back to watching that clip again.
The Prince News Aggregator
Feb 16 2006 — 2:00am
7 Reader Comments
1:03 pm
My God, what is the deal with the Purple one?
Being from a small town in the great state of Michigan, I was clueless about the depths to which Prince fans went to show their fealty. Later, working in East Lansing at Flat, Black and Circular I noticed that we had these nutsos coming and spending top dollar on every Prince bootleg in stock. One day we received a gold foil trinket of Prince’s “symbol” as a sort of promo for one of his many albums, and I swear these fanboys and girls begged us to sell it, offering, at one point, up to a hundred bucks for this icon.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Prince is fine, but… why?
1:03 pm
I find it amusing that the 35 year old Prince ‘Enthusiast’s girlfriend is 19. “You’re the coolest dad ever”.
Storm Wolf?
1:51 pm
I don’t know about fannishness, but he is totally a triple-threat act: a fantastic songwriter, kickass instrumentalist, and a legendary showman.
Add to it a fantastic sense of self-promotion, and the ability to look much taller than 4′11″. =)
I’m not a fanboy myself, but you gotta give him credit where credit is due.
2:00 pm
I hadn’t seen Purple Rain in it’s original format for a long time (usually parts of it on VH1’s Rock Pic Show), but last weekend was forced to watch it on DVD. After a fresh viewing, I remembered two things:
1. Goddamn, Apollonia was a total fox, and
2. Morris Day rules way more than Prince
If life were fair, Morris would’ve ended up with Apollonia. Or Jerome.
3:28 pm
Wow, that Rhino comp is weird. Either collect all the hits, or collect all the 12-inches/B-sides/other ephemera. This thing is going to make nobody happy.
4:52 pm
i think i’m automatically disqualified to make fun of this applebee’s assistant manager because he’s 35 and has a 19 yr old gf named storm wolf. as ali g would say, respek!
12:59 pm
Prince live on the Brits just totally tearing it up 2 nights ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOt3uEAZM8&search=prince%2Cbrits
Te Amo Corazon, Fury, Purple Rain, and Let’s Go Crazy