corianderstem
Blue Crack Distributor
I was in the car with biodad and his wife yesterday when I saw the news on Facebook. Driving for an overnight trip from central Florida to Tampa. Was kicking myself all day for not bringing my iPod.
Wanted to badly to be listening to music and watching clips (didn't even have headphones to listen to stuff on my phone until I was in the hotel). Was insanely glad I had Twitter and Facebook to at least somehow connect with my people. While getting ready for dinner, I was streaming a Minneapolis station and then KEXP on my phone to get a tiny Prince fix. It wasn't nearly enough. I watched a lot of CNN (hell, even Fox news had a good chunk of time devoted to him). I heard DJs crying and watched a friend of Prince break down in tears talking to Don Lemmon.
Just gutted about this. I think once I get home tomorrow night and can settle in with music and really read/watch all the tributes properly, I probably will cry quite a bit.
Prince was one of my first musical loves. Not quite an obsession (Michael Jackson and Duran Duran won out there), but my young teenaged self looked at that dude in purple and felt funny things. I think my mom was relieved when I got out of the Prince phase and took the poster down from my wall - he was half-naked and crawling out of a bathtub, if I recall correctly.
But I always did love the music, and of course came to really appreciate the man's genius as I got older, even if I wasn't always into all of his music.
Wanted to badly to be listening to music and watching clips (didn't even have headphones to listen to stuff on my phone until I was in the hotel). Was insanely glad I had Twitter and Facebook to at least somehow connect with my people. While getting ready for dinner, I was streaming a Minneapolis station and then KEXP on my phone to get a tiny Prince fix. It wasn't nearly enough. I watched a lot of CNN (hell, even Fox news had a good chunk of time devoted to him). I heard DJs crying and watched a friend of Prince break down in tears talking to Don Lemmon.
Just gutted about this. I think once I get home tomorrow night and can settle in with music and really read/watch all the tributes properly, I probably will cry quite a bit.
Prince was one of my first musical loves. Not quite an obsession (Michael Jackson and Duran Duran won out there), but my young teenaged self looked at that dude in purple and felt funny things. I think my mom was relieved when I got out of the Prince phase and took the poster down from my wall - he was half-naked and crawling out of a bathtub, if I recall correctly.
But I always did love the music, and of course came to really appreciate the man's genius as I got older, even if I wasn't always into all of his music.