is there anything you ever did that's Prince-related that you now regret?

I got a little embarrassed when an old school friend and I were talking about our yearbooks. I had forgotten that in 7th grade I signed the year books "Life is too good to waste!!! - Chris." LOL. A little of Alphabet Street in all the 7th grade yearbooks at my little rural Jr. High school.. The other kids parents probably didn't know quite what to make of it. But then I was a strange child, anyway LOL.

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[This message was edited Fri Jan 9 12:27:28 PST 2004 by rdhull]

Assless pants.

2the9s said:

And that was just yesterday.

Think about all the times over all the years.

Getting dressed up as Prince and then having to dance on my own to '1999' in front of friends and family for my 18th.

In Denmark we have a tradition of dressing out in costumes on the last day of school (graduation). I graduated in 1987 and dressed out as Prince in the Kiss-video with chain around the waist and buttons down the pants. My mom made the outfit for me.

I even coloured my hair black !

Looking back it was a little embarrissing

Standing on a bench at the schoolyard, [I was 20 friggin
years old at the time], singing the "Head" intro to the
"Kirky J's B-side Remix" over and over again while folks
were staring at me thinking "he's finally gone mad"

You know the one


I like's me a little head dope man
Pop Life dig it damn dig it
damn damn damn dig it!




The bench was concrete and wet from rain so I added a
little scratching with my rubber soles for more fx

Winning a friend over to do the "My Name Is Prince"
rather naft gameboyz dance at our college graduation
party.

You know the one where one is locked with his legs
around the other one's waste and they dance like
they're throwing punches at one another.

That was sheer horror. It went wrong, fcuz, how could
it not go wrong lol.

I didn't even wanna go get my diploma in the morning.

But then I did it again, only slightly worse at
the private party for just our classmates at
one of the kid's homes.

I took my o(+> album and asked them to play me
"The Max".

I don't want to talk about this one any more,
it was so bad my head starts to hurt now just
thinking about it.

It involved a large picture and a broken frame
a drunk friend taking off his pants and my head
in the lap of a girl with weird pigtales.

There was also the time I went to a bizarro club
and saw a dude with the symbol necklace whom I
then walked up to and just licked from navel up
to his neck without introducing myself.

Only to then see that there was another beefy guy
coming up to him with drinks, and ALSO wearing a
o(+> necklace.

I won't even mention my own take on the "Typhoon"
hairdo which I'll forever be sportin' on one of
our class pictures.

I bet there's still aunts flicking thru family
albums going "Who is that? And why is he wearing
an ostrich on his head?"

Or the time I wore my copyshop printed Verdana script
T-shirt that read

"I sincerely wanna fuck the taste out of your mouth"

on a saturdaynight and bumped into our Jah Witness
neighbours whilst walking from one club to another.

Ah, and then there was the "dancing stylishly cool"
to "Kiss" on a 25th wedding anniversary with one of
the cousin's 'larger than life' girlfriends.

We did it mainly to impress the hunky waiter but we
ended up shaming ourselves beyond recognition.

We looked like a couple of drugged up muppets
auditioning for the paralympic James Brown tribute
band.

She even wore sunglasses and a black lace handkerchief
on her head to catch a touch of that "Kiss" video
mystique.

And I flashed my less than impressive deltoids and got
my shirt stuck halfway up my head

Writing "slave" on my fave with eyeliner I specially
bought for the occasion. Just to see what it looked
like.



I think I even lip-synced to "Dolphin" whilst playin
air guitar.

Thank god I had just enough sense to do that in the
privacy of my own home without any spectators.

And on a more disgusting note [if you just had dinner,
best not read on]:

Lying next to someone after sex, and uhm [this is sooo
bad], scribbling the o(+> symbol on their stomach with
the 'puddle' resting on there.




"What are you doing?"


"I'm writing the o(+> symbol on your chest with seemen"

"WTF?"


"ok, I'll just put on my clothes and go home now"

Then there was the 'scene' where I was escorted out of
a branch of a well known warehouse in London for :blush:
slipping behind a counter and announcing over all the
speakers that "Brass waterbeds" were on sale on the 3rd
floor.

I even did the Morris voice. It was so shaming, and yet
I never regretted that one. There must have been least
one person in there that thought "Oh My F*** God, Gino
Isocogarachi's in the building".

Or standing outside Ahoy Rotterdam in 1998 waiting
in line with all the other Princefreax when my best
friend spotted a woman with incredibly large tits
in the queue next to us.

She just turned to the woman, cupped her hands all
round those breasts and proclaimed loudly


NOW THÍS IS A BUST!!


Which, rather sadly for me, her constructionworkin
boyfriend didn't take too kindly.

So we stood sweating and fearing for our life for
the rest of the three hour wait.

I made that same friend a tape of the latest
Prince songs at the time on which I had also
included some Exodus tracks

"Cherrie Cherrie" being the one that got her
into a rather shameful situation.

She was riding on her bycicle on the way to
school when she passed this group of workers
laying pipelines at the side of the road.

When all of a sudden, she hears this whistle!

Now, being the feminist she is, she got off
her bike and went up to them saying "Look, I
don't think that's appropriate do you? How
dare you just whistle at women passing by,
that is so sexist. No, don't speak, just shut
up for a minute..."

She then went on a 5 minute rant and the guys
just looked at her as if she was mad.

Then she resumed her ride to school and when
she rewound the tape to play the song again,
she finally heard that the WHISTLE is IN THE
DAMN SONG!

How many of these have ya got?

Tell us something you've done you're not embarassed about!!!

oh my god. Isten's got enough for all of us!!! and they're all great.

Here's one of mine:

Just over a year ago I was on the Sunset Strip with two friends. We were bar hopping, having a good old time. When everything closed, and the strip was full of people, we were walking back to our apartment. I was pretty blotto, and one friend was helping me walk as the other led a path through the dense crowd. Sidewalks were crowded because everything just closed. An Escalade was trying to make a left hand turn off of Sunset onto a side street, across traffic and through a crowd of pedestrians. The path is finally clear for the Escalade as my friend and I approach the corner. It's then I notice that "Kiss" is coming out of the speakers.

Though moments before I needed assistance to walk, the Power of Prince was in full effect. "He's playing Prince! He's playing Prince!" I yell out before I start singing and dancing in yes, the middle of the street, preventing said Escalade from completig attempted turn. Fortunately, the friends were together enough to quickly collect me and get me across the street before any real damage was done.

The night actually got worse, but the Prince part ended there.

Reply to 'embarrasing Prince-isms in your life...'

No Prince-isms really... It was hard to explain the Lovesexy cover,
to some people. And the name change. But mostly it's been cool...

madartista said:

Whenever I hear someone playing his music, be it in a car, walking down a street and hearing it pour outta a bar/club...I say the same thing.. "They're playing Prince, They're playing Prince" and my heart skips a beat for a min or two!! I can truly understand!!

You really want to hear about all the times when I used to try to pick up girls with lines from Prince songs when I was still a teenager? And drunk as fuck. Are you sure?

IstenSzek said:

x 1,000

Right now, I'm mostly ashamed for writing all of these
things down last night.

Had a natural PR beauty of a girlfriend I took 2 see Purple Rain. all was well and perfect after the movie when we left until a eyeliner pencil fell out of my pants pocket...she picked it up looks at me like Umm, this belongs 2 U? I was feeling sooo embarrassed all I could do was watch her walk out of my life after that...over a black liner...thanks alot Prince..lol

IstenSzek said:

OH MY GOD!!! THAT IS THE FUNNY STUFF I HEARD IN A LONG TIME. I HAVE TEARS ROLLING DOWN MY FACE. I THINK U NEED A BREAK FROM PRINCE. :OMG: