On this day in '85 Prince swept the Grammy for “Purple Rain.” Now he’s getting a hip replacement. Some worry this will mean he will no longer do the splits on stage, but I expect it will lead to better splits, especially if doctors implant some sort of funk-enabling servomotors in the joints. He’ll be fifty soon, which seems odd. Prince is one of those people who should never be fifty. Then again, how old is Jagger? Keith Richards? The latter always looked like a Jack-o-lantern three weeks after Halloween, and Jagger has that timeless ugliness that ages well, like synthetic liver. But it’s difficult to imagine Prince as an old man, hawking gland supplements on TV.
“Have U got a lion in your pocket? Has it been a while since he was ready to roar? Hello, I’m Prince, and I have a special offer – 4 U. But first, here’s Morris Day. Morris, what time is it?”
“It’s time to think seriously about joint health, Prince. Jungle Love, huh! Ooh-eee-ooh-eee-owwwww. That's why I’m here to tell you about –“ Click.
I don’t think that will happen.
In related celebrity news: former Stillwater resident Jessica Lange has “dissed” Stillwater to a New York paper.
"When we first moved to Stillwater, it still felt like a real place. It had a downtown with a hardware store, a furniture store, a clothing store. Now it's all gift shops and these terrible condominiums. It was a little town with a great deal of character. Everything gets yuppified, I guess."
The nerve of these people wanting to move to Stillwater after she moved there. She bought her home for $415K in 1994, and later tried to sell it for $3.3 million. Doing her part to keep it from being yuppified, it seems.
Seen in a radio station ad
Seen on a billboard ad for a classic rock station a number of years ago:
Never trust anyone over
30405060.I suspect they'd be up to at least 70 by now, possibly even 80...
The Sledgehammer: Version 2.0 - I let my mind wander and it never came back.