Prince declares the Internet ‘dead’ - Page 2

I have not seen BATMAN in at least three years, so I honestly don't remember it that well. I've never really liked it that much.
Sadly, yes.


Well, I enjoy the Beatles music. I know NSYNC, it was kind of hard to avoid growing up because it was of my time. I had no exposure to PRINCE growing up since he'd peaked. I'd have had to conciously go back and listen to his music which I wouldn't do. I'm just not that into music.

Prince hasn't peaked for the simple reason that he IS the peak. A beautiful, beautiful purple sex funk peak.

Haha OK I will take your word for it!

I'm not familiar with the NSYNC acronym...

And people who don't own Purple Rain make me very sad indeed. I'll permanently take you off ignore if you listen to it all the way through.

Maybe sometime, I don't honestly know when I'd get a chance to listen to it.

PS: NSYNC

For God's sake people, she's not going to like Purple Rain. Not knowing or caring about Prince--who is like some kind of sex/funk elemental--is the least surprising thing she's ever posted. Let's move on.

On topic, I sort of love the authority with which he declared this.

Well, clearly, I'm stealing that.

He's an elemental being, you said it yourself! I find it difficult to imagine that he has moments of uncertainty. He's the "good" batshit crazy ying to Mel Gibson's hateful crazy yang. Where his eccentricities enlighten and elevate the music by giving it a trippy personal backdrop. Whereas Gibson's crazy makes me never want to watch Lethal Weapon again because I'm looking for little giveaways of his abhorrent personal beliefs.

It's 40 minutes, Kate. Surely you have 40 minutes to spare. Do it for your Blog, Kate.

For your blog.

40 minutes? Jimminy Cricket.. That's not an unheard of length of time for me to spend listening to music (The 27 minute live version of LIGHT MY FIRE rocks my world, and Sitar music seems to just keep going and going without the need for different tracks), but it might be too long for "sex funk" music.

Sweet jesus...if I couldn't set aside 40 minutes for sex funk music I don't know what the fuck I would do. To paraphrase a very unique mind...instead of asking how much time you have, ask yourself how much of your *mind* you have. And look for that purple banana.

Sorry Floyd. I'm paisley to the core, and I can't help evangelizing.

God, don't tell Kate how long most symphonies are.......

Oh for crying out loud.. I enjoy classical music, I just said that Prince might not be for me. Look: If PR is 99 cents on iTunes, I will download it tonight and listen to it for my blog party if that would serve to make amends for the great crime of admiting that I don't care about Prince

I will do this under three conditions:

1) No whining if I don't like what I hear. I will review it in good faith but will not promise to enjoy myself
2) I might turn it off before it's over if it is 40 mins long. No whining if I do this
3) It costs me no more than 99 cents.

It would be awesome if Prince was right, and fifty years from now people are reading their newspaper thinking "interwhat" and listening to Purple Rain.

I would like to mail you a copy. Can I mail you a copy, Kate?

She realizes we mean the album Purple Rain, and not the song Purple Rain, right?

That depends on if you believe she's for real and not just fucking with everyone.

Ok, I am now officially in the "joke poster" camp. I'll just sit back and see where this long con takes us.

Oh, and Purple Rain is genius; but Prince is nuts.

She's either Mark Ruffalo or Adrien Brody.

Actually, if dislike it, don't say anything. Because it's Prince.

Hmm, while your logic is nearly foolproof, she is a Princess...

Yes, but she's only a princess. Prince is Prince.

Fair enough.

Sorry, I thought we were talking about a single song, not a whole album. I am at a wifi location now and will download the PR single with my iPod Touch and review that, it is the best I am able to do under the circumstances

PS I honestly don't see how anyone could defend Prince's assertion. No matter your admiration for him as an artist, he is obviously wrong about the web

Maybe but I hear he's a hell of a basketball player, just ask Charlie Murphy.

wow. im crying inside.

FYI, I did that review you guys requested.

And, I've yet to see anyone offer a non joking explanation for how the Internet could be "dead"

Kate, I don't think Prince was joking. No matter what explanation someone might pretend to give, Prince has spoken. The internet is doomed. Sorry darlin'.

You don't seem to get it.

If Prince said it, it is then by definition true. Reality conforms to Prince, not the other way around.

The smart phone providers must be devastated. Think of what they're going to lose in data charges. Somebody should check on Steve Jobs.

Well, there's still the Internet II which universities and other specialised departments use right?

And the US Defense Department could always dust off the Arpanet, right? Isn't this precisely the kind of emergency it was meant for?

Amazing. This is the most entertaining thread I have ever read on CHUD! I'm serious! We have a full on Prince army vs. Princess Kate's iPod, we have purple shafts of light (and purple shafts) exploding out of a big magenta and lavendar stained glass dish of pure whipped fuckfunk! Everyone is on fire! As far as artists that I admire, I always was able to accept some amount of bad behavior.

Like Frank Zappa, or Miles Davis, for instance. Both could be major pricks. But apparently both were amazing to work with on some level, according to those lucky enough to play with them. Prince seems to just be PRINCE, like a tree can not help just being the essence of the concept of "TREE." Prince just IS, and when somebody has inhabited that PRINCENESS for that long (even Bowie lost himself in the Ziggy Stardust persona) they can do nothing but be Prince. And when Prince talks, it sound like that shit he was saying about the webs.

And Princess Kate? Everybody has 40 minutes to put on some headphones and listen to amazing lick ass albums. Everybody! Seriously!

*EDIT uh...that's kick-ass, not "lick" ass, but again, that would totally apply to Prince.

Awesome bit of trivia: The Martian Chronicles is a thinly veiled biography of Prince. Conversely, Prince based Darling Nikki off of a wild weekend he spent with Bradbury in Ibiza.

Friend of mine pointed out that the reason Prince thinks the internet is dead is because he never, ever has to masturbate.

I think Bradbury always had a bit of an anti-tech streak in him. His short story "The Murderer" (about a guy who goes around smashing any noise making devices/electronic machines just for some peace and quiet) can definitely be seen as a statement. Made into an episode of the Ray Bradbury Chronicles starring excellent character actor Bruce Weitz.