>this is it right here:
>
>>I’m not selling anyone on Prince. If you don’t get it,
>>it’s fine with me. It’s a very personal thing and I
>>don’t like to trivialize it with petty debate centered on
>>music industry metrics. I’ve always likened meeting
>another
>>true Prince fan to meeting someone of the same mutant race.
>>The other parts of them, good or bad, do not matter to me,
>>because we have a primordial bond. You can be an absolute
>>scumbag, but if you’re up on Moonbeam Levels and Electric
>>Intercourse and The Grand Progression and Rebirth of the
>Flesh
>>and Train and Billy’s Sunglasses and Movie Star and Empty
>>Room and the guitar solo on Just My Imagination…like, if
>you
>>get IT, I got time to talk to you. There’s a place for you
>>in my heart, because I understand that we’ve had the same
>>profound experience at some point in our lives. We heard the
>>future.
>
>i connected w/several of my best friends via Prince's music.
>i agree - we must share some mutation.
>
>THAT is why i haven't been to any public tributes. that is
>why i have not been on the Internet since Saturday night. i
>haven't been ready to share my grief w/casual Prince fans.
>and i'm definitely not ready to share it w/ppl who don't know
>his music. i was at work when i heard the news and i
>overheard my coworkers immediately talking about his
>appearance on The New Girl. if THAT is what one thinks about
>when one hears that Prince has died then that's someone who
>cannot understand my grief and i don't want to share it
>w/them. and i figure those ppl were populating the tributes
>this weekend - i can't. they can have those and i'm glad they
>do but i need to be around ppl who get it.

THIS. I skipped most of the events in BK on Thursday... partly b/c I really just couldn't get out of bed... and partly b/c I'm not up for the Kiss and When Dove Cryers to be all up in my face. I can't. And there are but a small handful of DJ's I would trust to really do this. An ex OKP-er and I were hoping (still are) that there might be a brief reunion of the NPNY but so far have not heard much. So... we've planned our own celebration. We will play music loudly and drink banana daiquiris until we're blind.