One More Prince Story

As I said before, I never was a total Prince fan.  His music provided the soundtrack for many high school memories, Purple Rain etched itself into those years.  But over the years, and he kept re-inventing himself, continually producing new music, fighting his record label, and keeping it all fresh, I gained more and more respect for him.  I was thinking about doing a Prince drawing, but I had a slew of other drawings lined up to do, so I was hesitating.  Then I woke up at 4am a couple days ago, started working on that drawing, and had this deep sense that I needed to pound it out in a single day.  So I did.  I went back to it today, and touched it up here and there, adding several more song titles (thanks for the help on those Sonja A., Maurice M., and Mike S.) and put some purple raindrops in it.  That's the finished drawing above.

When I wrote the big post about Prince the other day, I left out one story.  Several years ago, working as a taxi driver in Orange County (CA), I wandered by Fashion Island Mall in Newport Beach about bar close time.  An attractive woman in her 40's flagged me down.  She was the stereotypical Newport Beach cougar; great legs, saline enhanced bustline, Botox infused lips, and a college age guy in tow.  They got in, and she told me where they were headed, a little known part of Bayside, close to the entrance of Balboa Island.  She started kissing the guy, and at that exact moment, the sounds of The Foo Fighters covering Prince's hyper-erotic song "Darling Nikki" oozed out of the speakers.  It was literally like I was in a music video for the song, watching the story happen live.  Darling Nikki was luring her prey into her lair for the night.  As we pulled up in her driveway a few minutes later, the song was just ending.  She handed the guy some money to pay me, and strutted up towards her front door, keys already in hand.  She'd obviously done this before.  The young guy got out, leaned in the passenger window to pay me, and said, "Oh God, what am I in for?"  I replied, "You heard the song that was playing, right?"  He nodded.  "Have fun," I said as he ran to catch up with her.  OOooooooooooooh Nikki!

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