Hello, lovers. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, working hard and loving life. I'm continually amazed and entertained by the creativity of others and am never bored, which is why I love tumblr. This is a place for my fanfiction and random thoughts... well, not so random.
RAVE REVIEWS FOR BRIEF ENCOUNTER:
"...I absolutely adore this story. I love a story that builds something, makes you think about relationships and feelings. And this did that. There was substance, and intimacy, and emotion, and a really great foundation of a plot..."
~Lindz26
LOVED BE!!! Had me crying, had me screaming profanities, loved your Edward/Bella. Awesome Job!! What's Next?!
~Robsbella
"this was such an awesome story! beautifully written and had me on the edge of my seat half the time. its such an original story! i really loved it!"
~Knat13
"Awesome story!"
~mcanary
"Congrats on finishing your story. You took a unique idea and ran with it. Awesome!"
~cclore
"CONGRATS on hitting that COMPLETE button, too, BB! You did a great job!.... LOVED IT!"
~FL95 Jo
"I am loving your ff.....started it a few hours ago and now I'm almost done!! Great job! *throws edfettis on Aloha* I feel a bit bad that I didn't review, but i just couldn't stop reading! That is a sign of a good story!"
~IveBeenRobbed
"Loved it. Fabulous ending."
~phoebelicious
"I just read BE, can I say that I love it and I regret not having read it before? It was fantastic, thank you for writing it. If I didn't have so many dirty ideas about Jasper, I'd love him as a brother, too!! Seriously, it was fantastic."
~Jaspers_girl_JG
"Thank you for this suspense and intriguing story. I was on pins and needles trying to keep up with your story I couldn't stop reading. Edward had a rough start and Bella was there to help him. This story is very different good from all the fanfictions I've read. Rosalie and James were bad people. Charlie married to Alice and not to Jasper was real different and Jasper her stepson. This had a different twist. You did good kid. Love your story keep up the good work."
~Twimima7
“And one thinks, Looking into Prince’s eyes must be like looking at the world. Or, more specifically, the world of one black man loving another. How freaky is that? And who’s on top in that kind of mind fuck? (Probably Prince, given that he’s capable of articulating this basic truth, as he does in his 1992 song ‘Sexy M.F.’: ‘In a word or 2—it’s u I wanna do/ No, not cha body, yo mind you fool.’)”
“With music, Prince seems to find his most perfect union. Apollonia remembers seeing him in the studio, her oblivious mentor, lost in sound. ‘It looks like he’s in there in his own spaceship, his own capsule, just taking off, and the sky’s the limit.’”
“How rigid are racial categories in contemporary pop music? Prince recently found out when the Rolling Stones invited him to open several West Coast concerts on their 1981 tour. The suggestions of androgyny in his fluid body movements and flamboyantly minimal stage costume were more than a little reminiscent of some of Mick Jagger’s early performances, but the almost entirely white Stones audience apparently failed to make the connection. They pelted Prince with fruit and bottles, causing him to cut his sets short. Similar reactions from white radio programmers have kept Prince’s records off most FM rock stations; it’s the stations with black music formats that are playing them.”
“Prince’s personality seems to be governed by two oppositional impulses: the hunger to create and an equally powerful craving for control. Intense productivity battles with meticulousness within his working process. Others might not anticipate his next move, but it is all part of the chess game for him.”
“If Prince could be a black dude who played rock, who looked as feminine as the women who flocked around him, who could roar into a microphone with the same voice that was quiet as a mouse in speech — well, then, I could be a nerd who loved comics and played Dungeons & Dragons and could be on the football team and be on the AV squad and, yes, eventually cover ‘Darling Nikki’ as the worst lead singer of the best college band you never heard.”
“With songs like ‘Soft and Wet,’ it’s easy to think that Prince only sees women as objects made for sexual pleasure, but looking further, his songs show women with the same sexual urges as men. Acts like Salt-N-Pepa and Madonna were equally important in showcasing women’s desires through song during my childhood, but Prince’s work resonated more with me. His music shaped my own sexuality because it helped me realize there are men who enjoy being submissive to women, that there are men who are willing to admit to helplessness during sex, and that being a woman who’s more sexually experienced than a man isn’t something to hide or being ashamed of.”
“‘I make music because if I don’t, I’d die. I record because it’s in my blood. I hear sounds all the time. It’s almost a curse: to know you can always make something new.’
Have you always been like that? I ask him.
‘No. When I was younger I had…other interests…but you know how the very first song I learned to play was ‘Batman’…?’”
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“I was confused and a little depressed. How good were these people’s lives that they could pass on Prince’s roller‑skating party? Only one man was brave enough — visionary enough — to see what lay before us, and that was Eddie Murphy. ‘This is historical,’ he said. ‘For starters, I need to see if Prince can roller‑skate. I’m a comedian, and honestly, what’s funnier than that?’”
“Prince had his change of faith, he said, after a two-year-long debate with a musician friend, Larry Graham. ‘I don’t see it really as a conversion,’ he said. ‘More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.” He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his fellow-witnesses, he leaves his gated community from time to time to knock on doors and proselytize. ‘Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they’re really cool about it,’ he said.”
“Tooling through the neighborhood, Prince speaks matter-of-factly of why he toyed with early interviewers about his father and mother, their divorce and his adolescent wanderings between the homes of his parents, friends and relatives. ‘I used to tease a lot of journalists early on,’ he says, ‘because I wanted them to concentrate on the music and not so much on me coming from a broken home. I really didn’t think that was important. What was important was what came out of my system that particular day. I don’t live in the past. I don’t play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.’”
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“During the filming of Purple Rain, a few months after the song was recorded, a love scene between Prince and the movie’s female lead Apollonia was filmed, taking place in a barn. The literal climax of the scene featured a rainstorm, with the sunlight filtering through the storm to provide an image of purple rain.
“The scene was edited from the film. It had been deemed unnecessary.”
“Realizing that you can’t ever see a newly-discovered older band or musician live is a particular type of heartbreak, and I would not let that happen with Prince. There was no way I could see Prince at his youngest, at his raunchiest, at his liveliest, but to not see him at all felt like a betrayal of my love of his work.”
“One thing I’ve appreciated about Prince, as I’ve aged, is that he knows how to sing about sex, like a man honestly singing about sex. Much of the misogyny in hip-hop (and I suspect in other art forms too) comes from, forgive my profanity, a deep-seated fear of ass. Men—and especially young men—fear what they will do to be physically involved with a woman with whom they’re infatuated. They compensate by turning this fear on its head and projecting. They make women into temptresses, gold-diggers, and villains, and make themselves into conquering heroes. Pussy don’t rule me, they’ll say—even though pussy ain’t thinking about them. Which is the problem, or rather their problem.”
Prince spent nearly 40 amazing years on the frontlines, as the most maddenly brilliant and unpredictable artist in the game. He built his own pop gospel out of his sexual and spiritual concerns, yet with a voice that was full of intimate affection, pushing farther emotionally than anyone else.
Prince: The Fashion Evolution of a King That Will Live Forever
The death of Prince is something that I take very personal for many reasons and is something that I will never forget. Dior Your Hero Prince is now in Heaven rocking with you!
Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
