I have finally completed the necessary requirements for Minnesotanhood by watching "Purple Rain" and assimilating its wisdom. Somehow, I had gone nearly 27 years of my life without watching the seminal '84 film which helped make Prince a star and put First Avenue on the map.
What the movie spared in scripting and acting, it certainly made up for with a plot that conveniently sewed together events which could be interpreted as backstories for songs on his "Purple Rain" album and that play out with those very songs in the background- or foreground.
It also delights in the playfully enigmatic personality of Prince, which sometimes accidentally comes across as melodramatic, moody, non-specifically obsessive or inexplicably inarticulate. He also drives a motorcycle around a lot.
As a result of these revelations, I have added a new requirement to my qualifications for friendships, as Price put it: "You must first be cleansed in the waters of Lake Minnetonka (sp?)"
The rest of you can be grandfathered in.
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