So one of the great pleasures of working at MTV is that my office is like 15 feet away from the office of Kurt Loder, who probably doesn’t like to be called an ageless legend but DUDE IS TOTALLY AN AGELESS LEGEND. Like, when you and your friends sit around and bitch about how MTV doesn’t play videos anymore, or how you want your old MTV back - THOSE WERE THE KURT LODER DAYS, MAN.

So anyway, Kurt’s been on the movie tip for a while now, and still pleasantly says hello in the hallways and the john and the elevator even though I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know who I am, even after five years of working here (I am not Aziz Ansari, FYI). But there are hundreds of excellent interviews he’s done over the years, and starting today, and every week thereafter, he and MTV News super-producer Tami Katzoff will be unearthing clips from the archives, and Kurt will pen brilliant prose reflecting on funny and sometimes awkward or cool moments.

It’s called The Loder Files, and the first installment is a 1999 interview with Prince. Click the link for Kurt’s reflections, and check out a little clip from the original interview below.