So I went with Nick to the EAR PWR and Future Island show and, no surprise, the majority of the crowd was non-dancing hipsters. Why do they not dance? Dancing is not only fun, but it contributes to the overall energy of the show, like cheering on Olympic athletes or yelling "amen!" when worshiping a false god. When people sit on couches in the edges of the room or lean on the walls with their arms crossed it makes it look like the music isn't awesome enough to make them move their body. Dancing also increases reproductive fitness.
The other annoyance was all the non-dancing hipsters taking pictures of me dancing. Whhhaat? Let me know when I turn up on Vice Magazine's DOs and DON'Ts or flickr/facebook. I was headbanging with some girl at the afterparty and this dude with a penis-extension camera squats down in front of us like he's dropping a duece in the woods and opens up with his camera flash. I'm not going to flatter myself, I'm sure he was taking pictures of Princess Skinny McPartygirl, but it was a lame interjection to my frenzied dancing. He was at risk of being stomped on. Hopefully I will be able to dredge up some pictures some stranger took of me so they could complain "THIS GUY WUZ DANCIN ALL CRAZY AND STEPPED ON MAH TOESES!! RUINT THE SHOW! A SERIOUS DON'T! LOL WHUT A DORK!"
People who dance at shows are awesome; fuck people who don't dance at high energy shows. Nina Simone said "You either got to dance or have sex!" some people are obviously doing neither, I prefer to do both. My theory is that it is a hold-over from the white puritans who first colonized the United States.
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