what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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I wish I could dance like Bez. Heck, I wish I could dance, period.

Right on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrOQC-zEog

^ That Pink Floyd song holds a very personal spot for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhJU_cNCZE

I sought this song for ten years after hearing the melody on a summer day.

Unfortunately it doesn't for me. It was a year after I graduated high school. In the town I grew up in there was this seedy adult bookstore that also had nude dancers. Two of my friends wanted to go, and even though I was apprehensive, I guess I wanted to go too. We'd never done such a thing before. There was a rumor that a girl from high school danced there.

We went into the bookstore, paid something and went upstairs where each patron would open a door to their own individual closet sized space, empty but for a chair and a sense of age and decay. The spaces formed a circle around the very small dance floor. There was a curtain in front of a one way mirror at the front of each closet. The lone dancer entered the dance floor and the curtains raised up. Because the lights were very bright on the dance floor and the closets dim, I could vaguely see through the other mirrored glass windows just enough to see faceless figures each sitting in their chair like I was.

The dancer was the girl from high school. She played Comfortably Numb as she danced. I wasn't aroused in the least. Instead I felt shame and embarrassment and I felt sorry for her. I wanted it to end. I felt disgust at the patrons who frequented the place. I never went back and I don't know whatever happened to her.

Every single time since then that I've heard the song, the memory and feelings of that experience flood back.

Last edited by Magna on 12 Sep 2018, 11:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Oh my God, Magna. That memory was incredibly well-written, if not tangible. I've seen those seedy little booths and can imagine the story unfolding as you describe. I'll never hear that song properly again, but thank you for sharing.

GULP.

I'm sorry! The experience was visceral and the memory strong such that I felt compelled to "get it out". I hope my experience doesn't ruin the song for others.

It's OK, Magna. I'm more of a Wish You Were Here girl, myself. I don't listen to The Wall very often.

We all have our memories, and that's what makes music so powerful.

Agreed!

guess, is this where cj does a jp(eterson)?



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