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🗓️ 12 June 2024
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0:00.0 | So Rebecca as a teenager in the 80s and someone who thought of himself as an alternative boy before they had |
0:09.3 | There was no name for it we We called ourselves Bat Cavers. |
0:16.1 | Oh yeah. I would go to dance clubs with my friends. Under-age clubs. |
0:21.2 | And I would dance in a way that was not the way that everyone else is |
0:27.4 | dancing in fact there was a very famous local dance club in Renton which is south of Seattle they had two rooms they |
0:36.2 | had the top 40 room where they would play Whitney Houston and whatnot and then |
0:41.5 | they had the alternative room, |
0:43.3 | which they would play Bah House and New Order, |
0:47.4 | and Depeche Mode. |
0:49.2 | The good stuff. |
0:49.9 | Yeah, the Smith's. |
0:51.5 | And I would go into the alternative room and all my friends would go into the top 40 room and the top 40 room would just be packed with girls and the alternative room would have me and another weird guy and we would be dancing on the dance |
1:05.7 | floor in this very particular way yes this is before the internet I don't't know. How did we all learn it? I think I saw it from an upperclassman at my high school. That seems the most likely. |
1:19.5 | He was probably wearing black pointy shoes and white socks. |
1:22.6 | John flu vlogs all the way. |
1:24.5 | And on Facebook yesterday, I saw a post from you, Rebecca, |
1:31.6 | where you danced so well in that genre. |
1:40.0 | One, I had no idea that you were one of those, I mean, you know, a Jewish kid from, what, |
1:47.1 | San Diego at the time? |
1:48.4 | Yeah, I'm, well I learned it in Berkeley, which was a hotbed of alternative dancing like madness the |
1:56.6 | Smith's we do all of I brought those alternative dances with me okay it brought |
2:01.8 | back memories I I would not have thought that you were a |
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