i am, in general, not prophetic

I am, in general, not prophetic.

However, I was talking with someone today, exchanging “what we did over the holidays” stories, and he said that on New Year’s Eve he’d been to a “floating dance party.”

After he had clarified that he meant “floating” as in “moving from place to place” (like a floating poker game), rather than “on a body of water,” he explained it like this:

1. A bunch of people decided to participate, so they all downloaded the same music playlist to their iPods or whatever,
2. on New Year’s Eve they all gathered at a prearranged street corner,
3. they all put on their headphones,
4. the person coordinating it counted down, so they all started their music at the exact same moment,
5. then they all starfted dancing, spreading out across the East Village for the next three hours, dancing to music they they could all hear, but nobody else could.

As I say, I’m not usually prophetic, but this did sound rather familiar.