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Dancing In The Streets

See this horror to the right? That's a girl dancing at last week's so-called Silent Rave in Union Square.

You're probably thinking, "What in the world is a silent rave?" We wondered the same thing, so we dispatched brave intern Anastasia to find some answers. She didn't exactly find anything concrete, but her experience makes us worry for future generations.

And ourselves…

Okay, so a silent rave is a rave in that there’s people and dancing, but silent in that everyone’s dancing to their iPods. Over a thousand people gathered in Union Square last Friday to dance silently, and the whole thing was organized by a British exchange student via Facebook.

iPods! Facebook! Quiet daytime parties! Take that, awesome ‘60s generation! Gen Y-ers dance to the beat of their own (sad, geeky) playlists.

Below, a smattering of photos and some video of the mostly high-school-aged crowd. In the video, you may notice, there’s a part where someone says “Somebody just got stabbed.” About that: someone got stabbed at a fucking silent rave. What is the world coming to?

From what I saw, he looked like he was going to be okay. If I were a real reporter, I probably would have asked the police what happened, or found the guy’s friends later and asked. But as a gossip blog intern, without a press pass, carrying a tiny pink digital camera, I felt ridiculous doing so. Also, I’m a pussy.

Some smart/probably high people climbed on the statue of George Washington. I heard one girl say to her friend, “You can’t go up there, you had five Sparks!” To which he replied, “But I wanna be on MTV!”

This guy thought he had balls of steel when he topped the horse, but when people yelled "Jump!" he failed to follow through: he climbed down.