Dance Party FAQs Based on ‘80s Song Titles

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Dance Party FAQs Based on ‘80s Song Titles

Last year, I started hosting a quarterly ‘80s early evening dance party at the Cat Club in San Francisco, fueled by my twin passions for dancing to the music of my college years and sleeping a full eight hours every night. The next Midlife Mixtape dance party is two weeks from tonight – Thursday, Feb 12 at 7 pm– and I thought it might be helpful if I answered a few of the questions that I’ve fielded frequently since this global party phenomena started. And I’m going to do it using songs you all know and love.

I do want you (to come to the dance party.) So much that the doors are open to EVERYONE who wants to come – invite your friends, your coworkers, your mah jongg ladies. Bring your husbands, boyfriends, and brothers too – it’s not Ladies Night. I HAVE noticed that it tends to be only women who climb into the Cat Club cage to dance. Maybe tell your husbands, boyfriends and brothers that tidbit, if they’re acting balky.

There’s an invite on FB to which you can RSVP, but that’s really more making it easy for you to invite your Facebook friends. Which you could go do right now, if you felt like it.

I think what you’re asking is whether it’s an ‘80 costume party. It’s not, unless you want it to be. Like the time my friend Miles showed up at an earlier Midlife Mixtape Dance Party in his glitter shirt. Which was a.) a more ‘70s vibe and b.) awkward because we had already gone home to bed. (PS check out the size of the smartphone in this video, and then scare your kids with it.)

No idea. When we first started doing the dance party I knew 98% of the attendees, but it gets bigger and better every time. That’s why the first 50 people through the door get a special Midlife Mixtape badge to wear, like the one pictured at the top of this post, so when you pass each other on the streets at a later date you can give each other the Dance Party salute.

I do know how you feel. You like to dance, you like the idea of meeting your friends out for a beer, but you have that stupid 8 am staff meeting every Friday morning. Look at it this way: this dance party lets you do it all, AND if you go out on Feb 12 you can pretty much check “Valentine’s Day celebration” off your list. Stop moping and get on the dance floor. If we’re lucky DJ Damon will play some cheery Smiths tunes.

No, I certainly do not. In fact I’ll be showering you with giveaway goodies while you dance – a new book about The Jesus and Mary Chain called Barbed Wire Kisses, some cool pillowcases that look like mixtapes, and who knows what else. It’ll be the opposite of hurting you.

Duh. Stay. I mean, go. I mean, whatever is the right answer that puts you at the Cat Club on Feb 12. See you there!