I do so solemnly swear to punch people in the genitals when they hold their phone up to take blurry pictures or terrible video at a concert.

Signed

(by the way this dumb girl tole me that Michael Gira of Swans got down offstage to shout at someone who had their phone out, see why Swans is fucking awesome?)

why limit this to concerts

because it doesn't block my view of the thing and generally detract from the experience

AND I REMEMBER WHEN THINGS USED TO BE DIFFERENT

BACK IN THE 20TH CENTURY

Shit it wasn't even this bad back in aught four dag nabbit.

I think it should be socially acceptable to swat at people's phones when they pull that shit.

because it doesn't block my view of the thing and generally detract from the experience


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Mooney/4694874879_0c036eac0c_b.jpg

a photo i took of someone taking a photo. how me[i]ta. when i do shoot concerts i do make sure to not get in people's way, though. either crouched down in the front row, or standing on chairs against a wall.

mooney you've mentioned that you feel colorless and then you make a post like that desscribing how you took a photo and blows everyone away.

standing on chairs no less!

that's a nice photo

that's a nice photo

thanks, it was taken at a caribou show.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Mooney/caribou2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Mooney/caribou1.jpg

the second shot was used by CBC.

i like caribou

those are nice shots though dude i'm talking about jagoffs taking blurry pictures standing in the middle front with their crappy smart phones

i like caribou

those are nice shots though dude i'm talking about jagoffs taking blurry pictures standing in the middle front with their crappy smart phones

i don't mind people holding up their phone to take pictures. what really grinds my gears is when as soon as THE HIT starts, one third of the audience holds up their phones and records video until they run out of memory. :dammit:

yeah there's that too but i haven't been to a concert with a band that has a hit song since...well the pumpkins really. I hate when people have their flash on.

Do you not mind it because you don't know any differently Mooney? I'm honestly asking that not to be insulting but it may be a generation gap. Do you remember when nobody even had cell phones period? Let alone camera and video recording smart phones.

yeah there's that too but i haven't been to a concert with a band that has a hit song since...well the pumpkins really. I hate when people have their flash on.

Do you not mind it because you don't know any differently Mooney? I'm honestly asking that not to be insulting but it may be a generation gap. Do you remember when nobody even had cell phones period? Let alone camera and video recording smart phones.

i had friends in high school that had pagers.

i did too but that was 1996

i mean smart phones didn't even really come into play until the middle part of the aughts so i think we all remember when a bunch of jagoffs didn't need to record blurry crappy video of their favorite band

security was giving people a hard time at the pixies show for filming/taking pictures.

that's because you live in the People's Republic of Canada.

i don't mind people holding up their phone to take pictures. what really grinds my gears is when as soon as THE HIT starts, one third of the audience holds up their phones and records video until they run out of memory. :dammit:

that mostly bothers me just because of the awkwardness of it.. or sadness. Not just concert but any live event, especially sport, ESPECIALLY regular season sport...take your picture and then sit down and enjoy the game you robot, all those picture are just going to start looking the same anyway buddy, just a bunch of colored shirts with number on them in stupid poses

I was too wrapped up in game 7 habs/bruins to take pictures but I'll admit I'm glad my friend brought her camera, but still.. speaking from experience, unless you have a really great camera your not going to get many pictures that are going to do anything other than sit in some file on your laptop or in a lonely facebook album

bingo, keepsakes are nice but we've managed to debase the photograph by having camera phones and flickr and facebook so people are just relentlessly taking pictures

(by the way this dumb girl tole me that Michael Gira of Swans got down offstage to shout at someone who had their phone out, see why Swans is fucking awesome?)
that's weird, when i saw swans someone's phone was ringing constantly

you can't hear that on stage

how could you even hear that

it was pretty loud and at this old theater. i was pretty far from the phone actually. i think the band just decided to play even louder

NOT SIGNED

I do so solemnly swear to punch people in the genitals when they hold their phone up to take blurry pictures or terrible video at a concert.

Signed

do it!
maybe videotape it as well. filming it with your phone will do.

i don't have a problem with people taking pictures. who cares? it's only a few seconds and you can actually get some pretty great shots from phone cameras these days, so go for it i say. i would totally take pictures at gigs if i could ever remember that i have a camera in my pocket.

video on the other hand could be an issue if it obstructs people's views for relatively long periods of time. it's never bothered me but i can see why it'd be an issue for others

what's much worse than either is people singing along loudly. that's far more worthy of genital molestation.

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i hate this

I'm more pissed that I have to sort through countless shitty mobile phone videos to find the good vids of concerts (shot with real cameras) that I want to watch on youtube.

at least at the old SP live shows video camera phones weren't around yet, or there would literally be millions more shitty videos on youtube from the SD-MCIS era.

i would pay a couple bucks to pretend to record michael gira on a cell phone if i knew it would bother him

that's weird, when i saw swans someone's phone was ringing constantly

I wish I could see Swans. What was the set list like?

i'm an old man so if i'm at a show i am most likely in the balcony area/way out of the way of the normal crowd. and if i take pictures i'm almost always literally in no one's way at all.

um, actually you would still be in God's way since he's, like literally, everywhere

um...

um, actually you would still be in God's way since he's, like literally, everywhere
you ever think that maybe it's GOD whose in my way? YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT, SOUL SISTER?!

lol @ going to concerts

what's much worse than either is people singing along loudly. that's far more worthy of genital molestation.

are you fucking serious?

LIKE REALLY GUY

what if the cell phone photographer (the "perp") is a eunuch? WHAT THEN??

i'm pretty sure eunuchs still have dicks

i mean a nigga's gotta pee, amirite?

maybe it's just a hole, like a woman

and it just dribbles out

yikes

I wish I could see Swans. What was the set list like?
it was a pretty long set, most of the stuff from the most recent album but also lots of old songs. nothing from their very early phase unfortunately. that's as much as i remember

what's some of their other good shit that i would be able to find?

What is the history of eunuchs? Like when did is start and how did they know the testicles were the alleged source for the voice change? Did they know about hormones then? Never mind I can add to my list of "shit to google when bored"..

wikipedia.org

uhm or google.com like i said

what's that?

NOT SIGNED

LOL @ your avatar dude :D