crappy pictures of a great rock concert

So I was at this awsome rock concert over the weekend; Matt Mays and El Torpedo, if you've never heard them, you should. It was at the Commodore, which is the best venu in Vancouver in my opinion, the crowd was awsome, and their playlist was compiled of all the fan favorites. Wicked show. So I'm rocking out like a maniac spilling crown and cola all over myself, my girls friend is smacking everyone around her with her hair whilst head-banging, and there is a continuous flow of sweaty bodies surfing over head: as far as I'm concerned, this is what rock concerts are all about, this is what I pay my money for.

However, there was a great number of people that apparently pay their money for far different reasons. Looking around there was an obvious amount of people with their cell phones focusing on their small little screens and recording crummy little pixelated videos - extremely poor representations of only a fraction of the over all experience.

Whats the deal? I'm spilling my booze all over you and you don't even notice because your too busy missing the show by recording something your going to post on Facebook and then never watch again.

What happened to living for the moment?

Over the weekend i met up with a bunch of family i hadn't seen in a long time. One of my favorite cousins pointed out my new phone and compared it to the old peice of junk i used to have. This got me thinking about the "alternative" ways i used to use my cell phone..... it truelly was a multimedia device.

Sure i used my phone for communication, but half the time that invovled getting somebodies attention by throwing it at them from across the room.

I didn't much like the checkers or tetris games it came with, so half the time it was used as a puck, baseball, or a hacky sack.

And no it couldn't play music, operate a GPS system or shoot lasers, but it sure could open a bottle of beer! how many Iphones can do that?

RIP Nokia model what-ever-you-were: you truelly brought people together. Your replacement couldn't hold a candle to your rugged nature and i doubt it would skip half as many times before meeting its own watery demise.

Mind reading MP3 player!!!

I don't know if this has ever happened to you... its happened a couple times where I have my mp3 player on shuffle, I'm listening to a song, with another song in my mind then bam!!! that song comes on next... Is my mp3 player reading my mind?????? This got me thinking a little bit.

There are technologies out there like the neuroswitch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWe5YVV9dWs if adapted, advanced, and combined with portable devices like the Iphone which are perpetually "connected" could have very ominous consequences.

What say you?