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iPhone-Wielding Hipsters Ruining It For Other iPhone-Wielding Hipsters
Neutral Milk Hotel recluse Jeff Mangum will be making a rare appearance at a benefit show here in town this May, and it's already causing controversy!
Since the show will certainly sell out quickly no matter what, we'll be honest and say that while there is no artist we'd rather see perform than Mangum (in the world), the fact that every single person there will be holding up a Flip Cam or iPhone to record it, ruining the moment and breaking our hearts, means we will be skipping the show and waiting for the YouTube footage to be uploaded that night. (And no, the irony of that isn't lost on us.)
This is the best excuse I've heard to avoid making a charitable contribution yet. Also, probably true.
Christ, that's it? I'd be happy if camera-wielding concert-goers would just shut the fuck up during the performance.
Although The Magnetic Fields crowd was pretty well behaved. Nerds.
That's because we were all sitting down!
Sitting down makes such a difference, it's true!
Ugh sitting at concerts is THE WORST.
LOL, but here: if the show does not sell out, I will buy a ticket the day of and go. But that doesn't mean I won't probably end up telling some cam-wielding tumblr striver "You don't deserve to be here."
And I will show up with my parents c. 1977 two part VHS unit and claim I am being 'old school.'
I DON'T CARE I'M GOING AND NOT RECORDING A SECOND OF IT AND I. WILL. DIE.
When I die, I would like the bagpipe solo from "Untitled" to be played at my funeral.
You know who ruins it for everyone, every time? People who play Neutral Milk Hotel on bar jukeboxes.
ohmygodYES.
Yes, this.
I'm Old and would like someone Young to explain to me why so many of your people compulsively document events rather than experiencing them.
(And yes, I am the lady who elbowed you at Terminal 5 and made you drop your camera phone into your beer. The flash was driving me nuts.)
Concur. I've never agreed with a point more deeply.
And I do not give a shit what they're charging, I am going, and will gently upbraid anyone I see with a camera out, because violence has no place in such a setting. But then I will change my mind and stab that person. Because come the fuck on.
Is there no place in this world for transcendence anymore?
You know? Just when I decide I'm not moving back to NY anytime soon, shit like this happens and makes me hate my culturally bereft second-class city.
And ugh this is happening on a Thursday. I couldn't even bus up for it if I wanted without taking off two days from work to do so.