The 10 Commandments Guidelines of Concert Behavior cont.

This weeks commandment really strikes home for me. Just last month I was at a concert and there was this horrendously annoying girl in front of us that was video taping the entire show on her cell phone. I know that when I am video taping I have a hard enough time keeping the camera steady so I know that she must of watched her video footage later and puked since she was dancing around like a drunk baboon.

IV. Thou Shalt Not Take Crappy Pictures With Your Cell Phone

When Smashing Pumpkins played St. Paul last year, Billy Corgan's appearance onstage was greeted equally by cheers and cameraphones stretched skyward. It was comical, and lucky me had the option of watching the Pumpkins through approximately 500 1"x1" low-resolution screens. Most people around me spent the majority of the show working through this process:

1. Snap picture with phone
2. Evaluate picture
3. Decide it's shite
4. Delete picture
5. Return to step 1

Now, I'm not saying that cameraphones are inherently evil or useless. If you're at a county fair and catch a barbershop quartet of Elvis, D.B. Cooper, Tupac and Bigfoot performing Daisy Bell, by all means, snap away. Otherwise, here's a crazy idea. Just enjoy the show. Listen. Watch. Form memories; they'll last way longer than your phone and will ultimately serve you much better than another 50 blurry, overexposed and heavily pixelated pictures of James Murphy partially obscured by my fat head.


Previous Guidelines:
I. Thou Shalt Not Puke
II. Thou Shalt Not Fart
III. Thou Shalt Not Smoke