In my day, we went to a music show and we listened to the music.  Okay, sure, you could often see flashbulbs popping around the club or stadium as people attempted to capture a visual souvenir.  But it’s become completely out of control these days with people’s digital cameras and blackberries, clicking away during the show at all times as they try to snag an image or a video clip.  I’ve seen people practically watch the show through the lens of their mobile devices, recording away instead of losing themselves to the music.

Why do they do this? Is it so necessary that your YouTube page get tons of hits?  Are you bragging to your friends that you’re at a show, when they, in fact, probably had something better to do--like see a band and actually listen to the music? 

Don’t you understand that the few weeks have been terrible, like a brick bat slamming against the back of your head?  And that next week could very well be like a wheelbarrow of granite rocks being dumped on your face? And that this is potentially your only chance to escape it all as LoveFoxx, lead singer of Brazilian indie dance outfit CSS, launches into an awesome version of “Let’s Make Love (And Listen to Death From Above)”?  And that you really need to detach yourselves from your material objects and dance? And that if you don’t, there’s a very good chance that I’m going to punch you in the back of the head?

And that I’m not just saying all this because I failed to catch a single good shot of LoveFoxx?