In contrast, we could give a rat's ass about YOU and your personal experience. Newsflash: we all know how much fun it is to go to a show, get drunk, and meet people, and don't need you to remind us. Get over yourselves. Save that shit for your tweets and twitters and facebooks and IMs or whatever. What we DON'T know and what we want to hear is what actually went down ONSTAGE. You know, your view as a fan, i.e. "fanview".
Thank you. End of rant.
Denver. In fan club section with one dude texting and posting on Facebook. Yeah he was the fan club member not his his buddy. Another guy kept taking selfies. So he'd turn around facing us and taking pictures with goofy fucking face. He was also the ten club member. Neither of these humans gave a crap about those a around them. Oh and chick videoing with her flash turned on.
Point, we unfortunately have created self absorbed idiots with technology and posts on this board will contain these perspectives.
Reflecting upon the comments and criticisms to my rant, I have a slightly different perspective about what's posted in the fanviews thread. I must concede that my understanding of the purpose of the thread was too narrow minded, and that people enjoy reading and sharing everything about their show experience, not just the band's performance, and that's perfectly legit. Sorry for my misconception.
Still, I hope that some folks who are lucky enough to go to these epic shows will be generous enough with their time and insight to share some cool moments that happen onstage. Some of your comments to my rant criticized me for not thinking in the inclusive spirit of the PJ community, where all perspectives are welcomed, but I think cool people taking the time and making the effort to share insights into the performance helps the communal spirit.
Another thing these comments have made me realize is that social media is having a huge impact on how people are communicating these days. Having searched the fanviews from 2006 when someone called me out for an example of an "epic" one I posted, they were a lot longer and more insightful. That could be down to the fact that they predate twitter and instagram, and that culture now demands brevity. Proof of that is someone's comment to my rant "TLDR", which I had to google to find out that an acronym actually exists for "too long didn't read". That is sad to me, as is many of the criticisms posted here in which people are indignant that I should expect them to actually read or write something literate that is also longer than a sentence or two. (I'm sure someone won't miss the opportunity to respond "TLDR" to this post, too.)
To veddertown, I get the sarcasm of your fanview, but I'm not complaining about the fanviews being too short, I'm complaining about the content being inane. Your example is longer, but still lousy at communicating something interesting. Still, I would much rather read that kind of fanview then stuff like, "Sorry to the girls who my hammered buddy passed out on top of. Hope it didn't fuck up your show too much."
In my original rant, I wasn't claiming that I was right about anything or that there is a required format for fanviews. I was just expressing my frustration that I can read three or four pages of fanviews and still barely know what happened. It's because I love PJ shows, I wish I could have been there, and I'd love to know as much as I can about it all.
Lousy! :((
*no offence taken*
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Like a book among the many on a shelf...
Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12
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Point, we unfortunately have created self absorbed idiots with technology and posts on this board will contain these perspectives.
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*no offence taken*
Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
Manchester MEN - 20/06/12. Manchester MEN - 21/06/12