Concerts and Ipods

Ok so I am just having a little love/hate relationship with a well know on-line auction site at the moment. I am trying to buy an Ipod and I know exactly what I want and today it was within my grasp until the last 10 sec. when someone else took it away by bidding just a little bit quicker! Ugh...oh well I guess that means that there is a better one out there for me somewhere. Maybe that one was faulty and I just didn't need it anyway or maybe it would have gotten lost in the mail on the way here, or maybe... wow I can rationalize anything can't I??! So anyway I am still looking and bidding. Do any of you have them? Do you like them?

Concerts...there are some things about live concerts that really bug me. Like why do people feel the need to yell into the microphone so you can't understand a word they say? Even more annoying why do the performers insist on leaving the stage before they are really finished and then make us stand and clap and stomp and whistle and whatever else before they come back out and finish the concert? What is the point of this? Do they really need us to feed their egos or what? Why not just finish and let us go home or at the most tell us they are finishing and then give us an encore without all this hoopla? I guess I just don't understand it so it annoys me a little. If anyone can shed light on this please do.
On a brighter note our choir concert went well tonight, could have been longer but it went well just the same. And the Newsboys concert that I went to on Sunday was pretty good. I could have well done without the headliner bands that they had first (Kutless and Stellar Kart) but Newsboys was pretty good. I would see them again. They did a really fun duling drum thing towards the end which I really enjoyed. The drumers were on platforms that were on hydrolics and they went up off the stage about 15-20 feet and one of them actually tipped completely onto it's side and rotated around while the guy was drumming. It was actually quite entertaining and I enjoyed it very much. I also got a laugh when they were doing a song about the darkness of the world and the light shinning all around. They turned the house lights down and asked everyone to get out their cell phones and turn them on. So there I sat surrounded by hundreds of cell phones waving in the dark like little flashlights! I seriously found it amusing. I guess you had to be there!