Wednesday 29 Jan 2003
Lessons learned: Aimee Mann and the Apple Store
Well, I’ve tried several times to write about Annette’s and my experience this last weekend, but I’m just not a narrative writer. I’ll leave that to my friend Daniel.
Anyway, here are the lessons learned, instead:
- Aimee Mann concerts are really, really, really good. Go see her if she comes to your part of the world.
- It’s good for artists to own the copyright on their own works.
- Being first in line to an Apple Store Grand Opening is very cool (if you’re a Mac geek). Except, in our case, it wasn’t so much cool as it was cold — we got there at 6:30 AM and had to camp out in windy 36°F weather for 3½ hours.
- If you and three other guys show up to the Apple Store at 6 AM but decide to go spend an hour at the Starbucks down the road, don’t be surprised if you come back and Annette and I have taken your place without even knowing it.
- 76-year old ladies standing in line for an Apple Store Grand Opening can be fascinating. Best line: “All my life I look at walls — I sit in a chair and look at the wall and then I go look out the window and look at another wall. When I die, I don’t want to be looking at a wall… I want to be doing something else — like painting a picture.”
- The new 12″ PowerBook G4 is the coolest small notebook in the world.
- If possible, do what I did and marry a Mac geek.
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Nice pics of the apple store. I didn’t realize they had another one opening in Dallas county. Any plans for some Fort Worth love from Apple?
Comment by brian hall | Wednesday 29 Jan 2003, 10:51 am
Yeah, it’s much quicker to get to from Fort Worth than the Willow Bend store is.
I haven’t heard anything about a Fort Worth store. Sure would be cool. Last thing I heard was that they were going to be slowing down their rate of new store building. Apple hates us Fort Worth bumpkins.
Comment by Grady Haynes | Wednesday 29 Jan 2003, 3:38 pm
booo macs, lol
-T-
Comment by Dr. Taylor L. Smith | Friday 31 Jan 2003, 10:11 pm
ps: the bit about the 76 year-old ladies is like the most profound thing I have ever heard. serioulsly! :)
-T-
Comment by Dr. Taylor L. Smith | Friday 31 Jan 2003, 10:13 pm
!(booo macs, lol)
Comment by laura dunning | Saturday 01 Feb 2003, 10:08 pm
I agree with everything you said. I would like to add a few things…
1. Stand your ground in an Aimee Mann concert… I will not be moved!
2. Double your socks if you are going to wait outside in 36 degree weather for 3 1/2 hours.
3. A 76 year old woman can work a Mac… so why can’t my parents?
4. It is great being married to a Mac geek who dresses like Steve Jobs at the opening of a brand new store (I, of course, had to reply :). I love you Steve… er… Grady!
Comment by Annette | Monday 03 Feb 2003, 1:05 am