At the Black Ghosts concert last night, I saw a hipster with one of those neat-o vertical camcorders.

I think it was a Sanyo Xacti HD1000. It was so sleek and compact, it mesmerized me in all of its simplicity. It put my walkman cell phone camcorder to so much shame that I lost all desire to use it.

Most of the vertical camcorders I’d seen were those cheap Flip Photo or Aiptek ones you can buy at Walgreens. But the Sanyo models seem okay, almost cool even! They film in HD and use decently large flash memory cards. Now, if I could just find $600-$700 dollars lying around, I too could post youtube concert videos like this one.