Crackling

Here's something that's always bothered me somewhat about entertainment venues. First off, let me say that I like music. I even like loud rock music - not all of it, but enough to qualify for a place in the "likes loud rock music" category. When I go to a place to relax with friends and have a beer or what have you, I like to have some music in the background. The trouble is lots of places play their music so ridiculously loud as to negate all pretense of conversation or enjoyment of what's going on. This leads me to avoid most places altogether. If I were in charge of this music, I would recognize the fact that it is just simply bad business to play music so loud and I would cease and desist from it entirely. I also should say that earlier this week I mistakenly walked into the phenomenon known as Karaoke. Picture a guy in his late fourties trying to sing Axel Rose. It was that bad. Worse, probably. I can't remember.