I don’t like it when

I don’t like it when people add soundtracks to YouTube videos. It’s almost always awful work. Just give us the raw footage. Much more powerful. I don’t need your choice of soundtrack telling me how I should feel about what I’m seeing.

It seems to be an American disease, I’m afraid. Once I knew a European, a great hockey fan, who was living in the USA. At one point, mildly outraged, he gave up watching hockey highlights on ESPN, because “they add heavy metal music to all of it.” What a terrible idea.