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galen · 2192 days ago · link · · parent · post: Relentless noise and stimulus are ruining the languorous pleasures of baseball
I went to a German Bundesliga game and they played the exact same 10-second organ recording anytime the ball wasn't in motion. People clapped along the entire time. I wanted to die.
ghostoffuffle · 2191 days ago · link ·
That's my nightmarethe preponderance of American pop music is based on the beat of two and four," he says. "You'll have a lot of cultural influences that cause people to do one and three. I remember being in the Vienna Stadthalle — the town hall in Vienna, with about 12,000 people in it — and it was, like, Teutonic.