NoiseNoiseNoise

I commented earlier about how loud America was (when, to be fair, I should have been referring only to California, and even that would be unfair, since Yosemite isn't nearly that loud, so let us just say there's a spot in the San Fernando Valley that's really really really loud on Friday nights). The conference I was attending held a reception on Saturday night at a club in the Universal City CityWalk. As the music got louder and louder, a colleague from Portland sat at the bar muttering, "If it's not loud enough, people will start thinking, and if they start thinking, they'll start getting ideas."