The Case For Being a Snob (Complimentary)

Or: How to Slow the Fuck Down

Ciao, ragazzi! This week and the next, I’m in Bologna taking Italian lessons for no particular reason except that life is short. While I’m away, I’m trying to slow everything down. No set plans outside of class. No eating on the run. No compulsive new album listening. I even thought briefly about not publishing. Instead, I asked one of my favorite music writers, Jacqui Devaney, to tap in while I’m tapped out. It just so happens that she wrote about exactly the kind of unhurried enjoyment I want to channel. Kismet, perhaps? But also an extension of the homework assignment I set for all of us back in January.

Enjoy. A presto.

-Gabbie

P.S. All footnotes are mine ;)