In what will hopefully become a recurring segment, I present to you the first Special Edition Report, this time written by Old School Movie friend, John Surico (pictured left). Below you'll find his post-semester thoughts on Florence, expressed through, of course, a list of songs. He wrote this awhile ago, but, well, I was rather slow in getting it up here. Whatever. Enjoy:
I usually don't do this type of thing (my posts consist more of funny cat videos and recipes for delicious vegan meals) but I have decided to drop a guest post on this here blog to share a voice on the semester in Toscana. Ya know, I can talk about Italian food, Italian women, where I have traveled or any of that other monotonous dribble but that would just be a waste of space and Internet oxygen. If you really care about those things, ask me personally and I will give you about ten or fifteen minutes of my time since I live, as most people know, an extremely busy life. However, instead, I have chosen to interpret my time here through the medium of music since I have a firm belief that music speaks twenty times louder than words, especially when it's blasting out of a speaker and you could not even hear the person speaking words next to you. With that being said, here is a playlist of my top ten favorite songs that I have been playing in my head while I, as a fellow colleague of mine would say in cold blood, "stared at you all". Mind you, there is no particular order or a sense of theme to them; if you wanted to find "deepening" in my choices, go take 'Writing the Essay" and then come talk to me. Until then, take ten minutes out of your time on Facebook and give them, for the love of Mother Nature, a quick listen:
Continue reading for John's picks.
