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I am 42 years old and always wanted to learn to play guitar since high school. I even bought a couple cheap guitars, would learn a riff or two and then forget about it.
Two months ago, I won an estate auction lot that included a really cheap acoustic guitar and decided to try again. After finding some random YouTube searches (what a great resource that I didn't have back when I tried to learn last time) I came across Justin Guitar and decided to follow his lessons. They are awesome. I love how forgiving he is for beginners (emphasizing the feel of music feeling good rather than the techniques being perfect).
Today I finished Grade 1 Mod 6. While grilling and hanging out in the backyard, I brought out the guitar and just played around with the chords I know. My wife stopped me and asked "Was that Breakfast at Tiffany's?" "No, but I wonder if I could play it" Looked it up and what do you know? G, A, and D?! Throughout the whole song?! I can do that! Spent a couple minutes getting the rhythm right and soon we were playing and singing the song in the backyard. This is why I wanted to learn, to be able to at least play around.
Today was probably the first day I could call myself a guitarist, a beginner, but still a guitarist! I love it!

Just back from a glorious 9 days in Rome. There's no other place like it and I felt so lucky to be able to go, My three initial aims in this trip were: (a) see my hometown hero Bruce Springsteen amongst my ancestral people (they literally sing along to not just the lyrics but the guitar riffs etc too) as well as (b) sink or swim as I continue to practice my Italian language skills (I've been taking lessons with a tutor for 2 years but there's nothing like just being thrown into the world of the language to sharpen up and get very comfortable conversing) and (c) do hours upon hours of photo walks (I ended up averaging 30k steps a day every day aside from the two sick days).
In brief, I split the trip up into two halves: the first half I stayed up on Avantino hill (it's very close to the Circo Massimo, so it was an easy spot for the concert) and the second half in a quiet pocket of Trastevere a block or two west of the river south of Ponte Paladino.
My Avantino air bnb host gave me some great neighborhood places in nearby Testaccio (another wonderful neighborhood that tourists don't seem to wander into very much), and I found a fantastic and slightly quirky place for espresso also in Testaccio (I'm an espresso fiend).
If you haven't been to Avantino, it almost reminded me of the Italian Beacon Hill (for those familiar with Boston). It had the feeling of a Tuscan village that just happened to be somehow in the middle of Rome. It's where the famous key hole is that frames St. Peters, as well as the Giardino degli Aranci and Santa Sabina's, which is a gorgeous church from 422 AD. Staying here felt very relaxing and peaceful and even though some tourists did make their way to the keyhole every day, it had a very tranquil vibe, despite the fact that Circo Massimo was 5 minutes north and Testaccio was 5 minutes south.
Given that my favorite thing to do on vacation is just wander around with my Ricoh GR, I would begin every day in Avantino thusly:
Get up, have an espresso at Tram Depot (always at the bar), walk around for a few hours and just see what I can find. Maybe I'd get a quick breakfast bite at the outstanding Casa Manco in the Testaccio market. Then I'd go to for a big lunch at the wonderful Pecorino (also in Testaccio). This lunch would usually last an hour or two. It's a very cozy restaurant and the waiters are all very nice and so I'd often bring a book along with me or a notebook or I'd transfer pictures from my camera to my phone for editing in between courses. Lunch was often my largest meal of the day and sometimes my only "meal" of the day. (In normal life I train for marathons and am in the gym often and I'm super on top of my macros and making sure I get X amount of protein etc...on this trip, this was not the case.)
If I couldn't get into Pecorino for lunch or didn't end up in that area for lunch time, I'd either go there for dinner when they opened, or another excellent Testaccio spot called Perilli's. (There's also Piato Romano, which had excellent food but not quite the same cozy ambience as Pecorino.) I pretty much mainlined Amatriciana and Carbonara along with involtini, braised oxtail, and as much tiramisu as I could politely hurl into my maw. I like establishing some routines or rituals when I travel, especially when I travel solo, to help give the trip some grounding. It's also nice when you are far from home to be able to walk into a place where people begin to recognize you and accept you into their little circle, even if it is temporary.
For the second half of the trip in Trastevere...I got COVID! Sort of. The day after the concert, I noticed a heavy feeling in my upper airway/chest, but I figured it must have been all the second hand smoke I inhaled during the concert (from my observations, Romans thoroughly enjoy cigarettes). I wear an oura ring and while my HRV was low, nothing else stood out. That night though I developed a fever and spent the entire next day in bed. I was bummed, but frankly, after 5 nights in a row of being out from 8am to midnight, I needed a rest day anyway, so it wasn't bad timing. (How's that for spin?)
Not sure what my actual temperature was, but my oura ring said I was 4.3 degrees above my nightly average baseline, so I'm guessing my temperature was around 100-101 as my normal temperature on a thermometer seems to be around 96.6. I spent a good chunk of the next day in bed also, just napping (which was fairly pleasant as the cool breeze came in through the window, carrying the sounds of the three churches on Avantino, not to mention the bird calls and the pleasing sounds of people enjoying their meals on the street below). My baseline temp deviation was only +2 degrees the second night and by the end of the day, I felt good enough to have an appetite, but not quite good enough to stand upright, so I ordered some Trapizzino on uber eats (the polpetti/sugo and the melanzane were both glorious) and that revived me. By the next morning I was better!
(In the end, I think this was covid because while I only had the fever for the two sick days, I lost most of my sense of smell sometime Thursday afternoon despite feeling fine. So maybe Covid? In the end, I missed out on a trip to Ostia Antica and a food tour, but the trip still felt extremely full of experiences.)
The rest of my time in Trastevere was great. Just wandering all around those crazy little winding streets, snapping away, always fueld by a caffè from the gruff but character-rich Bar San Calisto or the one across from my apartment, which was called "404 Name Not Found." I did eat lunch one day at Da Enzo which was good but not sure it's worth the hype given how much excellent food I had at restaurants with very little fanfare. Da Enzo ended up being a great experience though because when they asked me how many and I said, "da solo," they asked if I would share the table if there was another single. I said sure, and ended up being paired up with a fellow endurance athlete, this one from France. Just one of the many fanciful moments that can happen when you travel solo. We also hung out again the next day for most of the morning and afternoon, and this was a sort of theme for my trip: running into people left and right, connecting, and making fast friends. This is how I found myself getting invited to a Roman birthday party at the Piazza Testaccio one night for what felt like my 10th "out past midnight" night of the trip (again, a far cry from my normal life of "in bed at 9").
In the end, what I will take away from this trip are a few things:
-the magic of learning a second language, and noticing your skills improving with every chat. Just the pleasure of hearing the Italian language and getting to practice it all day, every day (while making many mistakes). If you're going to Rome or Italy in general, I highly recommend you try and get yourself up to A2 in Italian. It's such a pleasurable language to speak and embrace, even if it's just at a beginner's level.
-the many conversations I had with shop owners or fellow bar patrons and the high-five I would give myself in my head when they would ask "if you're American, how come your accent is so good?" (Again, I'm a B1 speaker on my best day, but the compliment would always make my day given my beginner's nervousness at the start of the trip). A few times, people even just began talking to me, assuming I was Italian. (I am Italian-American, but having a Roman just start talking to you as one of their own meant a lot to the part of me that loves being Italian and feels a strong connection to the country, even from afar.)
-The Italian crowd at the Bruce show. Just a blast to sing along with them into the Roman sky, surrounded by ruins.
-Mornings in Avantino spent in quiet contemplation in Santa Sabina or St Anselmo. A few times, the respective organists were practicing and I got my own concert.
-After my two days sick in bed, when I returned to the Tram Depot and Casa Manco for sustenance, the proprietors both asked me one version or another or "tutto bene?" (as if to say, where ya been?). The man at Casa Manco blurted out "buon tornato!" when he saw me approach. Very warm-hearted people and they made me feel at home (along with the Pecorino staff, who were very kind to me and likely a little amused, wondering, why is this random American dude here every day eating for 2 hours?)
-A basic observation: I appreciated how people across seemingly different walks of life all talk to each other as equals. I saw street sweepers chatting with businessmen in the street in a way that would seem less likely in America. Maybe this is a class thing? Perhaps the gap in salaries is not so large like it is in America, and therefore people feel like one giant middle class together? Related: many younger Italians I spoke to told me how hard it was to live in Rome as a young person, as salaries were not very good, and unless you had 1-2 roommates or parents who could pay your rent, you would most likely have a longer commute coming into the city every day.
-The fact that behind every nook and cranny and around every corner, there is something spectacular to see. Whether it's the ruins that stand adjacent to the jewish ghetto in a reminder of the layers upon layers of civilizations that once existed in this city, or just the way the morning light creates a shaft down some medieval cobblestone street, it is a magical place to walk around. By the end of each very long day, my mind was just fried, both from working overtime with trying to speak Italian and from the sheer overstimulation of seeing so much beauty.
Anyway, this was not my first trip to Rome, but it was my first trip in MANY years, and it was precisely the life affirming and humanity affirming trip I needed this year after a rough and precarious start to 2023. Next trip, I will likely fly into Rome, spend 3-ish days there, and then head somewhere to the southern coast. As much as I love Roman food, it would be nice to be inundated with fresh sardines the same way this trip found me OD'ing on carbonara.
Anyway, thank you to Rome and it's people for one of the best times in my 39 years.
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(If anyone is curious, I'll be posting many photos from this trip at my IG @ rovinglumix.

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Today's anniversaries are:
1979

• Neil Chotem - Live au El Casino (Jazz)

2002

• Venetian Snares - Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006 (electronic, idm, analog, breakcore, jungle, Winnipeg)

2011

• Thantifaxath - Thantifaxath (experimental black metal)

2013

• Tesseract - Altered State (Pop, Rock, Hard Rock, Metal) Read our review.

2014

• Archive - Axiom (Electro)
  
• Earth's Yellow Sun - Prologue (djent, instrumental, metal, progressive metal, Toronto)
  
• Marty Friedman - Inferno (metal, Japan)
  
• ᑕᓐᔭ ᑕᒐᖅ (Tanya Tagaq) - Animism (Alternative)
  

2015

• Kardia - Symbiotic (instrumental metal, metal, progressive rock, djent, experimental metal, instrumental, instrumental metal, knoxville, metal, phat beetz, progressive metal, progressive rock, rock, Knoxville)

2016

• Bedowyn - Blood of the Fall (metal, classic metal, doom, heavy, heavy metal, heavy rock, thrash, Raleigh) Read our review.
  
• Big Big Train - Folklore (rock, prog rock, progressive rock, United Kingdom)
  
• Cetacean - Breach, Submerge (metal, black floyd, black metal, doom, prog, slowpeth, California) Read our review.
  
• Dumb Waiter - Cancel Christmas (experimental, jazz fusion, metal, avant-garde, jazz rock, jazzrock, mathrock, Richmond)
  
• Frost - Falling Satellites (Rock) Read our review.
  
• Gutter Instinct - Age of the Fanatics (black metal, death metal, gutter instinct, metal, prosthetic records, Helsingborg) Read our review.
  
• Mammal Hands - Floa (jazz, mammal hands, manchester, world, ambient, electronica, folk, gondwana records, jazz, melodic, Norwich) Read our review.
  
• Minarchist - In Absence (black metal, death metal, death metal, metal, black metal, djent, guitar, prog metal, progressive metal, shred, Philadelphia) Read our review.
  
• Moulettes - Preternatural (Rock)
  
• Red Dawn - Algorithm of Destruction (death metal, metal, modern, technical, modern, technical, Rennes)
  
• The Jelly Jam - Profit (Rock)
  

2017

• Sorrow Plagues - Homecoming ()
  
• 柏大輔 (Kashiwa Daisuke) - Re: Red (alternative, japan, tokyo, virgin babylon, Japan)
  

2018

• Loop Vertigo - Neocortex (jazz, electronica, nu-jazz, progressive, Athens)

2019

• Fixions - 眠れる人の守リ人 (Nemureru hito no mori Ri hito / Sleepwatcher) (electronic, idm, cyberpunk, cyberwave, dark synth, darksynth, dreamwave, electro, newretrowave, outrun, synthwave, Aix En Provence)
  
• Good Night Owl - Truthmaster (experimental, eclectic, multi-genre, progressive metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, Philadelphia)
  
• Time Bomb - Equus (deathcore, metal, tech metal, arms, berried alive, crust, grindcore, mathcore, prog metal, Fresno)
  
• Unknown Artist - A Pig's Head on a Stick (black metal, death metal, metal, black metal, death metal, grind core, grindcore, France)
  
• Youff - 20/20 Hindsight (experimental, stadskanker, three one g, hardcore, hindsight, noise, noise rock, noiserock, skingraft records, thrill jockey, Ghent)
  
• Zlatko Kaučič, Lotte Anker, Johannes Bauer, Agustí Fernández, Artur Majewski, Rafał Mazur, Phil Minton, and Evan Parker - Diversity #2 (jazz, free jazz, improvised music, jazz, Slovenia)
  
• Zlatko Kaučič, Lotte Anker, Johannes Bauer, Agustí Fernández, Artur Majewski, Rafał Mazur, Phil Minton, and Evan Parker - Diversity #3 (jazz, free jazz, improvised music, jazz, Slovenia)
  

2020

• Dave Rempis, Jim Baker, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Avreeayl Ra - Millenniums (free jazz)
  
• Holy Grinder - Divine Extinction (grindcore)
  
• Serpents of Pakhangba - Serpents of Pakhangba (avant-prog, world fusion) Read our review.
  
• Омега Клустер (Omega Kluster) - Prequel (progressive metal, chiptune)
  
• 梵人譚 (Bonjin tan) - Dental Kafka (free jazz)
  

2021

• Devin Drobka Trio - Resorts (avant-garde jazz)
  
• i.o - Blasted Sentinel (free improvisation, noise)
  
• i.o - No Guardians for Rusted Remains (free improvisation)
  
• i.o - The Same as My Red (free improvisation)
  
• Peasant - Kingdom (hardcore)
  
• Polieffekt - Для машин (Dlja mašin) (math rock)
  
• Юрий Виноградов (Jurij Vinogradov) - L'Azur (contemporary classical)
  

2022

• Age of Fable - Modern Ethos (progressive rock)
  
• Boy Band - Unilateroloid (experimental rock) Read our review.
  
• Dave Kerman & 5UU's - The Quiet in Your Bones (avant-prog)
  
• David Virelles - Nuna (modern jazz)
  
• Decapitated - Cancer Culture (death metal)
  
• Delusional Mind - Melted into Air (jazz fusion)
  
• Dendê & Band - Agô (world fusion)
  
• Desert Near the End - The Dawning of the Son (power thrash metal)
  
• Doldrum - The Knocking; or, the Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance (avant-garde black metal)
  
• Dopapod - Dopapod (progressive rock, funk)
  
• EABS - 2061 (spiritual jazz)
  
• Esthesis Quartet - Esthesis Quartet (avant-garde jazz)
  
• Giovanni Mirabassi & Christos Rafalides - Silver Lining (modern jazz)
  
• Heaving Earth - Darkness of God (avant-garde death metal)
  
• Hexsystem - Nuclear Summer (instrumental electro)
  
• Hifiklub & Scorpion Dagger - Scorpklub Ⅰ & Ⅱ (experimental rock)
  
• Holocausto canibal - Crueza ferina (deathgrind)
  
• House of Waters - Where I Wander (jazz fusion)
  
• I Am the Trireme - Magnum opus (progressive black metal)
  
• I Watched Myself Sleep - Vachschlav (blackened deathcore)
  
• Just Mustard - Heart Under (post-punk) Read our review.
  
• March! - Youthless (alternative metal)
  
• Mono - 私のはなし 部落のはなし (Watashi no hanashi Buraku no hanashi / My Story, the Buraku Story) (post-rock, soundtrack)
  
• Mournful Congregation - The Exuviæ of Gods, Part Ⅰ (doom metal)
  
• Nick Macri & 物の哀れ (Mono no aware) - Amache (experimental rock)
  
• Nikitch & Kuna Maze - Back & Forth (R&B, nu jazz)
  
• Nimbus Sextet - Forward Thinker (nu jazz)
  
• Olhava - Reborn (blackgaze)
  
• Quentin Tolimieri - Monochromes (contemporary classical)
  
• Ramon Chicharron - Destello de estrellas (Latin pop)
  
• Sacrifizer - Le Diamant de Lucifer (blackened thrash metal)
  
• Secret Gardens - Everbloom (nu prog)
  
• Sensory Amusia - Breed Death (technical death metal)
  
• Serling - Next Stop, Willoughby (mathcore)
  
• Shkura - Never Oppose Own Senseless Existence (post-grindcore)
  
• Sightseers - Sightseers (post-rock)
  
• Sisyphean - Colours of Faith (atmospheric black metal)
  
• Soft Ffog - Soft Ffog (jazz fusion, progressive rock)
  
• Stefan Orins Trio - October 11 (free improvisation)
  
• Steven Ricks - Assemblage Chamber (chamber music)
  
• Storm Ross - The Meridian (progressive rock, math rock)
  
• The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow (death metal)
  
• True Champions Ride on Speed - Hars (math rock, noise rock)
  
• Ulf Ivarsson & Bill Laswell - 𒀭𒇉 (Nammu) (avant-garde jazz)
  
• 山童 (Yama Warashi) - Crispy Moon (world fusion)