Paul LeCrone's Newsletter (You Will Click This)
I really want to rename this "Paul LeCrone's Dumpster Fire" Or, simply, "The Dumpster Fire" Or, simply, "Dumpster Fire"
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Hey, it’s Paul. Welcome to yet another edition of 7Inspirations, informally known as “The Dumpster Fire.” In this you’ll find 7 things I couldn’t help but share.
Fun fact: I almost quit doing this newsletter like 9 times. Why? Wasn’t enjoying it. Tried too hard to come across as I’m interesting and wise. But I’m neither, and I don’t mean that pessimistically. Admitting that to myself has been liberating. You should try it sometime.
Also, I’m enjoying writing/making/shitting out this newsletter every weekend because now I’m holding SPACE for myself to give myself PERMISSION to be myself🌸😊🌸😊🌸😊🌸😊🌸😊.
Aka be a bitter asshole and rant about things I don’t like :) But don’t worry — my main intent here is to showcase things I LOVE. Music, songs, books, quotes, you know, cool stuff made by people way smarter and more creative than I am.
ANYWAYS Newsletter time.
WAit, before we get into it, lemme tell you about EMPATHY TEMPLATES
TIME FOR A RANT
(I know this is like a year old)
Yeah, templates. For empathy. You know how everyone wants to be empathetic these days? It’s the hottest buzzword this side of Accountability Avenue. Everyone and their sister wants to be seen as the most vulnerable, empathetic, and accountable person. Otherwise you’re basically worse than Josh Hawley.
Lucky for us, we can use these handy TEMPLATES to become just such a person.
What I find so stupid about these things is that anyone who even has an ounce of empathy in their body would never resort to using a prewritten template. Yeah, I’m going to use someone else’s words to respond to you. Boy, what a great friend I am.
Secondly, that even the most busy people in the world (healthcare workers) aren’t so busy that writing a handwritten response to a friend would take up too much “emotional energy” and time.
Who actually needs these!? Like, I can’t imagine some undergrad who still thinks they’re in high school to be “at capacity.” At capacity with what!? Really? You’re SO BUSY that you can’t write a handwritten response? How conceited could you get?
Also, can someone tell me how to hold space? What does that look like? Do I just reach out my hands, palms up, and just…kinda…stand there?
“Do you have someone else you could reach out to?” Read: Please go away.
Alright, that’s enough of that. Time for things I do like.
Starting with THE MOST UNDERRATED BAND IN JAPAN:
Music — METRO ONGEN
Let it be known that
I
LOVE
It started with a tweet.
(What kind of music, [do you] listen to?)
To which Mike responded,
And the rest is history.
I’ve been listening to Japanese-Rock (J-Rock) since I was a snot-nosed brat watching Naruto in English on Toonami.
I’ve heard it all. AKG. The Pillows. KANA-BOOM.
But this. This band. This Metro-Ongen. It does something to me.
It’s melancholic. It’s uplifting. It’s grunge, it’s rock, it’s sometimes pop, sometimes it’s shoegaze. It’s always — ALWAYS — absolutely fantastic music.
Friedrich Nietzsche once said that life without music would be a mistake.
He was talking about Metro-Ongen.
Here’s some 3 of my favorite songs of theirs.
Go listen to all of their music. Go buy all their merch (I bought the shirt).
DO IT!!!!
Book
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky (I spelled it right this time)
I just finished part 2.
So far, this paragraph’s my favorite part. Cracked me the hell up.
I’ll let you figure out why.
Movie
えいがをみませんでした。
I didn’t watch any movies this week.
But while scrolling my YouTube watch history I remembered I watched this classic from Egoraptor. This is probably funnier if you’ve never watched it before AND completely out of order.
Quote
“Live your authentic truth :)” - Me
Just kidding. Don’t do that.
This week’s quote is from the aforementioned novel, Demons.
Listen, Darya: there is no higher happiness than to sacrifice yourself
Podcast
This week I had a conversation with Monica Lim about culture, language, and online education.
Good Fucking Food
This vertically-photographed curry udon.
Moment
This vertically-photographed curry udon REPRISE
Thanks for reading
Bye.
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