Jesse Vitelli newsletter Chaos Again #8 (for real this time)

I think I marked the last one 8 but it was really 7 and so now it’s 8 this time for real! That’s 2 months worth of writing these, wow, why are any of y’all still here. Regardless I’m happy that you’ve stuck around for as long as you have.

It’s been a weird week where a lot has been building towards the following week. So while I feel like this week was pretty cut and dry, it’s all about to pop off next week.

Birthdays

It’s a busy week for my friend group. A lot of birthdays happen in sequence. So it’s been prepping for my birthday on the 16, getting things together for folks flying in from out of town, and attending other various birthday parties around Brooklyn.

I’m excited to see so many friends all brought together in one place because they are trapped on this mortal coil with me, and there’s no escape.

The Summit

David and I started watching the new CBS competition show The Summit and it’s truly wild. A bunch of people of various ages try to scale a mountain in New Zealand all with 60k in their backpacks. It’s heartwarming as they try to help each person get over the obstacle put in front of them, but it’s also cutthroat when they have to vote someone out, or in one case, chop the support rope of a bridge while the last member is crossing.

It’s hard to summarize in words how off the wall this show is emotional. A true roller coaster of feelings. But for a silly show we put on when we came home drunk form the bar waiting for Taco Bell at 3 am, it’s now my new obsession.

What the hell am I supposed to write

This newsletter is already late because of the holiday, general birthday week prep, and friends coming in from out of town. But as I sit here writing this on the eve of my birthday, I don’t want to bog this down with weird sentiments and other self-reflections of the last decade of my life. This past year has been difficult for a lot of reasons. But I’m going into the next decade of my life with an attempt to be more focused, more myself, and more ambitious than the last few years post-pandemic.

So yeah I’ve had a hard time wanting to sit down and write this week, and that’s ok. We’ve all been there and I’m sure there will be harder weeks than other to decide what parts of my life are worth sharing with y’all or what thing I find amusing that y’all will also enjoy.

Scattershot

I’m too scattershot right now to remember exactly what all of these photos saved on my desktop were meant for. So here’s just a dump of them for you to look at and maybe make up your own story about how they ended up here.

Music

I’ve been really digging the new Touche Amore album and I think y’all would fuck heavy with it. Here’s a link, check it out.

Nobody Wants This

I finished up that new Kristen Bell and Adam Brody Netflix show called Nobody Wants This. It’s really nice to have a show so willing to engage in meaningful conversation about how being emotionally available and open can actually be a benefit in a relationship. It’s not really interested in a lot of the tropes of most romcoms, and instead puts an emphasis on how if you’re able to communicate clearly and thoughtfully you can actually overcome most pitfalls in a relationship.

It’s an easy recommendation for a ten-episode series that will still punch you in the gut, make you feel fuzzy inside, and provide you a minor escape from the hell hole we will live.

No video game talk

I actually deleted Twitter off of my phone and have scaled back my online presence pretty drastically the last week. I haven’t really been playing anything of note or been paying attention to whatever the hell is going on with games. it’s been really nice to ~mostly~ unplug from the grind.

So sorry, no updates on new games or what I’ve been playing, because I really haven’t been doing much of anything in that space the past week. I’ve mainly been seeing friends and watching television with my roommates.

Ok that’s enough of this, enjoy your weeks, and I’ll enjoy mine and I’ll see you sometime next week, who knows.