- IDK SH!T

@Jordy pinged in my radar awhile ago with Long Distance and a cute video. But he kept reappearing and this weekend he was suddenly in the lineup for Lollapalooza! I was like: I know him! It took me a second, but yep. That was @Jordy. Yay for the Chicago gayz!

I think the idea of an openly queer singer/songwriter making it to LA Pride and then to Lolla totally makes sense in my fantasy. Love to see it.

Representation: it matters. And if we could relate to straight acts singing about straight love, why wouldn't straight people relate to a gay man singing about loving another man? What's more important, in this era of Don't Say Gay and too numerous to mention anti-gay legislation, having a gay man in a stage like Lolla is important. I wish when I was eighteen or twenty or thirty there was a gay man singing to another man in a big summer festival. 

I loved this last video, though. Because not everybody has their shit together, no matter how old they are. Yes, it's sometimes more apparent when we are in our late twenties (like Jordy) but I know plenty of men over fifty who have no fucking idea of what they are doing and do not really care if they don't know it. Oh, the Peter Pan syndrome is strong with some men. But is it, really?

What this song reminded me is that not everybody has their shit together and that's ok. Many of us juggle several parts of our life at the same time in a world that is constantly changing and that demands that we be adulting with the rest of them. But are they, indeed, adulting? Methinks probably not.

Does that make me, in particular feel better? Not really. But misery loves company. And knowing that it's not only me who does not have an Instagram ready life kind of gives me pause. Pause to make sure my feet are firmly on the ground and pause to give me time to breathe.

You do know some shit, Jordy.

XOXO

P.S. @Jordy's Dry Spell is a bop